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I REFER to the letter MRT too close for comfort (The Star, March 29). We would like to thank the writer for the feedback on the Klang Valley MRT Project.

We, however, would like to respond to some of the points made and correct inaccurate assertions.

We are happy that the writer understands that the Klang Valley is in dire need of a good public transport system.

Everyone recognises that a good public transport system is needed for Kuala Lumpur to continue to grow economically and at the same time, be one of the most liveable cities in the world.

Without a good urban rail service with the MRT forming a major component of this network, the roads of Kuala Lumpur will be choked, bringing about dire consequences not only in terms of economic growth, but also to the quality of life of its denizens.

The writer was, however, incorrect in saying that the MRT is being built a couple of feet away from the houses of Jalan Kasah in Medan Damansara.

What is being built now is a retaining wall and NOT the MRT viaduct.

With the retaining wall, a new slow lane for the Kuala Lumpur-bound side of the Sprint Highway can be created.

This new lane will compensate for the fast lane of the highway which is being taken for the MRT viaduct.

The MRT, therefore, will run in the middle of the Sprint Highway and not metres behind the houses along Jalan Kasah.

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I REFER to the letter MRT too close for comfort (The Star, March 29). We would like to thank the writer for the feedback on the Klang Valley MRT Project.

We, however, would like to respond to some of the points made and correct inaccurate assertions.

We are happy that the writer understands that the Klang Valley is in dire need of a good public transport system.

Everyone recognises that a good public transport system is needed for Kuala Lumpur to continue to grow economically and at the same time, be one of the most liveable cities in the world.

Without a good urban rail service with the MRT forming a major component of this network, the roads of Kuala Lumpur will be choked, bringing about dire consequences not only in terms of economic growth, but also to the quality of life of its denizens.

The writer was, however, incorrect in saying that the MRT is being built a couple of feet away from the houses of Jalan Kasah in Medan Damansara.

What is being built now is a retaining wall and NOT the MRT viaduct.

With the retaining wall, a new slow lane for the Kuala Lumpur-bound side of the Sprint Highway can be created.

This new lane will compensate for the fast lane of the highway which is being taken for the MRT viaduct.

The MRT, therefore, will run in the middle of the Sprint Highway and not metres behind the houses along Jalan Kasah.

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Residents and architects clash over Jericho's Blavatnik School design

6:00pm Wednesday 3rd April 2013 in News By Damian Fantato, covering Summertown, Jericho and North Oxford. Call me on 01865 425429

Buy this photo Visitors inspect the model of plans for the Blavatnik School Pictures: OX58226 Antony Moore

architects behind the controversial Blavatnik School of Government say they have want it to be seen and loved across Oxford.

But Jericho residents have described the Walton Street structure as something they wouldnt wish on Milton Keynes.

Plans have already been submitted by Oxford University but a public meeting was held in St Barnabas church last week to explain the buildings design.

Its height has already proved controversial and the fact that it is three metres taller than Carfax Tower and 26m high in total has been a frequent criticism. John OMara, from Swiss-based architectural firm Herzog & De Meuron, said: It is apparent that this building is visible from views like Raleigh Park but we wanted to engage with that visibility.

If we were to go over Carfax, which we do, we wanted to go over it with an identity, with a form. We expect this building to be seen, we want it to be seen and we want it to be appreciated.

The architects carefully studied views from Raleigh Park in North Hinksey, Boars Hill and Port Meadow and in all instances the top of the building can be seen in the distance. It has been recessed to prevent it from overwhelming what the architects describe as the civic scale of Walton Street.

But residents in both Divinity Road and London Place have objected to the plans because they fear the impact it would have on the views from South Park.

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Exhibitions Museums News Brazil Hans Ulrich Obrist opens show in Lina Bo Bardi's Glass House in So Paulo, plans next exhibition at Calder house in America

By Charlotte Burns. News, Issue 245, April 2013 Published online: 02 April 2013

More than 30 artists and architects including Cildo Meireles, Isaac Julien, Cristina Iglesias, Norman Foster and Olafur Eliasson have created new works in homage to the Brazilian Modernist architect Lina Bo Bardi. The So Paulo exhibition, The Insides are on the Outside, is the latest house-museum project organised by Hans Ulrich Obrist, the co-director of Londons Serpentine Gallery. It takes place at Bo Bardis former home, the Casa de Vidro (Glass House) and at SESC Pompeia, the factory which she and her husband Pietro Maria Bardi converted into a cultural centre (5 April-2 June).

So many artists told me about the Glass House, and [they are] obsessed by it, says Obrist, adding that the Brazilian context is so dynamicthere are generations of amazing artists. He was introduced to Bo Bardi by Cildo Meireles, who has created an installation, Lina, va fare un caffe, which spreads the smell of coffee throughout the house. The artist Ernesto Neto has covered the SESC Pompeia tower with a gigantic installation, Obrist says, while Dan Graham has built a new pavilion. Several artists, including Adrin Villar Rojas and Tamar Guimaraes, have produced films in tribute to Bo Bardi, while the Japanese architect firm Sanaa has created a suite of furniture. Cinthia Marcelle has created a polyphonic soundtrack for the house, based on Lina Bo and Pietro Maria Bardis vinyl record collection while Gilbert & George spent a day at the house as living sculptures, documenting the results with postcards that will be distributed to visitors.

The project is the latest in a series of domestic interventions by Obrist, who has previously staged exhibitions at Londons Sir John Soanes Museum, as well as the homes of architect Luis Barragn in Mexico City, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche in Sils Maria, Switzerland and poet Federico Garca Lorca in Granada, Spain. I started my career as a curator in my kitchen, Obrist says. Artists do different kinds of work than they would in a museum or bigger space. That sense of intimacy is important.

This exhibition will be produced by Isabela Mora, international projects manager at the Fondation Beyeler, who worked with Obrist on the 2008 Lorca show.

The next project will take place in America, at the house of the late artist Alexander Calder in Roxbury, Connecticut. Calder is also part of the show in Brazilhe made two drawings of Lina Bo and Pietro Maria Bardi on the occasion of his first visit to Brazil in 1948, during which time he became friends with the couple.

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For IT architects, one of the most important non-functional requirements to determine is the availability needs of a systems users.

Its often expensive and risky adding availability features to an already deployed solution, so getting it right first time is important. In current times however, were being asked to regularly provide levels of solution availability that until recently were reserved for the largest of enterprises, and perhaps more worrying, the business justification for these grand expectations is getting stronger and more un-deniable by the day.

The question is, are we right to be shocked at the requirements of even the most simple sounding internal IT systems? And are we in a period in which IT departments are struggling to deliver business expectations because they havent kept up with the pace of change? I believe so.

The impact of the consumerisation of high quality IT In times past, consumer IT had little impact on the design of business IT solutions because the IT we used at home was built to a low budget and to be just good enough. Today, its the other way round, the consumerisation of high quality IT has happened and is setting the standard for business IT.

My iPad is more robust than most of the appliances in my kitchen never mind an enterprise data centre, while a minor social media outage of Facebook quickly turns into a major financial media outrage. As a result of this turnaround, the role of an IT architect has got even harder, especially in the small- and mid-enterprise sectors where arguably the pace of IT change has never been faster and the lack of IT governance has never been lower.

With their iPads always working and Facebook always being online, business users increasingly have the same expectation of the IT systems they use.

Its now not un-common for architects to have to accommodate everything from the finance director wanting to look at KPI dashboards while at a conference eight time zones away to allowing marketing teams to analyse the companys Twitter feed during peak-time TV slots.

For IT departments with staff that grew up with 9 to 5 working hours, these are requirements that have been hard to predict let alone efficiently accommodate. The question for architects to answer now is whether having true 24/7 systems is an excessive requirement that has no business case or something that can be genuinely justified.

Helping business users understand, justify, and quantify their requirements is the skill of a good architect, and is a process we can still use to define availability needs even if its to show that ultra-high availability needs bring ultra-high costs.

We could compare a future solutions availability needs to existing systems does the new web site need to be more available than the dispatching system etc. The big change in 2013 that I see though it that while this traditional approach may still feel adequate, we need to make sure it doesnt make us appear antiquated and in denial of recent changes in the world outside of IT.

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West Valley School wrapped up a community meeting Thursday with a more defined vision for expansion.

CTA Architects Engineers, along with members from a steering committee, presented five layout ideas and concluded with a tentative concept that combines desirable components from all five. The district has contracted CTA to do master planning for $26,520.

This relieves some pressure on your current space needs and looks to the future, said CTA educational facility planner Nick Salmon.

This early concept looks at the long-term needs of the district and involves multiple phases that may be implemented over several years to accommodate growth and allow the district time to acquire more funding.

The first phase would cost about $7 million and add 30,000 square feet of new construction to the existing building, which is about 60,000 square feet. This phase includes 13 classrooms essentially a middle school wing for grades six through eight two music rooms, a flexible area for eating and educational use, a teacher-preparation room, expanded library and administrative offices and a kitchen.

Currently, the district does not have a kitchen and food is prepared by Evergreen School District. Steering committee members said having its own kitchen would allow the district to provide more healthy options.

Two of the classrooms are designated as flexible spaces.

This is what we call 21st-century learning were trying to get away from just a bunch of classrooms with a hallway, said CTA architect David Koel. He noted that modern learning involves more flexible spaces.

An access road would also be built behind the school for student pickups and dropoffs and kitchen deliveries.

Optional projects would include a gym that could be used by the community and a student commons area.

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