3/4 Architects of the Divine: The First Gothic Age
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Chase Donoghue - Architects - Broken Cross Drum Cover
Chase Donoghue, 16 years old, St. Catharines, Ontario Canada. This is my cover of Broken Cross by Architects! This is one of my favourite songs off of their new album specifically for the kick...
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We Architects - Heartless Ft Bright Lights
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John Graby, director of the Royal Institute of Architects in Ireland, said the six members who resigned had done the honourable thing in the circumstances. Photograph: Dara Mac Dnaill.
Two former presidents and four other council members of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland have resigned over what they claim to be serious governance failings in the organisation.
Their letters of resignation were delivered in advance of an extraordinary general meeting of the institute in Dublin tonight which was called to debate motions relating to implementation of a controversial amendment to the Building Control Act.
The six who resigned were members of an RIAI reform group campaigning against the amendment, which makes it mandatory on architects, engineers or other building professionals to certify that new building comply with regulations.
Other issues raised by the group included claims of a recurring and increasing deficit in the RIAIs accounts, its dual role as a membership organisation and a regulatory body for architects, and the lack of open debate to end a growing alienation among members.
At last nights meeting, a motion tabled by the group which includes former RIAI presidents Joan OConnor and Eoin Cofaigh calling on the council to seek a revocation of the building control amendment was defeated by 165 votes to 102.
Another motion, which had the support of the institutes officers, calling on members to support the councils efforts to have the new regulations amended to reflect concerns of architects about consumer protection, was overwhelmingly carried.
RIAI president Robin Mandal, who chaired the meeting, said afterwards that the six had resigned because they didnt get their way in changing its policy. Institute director John Graby said they had done the honourable thing in the circumstances.
Ms OConnor said she was resigning because the council had not made material progress on any of the issues raised by the reform group and failed in its responsibilities to ensure that the institute was solvent, well-run and delivering the outcomes for which it is set up.
She claimed that the RIAI president and some members of the 24-strong council try to suppress contrarian views on the building control amendment. Those who held such views were effectively gagged (and) subjected to ridicule and hostile interrogation.
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The project will cover around 37 acres of space and see up to 600 lodgings built.
"The selected sites represent varied opportunities for both land and housing that can be quickly developed," said Jean-Louis Missaka, deputy mayor in charge of urbanism.
These include an electricity sub-station at Parmentier, which the mayor wants to see transformed into a "popular, quality cinema" and the old Massna station in the 13th arrondissement. Also up for grabs is vacant land in the 19th arrondissement, along with a 16th-century mansion house in the chic 5th and the former Paris government prefect headquarters by the Seine in the 4th arrondissement.
Perhaps the most challenging prospect for architects is to suggest designs for a future building bridging the peripherique or Paris ring road - at the Porte des Ternes.
Ideas are to be sent early next year, with a short list drawn up by July and the winning tenders announced next December.
Those chosen will then have the option of buying or renting the sites they will transform.
The ambitious plan comes as Paris's town hall faces stiff resistance to a project to build the Triangle Tower, a 50-storey, 590ft high pyramid-like structure, due to overlook Paris from its southwestern extremity at the Porte de Versailles, already home to a vast exhibition centre.
The council of Paris is due to vote on the project this month, with the Socialists' green partners due to vote against, along with part of the opposition centre and Right.
Mr Missika said a vote against would send "a very bad signal to the outside world, where France already has a reputation of being a country that is struggling to enter modernity."
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San Francisco rejected the plan, Chicago officials welcomed it with open arms, and now, mere months later, following promises of organic sponginess from George Lucas himself, Beijing's MAD Architects have unveiled their preliminary design for Chicago's Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. It looks part moonscape, part rising conical mass, part melted pile of marshmallow goop, and 100-percent MAD. Let's take a look, shall we?
Like MAD's previously unveiled live-in landscapes, this conceptas the firm describes in a press releaseblurs "the line between structure and landscape," exploring "the relationship between nature and the urban environment." Under the mountainous structure, three levels of exhibition space connect "in infinite loops," reaching an observation deck and restaurant with 360-degree views, where the stone surface that rises from the harbor "crescendos into a 'floating' disc." At once "primitive," "futuristic," and "timeless," it seeks to be "more than a building," providing Chicagoans with "an urban vista for social interaction, bringing people closer to each other and to nature."
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Aside from gallery space, the museum's conjoined slopes and hills include four theaters, an education center, and archival space, according to Gizmodo, totaling about 400,000 square feet. As the facade slopes toward the ground, it merges with a sinuous stone sidewalk that carves out amphitheaters and public green spaces from the 17 acres the museum is sited on. Surrounding it is the full panoply of lakefront Chicago attractions, including the Field Museum, the Shedd Aquarium, the Adler Planetarium, and Northerly Island, which, like the Lucas Museum, had its landscape designed by Chicago's Studio Gang.
MAD cites Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies van der Rohe as inspirations for the project, drawing a connection to the rising conical design of Wright's Guggenheim Museum and kissing the ring of the city's one-time modernist master-in-residence. By integrating the "natural beauty of the park and Lake Michigan with the powerful man-made architecture of Chicago," MAD aspires for its design to join the ranks of the city's most recognizable landmarks. Architect Ma Yansong, who worked as an intern architect in Chicago before founding MAD, points out to Gizmodo's Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan that "even Mies was alien to Chicago" at one point.
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The museum's holdings will a potpurri of high and low American artwork, including Norman Rockwell paintings and cover art from a MAD more recognizable to the average American teenager. And, of course, Star Wars stuff, although Lucas managed to hold off from directly referencing the franchise in the design of this building. According to Gizmodo, the team will go into schematic design now, and present a final proposal to the city in the spring of 2015.
Here's MAD founder Ma Yansong discussing his concept for the museum:
UPDATE: Curbed Chicago rounds up some of the critical reactions to the museum, including not-so-serious comparisons to Jabba the Hutt, and very serious characterizations of the design as a "land-eating colossus" that would be an illegal intrusion onto the lakefront. Also worth noting: the building has an estimate price tag of $400M, and would be four times the size of the rejected San Francisco proposal.
Our First Look at the Radical Design of George Lucas' Art Museum [Gizmodo]
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Rendering Reveals: MAD's Lucas Museum is a Moon Mountain with a 'Floating' Halo
Brick-and-mortar retail has been increasingly troubled over the years as online shopping has become near universal. In a fitting turn of events, server hosting companies are increasingly turning to vacant retail locationsas a source of cheap floor space for server farms. In fact, your local mall could be hosting several small clusters of servers any youd never know it.
Millions of square feet of retail space sit idle across the US as department stores continue to close up shop in marginal markets to focus on the ones that remain profitable. These large open spaces arent good for much without serious refitting, but several aspects of your average department store makes for an excellent server room.
The basic construction makes it easy to reinforce the walls and roof to withstand tornadoes and hurricanes, which is important for servers hosting vital information. The lack of windows is also a big plus. Some malls have also served as bomb shelters in the past, so its possible the structure is already sufficiently sturdy that little to no modification is needed. No matter where a company decides to set up a server room, they will have to add a high-capacity fiber internet connection. That sort of thing doesnt come standard with a vacant Target store.
In some cases these retail spaces have been empty for years, so any economic activity is better than none. However, the handful of employees it takes to run a small data center dont compare to the small army of employees it takes to run a department store.
One notable drawback of this new residential data center approach is the relative lack of security. An active mall isnt going to be suitable for housing certain kinds of sensitive data and services. However, smaller customers like law firms and hospitals that need a few racks to save important documents can get a good deal on server space from a company operating out of what was once a K-Mart.
Now read: NSA data center will use 1.7M gallons of water per day to read your email
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The $480,307 Industrial Sites Reuse Program grant will largely subsidize the $722,956 remediation cost to remove the outside and interior walls, asbestos contamination and old equipment. Borough officials have been converting the closed building from a Class C, non-functioning, out-of-date facility into a Class A office to be used as the new borough complex.
Im very happy we were able to get it, said Councilwoman Anita Barton, representing Ward 4 where the borough office will be located. It is a help for us financially.
Barton said that the remediation costs went up slightly because they had discovered a little more asbestos in the building in the summertime.
You cant just go into a building and assume it is safe, Barton said. We had to be sure the building would be safe.
On Oct. 27, workers at the construction site were installing metal wall studs between the concrete floors and ceilings on the first and second floors of the building. The building is surrounded by an 8-foot chain-link fence faced with green fabric to obscure the construction site from sidewalk observers. The upper floors are visible from Fayette Street and Fourth Avenue.
The grant application for the Conshohocken project was received by state officials in August 2014, said Lyndsay Kensinger, a DCED spokesperson. There have been no other ISRP grant projects awarded in Montgomery County so far this year, she said.
In September, borough council borrowed $10,781,000 from two banks to pay for the construction costs. The annual debt service will start at $312,619 in 2015 and increase to $719,766 per year in the subsequent 24 years of the loans. Borough officials said the $719,766 in annual debt service would be decreased by eliminating the annual $240,000 that the borough currently pays for its office rental at 1 W. First Ave. The borough also expects to receive about $225,000 per year when all of the 20,000 square feet of rental space is occupied in the new borough office building.
Council awarded a $10,497,600 basic bid to TN Ward Co. of Lower Merion on Sept. 3 along with alternate bid items that brought the total cost of construction $10,709,600. The alternate bids include a vegetative tray system on the main roof for $103,500; a screen for the rooftop mechanical systems for $46,500; a six-panel, closed-loop solar hot-water array for a $38,500; an upgrade in the rubber roof thickness from 0.06 inch to 0.09 inch for $13,500; and a ground face cement block rather than split face for $10,000.
Borough Engineer Paul Hughes had recommended eliminating a $713,000 alternate for a second entrance on Fourth Avenue that included site work, structures, stairs, exterior envelope, interior re-configuration and the associated mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire protection elements. Continued...
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That corner, at northwest Kernan and Atlantic boulevards, is anchored by LA Fitness, Academy Sports & Outdoors, Earth Fare and, next spring, Belk. A 7-Eleven also operates on an outparcel.
The 290-unit Sorrel apartments are under construction on the site, just north of the retail area. The address is 11901 Atlantic Blvd.
President Toney Sleiman said Monday he also is studying the option of building a movie theater there, pending results of a competitive review to determine if the area can support one.
The whole area is a great area, Sleiman said.
According to Sleiman.com, demographics show average household income of $70,343 within five miles of the location. It found a population of almost 176,000, among more than 67,700 households.
That indicates an average household size of 2.6, possibly reflecting the number of young professionals and couples who live among the apartments and housing developments in the area.
The five-mile median age is 34.2, while the one-mile median age is a younger 32.4.
Sleiman projects a 2018 population of more than 183,000.
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