from Concept to Creation

Anyone can put paint to canvas. Anyone can move a brush around. Draw a picture. Carve a piece of wood. But put the paintbrush in the hands of a Degas or a Renoir, put the piano keys beneath the fingers of a Debussy or a Brubeck, and suddenly magic happens...

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Planet's Architecture

Natural history museum announces wildlife photographer of the year 2014...
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the Master Architect

 

Some architects have a signature style. What sets Piano apart is that he applies his coherent set of ideas in extraordinarily different ways. It takes more than a quick glance to see his touch on such individual structures as the Pompidou Center, The New York Times Building in New York, and his 72-story London Bridge Tower.Each project is a renaissance, because, as Piano himself explains: “One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.”

 

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Greenbuildings...

How can architects help? Get in touch. It would be interesting to do more workshops with architects who are thinking about designs, and it would be amazing to get a renowned architect—or someone who is interested—to come to India and help out on the project. We always are looking for partnerships and trying to bridge the different verticals. We’re starting to work with universities in the U.S. on thinking through design affordability. They don’t understand working on the ground, so FM and Frontier Innovations can bridge that gap and help develop that skill set.

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Yiannis Antoniadis- Stone Group International

President & CEO of Stone Group International talks about company’s extroversion, fair policy and the prize of Best Communicator Award “In the World” 2014 for 12 Mythic Marbles.

Yiannis Antoniadis Interview at 49th Marmomacc 2014, Italy

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“It’s very difficult to sell sculpture through galleries”

Without much fear of contradiction, one can say that artists want to exhibit their work and sell their work, too. When you yell into a canyon, you want to hear an echo. Getting that exhibition opportunity and making a sale, however, is rarely a given, leading artists to try alternatives.


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Ocean Sculptures

Submerged adjacent to the western coastline of new providence in the Bahamas, Jason Decaires Taylor has set ‘ocean atlas’ within the aquamarine depths of nassau’s seas. Thematically, the colossal sculpture draws reference from the ancient greek statue of titan atlas as he holds up the heavens, but instead depicts a local youth sustaining the ocean ceiling. marking the largest single sculpture...

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2nd Istanbul Design Biennial

The 2nd Istanbul Design Biennial organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) will take place from 1 November to 14 December 2014 and will be held free of charge. Curated by Zoë Ryan and titled The Future Is Not What It Used To Be, the biennial will host more than 50 projects that ask: “What is the future now?” by rethinking the manifesto as a platform to frame pertinent questions...

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to be a public hub

Memory and Commemoration in Beirut is a very delicate subject. Beirut witnessed ups and downs, from a devastating civil war to an exponential urban development. Architecture plays a fundamental role in shaping a city. It acts as a living organism with muscles and tissues inextricably interwoven, building a complex world.

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The 2nd Chamber of Amphipolis

The second chamber, the one behind the two Caryatids, is 4,5 meters wide and 3,0 meters long. The chamber floor is covered with a pictorial mosaic in glorious colors and detail.

The mosaic covers the entire floor surface of the 2nd Chamber. The mosaic is in white, black, grey, blue, red and yellow and shows a chariot pulled by two white horses and two male figures. The Charioteer is a bearded man with a laurel wreath upon his head. Running ahead of the Chariot, is Hermes, the guide to the under world. The floor has an area [circular] of restorable damage.

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Fairy Tales 2015

Fairy Tales 2015:Blank Space Announces Second Annual Architecture Storytelling Telling Competition
After the record breaking success of Fairy Tales 2014, with over 300 entries from 50 different countries, Blank Space is excited to announce that the second edition of the competition is now open for registration.

“When we launched the inaugural Fairy Tales competition, we could not have anticipated the overwhelming response it drew. The participants hailed from the most diverse backgrounds and from so many corners of the world we’d have a hard time visiting them all in one lifetime,” say Matthew Hoffman and Francesca Giuliani, Founders of Blank Space. “Each participant crafted their wildest architectural ideas, unleashing the power of architecture on universal themes at the core of humanity. The results were profound, and have been viewed, shared, tweeted and exhibited to millions of design fans around the world.”
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Silhouettes Of Famous Architects

Architect and illustrator Federico Babina, who we featured recently, is back with more of his wonderful illustrations.

In his new series, ‘Archiwindows’, Babina literally casts the spotlight on 25 famous architects and studios, such as Zaha Hadid and Ray Eames, by featuring their silhouettes beneath a window from one of their iconic buildings.

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Beyond any obscure narrative

We see craft as the connection of making and thinking.  For us it is the link between the poetic and the practical; between the idea and the artifact.

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Greece archaeologists uncover Amphipolis floor mosaic

Archaeologists unearthing a huge ancient burial site at Amphipolis in northern Greece have uncovered a large floor mosaic.

The mosaic – 3m (10ft) wide and 4.5m (15ft) long – depicts a man with a laurel wreath driving a chariot drawn by horses and led by the god Hermes.
The burial site is said to be the largest ever found in Greece.

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to Greenbuild

On Oct. 1, three weeks from the start of the 2014 Greenbuild International Conference and Expo in New Orleans, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) announced its fourth-annual class of LEED Fellows. This year, 48 individuals either applied or were nominated by their industry peers to receive the designation based on their professional...

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The limits of surfaces

As architectural expression starts to explore the limits of surface articulation, established facade materials and fabrication techniques are undergoing a transformation. The Perot Museum by Morphosis and the SFMOMA by Snohetta are two buildings from high profile architects, of similar typology and similar material intent, implemented through contrasting methodologies.

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Eiffel Tower's Newly Renovated First Floor

Since visitor levels to the tower have now reached saturation, at just under 7 million people annually, the city wanted to increase revenue by encouraging people to spend more time—and more tourist dollars—on the under-frequented first level, the largest of the Eiffel Tower’s three floors at 54,000 square feet. Commissioned by the City of Paris (the tower’s owner) and La Société d’Exploitation de la Tour Eiffel (SETE) (the tower’s operator) the €30-million ($37.8-million) makeover was realized by local architect Moatti Rivière, which has demolished and rebuilt two of the three existing pavilions, re-clad the third, and rebuilt two of the four elevator shelters.

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Anagenesis

Anagenesis examines the notion of a post-industrial building envelope that engages natural phenomena as a productive force. The investigation, carried out by Hseng Tai Lintner at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, explores the interrelationship between the natural and the manufactured and focuses on the use of bioluminescence, a naturally occurring form of chemiluminescence that makes organisms like fireflies and jellyfish glow, to produce ambient lighting for the interior.

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Best Communicator Award "in the World" 2014

 In the World Category of Best Communicator Award 2014, the first Prize was granted to STONE GROUP INTERNATIONAL, with the project “Breathing Life into 12 Mythic Marbles” by Architect Michalis Theofilou. The award received the President  & CEO of SGI, Yiannis Antoniadis.

A prestigious jury has been appointed for the Best Communicator Award for exhibitors attending Marmomacc and Abitare il Tempo who enhanced the importance of their exhibition space and exhibits as a means of communication.

They awarded Stone Group International for having “created an evocative set-up capable of combining the myths of ancient Greece with contemporary stone processing”.

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Alcatraz Island

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's highly anticipated takeover of the San Francisco Bay's Alcatraz Island opens to the public on Saturday. The exhibition, @Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz, is a joint project between For-Site Foundation, the National Park Service, and the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy. As ARCHITECT reported in June, the exhibition will open up the former prison's hospital, New Industries Building, and A Block section of the cellhouse, which are typically closed to visitors.

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Guggenheim Helsinki Design Competition

A preview of the Guggenheim Helsinki Design Competition, an international architectural contest to design a new museum in Finland’s capital, will announce the launch of the online gallery of submissions. Joel Sanders, AIA, will moderate the discussion, which includes speakers Cara Cragan; Jeanne Gang, FAIA; Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, and Nancy Spector. The conversation will revolve around reshaping the future of the contemporary art museum and the discipline of architecture.

Source: https://designguggenheimhelsinki.org
 

Neuroscience in Architecture

The human response to architecture is usually based on subjective emotions: I like that building, I hate this space; this room is so open, this office is oppressive. But something more nuanced is happening to elicit these responses. Neuroscientists have found that distinctive processes occur in our brains—consciously and subconsciously, cognitively and physiologically—from the moment we step into a space. These processes affect our emotions, our health, and even the development of memory.

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