in the Dolomites having a ropeway station

 

Semiological project applied on the program of a hotel as such reflects very significant difference in terms of comfort demand within the same class.

The subclassification into three classes, namely economy, business and superior is a consequence of the social establishment and wealth distribution . A hotel can be considered being a reflection of society, where a slice of such can be addressed to a particular luxury class, in the hotel sector expressed with a star- rating system. Contrast within society in terms of wealth distribution becomes better visible in the upper class, namely the last 5%, which addressed to the hotel sector means six to seven stars.

The project is a critical reflection of the question ...

 

Source: www.evolo.us

Casa Rajuela“, Mexico: tiny ships sailing along the façade

 

Looking at the wall, one is reminded of tiny ships stacked one on top of the other. In fact the architects did nothing but upturn the ancient rule that joints between stone blocks should be as narrow as possible – nearly invisible. Here, the stones are irregular, almost round, leaving great spaces between each – the over-all picture is one of a myriad of tiny ships sailing together in the wind.

Source: www.stone-ideas.com

Recycled Stones, tasted...

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a new standard of living

 

In particular we are referring to the coastal region of Erimoupolis located in Crete, at the east of Sitia. It's characterized by three consecutive bays forming as many beaches. It's a landscape of great natural beauty where human presence is imperceptible. The built environment is absent, while the few cultivated areas, which suggests that the landscape has remained completely untouched by man. The morphology of the landscape is characterized by the rocky, sloping land that spot becomes very steep and rough, while the vegetation is low and sparse.

Source: www.greekarchitects.gr

a non-virtual experience through...

 

This USC Undergraduate Thesis by Zack Matthews focuses on the contemporary condition of digital addiction and how the broad embrace of digital space has been at the expense of culturally significant physical social exchanges.
Virtual space has become so addictive because of its capacity to overstimulate user perceptions. We can be playing a favorite song on our phone, while browsing the latest news on a computer, while playing an interactive game on a tablet,
Upon entering back into physical space, banalities of reality are magnified and relapse back to the digital realm is that much more inevitable.

Source: www.evolo.us 

 

Contemporary projects that embody a temporal and personal approach

 

Rome is the setting of the contest. City's long history has bequeathed an incredible number of architectural treasures longing for a chance of reconnection with life and with the community. In partnership with La Sapienza University and Progetto Forti, Rome municipality undisclosed a debate over one of its precious treasures: Forte Portuense.

How to transform a former military architecture into a leisure time and cultural focal point- capable on the one hand of triggering urban redevelopment and social cooperation and on the other  hand to attract citizens and tourists?

That was the question for the designers to respond, with a multi-scale approach...

 

Source: www.greekarchitects.gr

 

Competitive Strategy

 

Competitive advantages are the things that allow a company or organization to outperform its competitors in the marketplace of products, services and even ideas. These advantages can take on many forms from brick and mortar facilities to more intangible things like an organization’s reputation and customer base.

Source: http://blog.sculpture.org

 

a Stone to Build London

 

The characteristic white gleam of the Portland stone used to construct many of London’s most iconic buildings impresses both visitors to the Capital and those who live and work there.
Some know vaguely that the stone comes from a rugged, bleak and quirky island projecting ...

Source: www.bradford-on-avon.org.uk
 

Contemporary Sustainable Archetypes

 

What lesson does the largest sustainable office building in the Southern Hemisphere, the smallest of houses in Tokyo, and an underground shopping mall in Mexico City share? They are in fact a perfect response to their conditions. They provide pronounced insights into the challenges and opportunities of contemporary environmental architecture throughout the world. An authentic architecture has emerged– from Melbourne’s kinetically ...

Source: www.evolo.us
 

German Natural Stone Award

 

As Peter Becker publishes, ...At this year’s Stone+tec trade fair (Mai 13th to 16th, 2015) the Natural Stone Trade Organization Deutsche Naturwerkstein-Verband (DNV) and the Architects’ Professional Organization again jointly sponsored the German Natural Stone Award. A total of 73 submissions took part in the competition. From these the jury chose prize winners in 4 categories...

Source: www.stone-ideas.com

a Long Standing Architecture

Spatial brand staging

 

SCHMIDHUBER has developed creative spatial brand staging for over 25 years. At the Munich head office, 70 experts from the fields of architecture, design, and communication strive for strong concepts, providing the complete range of three-dimensional brand representation. With numerous international awards, Schmidhuber is a leading specialist for brand-specific architectural solutions worldwide and was awarded first place ...

 

Source: www.world-architects.com

 

Modernity and Its Discontents

 

The series of seminars and discussions, entitled ‘Whatever Happened to the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Its Discontents,’ were proposed in order to reconsider the character and the content of the modern urban project. The main goal was to go beyond the cliché of its interpretation as a totalitarian project, as well as to avoid any nostalgic recuperation of it as utopian imaginary...
Source: http://thecityasaproject.org
 

Influence on the Local Atmospheric Processes

On Earth, aridity has always been a problem … Latest scientific research shows that our planet is constantly getting hotter which causes significant changes perceptible for everyone. The equatorial region’ s population is already living with scarce resources of water and due to global warming, aridity will even increase in the future...

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a beer made of stone...

as Peter writes,

 

...The culinary innovation was kicked off by the 5-year jubilee of BamBam Steenhouwers celebrated in 2014. The enterprise, comprising Marc de Groot and Steven Janse, owners and Gillis Nienhuis, employee, carries out mainly restoration work...

Source: www.stone-ideas.com

The porous nature of geometry

 

Diatomic explores the agglomeration of cellular components within a self-supporting assembly. The project takes inspiration from the observation of single cell algae whose unique feature is that they are enclosed within a cell wall made of silica. These shells show a wide diversity in form, but are usually almost bilaterally symmetrical.

Source: www.evolo.us
 

a Kaleidoscopic Face

 

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a tool to serve marble

 

QMJ Publishing Ltd is a privately owned publishing and exhibition business that serves the quarrying, recycling and natural stone industries.

Source: http://www.qmj.co.uk/
 

another Kindergarden

 

The transformation started with an investigation of the existing 105 sqm two-story house. Like the surrounding houses, this wood structure building was first constructed as standard mass-production housing. After on-site surveys, MAD decided to reutilize the existing wood structure, incorporating it into the new building’s design. One of the ...

Source: www.evolo.us
 

As new generations of designers

 

In the U.S., women make up 42 percent of architecture graduates, but only 28 percent of staff members in architecture firms and 18 percent of licensed architects, according to AIA San Francisco’s Equity by Design committee. And, on average, those women architects make $14,877 less—or 80 cents on the dollar—than their male colleagues, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey...

Source: www.architectmagazine.com
 

The Springer complex sits on Zimmerstrasse

 

On a dusty parking lot in central Berlin, where U.S. bombs leveled homes and offices in 1945, Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas is planning a beehive-like digital media center for publisher Axel Springer. A 15-minute bike ride away, on the former site of an iron foundry, architect Daniel Libeskind is completing a titanium...

Source: www.bloomberg.com, www.stone-ideas.com