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451. Unleashing the Power of Colour in Architecture - Awardee 2014! March 27, 2015 Coveted ‘WAN Colour in Architecture Award, 2014’ was announced recently. Behnisch Architects / Architectural firm Leinhäupl + Neuber have bagged the award for their design of a full-day secondary school in Ergolding, Germany that encapsulates a riot of colours and reinforces the qualities of the school’s pedagogic vision. Ever-changing educational approaches have a direct bearing on school architecture. With the concept of full-day schools catching up in Germany, the design accommodates independent, auxiliary spaces like learning-oriented lounges, breakout rooms for play & relaxation and ... (read more) Author: Anuradha K. R.

452. Tree Removal Contractors: What Can They Do For Your Property? March 24, 2015 Trees provide multicolored foliage in autumn, shade in summer and blossom in spring. They enhance the look of your property. However, what happens when they get struck by lightning or become overgrown? What if they get infected with fungi? Not only trees look best in the scenario but they also pose danger to your family and property. Call a tree contractor for maintenance services, such as limb removal and pruning, and stump, tree removal. With professional aid, you can ensure your yard and its occupants--plant, pet, and human feel their best. Tree Removal Services If you've got ... (read more) Author: Emma watsom

453. Sky Villa - On Top of the World! March 24, 2015 An interior project with façade treatment, executed by KNS Architects, Mumbai readies a7500 sqfttriplex penthouse, overlooking the skyline of South Mumbai to exude the feel of a bungalow, bathed in luxury… ‘Hung’ façade of the penthouse, perched on the 21st floor of a high-rise spells out the primary intent of its design - creating a villa in the sky!An ‘outside to inside’ flow is adopted in terms of design, considering the ‘larger-than-life’ backdrop, provided by the skyline. The façade, entirely made of glass windows and doors of varying dimensions creates distinct volumes in space, bes... (read more) Author: Anuradha K. R.

454. 4 Healthy Living Tips That Are Perfect For Spring March 24, 2015 Want to tap into the benefits of healthy living? There’s no better time to do so than spring . . . Spring is a time of new beginnings . . . the time to plant seeds for growth, both figuratively and literally. As the sun starts to warm the earth, energizing the world around you, it’s easier to get motivated to make revitalizing changes in your life. And when you make these healthy lifestyle changes, you can turn your body, your life and your home into the body, life and home of your dreams. If you’d like to get started on this path towards renewal, here are 3 healthy lifestyle ti... (read more) Author: Michael E Rosenbaum, MD

455. Creative Coalescence March 24, 2015 By Beverly Pereira Photography: Courtesy Anagram Architects Anagram Architects’ new studio promotes collaboration and creativity via symbolic design in an open-plan layout... New Delhi-based Anagram Architects - a spatial design consultancy, is known to deliver innovative, context-specific designs that encourage sustainable lifestyles. Naturally, when it came to its own office, in South Delhi’s creative HauzKhas pocket, the team didn’t have to look any further than its own design philosophy for inspiration. The 12481 sq. ft. office accommodates the firm’s expanded team through ... (read more) Author: Team IAnD

456. Spring is Tree-Trimming Season March 23, 2015 Spring break is a great time to trim and prune your trees, since it is the time when branches are easiest to remove (no leaves to weigh them down). Particularly if your trees are still growing, pruning is critical for both strength and form. If a young tree receives proper pruning, it will require less corrective trimming as an “adult.” Of course, you can trim and prune year-round. However, if you can take care of this task before the big spring growth, you can maximize that growth and ensure wounds close faster. You need to know how each type of tree is prone to responding to cuts. If t... (read more) Author: Jen Stott

457. Making a Statement with Linearity March 22, 2015 Architect Masahiko Sato of Japan gives expression to his architectural endeavours in clearly linear terms in two of his residential projects completed during late 2014 in Inasa City of Nagasaki and Onojo City of Fukuoka. Aided by ubiquitous skylights, his linear designs pack a punch that could dislodge people’s notions about linearly designed houses altogether. ‘I2 House’, a 129 sq. m. triplex, standing on a 76 sq.m. plot and ‘N10 House’, a 171 sq. m. duplex, standing on a 200 sq. m. plot are testimonies to some of the novel possibilities in linear designs. By placing the components... (read more) Author: Anuradha K. R.

458. White House March 20, 2015 Young homeowners, up-to-the-minute amenities, a modern home wrapped in a shroud of white... When architecture studio A-cero, managed by Joaquin Torres and Rafael Llamazares, was asked to redesign an old outdated penthouse in a classic skyscrapper in Madrid, they cashed in on the panoramic view by zeroing in on a minimalist palette, opening up the 130 sq.m. apartment as a bauble in white. Sectioning the apartment diagonally, an open-plan layout with living area and balcony and camouflaged kitchenette is conceptualised as a polyvalent space. The kitchenette can be partially or compl... (read more) Author: Pari Syal

459. Old-World Charm meets New-Age Norms... March 20, 2015 Ponni and Oscar Concessao duo of OCI Architects, Chennai designthe new blocks of Lawrence School inOotacamund, befitting its lofty historical background, spanning almost a century and a half. Construction activities in Ootacamund, which stands at a height of 7200 ft above MSL (Mean Sea Level)are guided by standards, set for hill towns. Adhering to these norms, structuresare planned along the contour and bottlenecks of an irregular plot on a flatterrain with minimum cuts and fills. They are located on southern slopes, as leeward side development reduces gusts of the speeding, cold winds in... (read more) Author: Anuradha K. R.

460. Beyond Architectural Critique: 3610 Conference 2015 March 20, 2015 The 3610 Conference 2015 - an egalitarian platform on discourse in architecture and design conceptualised and hosted by Jasubhai Media Pvt. Ltd. brought to the fore what exactly goes on behind the scene and inside the mind of an architect... When you try to delve behind the concept of a design, you often hear the architect/ designer attribute it to a random thought, amongst a host of other inspirations. Taking this premise further, and scratching a little beyond the hypodermis, the conference captured the progressive nature of design in the glocal world of build-and-make. Two and half day... (read more) Author: Team IAnD

461. Do the Capabilities of your Commercial Cleaning Company Meet your Needs? March 17, 2015 Hiring a commercial cleaning company for your office is the best way to ensure that the areas where your employees work and your customers visit for presentations and meetings is neat, clean, and professional. Whether you need someone for routine cleaning or occasional deep cleaning of offices or specialized areas, you should select the right company based on their experience. If your company has a medical lab, a clean room, industrial equipment, or other special needs, you need professionals who know how to clean the area without disturbing your specialized equipment. In the case that your co... (read more) Author: Jen Stott

462. Sustainability in Contemporaneous Lifestyle March 16, 2015 Built on a thickly forested site at Alibaug, this weekend home is an exemplary model of sustainable living right from the choice of vernacular architecture and materiality to water harvesting and site treatment. In fact, only exposed patches on the site were chosen for construction thereby minimizing intervention to the natural topography… As a corollary, the design of this residence is fragmented in and around the 2.3 acre site interconnected (for privacy) through a series of courts and multiple water bodies. The concept echoes a deep understanding of vernacular construction techniqu... (read more) Author: Marina Correa

463. Material Alchemy: - "Arguably, a must-read!" March 16, 2015 By Ar. Saket Sethi What do Squishy Circuits, boric acid caramel; interactive paper and fish granite have in common? ‘Material Alchemy’ is a magical cook-book of recipes to push the literal envelope of build-wear-eat materials; both new and old, that you can create and discover simultaneously… Thermic sculptures, Mushroom Polymers and several other hyper-materials are the subject of demystification by Lee & Studio Aikieu’s ‘Material Alchemy’. As is the practice to deeply focus on the composition of design; whilst sometimes overlooking the relevant materiality of its elements - ... (read more) Author: Team IAnD

464. Of Porosity & Planar Compositions March 14, 2015 Compiled by Savitha Hira Renderings: Courtesy Steven Holl Architects Ar. Steven Holl does it again. His architectural thought of ‘addition via subtraction’ is all set to carve out the new visual arts building at the University of Iowa, where he will juxtapose the existing horizontally porous and planar structure with a volumetrically composed vertical complement... Picking up the original campus grid, and forming the space of a new Art Meadow together with Art Building West (the first one that Ar. Steven Holl designed in 2006 for Iowa University), the new Visual Arts facility for th... (read more) Author: Savitha Hira

465. Topsoil And Blended Soil And Indispensable For Beautifying The Garden In Your House March 13, 2015 Mr John Scott has just retired from his job and is actively thinking of pursuing the hobby of gardening in his free time. He has also been a very busy person in his professional life, and really never thought how lonely he would become once he retires. His friend gave him this great idea of spending time in landscaping the garden he has in his house. There was only one problem. He has never spent any productive time in his garden, and all he knew was to relax in the lawn with a cup of tea and newspaper in hand. His friend gave him some assurance that gardening was not so difficult after a... (read more) Author: Mattis Bailey

466. Efficacy & Synthesis - Architectural Excellence at Moesgaard Museum March 12, 2015 Info & Images: Courtesy Henning Larsen Architects The Moesgaard Museum is in news again – having won the Civic Trust Award 2015 for demonstrating excellence in architecture and making a positive social, cultural, environmental and economic impact on the local community. Designed by Henning Larsen Architects in collaboration with Architects Kristine JensensTegnestue, the 16,000 sq. m. museum is uniquely located in the hilly landscape of Skåde south of Aarhus, Denmark. With its rectangular-shaped sloping roof plane that seems to grow out of the landscape of grass, moss and flowers in b... (read more) Author: Team IAnD

467. Candid-Dynamic-Green: Campus Kolding - Aluminium Awardee 2015 March 11, 2015 Info & Images: Courtesy Henning Larsen Architects Henning Larsen Architects’ designed Campus Kolding of SDU Southern University Denmark, is the ALU award winner of 2015 - an Aluminium project promising to take the industry to new heights. Winner of the Danish Aluminium Prize for its aluminium facade, the campus building is defined by a characteristic and innovative architecture in which form, function, sustainability, energy and indoor climate form a synthesis. In this context the façade takes on a crucial role,” justifies professor Per Heiselberg, Jury President, to the awards cerem... (read more) Author: Team IAnD

468. Good Looking and Gorgeous Professional Hairstyles March 10, 2015 Each and every person yearns to have a good career. In a similar way, hairstyling is becoming a lucrative career for almost all. Starting from the beginner’s level one can go ahead and start climbing the ladders with the passage of time. Only one needs to hold some creativity, imagination power and sharp eyes towards fashion. Rather than approaching beauty parlors frequently by spending money, it is high time to give a kick start to give one’s hair a completely unique appearance. It must be noted that creating professional hairstyles is both an art and Science along with elegance and grace. Y... (read more) Author: Mark Well

469. When two become one: Ribbon Chapel March 08, 2015 By Beverly Pereira Photography: Koji Fujii/ Nacasa& Partners Inc; courtesy the architect A wedding chapel in Japan borrows its name from a pair of seemingly entwined spiral staircases... Tokyo-based architect Hiroshi Nakamura has designed a wedding chapel located midway on a hill in the garden of the Bella Vista Sakaigahama resort in Onomichi, Hiroshima. The 80 sq. m. chapel mirrors the act of marriage both architecturally and metaphorically. Like the twists and turns of life, the self-standing outer and inner staircases undulate before they unite at 15.4 m. to form a single ri... (read more) Author: Team IAnD

470. Creative Play of Light March 06, 2015 The refurbished Montmagny courthouse in Chaudière-Appalaches near Quebec City, adopts a concept of duality, with a sharp and striking architectural vocabulary - totally defined by light. Designed by the consortium CCM2, Group A and Roy-Jacques architects in collaboration with LumiGroup, the sprawling 4360 sq. m. courthouse that is otherwise governed by rules and regulations, now surprises visitors with an architectural intensity that is wholly the outcome of a creative use of light. Sharp straight lines, sometimes physical and sometimes imaginary, define the boundaries between public... (read more) Author: Pari Syal

471. Piano House - an ode to the love of music... March 06, 2015 Ar. Dhananjay Shinde’s team gives shape to a music-lover’s inarticulate desire to immerse himself in surroundings that articulate his love... ‘Piano House’, a 2940 sq. ft. weekend home, built on a 10000 sq.mt plot, facing the backwaters of Gangapur Dam in Nashik derives its name from the spacious 1000 sq.ft piano-shaped deck of the house. That an 1800-view was what the owners primarily had in mind, while assigning the job to the architects doesn’t come as a surprise, as the plot is blessed with awe-inspiring surroundings. Oriented towards the north, making it privy to a panoramic vie... (read more) Author: Anuradha K. R.

472. At Last Excellent News for Anybody Hoping for a Health Wave March 06, 2015 There are some health food developments which are taking hold, even though they might still be somewhat below our radar. For instance, environmentally sustainable foodstuffs are a massive topic that takes into account numerous areas, however it will be difficult for most people in the world to be able to pinpoint precisely what that will be. Even if you question a person who works in this area, the response can be turned into a 5 minute monologue. Environmentally sustainable food is a necessary trend that's occurring across the globe, yet even people in the field are trying to catalog it... (read more) Author: Jim O'Connell

473. Social Dimension of Architecture March 04, 2015 Info & Images: Courtesy the architect Photography: AllesWirdGut Architektur/ Guilherme Silva Da Rosa Intro: Would you like to share your holiday dwelling with a refugee? In a novel attempt at combining social responsibility with commercial gain, Caritas and architecture firm, AllesWirdGut collaborate on the design of magdas Hotel in Vienna. Copy: Redefining hospitality, this hotel with an unconventional concept and an inspiring history is home to city travelers, tourists in Vienna and overnight trippers, living side-by-side with young people who, however, did not travel of their ... (read more) Author: Team IAnD

474. The History of Surveying March 04, 2015 Land surveying is the mathematical measurement of the land and surveying techniques date back as far as the Ancient Egyptians. Famous explorers also mapped out the land as they travelled across the world, in many ways similar to the principles of modern day land surveying. One of the earliest records where we have proof that land surveying techniques were used, was in the building of the Great Pyramid of Giza, 2700BC. The ancient Egyptians used rope stretcher techniques to position the pyramid, creating a perfectly square base with a north-south orientation. Explorers and conquers many cent... (read more) Author: Miriam Drahmane

475. Surface patterns as design determinants March 04, 2015 UK-based surface pattern designer Kirath Ghundoo dramatizes Wax Revolution, a Mexican chain of lifestyle salons by using bright, quirky and playful surface patterns… The business of surface design is all about change and/or the enhancement it brings about to an ambience, which may be functional as well as aesthetic. For instance, based on the client’s brief Kirath sought to create an eye-catching feature wall in the large reception area of the salon to instantly grab attention. The design for the labs was individually tailored (with distinctive patterns and colours) so as to differen... (read more) Author: Marina Correa

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