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Espacio Killka

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 08 Oct 2017 20:11:00 +0000

The original idea in Killka’s projection was creating a first-rate center as important as the bodega itself. The project’s foundation was to accentuate the idea of a cultural space in the middle of the nature, maintaining a deep respect for it, towards the environment, and Mendoza’s community as a whole. At a conceptual level, Killka was planned as a cultural space, where the visitor could experience everything related to viniculture and, on top of that, enjoy the valuable Argentinian and Dutch contemporary art collection of the 19th and the 20th century.

In this way, this place becomes an indisputable cultural space, where wine and art join in an architectonic environment created solely for that purpose.

Cidade Administrativa de Minas Gerais

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 16 May 2017 02:31:00 +0000

One of the last masterpieces designed by Oscar Niemeyer was the building that hosts the official headquarters of the government of Minas Gerais. The work was completed in 2010, and the process was created in collaboration with Niemeyer’s team. Its black and white colors marked by a curvy shape are definitely admirable.

Museum of Tomorrow

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 14 May 2017 03:07:00 +0000

The Museum of Tomorrow (Portuguese: Museu do Amanhã) is a science museum in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It was designed by Spanish neofuturistic architect Santiago Calatrava, and built next to the waterfront at Pier Maua. Its construction was supported by the Roberto Marinho Foundation and cost approximately 230 million reais. The building was opened on December 17, 2015, with President Dilma Rousseff in attendance.

Established
17 December 2015

Location
Brazil

Area
15,000 m2 (160,000 sq ft)

Architect
Santiago Calatrava

Website
museudoamanha.org.br

The Box

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 15:44:00 +0000

» 8536 National Blvd, Culver City, California, United States [map]

The Box by Architect Eric Owen Moss, was originally designed as a private dining and meeting room for a restaurant. The client then changed the program in order to attract the emerging technical industry that was developing in the area. An existing industrial warehouse was renovated to contain new ofﬁce space. The Box, located on the roof of the ofﬁce, became a private conference/meeting room and explores the process of inserting a new building into an existing structure. The Box serves as an identifiable architectural element or event along what was then a relatively non-descript boulevard.

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:01:00 +0000

» 3200 Darnell St, Fort Worth, TX‎ - (817) 738-9215‎ [map]

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (widely referred to as The Modern) was first granted a Charter from the State of Texas in 1892 as the "Fort Worth Public Library and Art Gallery", evolving through several name changes and different facilities in Fort Worth. The mission of the museum is "collecting, presenting and interpreting international developments in post-World War II art in all media."
The current building, designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando was opened to the public on Saturday, December 14, 2002. The "Modern" is located in the city's Cultural District, adjacent to the Kimbell Art Museum, designed by Louis I. Kahn, and near the Amon Carter Museum, designed by Philip Johnson. The building features five long, pavilions set into a reflecting pond. The structural engineering was provided by Thornton Tomasetti.
The Museum currently contains over 2,600 works of art in its 53,000 square feet (4,900 m2) of gallery space, putting it at the forefront of post World War II art collections in the central United States. The Permanent Collection includes more than 3,000 works including pieces by Pablo Picasso, Anselm Kiefer, Robert Motherwell, Susan Rothenberg, Jackson Pollock, Gerhard Richter, Richard Serra, Andres Serrano, Cindy Sherman, and Andy Warhol

Pope-Leighey House

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:44:00 +0000

» 9000 Richmond Hwy, Alexandria VA [map] - +1 (703) 780-4000‎

The Pope-Leighey House, formerly known as the Loren Pope Residence, is a suburban house designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The home was originally built in Falls Church, VA in 1940 for the Loren Pope family at a cost of $7,000. In 1946, the Pope family sold the home to Mrs. Leighey because they were going to become hog farmers. In 1964, Mrs. Leighy received notice that the home was to be torn down to make room for Interstate 66. She donated the home to the National Trust for Historic Preservation and they moved the home to its current site at 9000 Richmond Hwy, Alexandria, VA, on the site of the Woodlawn Plantation. Mrs. Leighey resided in the home until her death in 1983. It is currently a tourist attraction that allows visitors to explore the exterior and interior.

Capilla de la Gratitud

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:44:00 +0000

» Ruta 89 y Videla, Tunuyán, Mendoza, Argentina [map] - +54 2622 429500

La “Capilla de la Gratitud” representa el humano acto de agradecer por las cosas cotidianas: la naturaleza, la vid, la abundancia que brota de la tierra, la magnificencia de la obra de Dios en un maravilloso entorno cordillerano.
Al construirla, la intención ha sido reformular, en clave contemporánea, las esencias de la arquitectura andina tradicional, caracterizadas por sus interiores penumbrosos, sus muros gruesos con gran inercia térmica -capaces de retardar largas horas la entrada del calor del sol-, ventanas pequeñas, las macizas cajas murarias reforzadas por contrafuertes para resistir mejor los temblores, y la casi total ausencia de madera.

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:43:00 +0000

» 260 S Broad St, Philadelphia PA, US [map] - +1 (215) 893-1346

The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts is a large performing arts venue located on Broad Street, along the stretch known as the "Avenue of the Arts", in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is owned and operated by Kimmel Center, Inc., an organization which also managed the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. The center is named after philanthropist Sidney Kimmel.

The architect of the Center was Rafael Viñoly, and the acoustician was Artec Consultants. The Kimmel Center opened in an unfinished state on December 16, 2001. Numerous cost overruns and construction delays led to the filing of a lawsuit in 2005 by officials of the Kimmel Center against Viñoly. The lawsuit was settled for an undisclosed sum.

Richards Medical Research Building

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:43:00 +0000

» 3700 Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104, US [map]

"The Medical Research Building at the University of Pennsylvania is conceived in recognition of the realization that science laboratories are studios and that the air to breathe should be away from the air to throw away....My solution was to create three great stacks of studios and attach to them tall service towers which would include animal quarters, mains to carry water, gas and vacuum lines, as well as ducts to breathe in the air from 'nostrils' placed low in the building and exhaust it out through stacks high above the roof....This design, an outcome of the consideration of the unique use of its spaces and how they are served characterizes what it is for."
- Louis Kahn.

MIT Chapel

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:43:00 +0000

48 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, US [map]

From the outside the chapel is a simple, windowless brick cylinder set inside a very shallow concrete moat. It is 50 feet (15 m) in diameter and 30 feet (9.1 m) high, and topped by an aluminum spire. The brick is supported by a series of low arches. Saarinen chose bricks that were rough and imperfect to create a textured effect. The whole is set in two groves of birch trees, with a long wall to the east, all designed by Saarinen. The wall and trees provides a uniform background for the Chapel, and isolates the site from the noise and bustle of adjacent buildings.

Institute of Contemporary Art

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:43:00 +0000

25 Harbor Shore Drive, Boston, MA 02210, US [map] - +1 (617) 478-3100

The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) is an art museum and exhibition space located in Boston, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. The museum was founded in 1936 with a mission to exhibit contemporary art.
ICA was formerly located on Boylston Street in the Back Bay neighborhood, then it was moved to a new facility in the Seaport District area of South Boston. The museum celebrated the completion of its new building the weekend of December 9-10, 2006. The new building coincided with the museum's launch of its first permanent collection.
The new building was designed by the architectural firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro,. It is one of that firm's first structures to be built, and the first to be built in the United States. It is also the first new art museum to be built in Boston in over a century.
The building is located between the Courthouse and World Trade Center stations on the MBTA Silver Line.

Central Park Ice Skating

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:42:00 +0000

830 5th Ave, New York, NY 10065, US [map]

I found really interesting the way everybody interact and gather for the same purpose, while other people (the lady closer to me) just stand there to watch.

Puente de la Mujer

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:42:00 +0000

Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires, Argentina [map]

The Puente de la Mujer (Spanish for "Woman's Bridge") is a footbridge in the Puerto Madero district of Buenos Aires, Argentina that spans dock 3 (dique 3). It is of the Cantilever spar cable-stayed bridge type and is also a swing bridge, but somewhat unique in is asymmetrical arrangement. It has a single mast with cables suspending a portion of the bridge which rotates 90 degrees in order to allow water traffic to pass. When it swings to allow watercraft passage the far end comes to a resting point on a stabilizing pylon.

It was designed by Santiago Calatrava and is similar to his Puente del Alamillo and Sundial Bridge at Turtle Bay, but with a forward, rather than a reverse angled cantilever, as is seen in those bridges. The footbridge was donated by Don Alberto L. Gonzalez to the City of Buenos Aires in thanks for 60 years of work in the country. Started in 1998, it was completed on 20 December 2001.

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:42:00 +0000

Calle de Santa Isabel, 52, 28012 Madrid, España [map] - +34 917 741 000

The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS, also called the Museo Reina Sofía, Queen Sofía Museum, El Reina Sofía, or simply El Reina) is Spain's national museum of 20th-century art. The museum was officially inaugurated on September 10, 1992, and is named for Queen Sofía. It is located in Madrid, near the Atocha train and metro stations, at the southern end of the so-called Golden Triangle of Art (located along the Paseo del Prado and also comprising the Museo del Prado and the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza).

The museum is mainly dedicated to Spanish art. Highlights of the museum include excellent collections of Spain's two greatest 20th-century masters, Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí. The most famous masterpiece in the museum is Picasso's painting Guernica. Along with its extensive collection, the museum offers a mixture of national and international temporary exhibitions in its many galleries, making it one of the world's largest museums for modern and contemporary art.

It also hosts a free-access library specializing in art, with a collection of over 100,000 books, over 3,500 sound recordings, and almost 1,000 videos.

Casa Milà (La Pedrera)

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:42:00 +0000

» Passeig Gràcia 92, Barcelona, España [map]

Casa Milà, better known as La Pedrera (Catalan for 'The Quarry'), is a building designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí and built in the years 1906–1910 (officially completed 1912). It is located at 92, Passeig de Gràcia ('passeig' is Catalan for promenade or avenue) in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It was built for the married couple Rosario Segimon and Pere Milà. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Works of Antoni Gaudí". The building is owned by Caixa Catalunya.

The Vienna Secession

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:41:00 +0000

The secession building is located in Vienna, Austria. It was built in 1897 by Joseph Maria Olbrich for exhibitions of the secession group. The building was called the Secession as it was the seceding of the "rebel artists" from the long-established fine art institution that gave rise to this excellent structure.

Hagia Sophia roof maintenance

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:41:00 +0000

I took this photo from the inside, looking at a lower roof where these people were working; behind you can see the Blue Mosque.

Hagia Sophia is a former patriarchal basilica, later a mosque, now a museum in Istanbul, Turkey. Famous in particular for its massive dome, it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. It was the largest cathedral ever built in the world for nearly a thousand years, until the completion of the Medieval Seville Cathedral in 1520.

The current building was originally constructed as a church between A.D. 532 and 537 on the orders of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian, and was in fact the third Church of the Holy Wisdom to occupy the site (the previous two had both been destroyed by riots). It was designed by two architects, Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles. The Church contained a large collection of holy relics and featured, among other things, a 50 foot (15 m) silver iconostasis. It was the patriarchal church of the Patriarch of Constantinople and the religious focal point of the Eastern Orthodox Church for nearly 1000 years.

In 1453, Constantinople was conquered by the Ottoman Turks and Sultan Mehmed II ordered the building to be converted into a mosque. The bells, altar, iconostasis, and sacrificial vessels were removed, and many of the mosaics were eventually plastered over. The Islamic features - such as the mihrab, the minbar, and the four minarets outside - were added over the course of its history under the Ottomans. It remained as a mosque until 1935, when it was converted into a museum by the Republic of Turkey.

For almost 500 years the principal mosque of Istanbul, Hagia Sophia served as a model for many of the Ottoman mosques such as the Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Blue Mosque of Istanbul), the Şehzade Mosque, the Süleymaniye Mosque, and the Rüstem Pasha Mosque.

Although it is sometimes referred to as Saint Sophia (Greek for wisdom), the Greek name in full is Ναός τῆς Ἁγίας τοῦ Θεοῦ Σοφίας, Church of the Holy Wisdom of God, and it was dedicated to the Holy Wisdom of God rather than a specific saint named Sophia.

New Footbridges at the Hungerford Bridge

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:41:00 +0000

The new footbridges posed an engineering challenge. Their construction was complicated by the need to keep the railway bridge operating without interruptions. There was also the problem of the Bakerloo Line tunnels passing only a few feet under the river bed as well as the potential danger of unexploded bombs in the Thames mud. Despite extensive surveys of the riverbed, London Underground was unwilling to accept these risks and preliminary works were stopped in 2000. The design was modified so that the support structure on the north side, which would have been within 15 metres of the tube lines, was moved out of the river bed and onto Victoria Embankment. Excavation near the tube lines was carried out when the tube was closed and foundations were hand-dug for additional security. It is estimated that the footbridges took one million hours of labour to create.

Hey FusionAD ..... _lab06 or XPOLAB?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:51:00 +0000

Apparently FusionAD and XPOLAB have already read my previous post Copyright and Plagiarism because i just checked their websites and they took everything away...

FusionAD took it away from their Portfolio section.
XPOLAB cleaned the html code so my name and _lab06 description is not in there....
....pretty clever uh?

Hopefully, on my side, their websites were still cached by Google Servers, so I just took some screenshots for everybody to take a look at them, as follows...

I Google XPOLAB > I get their website with _lab06 description.

XPOLAB Tile, with _lab06 description, nice combination...

Here's the XPOLAB cached online Page Source, as I was saying before.

....and of course, tried to google my name, what did i get? surprise, XPOLAB link....... mmm? WTF!

Back about 3 months ago, when i discovered all this, my partner Eduardo sent them an email (to XPOLAB) saying we realized they copied our website (and colors, compositions, name, etc.) that at least if they can take our names from there code.... and they didn't even get back to us. so now i got sick of it and i decided to write this posts.

As you can see in the following WHOIS info for XPOLAB domain, it was created on January 2009, basically 3 years after i published _lab06

WHOIS information for xpolab.in :
[Querying whois.inregistry.in]
[whois.inregistry.in]
Access to .IN WHOIS information is provided to assist persons in determining the contents of a domain name registration record in the .IN registry database.

Domain ID:D3276627-AFIN
Domain Name:XPOLAB.IN
Created On:30-Jan-2009 15:15:42 UTC
Last Updated On:31-Mar-2009 19:20:09 UTC
Expiration Date:30-Jan-2011 15:15:42 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:Rediff.com India Limited (R37-AFIN)
Status:OK
Registrant ID:RD-1441256957335
Registrant Name:Surinder Kumar
Registrant Organization:xpolab.in
Registrant City:GURGAON
Registrant State/Province:Haryana
Registrant Email:surinder@leddesign.org
Admin ID:RD-1441256957335
Admin Name:Surinder Kumar
Admin Organization:xpolab.in
Admin City:GURGAON
Admin State/Province:Haryana
Admin Email:surinder@leddesign.org
Tech ID:FR-1109146178210
Tech Name:Rediff.com India Limited
Tech City:Mumbai
Tech State/Province:Maharashtra
Tech Email:domaintech@rediff.co.in
Name Server:NS.REDIFFMAILPRO.COM
Name Server:NS2.REDIFFMAILPRO.COM

FYI, FusionAD and XPOLAB:
_lab06 website was published during 2006 and 2007 for recognition in design in many sites such as: DesignChats, Monster Web Awards, Design Licks, Dope Awards, in between many others.
Don't copy, be creative with your mind, use your imagination and skills, if you have some...

How easy is to copy something, don't you think?......
The real question is how far are you going to get doing that???

Thanks for reading.
Adrian

Copyright and Plagiarism

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:00:00 +0000

I'm wrinting this post because i'm very upset and with people that think they are designers in a way but what they only do is to copy other people designs.

Here's the story:
I designed and developed a website back in 2006 called _lab06 .
It is a website of a design studio lead by me (adrian) and my partner Eduardo, offering mainly web design and 3D Renderings.
with the past of time (four years since then) and tools like Google Analytics i realized, based on the traffic sources to my website, that there is a "graphic design" studio in India that literally stole my web design.

FusionAD is showing on there Portofio page their latest web design called XPOLAB, surprisignly, an exact (bad) copy of my original design _lab06.
I'm saying a bad copy because of the following items.

they copy my design but they didn't even know how to write ActionScript, so their website movements are made by tweens not by scripts (if you are a web designer you'll know what i'm talking about)
In their website, the html source it's still showing my name and my partner's!

Here you have the links so you can check what i'm saying:

_lab06 (original)
lab06.net

XPOLAB (copy)
xpolab.in

FusionAD ("graphic design studio")
fusionad.net

Just in case they take all that away, here you can see some screenshots of what i'm talking about.

What do you think??

FusionAD design studio

_lab06, my original web design

XPOLAB, plagirism.

_lab06, graphics section.

XPOLAB, Portfolio section.

I guess they didn't even boder to change the google analytics code...
This are some of they keywords i get on my site:
camp chrysalid
xp olab
chrysalid.in
chrysalid
www.chrysalid.in
xpolab
cache:vokfpjluxl4j:www.chrysalid.in/ chrysalid.in
camp chrysalid junga
chrysalid outdoor learning centres
rock climbing delhi
camp chryasalid
hiking
specialised in exhibition stall
adventure camps near shimla
bus route of shimla from delhi
camp chrysalad
camp chyrsalid
chrysalid camp
chrysalid camps india
chrysalid outdoor learning centres india private limited
chyrsalid
flagship company of renowned
hiking stores delhi
summer photos

Thanks for reading
Adrian

Street Bench

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 02:28:00 +0000

» Medellin, Colombia.

It's right in front of the Parque Explora, this street bench it's quite a piece of urban design.

Jardin Botánico de Medellin

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 02:18:00 +0000

Carrera 51 # 75, Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia. [map]

The Joaquin Antonio Uribe Botanical Garden of Medellín (Spanish: Joaquin Antonio Uribe Jardín Botánico de Medellín), more simply known as the Botanical Garden of Medellín, is a 14-hectare botanical garden in Medellín, Colombia. The botanical garden has 4,500 flowers and 139 recorded bird species.^[1] It has an important collection of orchids preserved in an architectural space called the "Orchideorama".

The entrance pavilion to the botanical garden was designed by Lorenzo Castro and Ana Elvira Vélez. The garden includes a butterfly house, cactus garden, exhibition spaces, library, and pond. A plan to create an additional pavilion was rejected and a competition for local architects was devised to come up with a new structure for the park.

The winners of the project designed the Orchideorama. This structure was jointly designed by Plan B Architects and JPRCR Architects.^[2]^[3] The structure is 65-feet high. It is a wood meshwork canopy with ten hexagonal flower-tree structures that collect rainwater and shelter an orchid collection and butterfly reserves.

Orquideorama

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 04:58:00 +0000

» Medellin, Colombia.

El nuevo Orquideorama conservó la esencia y el nombre del anterior. La estructura fue construida en seis meses, y se inauguró el 25 de agosto de 2006. Por su belleza y por ser el primer componente entregado a la comunidad, se convirtió en símbolo del proceso de renovación del Jardín Botánico.
Su diseño plantea una relación entre arquitectura y organismos vivos. En concepto de los arquitectos, el nuevo espacio integra lo natural y lo artificial, en una organización material, ambiental y espacial particular, cercana a los procesos de la vida, con leyes y patrones geométricos flexibles (como los de un panal), a partir de un módulo repetitivo al que llamaron “árbol-flor”. Tan ejemplar como su diseño fue su proceso de construcción, gracias a un comprometido equipo de especialistas, técnicos y obreros, quienes asumieron esta empresa con emoción, logrando un trabajo artesanal único. Desde su culminación, la nueva estructura, se configuró en uno de los diseños arquitectónicos más representativos de Medellín y en un ejemplo de arquitectura local con carácter internacional. En el 2007 ganó dos categorías del premio de diseño Lápiz de Acero, como reconocimiento al proyecto más innovador.
Su inauguración estuvo cargada de mensajes con los cuales la Alcaldía y el Jardín Botánico quisieron simbolizar que este componente, como los demás que se derivaron del proceso de renovación, fueron concebidos para el servicio de toda la comunidad, como un aporte a la educación integral de los medellinenses y a la generación de espacios públicos de alta calidad. Para ello, los primeros en ingresar fueron mil niños y niñas de 5 y 6 años de edad, quienes protagonizaron una fiesta con música hecha a partir de instrumentos construidos con elementos reciclados y cortaron la cinta con el Alcalde de entonces, Sergio Fajardo. Luego se llevó a cabo un acto simbólico de entrega a la comunidad académica, empresarial, ambiental, educativa, líderes comunitarios, dirigentes y vecinos, entre otros. El sábado 26 de agosto, en compañía del Parque Explora, se realizó la inauguración académica, con el colombiano Cristián Samper, en ese momento Director del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural del Instituto Smithsonian en Estados Unidos, quien ofreció una conferencia magistral gratuita en el nuevo Orquideorama, acerca del papel de los jardines botánicos en la conservación mundial de la flora. Así representamos el lugar relevante que ocupan las ciencias y la educación ambiental en el renovado Jardín Botánico de Medellín, siempre bajo la óptica del disfrute y el acceso a todos, no sólo a los especialistas.

Art and Media Center Rhine Haven

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 21:51:00 +0000

» Düsseldorf, Germany [map]

Frank Gehry's at the river.

Building Entrance

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 21:37:00 +0000

» Düsseldorf, Germany.

Walking around I saw this building but i can't recall what it is...I really like the gesture of inviting you in with that canopy roof