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Paul Flowers, Vice President van het GROHE design team

Video clip about Chu Lai economic zone with multidimensional viewpoint, which was used in UN-HABITAT Vietnam\'s Leadership Training Workshops. (UN-HABITAT thực hiện)

Video clip about Vision of Hoi An, was used in UN-HABITAT Vietnam\'s Leadership Training Workshops. (UN-HABITAT thực hiện)

Interview Habitat Programme Manager Dr Nguyen Quang about Cities and Climate Change.

Info TV interviewed Ms Do Minh Huyen UN-HABITAT urban specialist about Urbanization in Vietnam.

Info TV interviewed Ms. Do Minh Huyen - UN-HABITAT Urban Specialist about Vietnamese Urban Indicators

http://www.kohler.com/karbon The new Karbon Articulating Faucet demands attention with its robotic-like features and hyped up introduction at KBIS (every hour a dance troupe would perform with themes relating to water, innovation, and of course fluid movement). Product details: With its clean, crisp lines, the Karbon articulating faucet introduces a new geometry of versatile functionality to the kitchen. Intelligently engineered to hold any pose for hands-free operation, Karbon allows you to streamline your work surfaces and workflow. You can extend the faucet fully to fill large pots, lower it into the sink for food preparation and cleanup, fold it compactly out of the way when not in use, or position it anywhere in between. List of team credits: Tristan Butterfield, Creative Director, Kohler MetaDesign: Brett Wickens, Creative Director and Copywriter Jeremy Mattews, Design Director Kim Appelquist, Project Manager Logan: Alexei Tylevich - Creative Director Kevin Shapiro - Executive Producer Marco Ammannati - Art Director Volkert Bessling - Editor Brandon Sanders - Flame Artist Michael Kadelbach - Music Tina Chiang - Associate Producer VFX: Vincent Wauters Benoit Vincent Julien Brami Stephan Kosinski Mat Rotman Joshua Cortopassi [More] [Less]

MVRDV presents vision for Grand Paris 2030. This animation presents MVRDVs vision for Greater Paris 2030. The project Paris Plus petit by MVRDV in collaboration with ACS and AAF is one of ten proposals by international architecture and urbanism teams to envision the future of the French capital and its vast agglomeration. The urban challenge has been commissioned by Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France. Paris Plus stands for more: more ambition, more optimism, more density, more efficiency, more ecology and more compactness. Greater Paris needs a strong combination of responsibility and ambition to continue its development, to ensure its consistency and to develop a cohesion that can build a base for a collective enterprise to solve its problems, to enlarge its presence and attractiveness, to create an even more remarkable, exemplary city. MVRDV with ACS and AAFs response for President Sarkozys 2009 urban planning consultation for the great challenge of the Greater Paris area is represented in four parts: the Synthesis, the City Calculator©, the Data and the Observation. The Synthesis defines the spatial agenda for the city, based on ambitious and responsible strategies for the French capital. It is the core of the response and proposes a series of 17 large scale interventions that are based on an analysis of the citys fabric, its future programmatic needs and spatial possibilities. The proposals are interventions based on available space and feasible. Among them the ambition to make Paris highly accessible: the creation of a grand central station at the location of Les Halles, underground densification of the Boulevard Périphérique by adding a metro line and two underground motorways ring-roads, the creation of new Grand Axes and a subterranean infrastructure band along the Seine. The space liberated by the buried infrastructure is used for a housing program that allows for urban living in pleasant and green environments. Further parts of the vision are investments into transport, nature, education, culture, social cohesion and vast amounts of renewable energy. The sum of all projects can avoid future sprawl and radically transform Paris into one of the densest, most compact and therefore sustainable high quality cities in the world: Paris Plus petit. The City Calculator© is a proposed demo version of a potential software and possible webtool, which quantifies the behaviour and performance of a city and makes it comparable to others. It connects qualitative to quantitative parameters. It can be used as a public and planning tool to support sustainable planning. The City Calculator© will be conceived in collaboration, by The Why Factory at Delft University of Technology. The Data gives the overview of the detailed research on the functioning and performance of Greater Paris, which has been the background for the spatial proposals. The Observations are a series of articles on the backgrounds, the history, the potentials and the problems of the French metropolis. President Nicolas Sarkozy commissioned in June 2008 ten teams of architects and urban planners to imagine an exemplary \"Grand Paris\" a sustainable and boldly designed capital. The project was hailed being the most ambitious since Haussmann changed Paris in the 19th century. The challenge for the 10 teams was envisioning the European metropolis in 2030 being a \"post-Kyoto\" green urban centre which allows for growth beyond the current two million Parisians and provides them with attractive urban environments. The ten plans are presented in an exhibition at Cité de lArchitecture open to the public from the 29th of April 2009 until the 22nd of November 2009. www.citechaillot.fr The animation is made by Wieland Gouwens, Rotterdam [More] [Less]

Paul Flowers, Vice President van het GROHE design team

Tập đoàn xây dựng và kiến trúc thế giới Snøhetta vừa công bố mẫu thiết kế đoạt giải nhất giành cho quần thể kiến trúc cổng vào của thành phố Ras Al-Khaimah – thủ đô mới của khối liên hiệp các tiểu vương quốc Ả Rập thống nhất. Hiện tại tập đoàn Snøhetta đã được cấp vốn để tiến hành dự án này bắt đầu vào cuối năm nay. Công trình này sẽ nằm ở phạm vi 15km về phái đông của thành phố Dubai. Sau khi được hoàn thành, nó sẽ trở thành một Cổng Chào cho thành phố Ras Al Khaimah. Mẫu thiết kế này được lấy cảm hứng từ những sa mạc và rặng núi xung quanh. Đồng thời, đặc điểm thiết kế còn tạo ra một diện tích vô cùng lớn bóng râm tự nhiên và đảm bảo an toàn cho các công trình bên trong. Bao quanh bên ngoài sẽ là một loạt khu liên hợp đa chức năng được phối hợp chặt chẽ cùng nhau. Quần thế kiến trúc 300000 m2 này sẽ bao gồm khách sạn, nghị viện và các trung tâm mua sắm, triển lãm. Trung tâm là một tòa tháp cao 200m mang hình một con rắn hổ mang, đóng vai trò là một khách sạn 5 sao. Bên ngoài của công trình sẽ được phủ bằng cách tấm Ceramic được phát triển bởi tập đoàn Ras Al Khaimah – một trong những nhà sản xuất hàng đầu về chất liệu này. [More] [Less]

Thăm Bảo tàng Corpus - vừa khánh thành tại thành phố Oegstgeest, Hà Lan - du khách không chỉ có dịp “đi vào” cơ thể con người, mà còn khám phá cơ chế hoạt động của nó. Bài viết: http://mag.ashui.com/index.php/chuyenmuc/kientruc/67-kientruc/217-bao-tang-corpus-dao-choi-trong-co-the-nguoi.html [More] [Less]

Video clip about Vision of Hoi An, was used in UN-HABITAT Vietnam\'s Leadership Training Workshops. (UN-HABITAT thực hiện)

Tập đoàn xây dựng và kiến trúc thế giới Snøhetta vừa công bố mẫu thiết kế đoạt giải nhất giành cho quần thể kiến trúc cổng vào của thành phố Ras Al-Khaimah – thủ đô mới của khối liên hiệp các tiểu vương quốc Ả Rập thống nhất. Hiện tại tập đoàn Snøhetta đã được cấp vốn để tiến hành dự án này bắt đầu vào cuối năm nay. Công trình này sẽ nằm ở phạm vi 15km về phái đông của thành phố Dubai. Sau khi được hoàn thành, nó sẽ trở thành một Cổng Chào cho thành phố Ras Al Khaimah. Mẫu thiết kế này được lấy cảm hứng từ những sa mạc và rặng núi xung quanh. Đồng thời, đặc điểm thiết kế còn tạo ra một diện tích vô cùng lớn bóng râm tự nhiên và đảm bảo an toàn cho các công trình bên trong. Bao quanh bên ngoài sẽ là một loạt khu liên hợp đa chức năng được phối hợp chặt chẽ cùng nhau. Quần thế kiến trúc 300000 m2 này sẽ bao gồm khách sạn, nghị viện và các trung tâm mua sắm, triển lãm. Trung tâm là một tòa tháp cao 200m mang hình một con rắn hổ mang, đóng vai trò là một khách sạn 5 sao. Bên ngoài của công trình sẽ được phủ bằng cách tấm Ceramic được phát triển bởi tập đoàn Ras Al Khaimah – một trong những nhà sản xuất hàng đầu về chất liệu này. [More] [Less]

Richard Vaughan, news editor of The Architects\' Journal, interviews Norman Foster at the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona, October 2008

Suvarnabhumi Airport Opening Video (2005).

This is rare and unique movie. It shows inside and outside of the House of Parliament by the international Known architect of the Sidney Opera House Jorn Utzon. This building is rarely photographed and even less seen. This movie shows even the inside of the Building. The quick sequence inserted for obvious reason is \"Tha arabic musical instruments\" of the Tareq Rajab Museum in Kuwait. [More] [Less]

It\'s just a proposal, so it may never happen. Supposed to coincide with the World Expo in Shanghai in 2010.

This is the Hearst Tower and the view from the 46 stories building near Columbus Circle. Hearst Tower is a \"green building\" the first building to receive a Gold LEED certified rating for \"core and shell and interiors\" in New York City. * Over 90% of structural steel contains recycled material * The cost of foreign-sourced materials represents less than 10% of the cost of the construction of the Tower itself. * The \"diagrid\" frame of the Tower contains roughly 20% less steel than would a conventional perimeter frame ‹ saving approximately 2,000 tons of steel. * The waterfall inside uses water collected as rainfall. * Each triangle in the diagrid is four stories tall, or 54 feet. * Daylight sensors to control lighting and reduce energy use The environmentally conscious approach began prior to construction. When demolishing the interior portions of the existing, six-story structure, Hearst and its team of building professionals went to great lengths to collect and separate recyclable materials. As a result, about 85 percent of the original structure was recycled for future use. Hearst executives also selected an innovative type of glass that wraps around the exterior of the building. The glass has a special \"low-E\" coating that allows for internal spaces to be flooded with natural light while keeping out the invisible solar radiation that causes heat. Hearst also will utilize technology that senses activity level. At lunchtime, when some employees are leaving or not using their computers, motion sensors will detect this and adjust the system accordingly. These sensors will allow for lights and computers to be turned off when a room is vacant. In addition, Hearst is using high efficiency heating and air-conditioning equipment that will utilize outside air for cooling and ventilation for 75 percent of the year, as well as Energy Star appliances. These and other energy-saving features are expected to increase energy efficiency by 22 percent compared to a standard office building. This is a welcome innovation in New York City, where rapidly growing electricity demand is threatening to overwhelm the local power supply. Hearst is also employing pioneering technologies in order to conserve and more efficiently use water. For example, Hearst\'s roof has been designed to collect rainwater, which reduces the amount of water dumped into the City\'s sewer system during rainfall by 25 percent. The rainwater will then be harvested in one 14,000-gallon reclamation tank located in the basement of the Hearst Tower. The rainwater is used to replace water lost to evaporation in the office air-conditioning system. It also feeeds into a special pumping system to irrigate plantings and trees inside and outside of the building. It is expected that the captured rain will produce about half of the watering needs. The harvested water also is utilized for \"Icefall,\" a three-story, sculpted water feature within the building\'s grand atrium. In addition to serving as a stunning entrance to the building, Icefall, which is believed to be the nation\'s largest sustainable water feature, also serves an environmental function by serving to humidify and chill the atrium lobby as necessary. Workstations and offices are furnished with desks, chairs and other furniture that is formaldehyde free. Concrete surfaces are furnished with low toxicity sealants. See more pictures and make new connections on www.stefanosnetwork.com - a network connecting thousands of individuals and businesses. Browse New York exclusive events on CALENDAR, write on the FORUM and read and post classifieds about rents, jobs and other opportunities. IT IS ALL FREE! Check it out on www.stefanosnetwork.com [More] [Less]