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Petra Blaisse - Inside Outside Petra Blaisse Petra Blaisse started her career in 1978 at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, in the Department of Applied Arts. 1986 onwards, she worked as freelance exhibition designer and won distinction for her installations of architectural works.

Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs What is RSS? RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds are files which can be loaded into RSS viewers, and automatically display new content from the Chatham House website. This allows you to keep up to date with news from Chatham House without having to view every section of the website. International Assessment and Strategy Center > Research > China Sows The Whirlwind: Implications of Hezbollah’s Iranian-Chinese Weapons Home Research Email this article Print this article by Richard Fisher, Jr. Published on July 26th, 2006 ARTICLES New Galerie Steel, plywood, perforated aluminum, acrylic sheets, vinyl welding screen, vinyl- and urethane-coated laminate flooring, vinyl strip doors with mounting hardware, LEDs, motion-sensitive computer system, hardware, polyurethane foam inserts, hot-rolled steel panels with patina, protective wax, urethane resin, dye, amphibian props used in the film Magnolia (1999) Installation view at “Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Collection of the artist; courtesy New Galerie, Paris Produced with support from Pomeranz Collection, Vienna Architectural Design and Fabrication: MUECKE, INC.Structural Steel Design: A Degree of FreedomInteraction Design, Lighting Design, and Animation Design: Dave & Gabe

Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab The Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab is a prototype for a new kind of resilient coastal architecture. It merges expertise from design, advanced composites manufacturing, and marine ecology to imagine a floating architecture of the future that can exist productively with its surrounding environment. The project has developed through a multi-year partnership between academia and industry that serves as a model for expanding architectural agency beyond architecture’s traditional disciplinary limits. The project consists of a floating breakwater structure that incorporates a digitally fabricated, ecologically optimized fiber-reinforced polymer composite substrate. Underwater, the hull’s peaks and valleys vary in size to provide habitats for different species of invertebrates.

Urban Omnibus New York City’s coastal communities and maritime environments are the subject of a lot of renewed attention in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. Practical urban strategy debates of whether to retreat or rebuild do not deal with speculative questions about how the new normal of stronger storms and seasonal inundation might actually suggest new forms of city life. This past semester, in a landscape architecture studio at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, Chris Reed (working with David Mah, Leire Asensio Villoria, Silvia Benedito, Zaneta Hong, Eduardo Rico, and Enriquetta Llabras) charged his students with exactly this kind of speculation, introducing questions of urbanism and citymaking into the core sequence of studio work for landscape architects. The studio site was Jamaica Bay, an ecologically rich habitat containing many marshy islands, surrounded by highly developed residential and industrial areas including JFK airport, Floyd Bennett Field, and neighborhoods like Marine Park.

Hong Kong’s ozone pollution levels nearly doubled over two decades, report from local air-quality watchdog shows Levels of ozone, a major air pollutant and greenhouse gas, have nearly doubled in the past 21 years in Hong Kong, though certain other pollutants dipped in the same period, a study by a local air-quality watchdog revealed on Monday. The Clean Air Network review, based on data from the Environmental Protection Department, found the yearly average concentration of ozone reached 54.29 micrograms per cubic metre in 2019, up from 29.56 in 1998. Ozone pollution was particularly bad on the western side of Hong Kong, which included Tuen Mun, Yuen Long and Tai Po, although the highest level of ozone pollution was in Tseung Kwan O.

Landschaftsinformatik: DLA Conference Early Call for DLA 2020 in Boston June 1-3, 2020 and JoDLA 4-2019 presented during the AGIT conference at the University of Salzburg, Austria Prof. Dr. Ulrich Kias, Hochschule Munich-Weihenstephan, Prof. James Prosek / Books & Articles Current Book Recent Books James Prosek: Art, Artifact, Artifice Yale Books Locus Associates Jerome LeePrincipal | B.A. (Arch), M. Arch Brandon HuangPrincipal | B.A., MLA Ray WanAssociate | B.Arch., MLA Ken QiuProject Landscape Designer | B.LA Perry ZouB.Art Kain ZhengProject Landscape Designer | B.L.A. JiaJie ChenAssistant Architectural Designer | B.Arch Yijie ZhangAssistant Landscape Designer | B.L.A., M.L.A. Ann HuangAssistant Interior Designer | B.A. Daisy ZhangAdministrative Assistant Renhang XieAssistant Interior Designer Yuki GuoAssistant Landscape Designer | B.A.

Fionn Byrne Fionn Byrne teaches at the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, Canada. His research focuses on the relationships between nature, aesthetics, and ethics, using speculative design to challenge dominant environmental narratives. The persistent interest in Byrne’s work is to better understand the ethical obligations of the design fields. He contends that all design decisions involve value judgements, that any acts of building in the world are political, and that question of justice must always be raised when we seek to modify our physical environments.

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