Amazing of Samitaur Tower

Conceptually, the tower has both introverted and extroverted planning objectives. Internal to the burgeoning site area of new media companies, graphic designers, and general office tenants, the tower will symbolize the advent of this important new urban development, provide a changing art display for local viewing, and offer a variety of graphic content and data on its five screens concerning coming events and current achievements of the tenants who occupy that part of the city.

     The Samitaur Tower is an information tower, constructed at the corner of Hayden Avenue and National Boulevard immediately across from the new Expo light rail line arriving from downtown Los Angeles in June, 2011. That intersection is the primary entry point into the re-developed zone of Culver City.

    Externally, the tower displays culturally significant content and local event information, along with art and graphic presentations of all sorts available to in-car audiences who pass the site area, traveling on a number of local thoroughfares in the Culver City / West Los Angeles area. In addition to the large number of cars passing the site, the Expo Line has an estimated ridership of 30,000 passengers per day with two local stops several blocks east and west of the site. The presence of the train riders guarantees an enormous daily audience of Tower art viewers, as well as an increase in pedestrians in the area, who will walk past the Tower from the train stops to local businesses.

  All the buildings in the immediate area are governed by a 56 foot height limit. The Samitaur Tower height is an important exception to the local height rule. The project is 72 feet high, measured from grade, and includes an open-air, excavated, concrete seating and staging space at its base that begins at minus 12 feet, and housing for all the electronic and media related equipment for the Tower.

 The tower consists of five circular steel rings, approximately 30 feet in diameter. The rings are stacked vertically at 12 foot floor-to-floor intervals, and, as the height increases, the rings are staggered in plan, back and forth – to the north, east, south, and west – in order to establish proximity and viewing angles for various levels at various heights. Projection screens at each floor are to be seen from cars on surrounding surface streets, from freeways, by passengers at train stops, from on-board the moving trains, and from area pedestrians at a variety of key walking and viewing points. Between each pair of staggered horizontal circular steel planes, the curving, conical projection screens are installed. Behind the screens, hung from the tower floors are a number of digital projectors, 10 in all, that will rear-project onto the translucent acrylic screens.

    Inside the screens, steel decks are provided for viewers to look out at the city, and for a maintenance staff who will service the projectors and screens.

    The Tower has a glazed elevator in an enclosed glass shaft, and an open stairway to the top, so the Tower will be used as a viewing platform to overlook the city, but its primary objective is to distribute art and other relevant content to the local and the in-transit audiences passing by.

  

  There are several target audiences that account for the positioning of the five screens. First is the traffic on the Santa Monica Freeway, several blocks to the north, one of the most highly trafficked freeway routes in Los Angeles. Second, the intersection of La Cienega Boulevard and Jefferson Boulevard, several blocks from the site, another of the highly trafficked intersections in the city, and the location of the primary new, elevated train stop. Third is the corner of Hayden and National itself, adjacent to the project, which is also a signaled, highly trafficked east-west route. Finally, there is one screen, just above grade level, that, unlike the other four, faces the re-development site. That screen will be used by local audiences, seated on the terraced concrete bleachers that step down to the below grade portion of the project where a stage for speakers and performers is provided.

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Design Word Cup Stadium Rusia 2018, Rusia (II)

Wordcup stadium Rusia. Russia provides 14 cities organizers. Five new stadiums is expected to be ready in 2013, two in Moscow and one each in St. Petersburg, Kazan and Sochi. While Qatar is also filed an application on January 15, 2009. One constraint facing the Middle East Affairs is hot weather that reached 30 to 40 degrees Celsius in mid-year where the World Cup was held.

staduim nizhy novgorod

stadium kazan

stadium yoroslavl

stadium volgogard

stadium saransk

Bidding committee said that they were ready to operate the air-conditioned stadium to address those issues.

stadium samara

staduim yakaterinburg

stadium sochi

staduim rostov on don

stadium krasnodar

For the World Cup, using the motto "Expect Amazing Qatar Russia while wearing the slogan Ready to Inspire. The world is now waiting for inspiration to come from Russia and also wonders who will present Qatar.
souce: detiksport & issu.com

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Seoul Kring Kumho Culture to the symbol of WORLD DESIGN CAPITAL 2010

Driven by ICSID (International Council of Societies of Industrial Design), the label "World Design Capital" reward cities that demonstrate their ability to use design as a key element in improving the social, cultural and economic life of its inhabitants .

Space, as well as spatial design, reinforces its image as a medium for facilitating communications between companies and consumers, as opposed to simply perform its previous role to provide a place for containing customer’s human behavior.

after Turin in 2008, Seoul designated World Design Capital 2010 "and places design at the heart of current international media throughout the year.

Located in the Gangnam area in Seoul, the KRING is a cultural center in bold and innovative architecture designed by the architectural firm Unsangdong Korean Architects on behalf of Kumho Group Real Estate.

This space is dedicated to art and modern culture, with exhibitions, plays, cinema films dedicated to arthouse, coffee lounge, conference and leisure areas.

The bases of societies were shifted from the product production to that of information as alchemy based society was changed to more of preference and image focused society before. It is more important than ever before for an architect to create his or her own brand and then convert that to a product armed with newly conceptualized brand value for the coming information age. It is critical to define where to put your coordinates to move around because there are no more boundaries existing between roles for architects, the scope of activities, concepts for architectural spaces, nor realm of it.

Architects: Unsangdong Architects

Location: 968-3, Daechi-dong, Gangnam, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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Villa Fujairah, UAE

Architectural talent can still be exported, and horizons that open to Tunisian expertise are very broad, ranging from Africa to the Middle East.Archi-Mag looks at the particular experience of a consultancy firm established by architects Tunisian Dubai.

At a time when the "City" of Dubai announced a withdrawal in investment, and where architects are beginning to flee to other Eldorados, resists this office by Tunisian know-how and cutting-edge attitude.Here is the story of a house made in Fujairah on the east coast of the UAE, by the design office Tunisian "Draw Link": This is a turnkey project, from design to design up 'execution.

Sometimes the site opens the way to great ideas. This was the case with this holiday villa located in one of the most beautiful areas of the UAE, a hundred kilometers from Dubai, among palm trees, mountains, and the Indian

Ocean.

In addition to a substantive renovation; finishes, lighting, electrical, plumbing, painting ..., the city needed a complete restructuring and an extension to incorporate new components to the program as requested by the owner. The goal was to make it a peaceful oasis, a refuge from the bustle family of Dubai.Thus, a double height volume was added to the front of the waterfront to create a very large open space with maximum transparency made possible by a north-east optimal. This area comprises lounge and kitchen with dining area. On the floor after the parent has been won on an existing deck.

The house should also be fully furnished. The furniture was carefully chosen for its simple lines and comfort. The coating materials and fabrics were selected in natural colors, reminiscent of the mountains, sand and sea, reflect the immediate environment of the villa.

White was chosen as predominant color for interiors and outdoors. The light is spread evenly and gives a feeling of serenity and freshness.

Sometimes modern architecture ignores its context. This villa dialogue perfectly with its environment, not just its outward appearance, but also with its interior and its decoration.

Glimpses of blue ocean round out the color palette in the living room. Wood, warm and friendly, has been used in some areas. The pool converted using natural materials like wood and thick slate, according to a spatial logic innovative.

Inside, the initial four bedrooms - two and two Upstairs in the DRC - have been converted into five bedrooms suites, bathed in the light that pours through large windows, suggesting the sound of waves on the shore, the distant cry of seagulls and the singing of the wind as if it was wrapped around this architecture.

"Before we started work, the villa was a banal architecture, without character. Only the land had value. The existing house was completely dilapidated.

The idea was to make a secondary modern and attractive villa "A difficulty that was having to adapt to the existing structure was added to other constraints: they must act quickly, using materials available on the local walk and have the work carried by ordinary masons available in this area somewhat remote or the actual companies refuse to go: it's very close to the constraints imposed on us by the Tunisian market in the end ... "

What was originally an outdoor pool with bows unattractive disproportionate, became a real SPA, worthy of a 5 star hotel.

"Among the difficulties associated with pre-existing structure, there was the fact that the house was elevated one meter above the level of the garden and pool. To mitigate this failure and to find continuity between inside and outside a set of terraces and planted tanks was put in place "

The garden has been replanted with a green lawn to keep a clear view. Only a few palm trees have been planted in the middle, and massive trees on the right boundary walls will hide somehow a neighborhood unattractive.

A pergola is made of teak were implanted in the host for a shaded bench and bar / grill.

"A-M"

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Who Belongs to the pavement?

Oleh: Widi Cahya Yudhanta

Mahasiswa Pasca Sarjana Desain Kawasan Binaan UGM

Transjogja, a public transport which is expected to help the needs of the community will jogja bus service are comfortable, safe, inexpensive, and timely information to the destination. Transjogja

bus ticket will be using the system so that no transaction between the conductor and passengers with the bus will stop only in a shelter / bus stop which is provided as many as 76 pieces. Shelter / bus stop perperan will be very important in the smooth running and operator of the bus, the location is easily accessible from each zone / region, area, attractive design that provides comfort to the user and the environment in which the stop is built will ultimately determine whether a shelter / bus stop will visited by the passengers. Current placement of the stop almost all of them took this body that should be used by sidewalk pedestrians, so that the current ordinary pedestrians using the sidewalk as a pedestrian zone must be willing to share with the bus stop Transjogja. The sidewalk

comes from the French word, trottoir [read: sidewalk]. In Indonesia this word is defined as a pedestrian path on the side of the highway that is intended primarily for pedestrian (foot), the sidewalk is a place where people perform activities as walking, either recreational or merely an attempt to reach the goal. The sidewalks should be built not only as the requirements of a street or just decorate a city. The sidewalks also need to give comfort to its users especially on people with disabilities / difable. Development Transjogja bus stop that takes the pavement is very disturbing body of the function of the pavement itself, which is used as an area of pedestrian / pedestrians because the sidewalks to be truncated so that no kemenerusannya causing pedestrians have to switch, what else for pedestrians with disabilities / difable that requires clarity and kemenerusan that is not obstructed by any good street furniture or any vegetation which is placed above the sidewalk so that he was not dropped or badly hit by a vehicle of public / private passing.

Construction of shelters / bus stops should be able to give kenyamana transjogja good for public transport users or users of the sidewalk / pedestrian without harming either party, for example the construction of shelters / bus dumbbell on Jl. Kusumanegara and Mandala Krida, which leaves only very few of the sidewalk space is taken as the bus stop so that pedestrians, especially people with disabilities can not pass, they must get out of trotaor order to pass, it is very disturbing and endangering both the public road users (vehicle) and pedestrians themselves. And design of bus stops that are less friendly to users of bus services, Raam for the disabled are less meet the standard so that it remains difficult, the use of materials that endanger the dominant glass in case of rupture as well as prevention of vandalism / graffiti-dauber by people who are less responsible.

Returns sidewalk according to its function is as a pedestrian area is something that can not be done. Starting with the socialization that walking on a public road is dangerous, prioritizing pedestrians and bicycles, as well as divert placement of street furniture and vegetation that is not the appropriate place pedestrians.

If there Busway with facility-fasiltasnya why there are no special walkway for pedestrians as an alternative to a comfortable and safe way, with facilities-facilities that support both for normal pedestrian and disabled people.

Disabled people are users who need special attention from us, this is due to limitations in the ability and need help with additional facilities, the sidewalks are patterned steering, which aksesibble signs that can be read, and kemenerusan that facilitate the achievement as well as vegetation that give coolness.

The sidewalks are not only belong to street hawkers, Motor Ways dikala jam, or busways to the stop-haltenya, pedestrian sidewalk also belongs to normal and that should take precedence difable comfort and safety, in accordance with the basic functions of planning the sidewalk as a pedestrian area that meets the sidewalk kaki.Pembangunan safety standard requirements are needed to support the sidewalk as a pedestrian Ways so that pedestrians do not have to scream, pray and high-level alert so as not to harm, nah!

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