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Thursday, July 29, 2010
The project of head office CBE
German architectural group Henn Architekten has won competition on the best civil-engineering design of head office Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) in Addis Ababa.
Unusual way of the organisation
Thin office building will be executed with optical effect of «presence of hollow structures» at change of a point of the review. For the account of such unusual way of organisation of base level of a building, some problems are reached — increased the areas of ground floors illuminated by natural light, interesting appearance of a design is created, is involved additional attention of visitors of the centre which bottom part it is planned to use as a trading complex that will cut expenses on building operation.
Commercial Bank of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa
At ceremony of rewarding of the architects who have presented the project — the winner of the tender, the president of bank has declared, that «the new approach to building and use of the main offices, the interesting and modern structure, planning with the account of last achievements of architecture and use of harmless technologies — all shows it, that the bank of Ethiopia leaves on the international level on all indicators».
Monday, July 12, 2010
The best schools of the world under version DeZeen
All architects in the world once went to school.
Were for certain students. Then they became adults — and built schools! Magazine Dezeen has placed estimations — whose school of all more lovely, it is finer and cleverer than all? Look TOP-10 buildings for educational institutions.
№1. Tama Art University Library, Tokyo, the author of project Toyo Ito, the architect from Japan.
№1. Tama Art University Library, Tokyo, the author of project Toyo Ito, the architect from Japan.
The project second for popularity: Innovation Tower at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the author of project Zaha Hadid Architects.
The third place: High School №9, the author of project Coop Himmelblau.
The following project: Luigi Bocconi University, the project of Irish company Grafton Architects constructed in Milan.
The fifth place. Project Steven Holl Architects, the punched steps for Faculty of philosophy of the New York University (NYU).
The sixth place. A sports hall, school 704, project H Arquitectes, Barbera-del-Valles, Spain.
The seventh place. Additional premises for Seu University to Spain, the project of young Spanish architect CrystalZoo.
The eighth place. Project Kadawittfeldarchitektur, a building of a children's garden, Austria. In facade registration metal elements which are similar to a grass are used.
The ninth place: Panta Rhei school, the Netherlands, the Dutch architect i29 used poetry as a registration element.
10 place: the Project of Latvian architects Substance — an elementary school, a sports hall.
Valley of dinosaurs for the Chinese megacity
Two towers in height of 60 floors everyone will grow in the Chinese city of Hangchow, thanks to practising architects from UNStudio.
Their form has reminded us the very tall dinosaurs living on a planet the Earth once.The project has received name Raffles City, the trading areas, offices, apartments and hotel here will be placed.
“The project philosophy — to integrate multifunctionality into a city context so that the architectural object was entered in a city landscape”, — the author of the project speaks Ben van Berkel.
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Sun gifts
If there should be somewhere huge solar towers for electric power generation to happen it should somewhere here — in the south of solar Spain, near to Seville. The commercial thermal solar power station first in Europe — PS 10 — has officially become operational on March, 30th this year. Power of the station erected in Spain, makes 11 megawatt.
№2: PS 20
Hardly later, in April, 2009, Spaniards have erected the second tower, is more powerful than the first twice — PS 20. The principle of work of towers is simple: the field from set of the mirrors tracing movement of the Sun, collects light and directs a sunlight on tower top, heating up a hydrochloric solution which in turn, gives energy to water, transforming water to steam.
Steam runs on pipes and, finally, twists the turbines connected to electric generators. Thanks to presence of the intermediate heat-carrier — salt weight — towers are capable to accumulate “warmly for emergency”.
Steam runs on pipes and, finally, twists the turbines connected to electric generators. Thanks to presence of the intermediate heat-carrier — salt weight — towers are capable to accumulate “warmly for emergency”.
The world's largest solar power station
In cloudy weather or evening of the turbine are capable to work on the energy kept in the big tanks with hot salt. The capacious storehouse of the fused salt (565 degrees warmed up to temperature on Celsius) can ensure functioning of steam and gas generators within 16 hours after a sunset. So in the summer station generators will not stop neither in the afternoon, nor at night.
Project PS20 has 1,255 mirrors, PS10 — 624 mirrors, the area on 130 sq. m. everyone. PS20 — the world's largest power station, power of 20 megawatt a day, is enough this energy to provide with light, heat and an electricity more than 10,000 houses. Similar towers it is planned to erect also in the southwest USA.
Project PS20 has 1,255 mirrors, PS10 — 624 mirrors, the area on 130 sq. m. everyone. PS20 — the world's largest power station, power of 20 megawatt a day, is enough this energy to provide with light, heat and an electricity more than 10,000 houses. Similar towers it is planned to erect also in the southwest USA.
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