Showing posts with label Artchitecture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Artchitecture. Show all posts

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Increase Employee Productivity with Feng Shui

Increase Employee Productivity with Feng Shui. Feng Shui is the art of creating peace and harmonious relationship between the universal energy around you. This energy also affects your health and behavior in the office. With feng shui, then negative energy will decrease and increase positive energy. This certainly will bring a positive impact in your life.

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Kolam Renang Tertinggi dan Terpanjang

Inilah Kolam Renang Tertinggi dan terpanjang.The Sands Skypark menyediakan kolam tak terhingga sepanjang 150 meter dengan pemandangan cakrawala kota Singapura dan marina Bay.The Infinity Pool dari Skypark yang bertengger di puncak menara marina Bay Sands hotel di Singapura.

Friday, June 25, 2010

Bangunan Ramping di Jepang

Anda mungkin pernah melihat salah satu: bangunan ramping dengan aneh diapit dua yang bangunan besar; memeluk tajam, menunjuk struktur setiap sudut ruang yang tersedia. Bahkan Apartemen di mana (kita menganggap) penyewa tidak diperbolehkan terlalu gemuk bukan merupakan pemandangan biasa. Berikut Bangunan Terramping di Jepang.

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Arsitektur Unik - Kantor Vodafone

Desain ini dimaksudkan untuk mencerminkan frase atau slogan yang mendefinisikan merek Vodafone "Vodafone Life, life in motion" atau lebih tepatnya filosofi merek. Dalam mendesain bangunan kantor eksentrik, Barbosa & Arsitek Guimarães mencari inspirasi dalam lukisan, patung, fotografi dan seni pada umumnya yang sudah menghadapi dilema ini. Daripada dirancang dengan garis lurus dan teratur seperti desain bangunan umum, bangunan kantor menakjubkan adalah pilihan untuk menunjukkan tubuh monolitik, tidak seimbang dan sungai dengan banyak wajah yang mengekspresikan gerakan. Kantor Vodafone ini modern dan unik terletak di Oporto, Portugal.

Friday, June 18, 2010

Minimalist Houses Beautify

Minimalist home in great demand by society that completely practical right now. The accompanying problem then is how to choose furniture and accessories to match. The first thing that must be kept in mind is to maintain a practical and functional elements as a key base in a minimalist house dress.

Proper material selection can thicken the minimalist concept to be presented. Eg glass furniture combined with aluminum or wrought iron furniture including species that are widely used. In addition to the simple form, any maintenance relatively easy.

Curtains were able to support the impression you want to display indoors. With blinds roman type, eg a mild nature also can give the impression of dynamic in a minimalist room.

Design with strict precision also characterizes the architecture and minimalist furniture. Therefore, select a table or chair that has a simple design, little or no ornament. With minimal ornament, we can simplify maintenance and more spacious rooms terksesan making it suitable when applied to a small minimalist home.

Minimalism can also be combined with materials or furniture of color - the color of the wood like a dark brown or reddish brown.

Design Interior Living Room

The living room was created for guests who visit. Although the visitors only come around while at home, interior architecture presented in this space can not be arbitrary.

The reason is although small, reflects the overall living room of your home. Architectural space in the front position is frequently visited, especially neighbors who frequently visit. In addition, interior architecture or appearance of the living room from the guests bring their own assessment against the owner of the house. Therefore, the living room should be able to give a sense of comfort with a beautiful view.

Architectural space and interior room is usually reflecting individual occupants. Though looks simple, arrangement should be adjusted with furniture and beautiful architectural styles bersangkutan.The impression the house is not only focused on the sofa or table. Beautiful impression can also be displayed on the wall with wallpaper paste on one field.

Field should be used as wallpaper is a wish from the architectural point of interest, your room. Wallpaper used for decoration on the wall is better dark. To become the center of attention, the dark color will give a stronger impression.

However, for color selection for interior architecture, you do not need to be confused and become fixated on one color. Choose the color according to mood you wish to view. If you want to display an intimate living room atmosphere, muted or pastel colors such as brown color could be chosen.

However, the selection of pastel colors need not be shown to all the ornaments or furniture because it would be boring. Some pastel colors alone can represent the image of atmosphere you want represented.

Meanwhile, for the placement of furniture, should be adjusted to the concept or the desired style guest rooms. If the architecture style minimalist house, the furniture used is simple. Meanwhile, the traditional architectural style house, a chair-shaped carvings could be the right choice to fill the living room.

Thursday, June 17, 2010

10 Most Beautiful Bridges in the World

The bridge is one of the most important land transportation facilities other than the tunnel, not prominently be built, but in the world there just striking the bridge was built, what are they? Here's the list:

10. Water Bridge Magdeburg (Germany)

Magdeburg Water Bridge connects the former East and West Germany at the Elbe River, and built as part of the German reunification project. Throughout the first km, bridges worth € 500,000,000 of water allows ships to avoid the river carries a solid long canal along the Elbe. Frequent shipments were blocking the bridge when the river water mark was in the lowest level.

9. Ponte Vecchio (Italy)

Ponte Vecchio in Florence is one of famous tourist attractions in Italy, and is considered the oldest stone arch bridge in Europe, although many of the older sections. Actually built from wood until it was destroyed by floods in 1333, and twelve years later the bridge was rebuilt using stone. Famous for its many shops, the bridge is laying off everyone starts traders and butchers of the Middle Ages until the gift shop and art sellers.

8. Tower Bridge (United Kingdom)

Completed in 1894 by Wolfe Barry and Horace Jones. Tower Bridge (named after two prominent towers as tall as 141 feet and the Tower of London on him) is one of the famous land marks in London and one of the most beautiful in the world. This 800 foot long bridge has a space 28 feet when closed but opens in the center until it reaches 140 feet which allows ships to sail on the Thames. In the days when goods moved by sea rather than air bridge was raised about 50 times each day. Tower Bridge using the 432 workers who built it for eight years. At that time they sank 70,000 tons of concrete into the two large piers, placing second supporting structure into place, each of which weighs 1000 tons and decorate the whole bridge with Portland stone and Cornish granite to cover 11 000 tonnes of steel beneath.

7. Wind and Rain Bridge (China)

Wind and Rain Bridge is the architectural symbol of Dong minority peoples. Wind and Rain Bridhe in Diping is the largest of its kind in the province of Guizhou, where the largest Chinese community settled Dong. This bridge along the first 50 meters and was built in 1894 during the Qing Dynasty 100 years ago. However, the original structure burned in a huge fire in 1959 and a visitor sees today are making repeated that we completed in 1964.

Is a pure wooden architecture that consists of a pillar, baluster purlin and in various sizes and shapes. Body bridge is divided into three sections, the largest in the middle of the traditional Chinese drum-shaped tower. Eave bridge pilasters and decorated with flowers and sculpture and the bridge is very unique.

6. Bridge Oliveira (Brazil)

Octavio Frias de Oliveira bridge over the River Pinheiros in São Paulo, Brazil opened in May 2008. As high as 138 meters (450 feet) and connects with the Marginal Pinheiros Jornalista Roberto Marinho Avenue. Unique design with two crossed curved deck with one another through the tower-shaped cantilever X.

5. Rolling Bridge (United Kingdom)

Designed by Heatherwick Studio, an award-winning Rolling Bridge is located in Paddington Basin, London. Rather than using conventional open the bridge mechanism, consisting of a single rigid element that up to allow boats pass, the Rolling Bridge rolled himself up to the two ends meet. When in a horizontal position, the bridge is a pedestrian bridge to normal iron and wood; fully open, the bridge is forming a circle on one side that is different from the straight position.

Twelve yards long, this bridge was made by eight pieces of iron and wood, and made the curve by a hydraulic press mounted on the handrail of each section.

4. Hangzhou Bay Bridge (China)

Crossing the Hangzhou Bay bridge stood the world's longest cross-sea, with a length 35.673 kilometers (22 miles) with a six-lane highway in both directions. This bridge was built to address traffic congestion in the area of emerging, cutting travel time between Shanghai and Ningbo from four hours to 2.5 hours.

The bridge was undergoing a lot of learning a few decades earlier before it was approved in 2003, and finally opened on May 1, 2008. Total investment for the bridge is worth RMB 11.8 million (approximately U.S. $ 1.4 billion).

3. Henderson Waves (Singapore)

At the height of 36 meters or 12 levels of road surface, this bridge is the highest pedestrian bridge in Singapore. Along the 300-meter bridge connects the parks at Mount Faber and Telok Blangah Hill.

2. Millau Viaduct (France)

As high as 1125 feet above the Tarn Valley in southern France, across the Millau Viaduct could be said like flying. Foster & Partners's work is slightly higher than the Eiffel Tower, take three years for general construction and opened in 2004. In addition to providing views of the valley below, when clouds are formed under the bridge, the Millau route is not for people who are afraid of heights! Millau Bridge has a total length of 8071 feet with the longest single span of 1122 feet and a maximum of clarity at the bottom was 886 feet, so the bridge is very beautiful in its original form or miniaturized form. Bridge deck is supported by seven Pilon and weighs 36,000 tons. Seven towers, each 292 feet tall and weighing 700 tons, fitted to the cantilever Pilon.

1. Banpo Bridge (South Korea)

September 9, 2008, Banpo Bridge in Seoul (South Korea) undergoing a massive facelift surgery: a fountain 10 000 hose that runs on both sides. Once installed, the bridge became a major tourist attraction when the bridge was fired 190 tons of water per minute to use river water beneath.

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Green for Residential Architecture

The concept of eco-friendly homes with the concept of nature or natural home. Use of materials such as wood or bamboo material can become very thick.

To build environmentally friendly houses can be started from the roof. You can use the sun roof and hence reducing power consumption.

You can use solar panels on the roof of the house using a technology called triple-junction thin film amorphous silicon. This solar cell is formed such as roof tiles and roof tiles may be installed in general, then paired to power your home.

Environmentally friendly material that has some reservations. The first requirement is that the material was not toxic, both before and after use. Furthermore, one can connect us with nature. That is, you can get closer to nature because of the natural impression of the material stuff. For example bricks will remind you of the land, timber, and trees. In addition, raw materials can easily decompose naturally.

Material entering the above criteria include bricks, cement, natural stone, local ceramics, wood, and so forth.

Floor material selection, for example. You can choose materials that can be recycled. Bamboo flooring can also be environmentally friendly. Or if you want to use wood, oak is very strong and durable.

If you want to coat the floor with carpet, now there are carpets that use materials that can be recycled. For any furniture you can choose environmentally friendly. Like for example you want to buy a wooden chair.

Make sure you buy the company that conducts cutting-planting again. You can do a search on the internet before deciding to buy something.

The kitchen is the most active space is the place most in need of attention when you want to design a home with environmentally friendly concepts.

Place all herbs in a pot in one corner of your kitchen. So the impression naturalnya more pronounced. For the bedroom, as a replacement air conditioner or air conditioning, you can install a large window that will provide air circulation in the room.

Do not forget the additional ventilation holes on top of that window. The same thing applies in the living room and other rooms in your home. That way, you can be more energy efficient.

If you really want to use the concept of environmentally friendly residential, real easy. You do not need new stuff. You can use the old stuff and modify it yourself.

Expand Home With Neutral Color Effects

Most people choose a neutral color as the color that covered the walls of his house. Want to know the reason behind all this?

Neutral colors like gray, white, beige and chocolate is the safest color applied to the walls of the house. Neutral colors are also not going out of fashion trends.

Unfortunately, neutral color that applied in the walls often create the impression of innocence. Many experts recommend the addition of another color in one side of the wall in a room to make it look more colorful without the impression of 'scene'.

In order to impress the home becomes more broadly, to apply black light illusion. Colors are best used to fill the minor side is black. Black is best used in small quantities to provide a neutral accent and make the color becomes more dominant.

Different case if you want to make the room look higher. Use the lighter color on your ceiling. For example, if you paint the walls with a cream color, the Color ceiling in white.

Monday, June 14, 2010

Houses Unique With Natural Ingredients


The houses are unique and cheap that do not require much cost, but it takes time for its production. These houses have been built long before anyone thought to make a friendly home environment.

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Unique Apartments in Japan

This beautiful nature inspired apartment building, designed by EASTERN Design Office, is located in Kyoto, Japan. The outside of the Villa Saitan building is covered with leaf shaped holes that let in light and add character to the structure.






Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Unique homes, Kettle House in Texas

Houses may be the safest and best place for people who live in it. After all its forms, the home has comfort and peace. There are many different types of homes with diverse architecture found throughout the world. The presence of houses with modern architecture, classical, minimalist, unique worldwide daakuno certainly adjusted to the taste of its inhabitants.

However, sufficient cause our question is the existence of houses with extreme style of architecture. Hard to believe when the people who live in houses extremes may think about the comfort and peace. Noted there are 10 houses in the world that its architecture is very extreme, there are thousands of other houses in the world of architecture rather extreme.

Kettle House Call it home in Texas, United States, which not only looks like a kettle but it also can function properly.

Monday, April 26, 2010

Clean and Simple Design for House

Although the client wanted a contemporary, clean and simple design for their house, they also wanted something that would be unusual. The included having a guestroom at the ground floor and a lap pool.

The open kitchen, living, and dining areas are arranged in a single row so that the ground level layout has a compact and countiuous space, allowing a view of the pool at the back of the house. The upper floor plan is simple and reflects the mass of the house. The service area is located on the mezzinine level above the garage.

The facade is a mass block composition, a modern statement that makes the house stand out, while the use of neutral colours gives the structure a sense of consistency with the surroundings. The small angled roof at the top breaks the pontentially monotonous block look, while the white facade and glass windows reinforce the light and sleek feel.

The large glass windows let daylight into almost all rooms. The thin mass block facilitates cross-ventilation, and the house has a well for water catchment and grey water recycling for washing cars and watering plants.

The architect persuaded the client to use simple and environmetally friendly materials such as aluminium frames and ceramic and homegeneoues tiles.