Goals for the Millennium projects

Saturday, August 12, 2006

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are the world's time-bound and quantified targets for addressing extreme poverty in its many dimensions-income poverty, hunger, disease, lack of adequate shelter, and exclusion-while promoting gender equality, education, and environmental sustainability. They are also basic human rights-the rights of each person on the planet to health, education, shelter, and security.


Goal 1: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty

Goal 2: Achieve Universal Primary Education

Goal 3: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women

Goal 4: Reduce Child Mortality

Goal 5: Improve Maternal Health

Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases

Goal 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability

Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development

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Your Hidden City Winner: Best Natural/Urban Overlap 1

Friday, August 11, 2006

I rode the A Train to the end of the line from Times Square. It's amazing that the same train that goes through the middle of one of the world's busiest cities also rides along a quiet, lonely beach. These houses sit on poles, suspended over the calm waters of Jamaica Bay.
You never think of it, but this is New York.Winner: Tropolism Hidden City Contest - Best Natural/Urban Overlap

KENZO KUMA

a facade architects, the use of bamboo, light structures as the external wall............

Z58 Shanghai

Camron has just been appointed by the Zhongtai, China’s leading lighting specialists, to handle international media relations for the opening of its new Shanghai headquarters designed by acclaimed Japanese Architect Kengo Kuma.
This is an exciting project for Camron and is our first client in the region. The four story building in the historical French Concession is an oasis of calm in the frenetic hustle of high rise Shanghai and is despite its small size a world class building.
In keeping with Kengo Kuma’s architectural philosophy the building is an exercise in subtlety. Adapting the existing building, a 19 Century Watch factory, Kengo Kuma has created a real dialogue between the building and its surroundings. The building will house an exhibition and cultural space on the first floor, with ever changing exhibitions and events. A lighting showroom and offices occupy the second and third floors.
However, it is the top floor that will truly amaze. Amongst a landscape of moving water sit two beautifully appointed rooms by Kengo Kuma. Add to that, a gym, library, wine cellar, a cigar bar and a 24 hour concierge and you have a unique travel experience. These rooms are available to those travellers in search of something truly memorable from November.
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cute IT house

A fun website to play.................
choose the outfit for ur it house.
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The CUBE i like

“We have made many big openings in the facades to create different daylight situations inside the building. The position of the windows are defined by the interior programs. By varying the ceiling heights each floor has a very different atmosphere.”SANAA

The design, a cuboid structural shell, picks up the basic functional and effective idea used by the original Zollverein architects Schupp and Kremmer.The oversized cube, which measures 35 meters by 35 meters and is 35 meters high, reflects the dimensions of the Zollverein mine

“Our aim was to achieve transparency in the concrete structure.”SANAA

SANAA

世界上最遥远的距离

Thursday, August 10, 2006

世界上最遥远的距离
不是生与死
而是
我就站在你面前
你却不知道我爱你
世界上最遥远的距离
不是我就站在你面前
你却不知道我爱你
而是
明明知道彼此相爱
却不能在一起
世界上最遥远的距离
不是明明知道彼此相爱
却不能在一起
而是
明明无法抵挡这股想念
却还得故意装作丝毫没有
把你
放在心里
世界上最遥远的距离
不是明明无法抵挡这股想念
却还得故意装作丝毫没有把你
放在心里
而是
用自己冷漠的心
对爱你的人
掘了一道无法跨越的沟渠

今天的crit

今天，是我们的precedent studies 的crit. 每一个人给三分钟的时间present.
lecturers 问我们，作了precedent studies 过后，有什么感想？ 老实说，我真的没有什么概念。
看了很多次，之前作的urban analysis and site analysis, 我好像白痴一样， 什么都没有得到。。。。。
miss naziaty 要的东西，应该很难达到。。。。。
今天看了，final year的presentation, 觉得我们的level好遥远。那天才被lecturers江，我们的sketches好烂。senior 的perspective 好美！！！
大家读archi德，要加油了！！！我们的“日子”来了，要做自己的design 了。大家一起加油！！！

little engine story

The Little Engine That Could is one of the greatest tales of motivation and the power of positive thinking ever told. In this well-loved child's classic, a little train carrying oodles of toys to all of the good boys and girls is confronted with a towering, seemingly impassable mountain. As it went on the little engine kept puffing faster and faster, "I think I can, I think I can." Then, as it neared the top that had discouraged the larger engines, it went more slowly, but still kept saying "I-think-I --can" then as it reached the top and want down the other side everybody could hear it say " I thought I could, I thought I could

sony center, berlin @urban forum

Tuesday, August 8, 2006

The Sony Center, an urban ensemble of seven buildings in the center of Berlin at Potsdamer Platz, is a combination living, working and entertainment hub. Designed by architectural firm Murphy/Jahn of Chicago, Sony Center is a grand engineering achievement of steel, glass and fabric.
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