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Fed up with looking for somewhere to park? Afraid of your car being vandalised?
Imagine living in a flat - but parking your car on the same floor.
Using the special CarLift, within just two minutes you can be either zooming off or back in your own home again - a loft with unparalleled standards of safety, comfort and exclusiveness.
CarLoft is a pioneering modular loft scheme with a garden and a garage on every floor.
All these brand-new luxury flats come with at least one adjacent parking space known as the CarLoggia, reached via the CarLift.
When you arrive outside the building, the CarLift recognises your car from the built-in transponder and knows which floor you live on.
And still seated inside your car, you're taken straight to your home in total safety.
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KKE Architects Board of Directors has promoted eight staff members to the title of associate: Roxanne DeCoster, Cara Erickson, Greg James, Sean Lathrop, Greg Mendoza, Matthew Streed, Josh Tickenoff and Paola Volpis.
KKE Architects is a full-service firm providing a wide range of architectural, interior design and comprehensive planning services.
Founded in 1968, this award-winning company has grown to become one of the Top 50 architectural firms in the country.
With offices in Minneapolis; Las Vegas; and Irvine and Pasadena, Calif., KKE's professional staff of 240 offers a unique blend of expertise across a broad range of strategically focused market segments encompassing Housing, Office, Retail, Industrial, Hospitality, Entertainment, Justice, Education and Healthcare design.
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Singapore Institute of Architects (SIA) announced the launch of Archifest 08, to be held in Singapore in the month of October 2008.
A month-long festival celebrating architecture and the built environment is due to return for a second year after the successful event held for the first time last year.
Look forward to a myriad of exciting events including Exhibitions, Forum, Architours and other Fringe Events at the Archifest.
Be inspired by the gallery of the year's best architectural projects; learn from watching the presentations of a stellar line-up of world-renowned architects; get up-close with some iconic and very interesting buildings on a guide tour.
The festival is a public event packed with architectural- related activities and happenings for all to participate in.
The theme "Man + Environment" provides a focus for Archifest 08, as the stage is set for us to re-examine the relationship of Architecture with the Environment.
This complex relationship encompasses context, genius loci, history, culture, economics, and technology to the growing concern about the role of Architecture in the degradation of our environment.
With clear and present issues facing many countries all over the world, Archifest 08 aims to present the challenges in balancing man's needs and the environment.
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The Center for Advanced Visual Studies and the MIT Museum announced Red Lines, Death Vows, Foreclosures, Risk Structures: Architectures of finance from the Great Depression to the Subprime Meltdown, an exhibition by designer Damon Rich and the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) that will open September 9 at 5:30 PM and run through December 21.
An installation of models, photographs, videos, and drawings, Red Lines immerses visitors in a landscape of pulsing capital and liquidated buildings, exploring the relation between finance and architecture.
During a year-long residence at MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Rich surveyed the darkening realm of real estate markets: foreclosures, pro-formas, chains of title, block busting, exploding ARMs, and the obscure history of the mortgage, Old French for "death vow."
Working with MIT students and volunteers, he traveled to Washington, DC to visit and interview representatives of the Mortgage Bankers Association and the Comptroller of the Currency.
In Chicago, Rich and Meg Rotzel of CAVS created a video with the National Training and Information Center about the anti-redlining movement of the 1970s and the democratic reforms it brought to banking.
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ISO has published a new standard to help engineers, builders and regulators to design structures that are safe and resistant to failure due to environmental and mechanical stresses, and to material degradation.
Buildings, civil engineering works, industrial structures, etc. and their components should be conceived, constructed, inspected, maintained and repaired in such a way that, under foreseeable environmental conditions, they maintain their required performance during their design lives with sufficient reliability for the safety and comfort of users and the intended use of the structure.
ISO 13823:2008 - General principles on the design of structures for durability specifies general principles and recommends procedures for the verification of the durability of structures subject to known or foreseeable environmental actions, including mechanical actions, causing material degradation leading to failure of performance.
It will help to ensure reliability of performance throughout the service life of the structure.
This International Standard does not directly address sustainability for structures.
Most considerations of sustainability, such as the choice of material as it affects waste and energy consumption, are outside its scope.
But indirectly, durable structures improve the sustainability of infrastructure.
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