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An exhibition featuring old Beijing architecture is expected to help reinforce residents' desire to protect cultural relics in the capital city.
The week-long exhibition, which opened on Tuesday in Beijing, includes three major parts: "rebuilding the imperial capital," "recovering the metropolis built in the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) and "repairing the disappeared city gates and walls."
"The Invisible City," a 30-minute long documentary, shows the capital city of the Yuan Dynasty, although some of its major architectural masterpieces disappeared long ago.
A group of photos taken in the 1930s by Liang Sicheng, one of China's greatest masters of architecture, are also on show.
The photos are about Beijing's old city gates and gate towers, which are displayed the first time, a spokesman said.
Beijing Architectural Cultural Week 2004 is taking place this week in the Beijing Planning Exhibition Hall to showcase the city's historical architecture and how the urban landscape has changed in recent years.
Beginning this week, the exhibition will enable people to see the city's ancient gates and walls that were demolished decades ago.
"We have recreated them on screen today through computer-based three-dimensional technology," Zhu Xiaodi, president of the Beijing Institute of Architectural Design, said at the o
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Plans to rebuild New York City's World Trade Center are forging ahead, but the design that will replace the Twin Towers, destroyed in the September 11 2001 terror attacks, is at the center of a heated debate.
Family members of those killed consider Ground Zero a gravesite. Architects and city planners regard it as a beacon of future development. And in this election season, politicians are mentioning the tragedy that happened there more and more often. "My fellow Americans, for as long as our country stands, people will look to the resurrection of New York City and they will say: Here buildings fell, here a nation rose," President George W. Bush told a rousing Republican National Convention in New York last week.
Three years after the tragedy, plans are underway to erect new buildings, and yet the dust has hardly settled on a public dispute between two chief designers: David Childs, an architect hired by the lease-holder of the World Trade Center, wants to rebuild the site as a commercial hub; and Daniel Libeskind, the Polish-born designer whose plan for an elaborate skyscraper, garden and memorial area won an intense international competition.
Mr. Libeskind says his design is filled with symbolism.
" Indeed, not just some buildings standing around but those buildings that embrace the memorial, spiral upwards
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The 2004 Autodesk Innovation Awards Contest is a fun way for both professionals and students with interest in engineering, mapping and design, to share their design images and innovative concepts.
This competition, which recognizes the top designs in the Building, Manufacturing, and innovative success stories in Mapping/GIS and the Civil Engineering industries, begins August 13, 2004 with a submission deadline of October 15, 2004. Winners are recognized at AU and receive a complimentary attendee pass to AU along with other exciting prizes. For contest rules, additional details on contest criteria, categories and awards choose the industry specific contest you choose to submit an entry:
Autodesk Building Design Contest Criteria
Autodesk Inventor Contest Criteria
GIS/Mapping & Civil Engineering Contest Criteria
Entries must fall into one or more of the following Infrastructure-rel ated disciplines: including mapping, civil engineering; outside plant and infrastructure design and management; surveying; land, city, and environmental planning; electrical network design; and geographic information systems. Infrastructure examples: Roads, Rail, Airports, Seaports, Subdivisions, Electricity, Gas, Pipeline, Water, Wastewater, Telephone, CATV, Land Ownership, Parcels, Tax Assessment, Public Works, Public Safety.
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Renowned Indian architect Charles Correa has said housing designs from his home country offer the key to eco-friendly buildings of the future.
Correa, who is famed for design principles based on low-density, low cost architecture at a reduced environmental cost, wants architects to examine low-rise, high-density urban areas such as Rajasthan as a way of best using natural and local resources.
"The basic principle of housing in a country like India is that you have very limited resources," Correa told BBC World Service's Masterpiece programme.
"Therefore you have to use great ingenuity. That's when you really learn to respect what traditionally is done.
"If you look at a village in Kerala, everything is re-used and recycled. Leaves which fall from palm trees are used again for the roofs.
"There's nothing like poverty to be the mother of invention. As an architect, looking at those solutions, I was absolutely stunned by it."
The explosion of the Indian economy in recent years has triggered massive expansion in the heart of India's major cities.
Correa, who said that Indians use space "extremely intelligently", explained that in India, tower blocks - "going high" - do not attract many people, and therefore better use of space in low-rise buildings has to be achieved.
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According to The New York Times, Rikshospitalet University Hospital is being used as a model for the rest of Europe, and designers from all over the world have been coming to Oslo to learn from it.
Rikshospitalet University Hospital moved into its new premises in 2000. The hospital is situated in beautiful natural surroundings and has a magnificent view of the city and the fjord. The interior is airy and filled with light, and is constructed around a “main street” containing sculptures and other artworks. The colours, shapes and materials have been selected with a view to creating a harmonious environment for the patients, their families and the hospital employees. The art collection is the largest public collection of art in Norway outside a museum.
The British architect Tony Monk specialises in health care design, and stresses in his book Hospital Builders (Academy Press) how much the environment of a hospital can improve patient’s health and well-being. In The New York Times he is quoted as saying that Rikshospitalet University Hospital is “the best current example of a hospital that incorporates artistic and human scale, and the therapeutic features of hospital design”.
Rikshospitalet University Hospital is attached to the University of Oslo. It is both a national hospital for certain specialities and the regional
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