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A bold step towards making New Zealand houses suitable for a sustainable future has now been launched at Otago Polytechnic.
The Sustainable Habitat Challenge 09 is a nationwide competition, which envisages teams of tertiary students, industry professionals, local government representatives - and others - joining forces to design and build or renovate a sustainable home.
An Otago Polytechnic initiative, the challenge is funded by the Ministry for the Environment's Sustainable Development Fund.
ShaC09 National Coordinator Tim Bishop says the challenge is aimed at "producing real homes, generating new knowledge and building partnerships between people with the skills and resources to make sustainable living a reality."
As such, it aims to address one of the barriers to creating sustainable homes.
"There are many people out there who want to build, renovate and live in more sustainable ways.
But often, it's hard to find and coordinate a willing team of designers, and tradespeople and building consent experts to actually make it happen.
"We want to give today's and tomorrow's professionals the chance to work together and really explore their ideas around sustainable solutions for housing.
"And we want to provide opportunities for researchers in New Zealand to build a body of knowledge to take us into the future."
Now Bishop is asking those with skills or resources to contact him or register at the SHaC 09 website.
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Esthetics and technology are joined in a warm style of personalized attention, in an enviornment of harmony and cordially.
Mine hotel boutique has 20 rooms, in which pure expressions prevail.
Net shapes, wood, rattan and whites with sparkles of colors that refer oriental.
The project's lines are based on two blocks of rooms, one on the front, and the other one looking toward the back garden, joined by vertical and horizontal bridge-like circulations, providing views to a central patio.
On the ground floor, a sequence of interior and exterior spaces separated by large glazed panels organize the different public functions from the main access, passing on to the lobby, the central patio, then the living room and the bar/restaurant and, at the end, the gallery, the deck and the back garden with a pool.
This allows to see all the spaces together, from the street to the end of the site, causing the guests a feeling of not knowing if they are inside or outside.
Mine hotel is located in the heart of Palermo Soho, shetter of the event-garde, lovers of style and restless spirits.
Center of the new Argentina design, the Soho of Buenos Aires is surrounded by art galleries, clothes stores and design stores, cafes, bars and restos.
Plastic artists, designers, writers, poets, filmmakers, publicists and musicians come together in this center where history and modernity are merge.
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The Zaragoza Expo 2008 is about to begin.
Last year, the architecture firm A-cero was selected as a finalist in the international architecture competition for the design of a buisiness campus in the Expo perimeter.
The buildings in the new complex should serve as exibition halls during the events and then be transformed into office spaces.
Other finalists were the spanish firms Abalos y Herreros, De la Hoz and Lamela.
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Following its successful conference, exhibition and publication "Thinking Inside the Box" held at Glasgow's Lighthouse in March 2007, the IFS Interiors Forum Scotland invites the international interior design and interior architecture community to register interest in participating in the 2nd IFS International Conference, "Interior Tools Interior Tactics", to be held in Edinburgh, 21-22,August 2008.
"Interior Tools Interior Tactics" aims to bring together an international interior community of advocates, academics, researchers, practitioners, design organisations and design policy makers who wish to shape the future tools and develop progressive tactics for interiors practice, education and research.
Keynote addresses from leaders in the field of interior practice, interior research and interior education will stimulate debate.
The format for the event aims to challenge conventional conference delivery and the organisers are especially keen to receive proposals around the conference theme which engage audiences and provoke debate.
The Interiors Forum Scotland welcomes initial enquiries and seeks formal registrations of interest from the diverse field of interior inquiry: from those involved in interior design; interior architecture; interior decoration; interior history; interior teaching and other interior environmental contexts.
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IFLA 46th World Congress in Brazil, in 2009, will be the venue for the second IFLA Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Gold Medal award-giving.
This Gold Medal awarded every four years by the International Federation of Landscape Architects pays tribute to a practising landscape architect whose merit, talent and actions are acknowledged at international level.
This quadrennial competition is opened to landscape architects throughout the world whose activities deal with landscape planning, design or management, improvement in the quality of human settlements and landscape architectural education.
Nominations for the reward are made by landscape associations or IFLA members.
Peter Walker was IFLA Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Gold Medal award's inaugural winner in 2005 at IFLA's 42nd World Congress in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Among many other prestigious projects, Peter Walker in partnership with architect Michael Arad team won the commission for the World Trade Center Memorial in New York.
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