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designLAB architects presented the Arkell Museum for the Arkell Hall Foundation.
designLAB has created a new museum for the foundation, renovating its historic, 20th century library at the site of the original Beech-Nut Factory in Canajoharie, New York.
Located on the scenic Mohawk River, the new Museum tells the multifaceted story of the intersections between local manufacturing, art, and culture through the lens of the arts patronage of industrialist Bartlett Arkell, founder of Beech-Nut foods.
The designLAB scheme infuses the forgotten industrial site with new life through thoughtful renovation and an engaging programmatic approach.
The expansion provides for over 8,000 SF of additional gallery space in compliment to the original 800 SF Nightwatch Gallery, which houses Bartlett Arkell's commissioned copy of the monumental Rembrandt piece, along with numerous paintings of landscape, domestic and genre scenes.
The Arkell collection of late 19th and early 20th century American art boasts works by Winslow Homer, Andrew Wyeth, Edward Hopper, Thomas Hart Benton, Childe Hassam, John Singer Sargent, Gary Melcher, and Andrew Wyeth, among many others.
This collection is further enriched by interactive exhibits displaying artifacts from the Mohawk River Valley's intriguing history.
The renovation of the old, gambrel-roofed library is blended with a contemporary gallery addition that alludes to the museum's industrial past.
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Graphisoft announced that Graphisoft ArchiCAD 11 BIM Experience Kit is immediately available for download on both the Windows and Macintosh platforms.
"Studies show that 2D users have two conflicting fears: they are afraid they will lose their competitiveness if they don't adopt BIM, and they are also afraid that the BIM adoption is going to be too hard and they might fail.
The BIM Experience Kit enables professionals to learn BIM at their own pace and get a high comfort level before making the production switch", said Patrick Mays, AIA, Vice President, Graphisoft North America who has a long and successful track record of helping firms transition to a 3D design environment.
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Urbis invites you to attend the first of our very special, annual Friedrich Engels Memorial Lectures.
Don't miss your chance to see guest speaker, Dr Tristram Hunt, historian, newspaper columnist and TV celebrity who will debate the future of the city of Manchester in his discussion, From Cottonopolis to Original Modern: lessons from 19th Century Manchester for the 21st.
Lecturer in British history at Queen Mary, University of London, Tristram Hunt has presented numerous television and radio series for BBC and Channel 4 - most recently, BBC4's "The Protestant Revolution."
He is a leading authority on 19th century urban history and author of "Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City."
He is currently working on a Penguin biography of Friedrich Engels.
He is a Trustee of the Heritage Lottery Fund, a regular columnist for the Observer and Guardian, and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
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Next week, on Tuesday November 13th at 8pm, the Fall lecture series at Materials & Applications (M&A), "Soft Boundaries" will kick off with a lively discussion led by Mark Allen of Machine Project with other leaders from feral organizations engaged in new social experiments.
All the lectures are in the open-air courtyard under the extreme cantilever of the new architectural / sculptural installation, "Density Fields", by Oyler-Wu Collaborative.
Inspired by the pseudo-private situation of M&A's outdoor exhibition space, and the dissolution of boundaries it connotes, these lectures will organize around discussions of new cultural zones and forms.
Speakers will talk about the blurring and redrawing of conventional boundaries between public and private space, art and architecture, technical and nontechnical practices, social, institutional and commercial concerns.
All lectures are on Tuesday nights starting at 8PM / Gate opens at 7:30pm.
These events are open to everyone. 5$ donation requested at the gate.
The event will be canceled if its raining at 7pm w/o signs of relenting!
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Alcantara Spa, the leading company that "dresses" design in all its forms, has created AlcantaraLAB, a virtual lab that studies new, expressive languages based on research and innovation.
The purpose of the lab is to create an ongoing dialogue with the creative world at 360 degrees, to listen to the needs and requirements of the different creative sectors, and to try and interpret them according to the Alcantara codes and values.
With these purposes in mind, AlcantaraLAB today announces an international contest, addressed to students and professionals alike, active in the fields of communications, graphic design, web design, animation, photography, movie making, and visual arts.
The Extraordinary, Every Day contest is aimed at all those who live their personal experiences based on the same values that make Alcantara unique: sensoriality, aesthetics, functionality, exclusivity and who practice the art of making life extraordinary, every day.
The participants to the contest will have to conceive, design and realize a video production (which should not be longer than 3 minutes), using all video techniques and languages available (graphics, animation, actual filming and so forth).
The deadline for enrolment is January 31st, 2008 while the work should be submitted by February 29th, 2008.
Taking part in a very un-ordinary contest will certainly be a pleasure for the participants.
A pleasure that will be made greater by the award of 15,000 € and by the honour of being evaluated by a prestigious international and multi- disciplinary jury that will hand out the prizes during the Milan International Furniture Fair in 2008.
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