July 2006
EcoShed
This little space brings a whole new meaning to the garden shed. It uses sustainable materials in its construction, including a green roof, and can be fitted with kitchenette, shower, and underfloor heating. Costs range from £18,000 - £35,000, and you'll need utilities connected, which may cost a couple more thousand.
EcoSpace Garden Studio
Another Home
About the size of a couple of shipping containers this 'holiday home' has two bedrooms and starts around £50,000. The building uses timber from sustainable forests and comes with fitted kitchen and bathroom, and if you would like a 'sustainable-model', this includes a dual flush toilet, a moss-sedum roof, photovoltaic roof panels and solar water heating.
Retreat Homes, Ireland | London
Dongtan - Sustainable City?
The developers are selling Dongtan in China as a 'sustainable city', but it's built around a yachting marina and golf courses, which must conflict with the idea of sustainability. I supect the 'sustainability' idea is for the benefit of the Chinese Government and the image is to entice overseas and rich local people into a booming property market.
Dongtan an Eco-City
Quick House
what are my final costs?
Depending on which package you buy, the QUIK HOUSE will cost between $150,000 and $175,000 finished plus taxes. This translates into a per square foot cost of between $73 and $90, about half the cost of a conventional house.
Container Home
A couple of steel shipping containers and a high amount of ingenuity provides a habital structure for researchers in the rainforest of Far North Queensland. The standard 20' x 8' (6m x 2.44m) containers were placed 10' (3m) apart, and raised onto a galvanised metal platform to keep the space dry and to avoid snakes, rats. A small angle grinder was used to cut holes for doors and large windows with RHS (Rolled Hollow Section) steel bolted onto the wall to reinforce the frames, and the roof area, covered with cheap portable carports, provided a large sitting area to view the rainforest, dry clothes, and reduce the noise of the tropical downpours.
Shipping Container Home - a wonderful account written and photographed by the people who designed and built this living space
Shipping container architecture - wiki encyclopeadia
Container Bay - Modernist Prefab Dwellings
Container City - at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London
Prefab from Australia
One of the leading new Australian designers, Andrew Maynard, puts it simply: "How can the housing industry make exciting, well designed and cheap housing? Easy, mimic the car industry."
Andrew Maynard
Prefab from Australia
The Pirkl residence |from SF Gate
Innovative architects turn used shipping containers into homes
The Pirkl residence in Redondo Beach, currently under construction, is designed by Peter DeMaria, DeMaria Design Associates.
Courtesy DeMaria Design Associates / Christian Kienapfel
Camden Lock Market
Nomads at Camden Arts Centre posted by Stewart
Two of the Nomads concentrating on the exibits of the Camden Arts Center at a meet on Thursday.We later walked round the galleries and had a look at the real exibits,quite a pleasant day was had in all.
Caff Culture at The Londoner
The Moka espresso bar, at 29 Frith St opened by Gina Lollabrigida in 1953
Lorelei, on Bateman Street
New Piccadilly, on Denman Street
Café Arlington at Dean Street 92 Dean Street, London W1D 3SY
Tel: 020 7287 0048
Staples Inn photographer by Stewart
I thought I would take this shot of a photographer engrossed with his blogging.
ISSUE 67
special issue on photography: Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Mitch Epstein, Roe Ethridge, Adam Fuss, Anthony Goicolea, Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Dan Holdsworth, Martina Hoogland Ivanow, Jean-Luc Moulène, Markéta Othová, Thomas Ruff, Torbjørn Rødland, Taryn Simon, Hannah Starkey, David Spero, Thomas Struth, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Massimo Vitali, Nick Waplington, Edwin Zwakman
Cover Image: Torbjørn Rødland, Lyrical Autism
no. 1, 2003 Courtesy: Air de Paris, Paris, and the artist
Online Emotional Intelligence Courses | Selfknowledge | Lesson 1 |
by Mark Zimmerman
This course is an introduction and explanation of a new form of education. It has many names including self-knowledge, emotional intelligence, emotional literacy and intrinsic education.
David Green (Archigram), Living Pod. 1967
Soft Machines & Virtual Architecture
Eilfried Huth & Gunther Domenig | RAG 2001 | Ragnitz
ivan illich
Tools For Conviviality | 1 | 2 | 3
most of us in the West are
starving for community and kindness,
not for bread and water
Slow Food
Founded by Carlo Petrini in Italy in 1986, Slow Food is an international association that promotes food and wine culture, but also defends food and agricultural biodiversity worldwide.
Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough & Michael Braungart
Treehugger
Air-water technology goes mobile -extracts water from the air.
1,000 liters of water daily?
Air-Water Corp
Gizmag
Tango Electric Car
The Tango T600 electric car, which has a carbon fibre body shell, and is made by the Commuter Cars Corporation, costs $108,000 and is made to travel at 150mph
Torpid Turbines
Twenty six wind turbines each 400 feet high are planned for a site near to Bradwell-on-Sea. This 'wind farm' is being sited on the
Dengie Marshes, a place of special interest, and alongside St. Peter’s Way towards St Peter-on-the-Wall, a church built by St Cedd of Lindisfarne in AD 654 and the oldest complete Saxon church in the world.
The proposals were rejected by Maldon District Council on 6 July 2006.
Hollywood Clicks on the Work of Web Auteurs
By John Clark, Published: July 23, 2006
'Even as David Lehre’s “MySpace: The Movie,” an 11-minute parody of the social-networking Web site, spawned a high-profile feeding frenzy, some of the Hollywood agents, managers and lawyers who were clamoring to represent him didn’t know much about who he was, what he did or what they would do if they got him. But they wanted him anyway.
“It’s their fear of not being a part of it,” said Scott Vener, Mr. Lehre’s manager, who first discovered him on the video-sharing Web site YouTube, where “MySpace” became an Internet phenomenon.'
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Nomads
Our next meet is:
10am, Thursday 20 July 2006 at Cafe Rouge, 38-39 High Street, Hampstead, London, NW3 1QE
and we'll probably wander down to Burgh House, New End Square, Hampstead, London NW3 1LT
(opens 12 noon, Buttery opens 11am)
Map : http://tinyurl.com/eknjd
Last week we met at the National Theatre for a tea and chat, and we decided to meet in Hampstead next Thursday.
Here's what we talked about and some links :
London alleys, courts, passages, yards
http://www.geocities.com/thetropics/cabana/9424/
New London Architecture
The Building Centre, 26 Store Street, London WC1E 7BT
http://www.newlondonarchitecture.org/
They have an exhibition called Tall Storeys from 5 July to 2 September 2006.
A film - Être et avoir [2002] (To Be and to Have) Directed by Nicolas Philibert
We had a conversation about 'Photoblogs' and here's a little more info :
Photoblog - 'A photoblog is a form of a blog, differentiated by the predominant use of and focus on the author's photographs rather than text.' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoblogging
You can see some of the best 'Photobloggers' at 'Weekly Shot'
http://www.weeklyshot.org/
and if you click on a URL there you'll see a typical Photoblog web site.
here are some people who contributed to this weeks theme 'Long Exposure'
Thinsite
http://www.thinsite.net/photoblog/ (Canada)
Smudo
http://www.smudo.org/blog/ (Sweden)
Shutterview
http://www.shutterview.ca/ (Canada)
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YouTube.com
Fair Use Links on the Web
http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter9/
http://www.copyrightwebsite.com/Info/Law/FairUse.aspx
http://chillingeffects.org/fairuse/
Archipeinture show | Camden Arts Centre
Guardian Review : Concrete jumble
Empty streets, wilting cabbages and floating bow-ties ... Is this really how artists perceive urban architecture? By Adrian Searle
'It is a pity Archipeinture could not have gone further with its theme. The relationship of painting, and art in general, to architecture is deeply complicated. Most of all, it is a story about people, rather than things and walls.'
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Archipeinture: Painters Build Architecture is at Camden Arts Centre, London NW3, until September 17. Details: 7472 5500
Serpentine Gallery Marathon: London | Resonance FM |
OMA Architecture Fan in Seattle blog | KultureFlash |
Metropolios Magazine | Jane Jacobs Revisited |
London Caffs | Mum Story notes | Basel 2006 |
SkyTown | Doing Blogger | Printing | RAW
Photography - Wander, Ramble, Meander, Walking with Camera and Audio Recorder. Edirol R09 MP3 Recorder £299.99 | Turnkey/Soho Soundhouse Store . 7692 7627 / 7419 9999 | MIDI controller Keyboard . USB powered Edirol PCRM30 £115.99 | Edirol R-1 |
Edirol R1 MP3 recorder .
Record at 192Kb | Headphones Sony MDR-150 | R1 Yahoogroup | M-Audio Micro Track 24/96 | E-Bay | Edirol R-09 (£299), uses SD Card|Audio Technica PRO24 | Audio Technica AT-822 stereo mic | Solidstatesound.co.uk : 01747-830670| Digital Village 8992 5592| AKG or Sennheisser Headphones |
Nomads Meet - 10am Thursday 3 August 2006
Tuttons . 11-12 Russell Street . Covent Garden . London . WC2B 5HZ
7836 4141
June 2006
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