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Monday, May 28, 2012

polhiedral building

1.Name:unknown.
2.Author:Mies van der Rohe.
3.Movement:minimalist.
4.Function:for living.
5.Shape:Prism-shaped.
6.Materials:it is made of wood.
7.Characteristics:in all the parts of the house you can see the forest.
8.Construction:it was made in 2005.
9.Localization:this house is in germany.

This building is from a very famous architect called Ludwid Mies van der Rohe.This architect also builted a lot of other famous buildings,For exsample:the barcelona pavilion and the IBM plaza in Chicago.He was born the March 27,1886 in Aachen ( Germany).

GOLDEN PROPORTION

It exits the perfect face?

Polygon or Building?

This is a pagoda, a classic chinese building, it base is a hexagon, so it's a hexagonal prism.
Almost we can se other polygons like the hexagons that cross the prism.

But not all the pagodas has hexagonal shape, for example this has a square shape

Name:Pagoda Sun and Moon
Author:Lee Wang Ming
Function:It is used for religious events
Shape:Hexagonal Prism
Materials:Only wood without cloves
Characteristics:They were constructed in the 3rd century Before Christ.But they resist better than a new building.The name is derived from the french.But this Pagoda is a new version.
Construction:between 1964 and 1966
Localization:Near to the Shan lake and the Li river

Sunday, May 27, 2012

RYTH BY SHADOWS

I create this collage using photos of differentes shadows, to compose a rythm image.
Paula Llana 3ºB

THE TOWER OF TORONTO

Name: Tower CN
Author: Jhon Andrews and WZMH architects.
Movement: Modern.
Function: Its use is for people to visit and see the panoramic view of torornto. And the tower have aerials.
Shape: Cylindrical shape with a circle in the top.
Materials: Paviment is made of glass and steel.
Characteristics: In the circle the floor is transparent and you can see through the soil. The tower has two elevators very fast. Is the third highest tower in the world with 550 m tower overcome by Canton tower with 600 m and the tower Burdsch Chalifa with 828 m high. And the views are beautiful.
Construction: 1973 to 1976. It lasted 40 months.
Localization: In Toronto ( Canada) .

      In 1995 it was ranked as one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
     Weight:134,193 tons.
     It opened in 1976 and has the highest metal ladder in the world because it has 1776 steps that climb 147 floors.

    Before the aerial could be placed, it was necessary to dismantle and remove the giant crane that served for four years to build the tower. To perform these movements we used a 10-ton Sikorsky "Olga" special industrial lifts, moved to Toronto by plane.

The building has 3 main areas for visitors:

• In the first located at an altitude of 342 meters is the Glass Floor (Flat Glass)
A 346 meters is the Lookout Level, which is located in the Café Horizon and an observation deck inside.
A 351 meter has located a restaurant rotates 360 degrees every 72 minutes
• The third area to which the public has access is the Skypod, 447 meters high, one of the highest public vantage points in the world.

the cost of the tower was approximately 300 million.

Saturday, May 26, 2012

Aspire tower

Name: Aspire Tower

Localization: Doha, Qatar

Design: Modern

Construction: 2005-2007

Inauguration: November 2007

Architect: Hadi Simaan

Structural engineer: Arup

Shape: It’s an irregular shape as a thin cylinder

Height

Architectural 300 m (980 ft.)

Top floor 238 m (781 ft.)

Observatory 238 m (781 ft.)

Technical details

Floor count 36

Floor area 35,000 m2 (380,000 sq. ft.)

Elevators 17

Characteristics: The tower was a symbol of the 2006 Asian Games because of its size and closeness to the Khalifa International Stadium. In the tower we could find the Asian Games flame during the games and it holds the record for the tallest games flame, which was visible throughout Doha for the duration of the games. The design uses a concrete centre which is the main support. The rest of the building is a steel structure that stands out from the concrete centre. The exterior of the building is covered in a steel net which, during the Asian Games, was illuminated by intense LED lights.

The final form consists of a 1-to-1.8 meter thick concrete cylinder (the centre), between 12-18 meter in diameter, surrrounded by networks of steel posts on each floor of the building modules.

The designer, Simaan, has described the structure as "a celebration of earth and sky" saying that, "the structural steel struts that brace the structure back to the core also act as visual forces which create energy radiating from the center in a centrifugal rise." One of the most interesting characteristics of the tower is the broadcast of videos which was completed around an 8 meter section of the tower; this was done with the use of Philips technology.

The building was finished in November 2007 with a final cost of €133,395,000.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspire_Tower

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RYUGYONG HOTEL: PYRAMID

RYUGYONG HOTEL

This hotel is in North Korea, this structure is a pyramid and it has 330 metres long, with 105 floors.
This building is a skycraper and his colours is grey mainly.

The building started to build in 1987 and it is the only hotel with more of one hundred floors and it is surrounded by many small buildings. This hotel stand out of the rest and it has a special quality: in the back of the structure there are two ledges, in each side, this ledges make the structure more resistant and less heavy because the air that pass through this ledges cut the air, so, in this zone of the building, the wind is very strong and fast.

The building finished in april, in 2012, by the Orascum Group company.

Friday, May 25, 2012

Final photo: Week Camp

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Van Gogh`s Blossoming Almond Tree

Almond Tree, represents much of what Vincent often thought about: rebirth. Trees blooming and flowering announces the beginning of spring and new life.

Like many of Van Gogh’s paintings, Blossoming Almond Tree has an influence from Japanese prints. Van Gogh collected and admired Japanese artists and used ideas such as bold color, dark outlines, and the beauty of nature in his work.

In fact, Almond Blossoms are several paintings made in 1880 and 1890.

See more in

http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/vgm/index.jsp?page=3128&lang=en

PHOTOGRAPHY

Created by Raquel Luaces
Teacher says:
You can study Photographer in:

Escuela Superior de Imagen y Sonido CES Madrid
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The scream made out of pencils. Absolutely amazing!

We all know that Munch made several versions of The Scream but check out this rendition which we recently came across made entirely out of pencils, created by the art directors of Ogilvy & Mather for a Faber Castell campaign.

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

POLYHEDRAL BUILDINGS

Name: Torre Agbar
Localization: Barcelona (Spain)
Stile: Modern
Floor area: 51.483 m2
Construction: 1999-2004
Inaguration: june of 2005
Architects: Brufau & A. Obiol and Jean Nouvel
Shape: It has a regular shape, and it`s an cylinder.
Characteristics: The construction of this building began in 1999 but finally a lot of year later, in 2004. It inagurated takes place in June of 2005.
This building has 38 floors, 4 of this floors are undreground and the rest, 34, are on the land.The tower measures a total of 50,693 square metres, of which 30,000 are offices, 3,210 technical facilities, 8,132 services, including an auditorium, and 9,132 square metres for parking.
The main materials used in the construction of the building were concrete which comprises the structure of the tower and aluminum and glass.
One of the most characteristic elements of the building is its nocturnal illumination. The tower has more than 4,500 luminous devices that can operate independently using LED technology and enables the generation of images on the outside of the tower. The system is capable of creating 16 million of colours.
Once it was finished, the Agbar Tower quickly became an architectural icon of the city of Barcelona and one of its most famous buildings.