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 high, with 105 floors.
This building is a skycraper and his colours is grey mainly.

                                              STRUCTURE AND BIOGRAPHY

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.
                                                         MATERIALS


Ryugyong Hotel is made up, the outside, of  hard plastic and iron mainly. It has many windows, as can we see in the photo. The structure has a principal column that holds all the building, the sides and the "wings".
The up part is a viewpoint and it has a fantastic view.


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

 Photo: http://vibik.com/amazing/66-ryugyong-hotel-worlds-tallest-hotel
 Text: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Ryugyong

Date: 29/05/2012

Final photo: Week Camp

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.

















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PHOTOGRAPHY

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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.

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.

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Torre-agbar-nit.jpg

BY  LAURA  NOSTI  MARTÍNEZ  1ºB

SYMMETRY

SYMMETRY IN NATURE

This is a ladybird. It has the same number of points in both sides.

It is a starfish. It has axial symmetry.



Symmetry in art

These are digital pictures

Symmetry in buildings

 This were the World trade Center in Manhattan. It were destroy in 2001

These are the quio Towers in Madrid. They have the same inclination.



Composition: Rythms. For Activity 6.1

 Victor Vaserely

From: http://juliatesta.blogspot.com.es/

More about Rythm: Collages. Examples for Activity 6 (3rd Level)

Some images were extracted from:
http://www.behance.net/gallery/Artworks-from-the-hearts/1615117

CONSTRUCTION MANAGER

A construction manager is the person in the building work who must control the builders to carry out the design of the architect.

In order to be a construction manager, you must study technical architecture or building engineering. You can study this degree at the Granada’s ETSIE (Escuela técnica superior de Ingeniería de Edificación) or the Madrid’s European University. Out of Spain, the better university where you can study it, is in London, in the AA (Architectural association) School of Architecture.


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Construction Management Degree Programs

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Everglades University – Everglades University offers a fully online Bachelors in Construction Management program which includes accredited courses in essential skills and tools such as construction contracts, construction law, building construction drawing and drafting, construction scheduling, and project management.

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Spaceship Earth

Shape: is a sphere

I chose it because is in Disneyland of America.

Its size is amazing and it’s beautiful.

It was designer and manufacturer by WED Enterprises.

The type of attraction, a dark ride.

The design was based up on the Modern Movement concept.

The structure is similar in texture to the United States pavilion from Expo 67 in Montreal, but unlike that structure, Spaceship Earth is a complete sphere, supported on three main legs.

Construction took 26 months and 40,800 labor hours to build.

 

Juvet Landscape Hotel

Name: Juvet Landscape Hotel


Author: Jensen & Skodvin Arkitektkontor (JSA)


Shape: Bucket


Artist movement:  Surrealist movement 



Its located:  Norway

The Juvet Landscape Hotel is located in the heart of the forest, on the banks of the river Valdolla, in Norway. 

Each room is a detached small independent house with one, or sometimes two of the walls constructed in glass. The rooms are hanging of the trees.The landscape in which these rooms are placed is by most people considered spectacularly beautiful and varied and the topography allows a layout where no room looks at another. In this way every room gets its own surprising view of a dramatic piece of landscape, always changing with the weather and the time of the day and the season.On first impression,the seven secluded cabins seem modest and unassuming. However, once you step foot inside, the landscape seems to be magnified through the outlook of large panoramic windows.  

                                                                   

                                                                                                     

                                      

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HISTORY OF ART

Name: Refuge

Author: Larry Hall

Shape: Cilindrical-shaped

Artist movement: Contemporean

 Its located: Texas

A lot of people say that the apocalipsis is near, so a very rich person, start to build a place where the humans can  be protected against a sick or zombie invasion. This build has 14 flats, 7 are aparments, but the constructor, think that the people need to study, eat and to do gymnastics, so he add a a cofffe shop flat, a school flat and a gym flat. This build is very interesting becouse is underground, but it has the same places that any hotel have.

By Pablo Dávila & Lucía Garcia

ENGINEERING

Written by JULIA SEVILLANO 3º A
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Recommended Programs in Engineering Aalborg University, Denmark Delft University of Technology, Netherlands EPFL - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Good for Microelectronics, VLSI. Technical University of Budapest, Hungary Program in English Technical University of Denmark Lund University, Sweden University Of Karlsruhe, Germany Universitat Des Saarlandes, Germany Universitat Dortmund, Germany Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany Inria, Valbonne, France Centre National De La Rech Sc., France Universite Paris, France Ecole Normale Superieure, France Lgi IMAG, France Politecnico Di Milano, Milano, Italy Universita Di Roma, Rome, Italy Politecnico Di Torino, Italy University of Bologna, Italy Universita Di Firenze, Italy Universita Di Pisa, Italy Universita Di Torino, Italy Universita Di Milano, Italy Universita Degli Studi Di Padova, Italy Universita Di Salerno, Italy Universita Di Genova, Italy University of Cambridge, UK University of Oxford, UK Bristol, UK Warwick, UK London, Imperial, UK Sheffield, UK Southampton , UK London, UCL, UK Edinburgh, UK York, UK

Recommended Programs (MBA) Vienna University, Austria K. U. Leuven, Belgium Solvay Business School, Belgium United Business Institutes, Belgium CMC Graduate School of Business, Czech Republic Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Helsinki School of Business Administration, Finland EAP, France EDHEC, France ESC Lyon, France ESC Nantes Atlantique, France ESC Paris, France ESC Paris, France ESC Toulouse, France ESSEC, France INSEAD, France ISA, France Koblenz School of Corporate Management, Germany University of Stuttgart, Germany USW Scloss Gracht, Germany University College of Dublin, Ireland University of Dublin - Trinity, Ireland University of Limerick, Ireland SDA Bocconi, Italy University of Palermo, Italy Erasmus University, Netherlands Nijenrode, Netherlands NIMBAS, Netherlands Lublin Business School, Poland Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal ESADE, Spain ESTE, Spain IADE, Spain IESE, Spain Instituto de Empresa, Spain Stockholm School of Administration, Sweden GSBA Zurich, Switzerland IMD Lausanne, Switzerland Lancaster University, UK London Business School, UK University of Edinburgh, UK University of Glasgow, UK University of Manchester , UK University of Oxford - Templeton, UK Warwick University, UK