http://mrhmag.com – MRH Contributing Editor Charlie Comstock gives us a tour of his Bear Creek & South Jackson layout at 10 years old. Charlie’s layout is se…
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Month: April 2014
Annual Ranking Lists the Top Architecture & Design Exhibitions of 2013
What was the most popular architecture or design exhibition in 2013? If you guessed MoMA’s Le Corbusier spectacular or SFMOMA’s landmark Lebbeus Woods: Architect (coming to New York’s Drawing Center April 15) you’re close but off the mark. In fact the most popular architecture exhibition in the world, according to The Art Newspaper‘s 2013 Visitors […]
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Interface: Between Landscape and Architecture
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Cox Hobbies Sky Ranger EP RTF Park Flyer
Great Planes Cox Sky Ranger
Ready-to-Fly Electric R/C Trainer Park-Flyer
This is a Great Planes Cox Sky Ranger Ready-to-Fly Electric R/C Trainer Park-Flyer. The Sky Ranger is the first Cox RTF in over 30 years – and the most advanced airplane that Cox has ever offered. It includes a 2.4GHz radio system with dual rates for years of trouble-free flying and it’s so complete that there’s absolutely nothing left to buy. A FlightFlex airframe and the exclusive SafeProp system offer double the protection against damage, making the Sky Ranger so strong and durable that it’s virtually unbreakable! It’s a great deal for your flying dollar and a perfect pick for flying at the field with friends or practicing skills in your own backyard.
Ready-to-Fly When You Are:
Cox RTFs are the closest thing to true “buy and fly” R/C you can find. Assembly takes a screwdriver and less than 5 minutes. And once you insert “AA” cells in the radio and charge the flight pack, there’s nothing between you and the sky except a takeoff! There’s literally nothing left to buy. Everything you need (even the screwdriver! is in the box. There’s a radio and “AA” batteries. A charger and a rechargeable flight battery good for up to 10 minutes of flying time. And a plane that arrives with a motor, speed control and radio gear already installed.
Fly Alone…or with Friends:
One of the big pluses a Cox RTF offers is confidence, and a state-of-the-art 2.4GHz radio system plays a big part in providing it. Signals from other radios can’t affect it and nothing can touch it for dependable, trouble-free operation. You can fly alone or with friends, without waiting or interference worries. It’s a full, 4-channel system like most R/C airplane radios, with this big plus: dual rates. The “New Pilot” setting offers you more reaction time and gentler handling – perfect for practicing basic flying skills. And once you’
Product Features
- FEATURES: Construction: Foam, Flight Flex flexes on impact to help absorb crash energy and protect the electronics inside
- INCLUDES: Cox Sky Ranger Park Flyer with 2.4GHz Radio System, LiPo Battery, Charger with AC Power Supply, two props, four AA batteries
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3D Gym Interior Animation – Lifestyle Family Fitness
3D Gym Interior Animation – Lifestyle Family Fitness. Discover more architectural and interior design inspirations on http://www.homedesignlove.com 3D Archit…
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False Frontin': Our Favorite Dishonest Facades
Reinforced concrete and increasingly strong interior steel beams have almost made buildings’ exterior envelopes a relic of the past. While a building covering still provides crucial protection from the elements, and of course privacy, architects have taken liberties with the playful possibilities that false facades offer. Such film set aesthetics not only add visual interest to otherwise ordinary buildings, but their tendency to confuse viewers holds an uncanny appeal that riffs of the entire system of symbolic architecture. With an open mindset, this facade masquerade can provide endless entertainment (and make Robert Venturi proud). Join us in this study of form-follows-folly: Images courtesy of the AOC. Spa School by the AOC, London The brick wrap is designed to relate the building to its context, purposely taking on the function of communication as a flat skin, leaving the building itself to perform as a place for learning. Image via wikimedia.org Fire Station Number 4 by Venturi and Rauch, Columbus, Indiana The classic appropriation of the Western false front as high architecture, Robert Venturi’s famous fire station helped introduce the world to his ideas about irony and simplicity, all from …
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Logan Framers Edge 60″ Mat 8-Ply Cutter w/Squaring Arm
A newly designed support arm mounting block better secures the support arms to the laminate board surface for a stronger hinge and less flex, extending the life of the tool. FREE SHORT SQUARING ARM Now included with each of the Framer’s Edge models is a flush cut non-scaled squaring arm for smaller jobs that don’t require the full 27″ squaring arm. The mat guide has also been improved with new large quick release knobs.IMPROVED CUTTING HEAD The Framer’s Edge bevel cutting head now features an easy to use thumb knob for more comfortable usage over long periods of usage. Also updated is the movable stop foot overcut adjustment which now features a knob for faster adjustment. Finally, a micro-adjustment overcut screw has been added to the rear of the cutting head. To assist in 8-ply mat board jobs, a pack of special 8-ply cutting blades have been added free of charge. Heavy-duty construction, rich features, and an attractive look make the Framer’s Edge the preferred system for framers and serious artists. Handles high production mat cutting as well as small projects. A non-stick coated cutting bar provides smooth cutting and needs no lubrication. Parallel mat guide slides smoothly in aluminum channels and enables quick, accurate border measurements up to 5-1/4″ (13.33cm). Fully scaled 27″ (68.58cm) squaring arm holds mats perfectly square. Base is 3/4″ (1.9cm) composite board surfaced with durable, easy to clean laminate. Includes production stops, 10 extra blades, dual straight & bevel cutting heads, and fully illustrated mat cutting manual. Need to make multiple openings or work with oversized matboards? The Framer’s Edge Extension Board mounts easily to Logan 650, 655, and 660 Framer’s Edge mat cutting systems. Allows border sizes up to 17″ (43.18cm) using parallel mat guide. Sold separately.
Product Features
- IMPROVED SUPPORT ARM MOUNTING BLOCK
- Logan 660 (60″/152cm)
- The Framer’s Edge bevel cutting head now features an easy to use thumb knob for more control
- To assist in 8-ply mat board jobs, a pack of special 8-ply cutting blades have been added free
- Heavy-duty construction, rich features, and an attractive look
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FoamWerks Replacement Blade C-5/Pkg
LOGAN-FoamWerks Replacement Blade C. These blades replace blades on models WC-2001; WC-4010; WC-6001; and WC-6010. This package contains five replacement blades. Imported.
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Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
The practice of enterprise application development has benefited from the emergence of many new enabling technologies. Multi-tiered object-oriented platforms, such as Java and .NET, have become commonplace. These new tools and technologies are capable of building powerful applications, but they are not easily implemented. Common failures in enterprise applications often occur because their developers do not understand the architectural lessons that experienced object developers have learned.
Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture is written in direct response to the stiff challenges that face enterprise application developers. The author, noted object-oriented designer Martin Fowler, noticed that despite changes in technology–from Smalltalk to CORBA to Java to .NET–the same basic design ideas can be adapted and applied to solve common problems. With the help of an expert group of contributors, Martin distills over forty recurring solutions into patterns. The result is an indispensable handbook of solutions that are applicable to any enterprise application platform.
This book is actually two books in one. The first section is a short tutorial on developing enterprise applications, which you can read from start to finish to understand the scope of the book’s lessons. The next section, the bulk of the book, is a detailed reference to the patterns themselves. Each pattern provides usage and implementation information, as well as detailed code examples in Java or C#. The entire book is also richly illustrated with UML diagrams to further explain the concepts.
Armed with this book, you will have the knowledge necessary to make important architectural decisions about building an enterprise application and the proven patterns for use when building them.
The topics covered include
· Dividing an enterprise application into layers
· The major approaches to organizing business logic
· An in-depth treatment of mapping between objects and relational databases
· Using Model-View-Controller to organize a Web presentation
· Handling concurrency for data that spans multiple transactions
· Designing distributed object interfaces
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Cocoon House / Studio Aula
Architects: Studio Aula
Location: Shiojiri, Nagano, Japan
Architect In Charge: Mitsuru Yoshida,Kyoko Hoshina
Year: 2013
Photographs: Ippei Shinzawa
From the architect. Our client is a family with a couple in fifties, their two children and mother. In Cocoon house our mission was making-over in which the premise is narrow at the approach and deep inside. We try to functionally make use of it with its old garden. For instance, on the north side facing to a road we laid storage and space to take in light and winds.
The vertical bar screen in Japanese style blocks others’ eye and a fine devise to hold such functions. Also we put a multipurpose earth floor to make an entrance as well from the north to the south garden. This assures the functional elements such as a corridor and a storage space, also becomes a public space to combine inside with outside and to get visitors. The inside materials of construction are flamed in squares as iconic form, and the layer with the chequer patterns reminding of the thread of cocoon managed to generate the diversity of forms. We have also done the makeover of the garden. The old one was conventionally symbolic with chunks of stone work allegedly representing a ship on the sea. but we redefined it to satisfy the quality of life converting with the steppingstones led from the earth floor. Although industrialized houses are spreading over in the neighbourhood we have aimed integration of the old and the new in Japanese symbolic landscape.
Built in a unifom neighbourhood, this house aims at utilizing a garden with an old pine tree and the stone work and caring for the Japanese way of life and traditional forms; the earth flooor corridor works in some functional ways; the bar screen taking in light and wind under the large roof protects privacy; the bamboo fence encourages simplified maintanance on the owener’s own.
They used to live in an old house in a hamlet with depopulation in the Kiso region. It was a sericultural farm house built with wood, paper, and mortar in the Meiji period (about a hundred years old). Also Kiso is surrounded by conifer forests and clear water in a mountain range which is quite filled with natural beauty in Japan. The client loved the house and the neighbourhood, but an accidental mischief occured and it determined moving to a newly purchaseed secondhand house with a lovely old garden in adjacent suburbia.
After all this house turned out to be poorly earthquake-proof which leads to demolition and rebuilding. Our goal in this project is to capture Japanese style in order to confort the client family.
We managed to make use of much wood for the interior and the beam construction and to care for their remembrance of the old house and the locality. Actually they own a mountain forest in the hamlet and we used the Hinoki (Japanese cypress) timber planted in their son’s birth for a part of constructual materials.
Cocoon House / Studio Aula originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 01 Apr 2014.
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