Backyard Flyer Classic Race Ace. Point-Charge-Launch! It’s that simple with the easy to-use Backyard Flyer Classic. Slide the 8″ x 10″ durable, classic style bi-plane onto the all-in-one launcher and press the charger button. Plane charges in as little as 10 seconds for up to an incredible 45 second free flight experience. Best to fly your plane in wide open spaces, making it perfect for backyards, fields and playgrounds. Requires 3 AAA batteries (not included). Warning Choking Hazard – Small Parts. Recommended for ages 8 and up. Measurements: 13.60″ L x 10.75″ W x 4″ H Weight: 0.9 lbs.
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Elegant rusticity meets unpretentious luxury in the work of this award-winning architecture firm. Howard Backen, principal of the architecture firm Backen, Gillam & Kroeger, is at the center of a popular movement in home design that emphasizes elegant simplicity and embraces the rustic charm of natural materials. This volume, the first on his work and that of the firm, is an artful exploration of this aesthetic, featuring farmhouses in the Napa Valley, hilltop homes, seaside retreats, and lakeside hideaways. Throughout the work, a sense of intimacy, warmth, and informality pervades. Natural materials, such as wood, stone, and brick, form the foundations, walls, and ceilings of these subtly luxurious spaces, while nature itself plays a considered role that is at once complementary and also intricately conjoined with the work. Sensitive, alluring, and wonderfully resonant with the suggestion of invitation, the work of Backen, Gillam & Kroeger is both thrilling to the eye and restorative to the soul.
From the invention of photography in 1839, architecture was second only to portraiture as the most favored subject for the camera. The fact that buildings were immobile was advantageous for the long exposures needed in the early days, but architectural images were popular for other reasons: they documented dynastic, civic, and religious achievements; educated architects about construction and decorative details; and whetted curiosity about distant lands. Later photographers found innovative ways to depict structures of every era and type.
Arranged chronologically, Architecture in Photographs spans the history of the medium and includes works in a variety of photographic processes by such distinguished nineteenth-century practitioners as Henri le Secq, Gustave Le Gray, and Roger Fenton; twentieth-century photographers Eugène Atget, Alfred Stieglitz, and Walker Evans; contemporary artists Ed Ruscha, Lewis Baltz, and Steven Shore; and younger image makers Catherine Opie and Michael Wesely.
The seventy-five images presented here, all from the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, form a panoply of architectural structures and styles, from Egyptian ruins to Greek temples and Gothic cathedrals, and from skyscrapers and Modernist schools to mundane vernacular dwellings.
The book is published to coincide with the exhibition In Focus: Architecture, on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum from October 15, 2013, to March 2, 2014.
After less than four years under construction, the massive De Rotterdam towers, OMA’s grand experiment in urban density and scale, were completed a few weeks ago. With over 1,700,000 square feet of floor space, Rem Koolhaas’ glass-clad “vertical city” is the largest multifunctional building in the Netherlands. Within a 6-story, 100-foot-tall plinth, and three, 44-story, […]
Architects: Architectare
Location: Itaipava – Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Project Architects: Flavia Quintanilha e Rodrigo Fernandes
Area: 704 sqm
Photographs: Leonardo Finotti
Lightning: RBF arquitetura de iluminação
Construction: K2 Engenharia
Structural Project: MPompei Engenharia
Site Area: 2790 m²
From the architect. Despite being in a proportionately large lot, the building has its shape defined by the small triangle of its buildable area on the entrance of the lot, resulting from enforcement of the condominium and local legislation. The whole building area is embedded in this triangle, with the exception of the deck, which was designed as permeable construction, as allowed. Those restrictions forced the house to be very exposed to the street and that was taken as a design proposition.
The façade towards the street was designed to give the impression that it is all closed, with exception of the library and some small openings on the first floor. The graphic texture of this façade represents the integration of the architecture with the land. From the soil, a well-defined form arises, with organic texture, made with rocks gathered in the place. On this strong base, another volume is lightly settled.
This volume contains the rooms and interacts with the street by means of theirs big sliding panels made of aluminum. This very rational texture is interrupted by the library bookshelf, which is dominated by the disordered timber wood graphism working as a moucharebiya.
The façade towards the inside of the land is made of sliding glass panels, receiving direct sun during the winter afternoon, warming the house for the night. and increasing the integration between the interior and the nature outside. Those glass panels provide the necessary input of light during the day.
To increase the interior sun light, a skylight above the stairs was designed. At night, the lighting design benefits from the material´s textures to preserve the warm atmosphere. The entire 1st floor is designed to ensure full interaction among the different uses and spaces of the house. For this, the sliding glass panels can be completely open; transforming the living room into a veranda and the deck becomes an extension of the internal space, annulling the barriers between the swimming pool and outside kitchen.
The 2nd floor is more private and all the bedrooms turn to the mezzanine where the library is, from which you can see the first floor without being too exposed.
Built by Piper Aircraft between 1937 and 1947, the J-3 Cub is one of history’s best-known civil aircraft. The Cub’s simplicity and affordability led to the plane being dubbed the “Model T of the Sky”, and ushered in a new era in aviation in which anyone could fly. Just over 20,000 Cubs were built, including an enormous number as trainer aircraft during WWII. Originally printed in 1945, when all Piper production was restricted for military use, this “How to Fly a Piper Cub” booklet looked ahead to the post-war era. Printed in color with rich illustrations, spec sheets and b&w photos, it’s a nostalgic piece of history that no Piper fan can resist.
This practical combo system includes a 24″ straight edge and a Logan Handheld Mat Cutter for accurate, high quality mat cutting plus a three depth position mat knife with a slip lock depth feature for downsizing standard thickness matboard and foamboard.
