The iconic piece
of architecture on Birmingham's landscape was constructed in a traditional Canadian style, new to the British construction scene in the 1960s, and still boasts many of these original features today.
This article summarizes some quantitative measures and qualitative observations regarding the effect
of architecture on technical communication.
Arguing the details
of the architecture on the 98th floor seems pointless if the foundation isn't solid.
I'll be lecturing about the Passive House building energy standard at the University of Minnesota's school
of architecture on Tuesday, March 5.
The inaugural exhibition, Architecture of Life is an exploration of the influences and effects
of architecture on human experience and behavior.
Groundbreaking exhibition explores the influence
of architecture on contemporary visual art
Even though Matta - Clark never exercised his profession as such, his artistic practice must be understood as that of an architect, who intensively engaged in the social reality and the effects
of architecture on the urban environment.
We walked down the beautifully shaded Paseo del Prado admiring the beautiful mixture
of architecture on either side of the road while zig - zagging our way through the crowded walkway.
Not exact matches
Swiss - made and powered by precision quartz, this high - quality timepiece has a case made
of stainless steel, and
architecture aficionados would be pleased by the detail
on its dial, reminiscent
of the directional lines
of the Brooklyn Bridge in New York.
To be sure, Tebele isn't the only player in the game, and he's largely banking
on a type
of humor that, as one critic puts it, «is charmingly moronic by its very
architecture.»
Construction contractor Georgiou, along with two Perth
architecture firms, have been selected to work
on the $ 57 million Aubin Grove train station ahead
of a final construction tender later this year.
That breadth gives Volkswagen economies
of scale, and the company is developing new Lamborghini and Bentley SUVs
on the same
architecture as the next Porsche Cayenne.
With its unique
architecture all around the town and beautiful locales such as the Jardin Majorelle, Marrakech is undoubtedly one
of the most picturesque locations
on this list.
«We're
on track to exceed our goal
of powering 50 percent
of our global datacentre load with renewable energy this year,» Christian Belady, Microsoft's general manager for cloud infrastructure strategy and
architecture, said.
Ivy adds, «We did issue statements following both election victories for President Obama, as we have after State
of the Union addresses and other situations we felt warranted our voice
on how certain issues that the federal government is pursuing would affect the
architecture profession.»
Mike Hearn, one
of the main developers
of the Bitcoin
architecture alongside the mysterious Nakamoto, has said that any implementation
of the concept is at least a decade away because
of the need for hardware upgrades
on physical goods.
Uber does not use the self - driving platform
architecture of Nvidia, the chipmaker's Chief Executive Jensen Huang said
on Wednesday.
It will be your job to find the most interesting angles
on what's happening in the worlds
of architecture, design for the developing world, product design, urban design, and everything in between.
Today, its rich history can be gleaned from its ancient streets, which feel like open - air museums with their striking medley
of medieval, baroque and postmodern
architecture, and in its (distinctively British) customs (think: afternoon tea and driving
on the left side
of the road).
Outlook: The company has a proven track record in a business that seems well positioned, given the frequency
of power outages
on the West Coast, and benefits from the popularity
of natural - light
architecture.
In 2006 it introduced CUDA, a parallel computing
architecture that allowed researchers to run extremely complex exercises
on thousands
of GPUs, taking the chips out
of the sole realm
of video games and making them accessible for all types
of computing.
The reliance
of British Columbia
on Asian markets underlines the importance for the west coast
of the developments in trade structures (so - called «trade
architecture») and regional economic integration taking place in the Asia Pacific region.
Personalized choice
architecture through microtargeting is
on the rise, and Cambridge Analytica is not the first nor the last to make successful use
of it.
At his SXSW keynote, Brian Solis resonated with marketers
on the topic
of experience
architecture and his belief that experiences are fundamental to branding.
We have made great progress
on building a rich medical knowledge graph and a recommendation system, all developed
on an Azure - powered
architecture for secure sharing
of speech data with our healthcare partners.
By contributing to the strengthening
of the international financial
architecture and providing opportunities for dialogue
on national policies, international co-operation, and international financial institutions, the G - 20 helps to support growth and development across the globe.
Mr. Sunil Ranka has a 15 years
of Hands
on IT and Management experience in Data Analytics, Pre-sales, software
architecture, design, development, testing, customization, and integration, enterprise applications and data warehousing Application using Big Data and Business Intelligence Technologies.
Conference proceedings
of the ECB Forum
on Central Banking, Sintra 2016: The Future
of the international monetary and financial
architecture
Looking ahead, the team plans to build more features
on top
of its current solution (which now features a plug - in
architecture) to branch out from its current operations focus to better serve developers directly, too.
These partners are Mercedes - Benz, which was recently reported to be preparing to unveil a fleet
of electric vehicles based
on a completely new
architecture; Nvidia, which just launched the artificial intelligence - powered palm - sized Drive PX 2 computer for self - driving cars; Otto, an autonomous truck startup that was acquired by Uber last month; and Didi Chuxing, which recently bought out Uber's operations in China.
As the Mergers & Acquisitions IT leader at Dell, I knew the significance
of Zuora's value proposition and championed the purchase, implementation, and adoption
of Dell
on Demand, the new Quote to Cash
architecture for Dell's recurring revenue offerings.
As a cancer researcher, do you think the mechanisms
of tumor growth are somehow changing to come into line with your perceptions, or is it possible that the process
of our learning more about DNA mutations and cell
architecture and nutrient exchange and epigenetic effects make it possible for us to inch ever closer to understanding that which is already going
on under our noses?
The imposition
of this imagery
of the covenant, ritual
on the cathedral's aisle highlights the central truth
of covenant which in turn highlights the meaning
of the eastward journey to which the Cathedral's
architecture invites us: the covenant was a contract not
of goods but
of persons.
He went
on to say: «The other arts —
architecture, painting, vestments, and the arts
of movement — each contribute to and support the beauty
of the liturgy, but still the art
of music is greater even than that
of any other art, because it forms a necessary or integral part
of the solemn liturgy, because it is so intimately bound to the sacred action, defining and differentiating the various parts in character, motion and importance.»
In the Abbasid period Muslim culture became society - oriented, with emphasis
on such subjects as the sciences and engineering and
architecture; but no contradiction was felt between these fields and religion, for all scholars combined religious knowledge with mastery
of other fields
of learning.
Science can teach us about paint, pulverized minerals, color, light, optics, and proportional harmony, but it can not explain the mystery
of beauty
on the finished canvas — how moral, societal, and transcendent truths can be revealed through the drama and execution
of a piece
of music or
architecture.
Drawing
on an architectural analogy, he said, «The unity
of a Gothic cathedral is not the static unity
of a classical temple but a unity born
of the dynamic tension
of diverse forces which impel the
architecture upward, pointing to heaven.»
The
architecture of churches that build
on a mega scale is usually nontraditional.
This style
of religious
architecture had a lasting effect
on the
architecture of New England and other kinds
of buildings — schoolhouses, town halls, libraries, even factories and mills.
He is also the author
of two books
on religious
architecture:
Architecture for the Gods and
Architecture for the Gods, Book II, published by Images Publishing Group.
My own view, then and ever since, is that the languages
of architecture, music, and poetry work mightily
on us when we are not aware
of it, slip past our everyday defenses and so convey the unspeakable grandeur
of God to us better than any other means.
We are basically disputing over a piece
of toast that has the crude image
of Jesus burnt into it but we go it for free
on ebay — the cross by no way is perfect and its shape is bound to happen based
on the nature
of how really tall building collapse and their
architecture with many perpendicular angles.
He proceeds sequentially, from the sacred
architecture of the Old Testament to the early Christian basilicas, then
on to the Byzantine and Romanesque cathedrals and churches, and from there to the Gothic, the classicism
of the Renaissance, the baroque and rococo, the neoclassicism and «revival» styles
of the nineteenth century, and
on to the present day.
I could go
on and elaborate
on a number
of other disciplines or facts that creationists have to pretend into oblivion to retain their faith, including the Ice Ages, cavemen and early hominids, much
of microbiology, paleontology and archeology, continental drift and plate tectonics, even large parts
of medical research (medical research
on monkeys and mice only works because they share a common ancestor with us and therefore our fundamental cell biology and basic body
architecture is identical to theirs).
The fifth chapter considers harmony, another element in the classical definitions
of beauty, and he reflects
on it in music,
architecture, ecology, and astronomy.
We are human beings, the smartest beings
on this planet that we've been able to find, we dominate this world and have created marvels
of technology,
architecture, art and bioengineering that the closest species in intelligence to us couldn't even recognize.
Large amounts
of money are spent
on church
architecture and church music to make the setting not only beautiful but conducive to worship.
On the one side, it is possible for the church to let the rest
of the world go by — and for the minister to concern himself mainly with his pulpit robe equipment, the shape
of the baptistry, the
architecture of the sanctuary, and perhaps the related facilities such as the educational rooms and the kitchens.
In this cross-disciplinary conversation I turn first to what is known about the brain, then to what we understand about belief, and finally,
on the basis
of that convergence
of ideas, to an examination
of the cultural symbol - images
of Byzantine and medieval
architecture, which express both cognitive and cosmic ways
of understanding human life.
Despite its minor flaws, St. Thomas Aquinas is an inspiring and transcendent design — one that may encourage ecclesiastical architects to save spolia from the wrecking ball and bring the best
of historical
architecture to bear
on more such numinous houses
of worship.