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	<link><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><font style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" size=\"2\"><img alt=\"Marks Barfield conceptualises £6.4m walkway through the Amazon Rainforest\" src=\"/files/uploads/PAPER_NEWS_396.jpg\" hspace=\"\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"\"><br><br>A bold new science centre has been proposed for the Amazon Rainforest. The project, worth £6.4m, will be located in Xixuaú Xiparina, a secluded region of untouched forests in Roraima, Brazil.</font><br><br><font style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" size=\"2\">As well as a science centre where serious research can be carried out, a walkway spanning 6 miles will rest in the canopies of the rainforest. Scientists from the Royal Botanical Gardens and universities will be able to use the centre and the walkway to study the canopies. The leading research bodies will include Kew and the Brazilian Amazon Research Institute. Tourists can simply enjoy the majestic views through the forest.</font><br><br><img alt=\"Marks Barfield conceptualises £6.4m walkway through the Amazon Rainforest_2\" src=\"/files/uploads/PAPER_NEWS_397.jpg\" hspace=\"\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"\"><br><br><font style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" size=\"2\">The traditional communities living in the area have always worked to protect and preserve the rainforest. Their livelihoods depend on the small-scale extractive activities they carry out, such as harvesting Brazil nuts and rubber. The project will give back to the community, by providing jobs for local tribes and attracting more tourism.</font><br><br><img alt=\"Marks Barfield conceptualises £6.4m walkway through the Amazon Rainforest_3\" src=\"/files/uploads/PAPER_NEWS_398.jpg\" hspace=\"\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"\"><br><br><font style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" size=\"2\">The Xixuaú Xiparina region is currently under the management of the CoopXixuaú Co-operative, formed in February 2010 by the local community. With a focus on sustainable living, the area is thriving with the development of a new school and a solar-powered satellite internet connection for example, and further economic opportunities to come.</font><br><br><font style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" size=\"2\">Mark Barfield Architects are designing the project, and are well known for their landscape work, such as the London Eye and the walkway at Kew Gardens. David Marks of the practice believes bamboo can be used as the primary construction material. The design already incorporates solar energy. Of the forests fragile ecosystem, Marks says: “It doesn\'t support a lot of people in the natural state. You have to be very careful about what you bring in.”</font><br><br><img alt=\"Marks Barfield conceptualises £6.4m walkway through the Amazon Rainforest_4\" src=\"/files/uploads/PAPER_NEWS_399.jpg\" hspace=\"\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"\"><br><br><font style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" size=\"2\">The Amazon Charitable Trust is the charity backing the scheme, with financier Robert Pasley-Tyler at the forefront. Members include John Hemming and Bianca Jagger. The centre aims to be non-profit and self-financing. The trust hopes to make the area the first profitable extractivist reserve in Roraima.</font><br></div><br><font style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" size=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Source:</span> <a name=\"\" target=\"_blank\" classname=\"a1\" class=\"a1\" href=\"http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&amp;amp;upload_id=18866\">www.worldarchitecturenews.com</a></font><br></link>
	<guid isPermaLink="true"><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><font style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" size=\"2\"><img alt=\"Marks Barfield conceptualises £6.4m walkway through the Amazon Rainforest\" src=\"/files/uploads/PAPER_NEWS_396.jpg\" hspace=\"\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"\"><br><br>A bold new science centre has been proposed for the Amazon Rainforest. The project, worth £6.4m, will be located in Xixuaú Xiparina, a secluded region of untouched forests in Roraima, Brazil.</font><br><br><font style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" size=\"2\">As well as a science centre where serious research can be carried out, a walkway spanning 6 miles will rest in the canopies of the rainforest. Scientists from the Royal Botanical Gardens and universities will be able to use the centre and the walkway to study the canopies. The leading research bodies will include Kew and the Brazilian Amazon Research Institute. Tourists can simply enjoy the majestic views through the forest.</font><br><br><img alt=\"Marks Barfield conceptualises £6.4m walkway through the Amazon Rainforest_2\" src=\"/files/uploads/PAPER_NEWS_397.jpg\" hspace=\"\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"\"><br><br><font style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" size=\"2\">The traditional communities living in the area have always worked to protect and preserve the rainforest. Their livelihoods depend on the small-scale extractive activities they carry out, such as harvesting Brazil nuts and rubber. The project will give back to the community, by providing jobs for local tribes and attracting more tourism.</font><br><br><img alt=\"Marks Barfield conceptualises £6.4m walkway through the Amazon Rainforest_3\" src=\"/files/uploads/PAPER_NEWS_398.jpg\" hspace=\"\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"\"><br><br><font style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" size=\"2\">The Xixuaú Xiparina region is currently under the management of the CoopXixuaú Co-operative, formed in February 2010 by the local community. With a focus on sustainable living, the area is thriving with the development of a new school and a solar-powered satellite internet connection for example, and further economic opportunities to come.</font><br><br><font style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" size=\"2\">Mark Barfield Architects are designing the project, and are well known for their landscape work, such as the London Eye and the walkway at Kew Gardens. David Marks of the practice believes bamboo can be used as the primary construction material. The design already incorporates solar energy. Of the forests fragile ecosystem, Marks says: “It doesn\'t support a lot of people in the natural state. You have to be very careful about what you bring in.”</font><br><br><img alt=\"Marks Barfield conceptualises £6.4m walkway through the Amazon Rainforest_4\" src=\"/files/uploads/PAPER_NEWS_399.jpg\" hspace=\"\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"\"><br><br><font style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" size=\"2\">The Amazon Charitable Trust is the charity backing the scheme, with financier Robert Pasley-Tyler at the forefront. Members include John Hemming and Bianca Jagger. The centre aims to be non-profit and self-financing. The trust hopes to make the area the first profitable extractivist reserve in Roraima.</font><br></div><br><font style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" size=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Source:</span> <a name=\"\" target=\"_blank\" classname=\"a1\" class=\"a1\" href=\"http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&amp;amp;upload_id=18866\">www.worldarchitecturenews.com</a></font><br></guid>
	<title>PaperNews: The next frontier...(20.02.2012)</title>
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	<link><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><font style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" size=\"2\"><img alt=\"Urban farming takes root in Sweden\" src=\"/files/uploads/PAPER_NEWS_393.jpg\" hspace=\"\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"\"><br><font style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" size=\"1\">Image: Plantagon. Illustration: Sweco</font><br><br>Swedish firm Plantagon broke ground last week on the first vertical greenhouse in the city of Linköping. The slanting structure was designed by Sweco, and is hoped to be the first in a series of similar volumes across the world.</font><br><br><font style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" size=\"2\">The Plantagon Greenhouse project is an initiative to provide sustainable solutions to farming in urban environments and offers a viable alternative for the use of excess heating and CO2 from nearby industries. Behind the magnificent glittering greenhouse is a theory that transportation costs will be cut by delivering the produce directly to the end users in urban areas, also reducing environmental damage.</font><br><br><img alt=\"Urban farming takes root in Sweden_2\" src=\"/files/uploads/PAPER_NEWS_394.jpg\" hspace=\"\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"\"><br><font style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" size=\"1\">Image: Plantagon. Illustration: Sweco</font><br><br><font style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" size=\"2\">Plantagon found funding through the Swedish Government’s cleantech initiative, the Delegation for Sustainable Cities in January 2011, with Hans Hassle, CEO of Plantagon International AB admitting his shock at securing the funding so close to home: “It comes as a bit of a happy surprise, as we have travelled around the world to several cities that have shown interest in our concept, and we end up starting it right here, in the Stockholm area.”</font><br><br><font style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" size=\"2\">A number of green, leafy vegetables will be grown within the crystalline shell, including White Celery Mustard, Kailaan, Osaka Purple and Oriental Saladini, as these species do not need to be harvested subsequently and therefore do not have to be bound or placed in a darkened environment for planting.</font><br><br><font style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" size=\"2\">A variety of alternative designs have also been proposed for other locations across the world including a spherical option (see thumbnails to the left). This globe encases a spiralling helix which acts as a transport mechanism moving soil-filled planting boxes upwards as the plants flourish. At the summit, the mature plants are transported to a harvesting platform to make space for younger plants to join the line at the base. The building’s spherical form maximises the potential light infiltration however Plantagon admits that this has caused costs to rise.</font><br><br><img alt=\"Urban farming takes root in Sweden_3\" src=\"/files/uploads/PAPER_NEWS_395.jpg\" hspace=\"\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"\"><br><font style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" size=\"1\">Image: Plantagon. Illustration: Sweco</font><br><br><font style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" size=\"2\">They explain: “The unusual form adds to construction expenses, but we say that the doubling or even tripling of yields, makes the structure more than competitive with traditional greenhouses or surface agriculture. With a ground footprint of 10,000 sq m, a vertical greenhouse equals 100,000 sq m of cultivated land.”</font><br><br><iframe src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/IcMgkgHxGPM\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"420\" width=\"575\"></iframe><br></div><br><font style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" size=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Source:</span> <a name=\"\" target=\"_blank\" classname=\"a1\" class=\"a1\" href=\"http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&amp;amp;upload_id=18957\">www.worldarchitecturenews.com</a></font><br></link>
	<guid isPermaLink="true"><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><font style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" size=\"2\"><img alt=\"Urban farming takes root in Sweden\" src=\"/files/uploads/PAPER_NEWS_393.jpg\" hspace=\"\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"\"><br><font style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" size=\"1\">Image: Plantagon. Illustration: Sweco</font><br><br>Swedish firm Plantagon broke ground last week on the first vertical greenhouse in the city of Linköping. The slanting structure was designed by Sweco, and is hoped to be the first in a series of similar volumes across the world.</font><br><br><font style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" size=\"2\">The Plantagon Greenhouse project is an initiative to provide sustainable solutions to farming in urban environments and offers a viable alternative for the use of excess heating and CO2 from nearby industries. Behind the magnificent glittering greenhouse is a theory that transportation costs will be cut by delivering the produce directly to the end users in urban areas, also reducing environmental damage.</font><br><br><img alt=\"Urban farming takes root in Sweden_2\" src=\"/files/uploads/PAPER_NEWS_394.jpg\" hspace=\"\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"\"><br><font style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" size=\"1\">Image: Plantagon. Illustration: Sweco</font><br><br><font style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" size=\"2\">Plantagon found funding through the Swedish Government’s cleantech initiative, the Delegation for Sustainable Cities in January 2011, with Hans Hassle, CEO of Plantagon International AB admitting his shock at securing the funding so close to home: “It comes as a bit of a happy surprise, as we have travelled around the world to several cities that have shown interest in our concept, and we end up starting it right here, in the Stockholm area.”</font><br><br><font style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" size=\"2\">A number of green, leafy vegetables will be grown within the crystalline shell, including White Celery Mustard, Kailaan, Osaka Purple and Oriental Saladini, as these species do not need to be harvested subsequently and therefore do not have to be bound or placed in a darkened environment for planting.</font><br><br><font style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" size=\"2\">A variety of alternative designs have also been proposed for other locations across the world including a spherical option (see thumbnails to the left). This globe encases a spiralling helix which acts as a transport mechanism moving soil-filled planting boxes upwards as the plants flourish. At the summit, the mature plants are transported to a harvesting platform to make space for younger plants to join the line at the base. The building’s spherical form maximises the potential light infiltration however Plantagon admits that this has caused costs to rise.</font><br><br><img alt=\"Urban farming takes root in Sweden_3\" src=\"/files/uploads/PAPER_NEWS_395.jpg\" hspace=\"\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"\"><br><font style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" size=\"1\">Image: Plantagon. Illustration: Sweco</font><br><br><font style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" size=\"2\">They explain: “The unusual form adds to construction expenses, but we say that the doubling or even tripling of yields, makes the structure more than competitive with traditional greenhouses or surface agriculture. With a ground footprint of 10,000 sq m, a vertical greenhouse equals 100,000 sq m of cultivated land.”</font><br><br><iframe src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/IcMgkgHxGPM\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"420\" width=\"575\"></iframe><br></div><br><font style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" size=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Source:</span> <a name=\"\" target=\"_blank\" classname=\"a1\" class=\"a1\" href=\"http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&amp;amp;upload_id=18957\">www.worldarchitecturenews.com</a></font><br></guid>
	<title>PaperNews: Urban farming takes root in Sweden(19.02.2012)</title>
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	<link><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><font style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-style: italic;\" size=\"2\"><img alt=\"Lebbeus Woods on Zaha Hadid’s Aquatic Center\" src=\"/files/uploads/PAPER_NEWS_392.jpg\" hspace=\"\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"\"><br><br>\" Why do I go out of my way to openly criticize Zaha Hadid’s Aquatic Center for the 2012 Olympics in London? Actually, this is a kind of love letter, the kind that begins, “Don’t you love me anymore?”</font><br style=\"font-style: italic;\"><br style=\"font-style: italic;\"><font style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-style: italic;\" size=\"2\">I feel abandoned and bereft because one the most gifted architects of my time has been reduced to wrapping such conventional programs of use in merely expressionistic forms, without letting a single ray of her genius illuminate the human condition. Am I being pretentious and overly demanding? Of course. But that’s the way disappointed lovers behave. Exaggerated emotions. Absurd demands. Anger that transgresses all reason. She has let me down, and what makes it worse is that she apparently couldn’t care less.</font><br style=\"font-style: italic;\"><br style=\"font-style: italic;\"><font style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-style: italic;\" size=\"2\">Did she ring me up and ask me what I thought the design should be? No. If she had I would certainly have told her to propose rethinking the aquatic events themselves, reconfiguring the competition pools or at least the relationship of spectator seating to them. How (it might be asked) can an architect challenge such rigid rules of a sport and the traditions surrounding it? Well, how can an architect challenge the equally entrenched conventions of how people inhabit their houses and the streets of their town or city? Simply by having a better idea. Zaha has done it before.</font><br style=\"font-style: italic;\"><br style=\"font-style: italic;\"><font style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-style: italic;\" size=\"2\">And did she consult with me about the way the Center’s form should somehow express the “fluid geometries of water in motion?” No. If she had, I would have counseled her to forget this idea, because it is too easy and obvious. Even if it could be achieved in architectural forms (which it isn’t here, because water’s fluidity is formless and boundless) it would be much more compelling to competitors and their audience to be confronted with actualities of their relationship. For example, the most interesting photograph in the suite of images presented on the blog Arthitectural is the underwater shot, where the motive power of the competitors’ choreographed arms and legs can most closely be observed.</font><br style=\"font-style: italic;\"><br style=\"font-style: italic;\"><font style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Does every work of a great talent have to reach a new peak of achievement? No, of course not. Or wait.&amp;nbsp; Maybe it has to at least aim for it. In the Aquatic Center, so prominent on the world stage just now, Zaha was obliged, I believe, to set an example measuring up to her status and, more so, to her talent. The finished design shows no signs of any such attempt. So says the dejected lover. \" </span>- <a name=\"\" target=\"_blank\" classname=\"a1\" class=\"a1\" href=\"http://lebbeuswoods.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/zahas-aquatic-center/\">Lebbeus Woods</a></font><br></div></link>
	<guid isPermaLink="true"><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><font style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-style: italic;\" size=\"2\"><img alt=\"Lebbeus Woods on Zaha Hadid’s Aquatic Center\" src=\"/files/uploads/PAPER_NEWS_392.jpg\" hspace=\"\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"\"><br><br>\" Why do I go out of my way to openly criticize Zaha Hadid’s Aquatic Center for the 2012 Olympics in London? Actually, this is a kind of love letter, the kind that begins, “Don’t you love me anymore?”</font><br style=\"font-style: italic;\"><br style=\"font-style: italic;\"><font style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-style: italic;\" size=\"2\">I feel abandoned and bereft because one the most gifted architects of my time has been reduced to wrapping such conventional programs of use in merely expressionistic forms, without letting a single ray of her genius illuminate the human condition. Am I being pretentious and overly demanding? Of course. But that’s the way disappointed lovers behave. Exaggerated emotions. Absurd demands. Anger that transgresses all reason. She has let me down, and what makes it worse is that she apparently couldn’t care less.</font><br style=\"font-style: italic;\"><br style=\"font-style: italic;\"><font style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-style: italic;\" size=\"2\">Did she ring me up and ask me what I thought the design should be? No. If she had I would certainly have told her to propose rethinking the aquatic events themselves, reconfiguring the competition pools or at least the relationship of spectator seating to them. How (it might be asked) can an architect challenge such rigid rules of a sport and the traditions surrounding it? Well, how can an architect challenge the equally entrenched conventions of how people inhabit their houses and the streets of their town or city? Simply by having a better idea. Zaha has done it before.</font><br style=\"font-style: italic;\"><br style=\"font-style: italic;\"><font style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-style: italic;\" size=\"2\">And did she consult with me about the way the Center’s form should somehow express the “fluid geometries of water in motion?” No. If she had, I would have counseled her to forget this idea, because it is too easy and obvious. Even if it could be achieved in architectural forms (which it isn’t here, because water’s fluidity is formless and boundless) it would be much more compelling to competitors and their audience to be confronted with actualities of their relationship. For example, the most interesting photograph in the suite of images presented on the blog Arthitectural is the underwater shot, where the motive power of the competitors’ choreographed arms and legs can most closely be observed.</font><br style=\"font-style: italic;\"><br style=\"font-style: italic;\"><font style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Does every work of a great talent have to reach a new peak of achievement? No, of course not. Or wait.&amp;nbsp; Maybe it has to at least aim for it. In the Aquatic Center, so prominent on the world stage just now, Zaha was obliged, I believe, to set an example measuring up to her status and, more so, to her talent. The finished design shows no signs of any such attempt. So says the dejected lover. \" </span>- <a name=\"\" target=\"_blank\" classname=\"a1\" class=\"a1\" href=\"http://lebbeuswoods.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/zahas-aquatic-center/\">Lebbeus Woods</a></font><br></div></guid>
	<title>PaperNews: Lebbeus Woods on Zaha Hadid’s Aquatic Center(18.02.2012)</title>
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	<link><div style=\"text-align: justify; font-family: Verdana;\"><font style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" size=\"2\">The series broken houses by Ofra Lapid is based on photographs of destroyed and neglected houses. However, these buildings were recreated as small, precise scale models and again photographed in the studio: a mock-ups of destruction. </font><font size=\"2\"><br><br><img alt=\"Broken Houses\" src=\"/files/uploads/PAPER_NEWS_389.jpg\" hspace=\"\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"\"><br><br><img alt=\"Broken Houses\" src=\"/files/uploads/PAPER_NEWS_390.jpg\" hspace=\"\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"\"><br></font><br><div style=\"text-align: left; font-family: Verdana;\"><font size=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><img alt=\"Broken Houses_3\" src=\"/files/uploads/PAPER_NEWS_391.jpg\" hspace=\"\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"\"><br><br>Source:</span> <a name=\"\" target=\"_blank\" classname=\"a1\" class=\"a1\" href=\"http://www.an-architecture.com/2012/02/broken-houses.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Anarchitecture+%28anArchitecture%29\">www.an-architecture.com</a></font></div></div></link>
	<guid isPermaLink="true"><div style=\"text-align: justify; font-family: Verdana;\"><font style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" size=\"2\">The series broken houses by Ofra Lapid is based on photographs of destroyed and neglected houses. However, these buildings were recreated as small, precise scale models and again photographed in the studio: a mock-ups of destruction. </font><font size=\"2\"><br><br><img alt=\"Broken Houses\" src=\"/files/uploads/PAPER_NEWS_389.jpg\" hspace=\"\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"\"><br><br><img alt=\"Broken Houses\" src=\"/files/uploads/PAPER_NEWS_390.jpg\" hspace=\"\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"\"><br></font><br><div style=\"text-align: left; font-family: Verdana;\"><font size=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><img alt=\"Broken Houses_3\" src=\"/files/uploads/PAPER_NEWS_391.jpg\" hspace=\"\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"\"><br><br>Source:</span> <a name=\"\" target=\"_blank\" classname=\"a1\" class=\"a1\" href=\"http://www.an-architecture.com/2012/02/broken-houses.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Anarchitecture+%28anArchitecture%29\">www.an-architecture.com</a></font></div></div></guid>
	<title>PaperNews: Broken Houses(07.02.2012)</title>
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		<link><p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana\"><font size=\"1\">IIT Roorkee presents before you its Annual Technical Festival Cognizance 2011, to be held on from 11 March to 13 March. Dream Cognizance-This vibrant technical festival was initiated in 2003, with an aim of providing opportunities to the student community to exercise its academic acumen and ingenuity and become a hub for ground-breaking ideas and solutions. Imagination is the beginning of creation.&amp;nbsp; - George Bernard Shaw </font></p>
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<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana\"><font size=\"1\">Scheduled to be held from 11-13 March, Cognizance will have competitions modeled to test the technical acumen, programming skills, flair for business management, quizzing expertise and mechanical intellect of the participants. With the dream of spreading its wings and expanding its reach beyond previously unseen levels, a host of new events and initiatives are being introduced this year. True to the great meaning behind its magnificent name, the Tech Fest will ensure a convergence of ideas from all around the country on a platform that shall serve as the pedestal that thrusts a Technovating Nation towards the glory road.</font></p>
<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Verdana\" size=\"1\"><span style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold\">Competition website:</span> <a class=\"a1\" href=\"http://www.cognizance.org.in/2011/departments/archi/ideaz.php\" name=\"\" target=\"_blank\" classname=\"a1\">http://www.cognizance.org.in/2011/departments/archi/ideaz.php</a></font><br></p></link>
		<guid isPermaLink="true"><p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana\"><font size=\"1\">IIT Roorkee presents before you its Annual Technical Festival Cognizance 2011, to be held on from 11 March to 13 March. Dream Cognizance-This vibrant technical festival was initiated in 2003, with an aim of providing opportunities to the student community to exercise its academic acumen and ingenuity and become a hub for ground-breaking ideas and solutions. Imagination is the beginning of creation.&amp;nbsp; - George Bernard Shaw </font></p>
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<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana\"><font size=\"1\">Scheduled to be held from 11-13 March, Cognizance will have competitions modeled to test the technical acumen, programming skills, flair for business management, quizzing expertise and mechanical intellect of the participants. With the dream of spreading its wings and expanding its reach beyond previously unseen levels, a host of new events and initiatives are being introduced this year. True to the great meaning behind its magnificent name, the Tech Fest will ensure a convergence of ideas from all around the country on a platform that shall serve as the pedestal that thrusts a Technovating Nation towards the glory road.</font></p>
<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Verdana\" size=\"1\"><span style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold\">Competition website:</span> <a class=\"a1\" href=\"http://www.cognizance.org.in/2011/departments/archi/ideaz.php\" name=\"\" target=\"_blank\" classname=\"a1\">http://www.cognizance.org.in/2011/departments/archi/ideaz.php</a></font><br></p></guid>
		<title>Competitions: IDEAZ-Paper Presentation Competition(Register: 17.02.2011 / Submit: 17.02.2011)</title>
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		<link><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><font style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" size=\"1\">A design challenge to create a pleasant and attractive playground environment which can function at the height of Israeli summer. The proposed plan must cope with the generic playground existing in most cities in Israel, which include a mostly constant variety of attractions – slides, turnabouts, swings, etc. – and provide an ecological, energy-aware and environmental solution for the entire playground, or selected parts from it.</font><br><br><font style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" size=\"1\">The design is not limited to a specific site or scale. It could address a specific existing site, or a generalized playground; it could deal with a specific attraction or a complete playground or play area; it could be based on an existing attraction or propose a new construction providing an existing function or activity.</font><font style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" size=\"1\"><br><br></font><font style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" size=\"1\">The proposed solution must address various aspects of ecological design, including the choice of eco-friendly/recycled/waste materials; energy use; the possibility of community-based construction as opposed to skilled labor; use and re-use of existing infrastructure and facilities; cost and budgetary considerations; safety. The proposed solutions will be judged according to their ability to provide solutions viable in the climate environment indicated; their feasibility; their handling of the various environmental aspects; level of complexity and required resources for their realization; their design.</font><font style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" size=\"1\"><br><br><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Competition website:</span> <a name=\"\" target=\"_blank\" classname=\"a1\" class=\"a1\" href=\"http://www.zearchitecture.com/competition.php\">http://www.zearchitecture.com/competition.php</a></font><br></div></link>
		<guid isPermaLink="true"><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><font style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" size=\"1\">A design challenge to create a pleasant and attractive playground environment which can function at the height of Israeli summer. The proposed plan must cope with the generic playground existing in most cities in Israel, which include a mostly constant variety of attractions – slides, turnabouts, swings, etc. – and provide an ecological, energy-aware and environmental solution for the entire playground, or selected parts from it.</font><br><br><font style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" size=\"1\">The design is not limited to a specific site or scale. It could address a specific existing site, or a generalized playground; it could deal with a specific attraction or a complete playground or play area; it could be based on an existing attraction or propose a new construction providing an existing function or activity.</font><font style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" size=\"1\"><br><br></font><font style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" size=\"1\">The proposed solution must address various aspects of ecological design, including the choice of eco-friendly/recycled/waste materials; energy use; the possibility of community-based construction as opposed to skilled labor; use and re-use of existing infrastructure and facilities; cost and budgetary considerations; safety. The proposed solutions will be judged according to their ability to provide solutions viable in the climate environment indicated; their feasibility; their handling of the various environmental aspects; level of complexity and required resources for their realization; their design.</font><font style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" size=\"1\"><br><br><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Competition website:</span> <a name=\"\" target=\"_blank\" classname=\"a1\" class=\"a1\" href=\"http://www.zearchitecture.com/competition.php\">http://www.zearchitecture.com/competition.php</a></font><br></div></guid>
		<title>Competitions: July August Heat: Design Challenge for Ecological Solutions for Play Environments(Register: 17.02.2011 / Submit: 06.03.2011)</title>
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		<link><div style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Verdana\" size=\"1\">Twenty + Change is a biennial exhibition and publication series dedicated to promoting emerging Canadian designers working in architecture, landscape architecture and urban design, who are pushing the boundaries of their discipline.</font><br><br><font style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Verdana\" size=\"1\">Call for Projects for Exhibition:</font><br><font style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Verdana\" size=\"1\">Canadian design practices working in architecture, landscape architecture and urban design are invited to submit projects for consideration for inclusion in the Twenty + Change 03 exhibition. Projects of all types, either theoretical or real and executed in any medium, are welcome. Projects selected will be included in a travelling exhibition and in the Twenty + Change 03 publication.</font><br><br><font style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Verdana\" size=\"1\"><span style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold\">Competition website:</span> <a class=\"a1\" href=\"http://www.twentyandchange.org/\" name=\"\" target=\"_blank\" classname=\"a1\">http://www.twentyandchange.org/</a></font><br></div><br></link>
		<guid isPermaLink="true"><div style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Verdana\" size=\"1\">Twenty + Change is a biennial exhibition and publication series dedicated to promoting emerging Canadian designers working in architecture, landscape architecture and urban design, who are pushing the boundaries of their discipline.</font><br><br><font style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Verdana\" size=\"1\">Call for Projects for Exhibition:</font><br><font style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Verdana\" size=\"1\">Canadian design practices working in architecture, landscape architecture and urban design are invited to submit projects for consideration for inclusion in the Twenty + Change 03 exhibition. Projects of all types, either theoretical or real and executed in any medium, are welcome. Projects selected will be included in a travelling exhibition and in the Twenty + Change 03 publication.</font><br><br><font style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Verdana\" size=\"1\"><span style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold\">Competition website:</span> <a class=\"a1\" href=\"http://www.twentyandchange.org/\" name=\"\" target=\"_blank\" classname=\"a1\">http://www.twentyandchange.org/</a></font><br></div><br></guid>
		<title>Competitions: Twenty + Change 03(Register: 18.02.2011 / Submit: 18.02.2011)</title>
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		<link><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><font style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" size=\"1\">NIMBUS 2011 DESIGN COMPETITION “You see things; and you say, Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say, Why not?” - George Bernard Shaw NIT Hamirpur presents As you see it- a unique design competition which will enable the students of architecture to explore and exploit the possibilities of how architecture of the future is going to transform. Here is a chance for you to let your imagination fly and design your own version of the future! THEME: The theme of the competition is A HOME IN 2035. As the name suggests, the participants are required to design a futuristic house, which • Spacing, structural and technological aspects for a future environment • environment • \"ALCHEMY-gold out of waste\" being the theme of Nimbus, the design should have a“Green” Building approach and sustainable Architecture DESIGN BRIEF: The site is to be chosen as per the participants wish, and should be an existing site. The following ideas should be incorporated in the house design: • Creative use of space (open, adaptable, flexible, movement, access, circulation, etc) • Design features that can be easily adapted to meet changing lifestyle needs. • Kitchens and bathrooms that facilitate ease of use and maintenance • Facilitates (lighting, heating, ventilation) • Enhanced functionality of indoor environment • Future proofing for appropriate renewable and low carbon technologies to be incorporated • Water efficiency initiatives. • Consideration for health, safety and security issues. SPECIFICATIONS: • Site area: 100 sqm. • Ground Coverage: Maximum 60% • Setbacks on all sides: 2m • Maximum height: 6 mtrs The details that have not been specified may be assumed. REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION: a. Site Plan b. Floor Plans c. Sections and suitable self-explanatory details d. Elevations either in the form of drawing or 3D rendering e. Brief note on concept and design approach-Not more than 200 words f. Any other suitable details or special feature of design proposal. NOTE: handmade or printed. ELIGIBILITY: Open to all undergraduate students of Architecture and Planning around the globe. TEAM COMPOSITION:MAXIMUM 02 STUDENTS<br><br><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Competition website:</span> <a name=\"\" target=\"_blank\" classname=\"a1\" class=\"a1\" href=\"http://www.archi.festnimbus.com/\">http://www.archi.festnimbus.com/</a><br></font></div></link>
		<guid isPermaLink="true"><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><font style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" size=\"1\">NIMBUS 2011 DESIGN COMPETITION “You see things; and you say, Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say, Why not?” - George Bernard Shaw NIT Hamirpur presents As you see it- a unique design competition which will enable the students of architecture to explore and exploit the possibilities of how architecture of the future is going to transform. Here is a chance for you to let your imagination fly and design your own version of the future! THEME: The theme of the competition is A HOME IN 2035. As the name suggests, the participants are required to design a futuristic house, which • Spacing, structural and technological aspects for a future environment • environment • \"ALCHEMY-gold out of waste\" being the theme of Nimbus, the design should have a“Green” Building approach and sustainable Architecture DESIGN BRIEF: The site is to be chosen as per the participants wish, and should be an existing site. The following ideas should be incorporated in the house design: • Creative use of space (open, adaptable, flexible, movement, access, circulation, etc) • Design features that can be easily adapted to meet changing lifestyle needs. • Kitchens and bathrooms that facilitate ease of use and maintenance • Facilitates (lighting, heating, ventilation) • Enhanced functionality of indoor environment • Future proofing for appropriate renewable and low carbon technologies to be incorporated • Water efficiency initiatives. • Consideration for health, safety and security issues. SPECIFICATIONS: • Site area: 100 sqm. • Ground Coverage: Maximum 60% • Setbacks on all sides: 2m • Maximum height: 6 mtrs The details that have not been specified may be assumed. REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION: a. Site Plan b. Floor Plans c. Sections and suitable self-explanatory details d. Elevations either in the form of drawing or 3D rendering e. Brief note on concept and design approach-Not more than 200 words f. Any other suitable details or special feature of design proposal. NOTE: handmade or printed. ELIGIBILITY: Open to all undergraduate students of Architecture and Planning around the globe. TEAM COMPOSITION:MAXIMUM 02 STUDENTS<br><br><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Competition website:</span> <a name=\"\" target=\"_blank\" classname=\"a1\" class=\"a1\" href=\"http://www.archi.festnimbus.com/\">http://www.archi.festnimbus.com/</a><br></font></div></guid>
		<title>Competitions: Nimbus 2011(Register: 20.02.2011 / Submit: 02.03.2011)</title>
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