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Octatube
Octatube is a company that designs, develops and constructs complex architectural structures, with an emphasis on advanced applications of glass and steel. Octatube often assists architectural firms and construction companies to realize challenging architecture. Octatube is based in Delft and unique in the Netherlands, carrying out projects in-house from design to completion. History Octatube was founded in 1983 by :nl:Mick_Eekhout, Mick Eekhout. Octatube led the field in technical developments in the high-tech architecture era between 1980 and 1995 and in the succeeding freeform or “Blobitecture, Blob” architecture period. In the first decade of Octatube's existence, the emphasis was on space frame and tent structures. This developed into the field of structural glazing. Nowadays Octatube specializes in complex glazed facades and roofs. Complex and technically demanding structural forms are a core element of Octatube’s work. Major Projects * 2014: :nl:Bestand:Gemeentemus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Market Hall (Rotterdam)
The Markthal (English language, English: Market Hall) is a residential and office building with a market hall underneath, located in Rotterdam. The building was opened on October 1, 2014, by Queen Máxima Zorreguieta, Máxima of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Netherlands. Besides the large market hall, the complex houses 228 apartments, 4,600 m2 retail, retail space, 1,600 m2 horeca and an underground 4-story multi-story car park, parking garage with a capacity of over 1200 cars. Architecture The Markthal was designed by architectural firm MVRDV. The grey Dimension stone, nature stone building has an archwise structure like a horseshoe. The building has a glass facade on both sides; these are made up of smaller glass windows. The smaller windows are mostly squared and around 1485 millimeters wide. All of these are hung around a structure of steel cables, 34 metres high and 42 metres wide, which makes it the largest glass-window cable structure in Europe. Each facade h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria & Albert Museum London
Victoria most commonly refers to: * Queen Victoria (1819–1901), Queen of the United Kingdom and Empress of India * Victoria (state), a state of Australia * Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, a provincial capital * Victoria, Seychelles, the capital city of the Seychelles * Victoria (mythology), Roman goddess of victory Victoria may also refer to: Animals and plants * ''Victoria'' (moth), a moth genus in the family Geometridae * ''Victoria'' (plant), a waterlily genus in the family Nymphaeaceae * Victoria plum, a plum cultivar * Victoria (goose), the first goose to receive a prosthetic 3D printed beak * Victoria (grape), another name for the German/Italian wine grape Trollinger Arts and entertainment Films * ''Victoria'', a Russian 1917 silent film directed by Olga Preobrazhenskaya, based on the Knut Hamsun novel * ''Victoria'' (1935 film), a German film * ''Victoria'' (1972 film), a Mexican film based on Henry James' 1880 novel ''Washington Square'' * ''Victoria'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High-tech Architecture
High-tech architecture, also known as structural expressionism, is a type of late modernist architecture that emerged in the 1970s, incorporating elements of high tech industry and technology into building design. High-tech architecture grew from the modernist style, utilizing new advances in technology and building materials. It emphasizes transparency in design and construction, seeking to communicate the underlying structure and function of a building throughout its interior and exterior. High-tech architecture makes extensive use of aluminium, steel, glass, and to a lesser extent concrete (the technology for which had developed earlier), as these materials were becoming more advanced and available in a wider variety of forms at the time the style was developing – generally, advancements in a trend towards lightness of weight. High-tech architecture focuses on creating adaptable buildings through choice of materials, internal structural elements, and programmatic design. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blobitecture
Blobitecture (from blob architecture), blobism and blobismus are terms for a movement in architecture in which buildings have an organic, amoeba-shaped building form. Though the term ''blob architecture'' was already in vogue in the mid-1990s, the word ''blobitecture'' first appeared in print in 2002, in William Safire's "On Language" column in the ''New York Times Magazine''. Though intended in the Safire article to have a derogatory meaning, the word stuck and is often used to describe buildings with curved and rounded shapes. Origins of the term "blob architecture" The term "blob" was used by the Czech-British architect Jan Kaplický for the first time for the "Blob Office Building" in London in 1986. The building was characterized by an organic, aerodynamic shape and was touted for being energy-saving. 'Blob architecture' was coined by architect Greg Lynn in 1995 in his experiments in digital design with metaball graphical software. Soon a range of architects and furniture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Van Gogh Museum
The Van Gogh Museum () is a Dutch art museum dedicated to the works of Vincent van Gogh and his contemporaries in the Museum Square in Amsterdam South, close to the Stedelijk Museum, the Rijksmuseum, and the Concertgebouw. The museum opened on 2 June 1973, Ronald de Leeuw,Introduction: the Van Gogh Museum as a National Museum, 1973–1994, ''Van Gogh Museum Journal'', 1995. Retrieved 9 July 2014. and its buildings were designed by Gerrit Rietveld and Kisho Kurokawa. The museum contains the largest collection of Van Gogh's paintings and drawings in the world. In 2017, the museum had 2.3 million visitors and was the most-visited museum in the Netherlands, and the 23rd-most-visited art museum in the world. In 2019, the Van Gogh Museum launched the ''Meet Vincent Van Gogh Experience'', a technology-driven "immersive exhibition" on Van Gogh's life and works, which has toured globally. History Unsold works Upon Vincent van Gogh's death in 1890, his work not sold fell i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cobouw
Cobouw is an independent Dutch publication for the construction industry with a website, app, and a newspaper that is published twice a week in a print run of 4700 copies and 20,000 readers. The website has an average of 275,000 users per month. Cobouw focuses primarily on decision-makers in construction and the management of (medium-sized) construction companies. In addition, the content is viewed and read by developers, suppliers, clients (municipalities, provinces, national government), and consultants. The editorial office of Cobouw and other Vakmedianet publications is located in Zeist. History 19th century From June 1, 1857, the forerunner of Cobouw was published by T.C.B. ten Hagen under the name Advertentieblad voor verkoopingen van roerende en onroerende goederen (Dutch for "Advertising sheet for sales of movable and immovable property). The magazine consisted of four pages and was published every Monday. The subscription price was four guilders per year. Initially, no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London Business School
London Business School (LBS) is a business school and a constituent college of the federal University of London. LBS was founded in 1964 and awards post-graduate degrees (Master's degree, Master's degrees in management and finance, Master of Business Administration, MBA and PhD in management, PhD). Its motto is "To have a profound impact on the way the world does business". London Business School's main campus is located at Sussex Place in London, adjacent to Regent's Park. In 2012, it expanded its teaching facilities by 70% by acquiring the Marylebone Town Hall (now The Sammy Ofer Centre), and in 2017 the neighboring Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. LBS has a secondary campus in Dubai that is dedicated to the Dubai EMBA and Executive Education. History Foundation London Business School was founded in 1964 under the name of the London Graduate School of Business Studies','' with Dr. Arthur Earle as Dean. In 1965, the school was registered as a company and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
