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Ready, Set, Click! (how to self picture + make up)

"<i>The perfect picture comes with practice...and a few foolproof shortcuts</i>" by Caroline D’Cruz<br>
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<b>Face away</b><br>
For the right look every time, “keep it light‚” says hair and make-up artist Anand Kaira, Delhi. “If you’re out during the day, use basic tinted lip gloss, kohl and eyeliner or mascara for the eyes and tissue to absorb excess oil and sweat if it gets too hot,” he says. “Doing up the eyes really works for the camera,” says Rohan Shrestha, Mumbai-based celebrity photographer. “The eyes do a lot of talking in pictures.” <br>
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Ready, Set, Click! (how to self picture + make up)

" The perfect picture comes with practice...and a few foolproof shortcuts " by Caroline D’Cruz Face away For the right look eve...

Structure South Australian health & medical research

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THIS NEW FACILITY, DESIGNED BY WOODS BAGOT, IS MEANT TO JUMPSTART THE STATE’S INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL SCIENCE EFFORTS AND PROVIDE THE CITY OF ADELAIDE WITH ITS OWN ARCHITECTURAL ICON.<br>
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IS IT ANY WONDER that research centers, as design challenges, tend to bring out the best in architects? From Louis Kahn’s sublime Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif., to Frank Gehry, FAIA’s ecstatic (if leaky) Stata Center at MIT in Cambridge, Mass., they have to meet complex functional requirements biomedical labs or supercomputing facilities and at the same time catalyze collaboration, innovation, and that inefable but utterly vital element in any research endeavor.</div>
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Structure South Australian health & medical research

THIS NEW FACILITY, DESIGNED BY WOODS BAGOT, IS MEANT TO JUMPSTART THE STATE’S INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL SCIENCE EFFORTS AND PROVIDE THE CITY OF...

Indochine CAFÉ (Kon Tum, Vietnam ) Bamboo ARCHITECTS

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Bamboo maybe the ultimate sustainable building material. As one of the world’s fastest-growing plants, it can sprout up to 4 inches per day depending on variety, soil, and climate. <b>Vo Trong Nghia Architects</b>’ design of the <b>Indochine Café in Kon Tum</b>, Vietnam, proves that the fast-growing grass can look sophisticated—even when it is left in its natural state.</div>
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Built in 2013 as part of a hotel complex on the Dak Bla River, the 6,000-square-foot open-air restaurant is elegant in its simplicity: 15 inverted cones made of bamboo canes rise 20 feet to create a fan vault of sorts that supports a butterfly roof, also made from bamboo. The columns are arranged in a 3-by-5 grid in the café’s 60-foot-by-100-foot plan. Each one is 20 feet in diameter at the top and tapers to 5 feet at the base, which is anchored into a concrete foundation with steel plates and bolts.<br />
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Traditional Vietnamese fish baskets served as the inspiration for the columns. Principal designer Vo Trong Nghia, founding partner of his eponymous firm in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, first worked with the material as a child, helping his family make bamboo tableware.<br />
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The challenge in designing large structures with bamboo, he says, is respecting its mechanical qualities. Bamboo is dense and hard, but it can bend into strong, curved shapes. Pound for pound, it has three to four times the tensile strength of steel, but its behavior depends on whether it is used in whole, cut in cross-sections, or laminated.<br />
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Part of the strength of each column comes from the arched geometry of its approximately 400 bamboo canes bound by rope and three steel tension rings inside each cone at 5, 10, and 15 feet above finished floor. An internal central cane bundle and four to eight diagonal cross-braces provide additional support for the roof.<br />
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Fasteners and conventional construction methods would have ruined the round-cane texture highlighted in Nghia’s design. Steel-pin joints, for instance, would generate localized point loads that would split bamboo’s hollow hardened cell walls and buckle its joints.<br />
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The 15 columns were thus prefabricated by means of low-tech joinery—mostly synthetic fiber and a few small nails. Finding structural engineers was diicult, Nghia says. “We based the design on traditional experience, but it follows logical rules of structure. And we always make a mock-up before construction, placing weights on top to test how much the bamboo bends.”<br />
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Likewise, it’s almost impossible to find contractors experienced in traditional bamboo construction techniques, even in Vietnam. For example, to prevent insect infestation, Nghia knew to soak the bamboo in mud and smoke it dry. As his firm designs more bamboo structures, he has had to hire and train his own construction teams, which now work under a subsidiary company, Wind and Water House.<br />
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In total, the café contains more than 10,000 bamboo canes, each about 5 years old and costing roughly $1 each. Harvested from Vietnam’s many forests, the bamboo bends into strong, flowing shapes that Nghia loves.</div>

Indochine CAFÉ (Kon Tum, Vietnam ) Bamboo ARCHITECTS

Bamboo maybe the ultimate sustainable building material. As one of the world’s fastest-growing plants, it can sprout up to 4 inches per day...

Heat gains hermal performance 2.0 can adapt to current and changing conditions

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In lowe manhattan, an old masinry building (which shall remain nameless) has such high thermal loads from its mechanical systems and human occupants that the air conditioning kicks on all year long—even in winter. It’s a not-uncommon phenomenon in New York and other places where masonry and early curtainwall buildings have new uses and mechanical loads but not new building envelopes. Maybe preventing heat loss in the winter is not always such a good thing?</div>
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Heat gains hermal performance 2.0 can adapt to current and changing conditions

In lowe manhattan, an old masinry building (which shall remain nameless) has such high thermal loads from its mechanical systems and human ...

Advanced Energy Design Guides (AEDG)

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Through a series of publications focused on energy optimization, four industry groups and the U.S. Department of Energy are providing guidance to help move the building industry toward market-viable net-zero energy and carbon-neutral buildings.</div>
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Advanced Energy Design Guides (AEDG)

Through a series of publications focused on energy optimization, four industry groups and the U.S. Department of Energy are providing guida...

San Francisco Skyscraper

Based firm Sasaki Associates and analytic agency Equation Research, “The State of the City Experience,” outlines the results of a survey conducted with people who live and work in one of six major U.S. cities. When San Franciscans were asked how their city should invest to improve its architectural character, 25 percent said they wanted smaller buildings (the highest percentage of any city), while 20 percent said they preferred skyscrapers and iconic buildings (also the highest percentage of any city). With multiple towers in the works there, it seems the 20 percent will have its way.<br>
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San Francisco Skyscraper

Based firm Sasaki Associates and analytic agency Equation Research, “The State of the City Experience,” outlines the results of a survey con...

4 tips financial basics for your new firm

Hanging out your shingle with high-minded design goals won’t mean much if you can’t stay in business. Even if math isn’t your strong suit, these simple suggestions can help you keep your irm inancially aloat.<br />
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<b>TIP 1:</b><br />
<b>A basic calculation that any firm needs to make is how much money a project will bring in compared to how much it will cost to do the work.</b> According to Michael Webber of Downers Grove, Ill.– based consulting firm A/E Finance, there’s a simple and time-tested rule: bill out each employee at three times what it costs to pay them and the project will make money. Webber says that upwards of 70 percent of the operating revenue of a typical architecture firm goes towards the costs of employing people.<br />
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<b>TIP 2:</b><br />
<b>Review your projects monthly to ensure they’re bringing in enough money to keep the doors open.</b> “We set an expectation for a project and we manage to that”, says Jenifer Navard, principal and director of finance at the New Orleans–based firm Eskew+Dumez+Ripple. “I balance to make sure we have enough of a mix of projects—some where we will make a more generous profit, some where we aren’t going to make as generous a profit—so that we balance out to an acceptable profit and can keep our business running.”<br />
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<b>TIP 3:</b><br />
<b>If you don’t know the basics of project management, budgeting, or labor concerns, Webber warns, you should probably find someone who does.</b> Navard suggests that it might make more economic sense to hire a financial manager, at least in the long run. “If you’re spending eight hours a week on the business of sending out invoices, doing collections, preparing deposits, or worrying about contracts,” she says, “think about that. … You could spend those eight hours doing things that bring value to your firm.”<br />
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<b>TIP 4:</b><br />
<b>Financial information doesn’t make for the most exciting reading material, which is why Navard presents her firm’s monthly income statements with graphics.</b> “The first three pages are pictures,” she says, “and then behind that is the data.” Navard uses a simple blue, green, and red system to indicate the financial health of projects. When project managers see red, they know to make adjustments. “You don’t have to get into the nitty-gritty numbers to manage your business well,” she says.

4 tips financial basics for your new firm

Hanging out your shingle with high-minded design goals won’t mean much if you can’t stay in business. Even if math isn’t your strong suit, t...