Exuberance,I Don't Know; Excess,I Like

Hernan Diaz Alonso redefines ‘excess’ and ‘exuberance’ on his own terms. Fully au fait and comfortable with the excessive, he describes how in relation to his own work he views excess as more of a tendency or a logic, which sums up his approach; whereas he perceives the exuberant as removed from the design process and more like an ‘adjective’, an ‘emerging quality’ observed by others. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Not Doing/Overdoing: ‘Omission’ and ‘Excess’ – Lacaton & Vassal's Place Léon Aucoc,Bordeaux, and Construire's Le Channel,Scène Nationale de Calais,Calais

Is there any allegiance between the formal and the transgressive? Here architectural author and educator Robin Wilson explores two French projects by Lacaton & Vassal and Construire: the former being as pared back as the latter is exuberant. He investigates how despite the great variance in their aesthetic impact, they share ‘transgressive positions and a questioning approach to architectural production’.     

Exuberant Couture

Is the exuberant confined to architecture? Judith Clark , curator and lecturer in the history and theory of fashion, looks into the sartorial equivalent of digital exuberance. She describes how exuberance in fashion is largely performance-based expressed on the catwalk, as epitomised by Hussein Chalayan's dramatic staging of his shows. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

My Favorite Teacher

<正>Mr.Wang is my favorite teacher.English is my favorite subject.I like English the best.Mr.Wang looks very thin and tall,but~①he is outgoing and humorous.His class is very interesting and lively.We all like English class.Once he asked me to go to his office,for my English is poor.He let me sit in his     

中西古建筑的典型性特点研究

纵观当今世界发展的趋势,中国和西方两大势力是最具有活力和发展的政治、经济、文化主体,中国通过20年左右的改革,发展的趋势直追西方发达国家,在这些年的发展成就中最具有代表的是建筑业的发展,一栋栋高楼拔地而起,让西方世界目瞪口呆。但是我们发现建筑形式还是以西方美学形式主导我们的建筑。具有中国文化特色的精品建筑少之又少,最具有代表和经典的现代建筑并具有中国文化特征的建筑是北京香山饭店。其设计师是具有中国文化背景的美国华裔建筑师贝聿铭,还有几个代表作中国建筑大师戴念慈设计的北京饭店等作品,让我们看见的具有民族亲和力的作品比较少,所以我们必须了解中西古建筑的一些文化特征,作为我们建筑设计的参考,从中汲取美学、文化元素是作为一个建筑师应具备的文化内涵。     

房地产投资信托风险管理

通过阐述国内外房地产投资信托的现状,分析了国内发展房地产投资信托存在的风险,如税收优惠过低、法律法规不完善、房产所有权欺诈、行业自身因素影响等风险,并从政府及信托公司角度探讨了加强房地产投资信托风险管理的措施,以推动其健康发展.     

纽约的水族馆综合建筑

该项目建在著名的康尼岛散步道（Coney Island Boardwalk）旁，毗邻康尼岛游乐公园，坐落在纽约水族大世界内。原来的水族馆具备多种展出空间，出展的历史已超过50年，其内容的丰富多样足以和一个小型世界博览会相媲美。该项目表达了它自己的设计宗旨--既要作为附加建筑，也要也为这个综合建筑的另一个焦点。新水族馆增加了另一种独特的表现手法，在作为许多空间序列中的不和谐因素的同时，强调整体的空间体验。而且场地规划的目标是让新水族馆与周围的建筑建立完美一致的关系。     

从波茨坦广场看德国现代建筑发展

在波茨坦广场众多的建筑中,新国家美术馆、柏林爱乐音乐厅和索尼中心犹如三颗耀眼的明星,它们的存在记录着德国现代主义建筑的发展过程。当这三栋建筑同时屹立在波茨坦广场的时候,仿佛可以看到,历经一个多世纪的现代主义建筑风格经过演变和发展依然具有旺盛的生命力。     

逝--边缘渐没的20年

介绍刚刚在加拿大卡尔加里第40届IFLA国际园林风景大学生设计竞赛获得大奖的方案，构思完形过程和主要设计内容。该方案以大昌古镇为三峡地区的代表点，展示处于消失边缘的古城在三峡蓄水20年间逐渐湮没的景观过程，探索除拆除和搬迁外的另一种在三峡地区具有普遍意义的景观延续模式。将一道锐利边缘转化为生长的、持续的、温和的变化过程，让处于毁灭的边缘成为新生长的起点，在这个20年间将构成新的一段历史。     

地域文化背景下的景观建筑学探讨

本文从不同地域文化出发,探讨了景观建筑学。文章认为,在当前的大背景下,景观建筑学要注重各个地区自身的文化特色,将其融入到设计理念中,从而设计出让公众有认同感和归属感并且拥有旺盛生命力的景观建筑。     

Difficult to Let Housing Association Stock in England: Property,Management and Context

Problems related to unpopular housing are not new in Britain's social rented sector. In the past, however, these have generally been associated with housing provided directly by the state through local authorities. For many, the term 'difficult to let' has become synonymous with large, ageing, poor quality estates managed under a centralised framework and subject to a long period of low investment and indifferent management. There has also been a long-standing assumption that social housing allocations systems tend to channel the most vulnerable tenants into the least desirable housing. In fact, the problem of difficult to let property is now as pervasive in the not-for-profit sector managed by housing associations as it is within council housing. In many cases the developments affected are small in scale and, in a significant proportion of cases, recently constructed. In explaining why property becomes difficult to let, the local and regional context is clearly important. The balance between social, economic and housing demand circumstances and property and estate characteristics varies between regions. There is relatively little evidence that difficult to let housing association properties are occupied by disproportionate numbers of the most severely disadvantaged tenants and this suggests that something has happened to modify the segregating effects of allocations systems observed in earlier studies. Nevertheless, this apparent change must be seen within the context of the general trend towards a residual role for social housing in its entirety. The social class and income range of new social sector tenants now is much diminished by comparison with earlier decades with few distinctions between the occupiers of difficult to let and other housing.     

Concept of adaptability in space modules

The space program is aiming towards the permanent use of space; to build and establish an orbital space station, a Moon base and depart to Mars and beyond. We must look after the total independency from the Earth's natural resources and work in the design of a modular space base in which each module is capable of duplicating one natural process, and that all these modules in combination take us to conceive a space base capable of sustaining life. Every area of human knowledge must be involved. This modular concept will let us see other space goals as extensions of the primary project. The basic technology has to be defined, then relatively minor adjustments will let us reach new objectives such as a first approach for a lunar base and for a Mars manned mission. This concept aims towards an open technology in which standards and recommendations will be created to assemble huge space bases and spaceships from specific modules that perform certain functions, that in combination will let us reach the status of permanent use and exploration of space.     

极简艺术——极大乐趣

24个充气玩具和15个方形泡沫橡胶块，均为粉色和淡粉色，散卧在草地上，踏轮，圆环，配套的充气棒，大大小小的球，两个大充气垫，它们色彩鲜艳，常心悦目，吸引小玩童们到马场旁边的草地上玩耍，     

Seeing syncretism as visual blasphemy: critical eyes on caodai religious architecture

ABSTRACT

The exuberant, eclectic architecture of the Caodai Holy See in French Indochina was described as a “grotesque combination” of European and Asian elements by several famous writers and this sense of horror served to construct a notion of “visual blasphemy” which merged aesthetic and ethical elements. Architecture is always read and misread though a cultural lens. It has been argued that the colonial “world as staged” (Mitchell 1999) produced its own “reality-effects,” so I argue that an anti-colonial counter project of large public works tied to an innovative Asian synthesis of world religions served not only to bolster the morale of a once downtrodden people but also to convince them of the historical inevitability of their triumph. Caodaism was a new religious movement followed by 3 million people in French Indochina and its daring and “presumptuous” architecture was a visual act of insurrection, an iconographic revolution designed to precede and prepare the way for the political revolution to follow.     

紧凑新城镇--节能省地与可持续发展之路

21世纪的中国面临着空前的发展机遇,也面临着人口、能源与资源、生态环境、城市化、各地发展不均衡以及三农等诸多问题的严重挑战.大力发展紧凑新城镇,是实现节能省地与可持续发展战略目标的有效途径.我们提出的紧凑新城镇发展模式,旨在倡导越来越多有实力的企业参与到解决中国城市化问题中来,让从事传统房地产开发的企业以人居环境资源节约为重点的视角参与城市创新,参与建设节能省地城市,构建和谐社会.     

创新城市管线信息系统动态管理的新模式

城市地下管线信息系统能否保持旺盛的生命力,关键在于能否建立全新的动态管理机制。焦作市地下管线动态管理信息系统在全国率先建立了由政府主导、公司运作、部门应用（建设、更新、维护、管理）的全新模式,在地下管线普查及信息系统建立后,使地下管线的数据报送、更新、共享实现了良性循环,提高了数据的现势性。全天候保证跟踪新增管线的竣工测量,修测补测数字地形图及相关信息,始终保证管线更新数据的实时入库,始终保证整个系统长期、有效、动态建设和应用的可持续发展的新机制、新模式。     

哈尔滨新艺术运动建筑研究

新艺术运动在19世纪末兴起于欧洲,并随着中东铁路的修筑由俄罗斯建筑师从欧洲传至中东铁路沿线城镇及哈尔滨,留下了大量新艺术运动建筑。本文详尽地介绍和分析了新艺术运动建筑在哈尔滨产生的历史根源及其独特的表现形态和旺盛的生命力。并认为这一思潮的出现,使哈尔滨成为近代中国最早接受西方现代建筑而具有厚重历史文化积淀的城市。     

The risks of unbalanced bidding

Unbalanced bidding models have largely ignored the risk aspect of item pricing. Many researchers have acknowledged that there are considerable risks associated with unbalancing a bid but little has been done to describe these risks, let alone model them. A new framework is proposed by which all of these risks can be assessed. It identifies that these risks comprise the risk of rejection, the risk of reaction, and the risk of being wrong. It is further proposed that the value‐at‐risk (‘VaR’) method of measuring risk is a convenient way by which to combine all of these risks into one composite assessment. This quantified assessment serves to describe the extent of risk generated by each level of each item’s price. Previous related research has proposed an unbalanced bidding model that has likewise provided a measurement of the expected reward generated by each level of each item’s price. By doing a summation of these, keeping in mind that the prices applied to all of a project’s component items must add up to the overall bid price, the contractor is able to assess both the risks as well as the rewards of all possible item price combinations.     

Gill and head kidney antioxidant processes and innate immune system responses of yellow perch (Perca flavescens) exposed to different contaminants in the St. Lawrence River, Canada

Biomarkers of oxidative stress metabolism and the innate immune response were examined in gill and head kidney tissue of wild-caught yellow perch (Perca flavescens) collected from four sites ranging in type and degree of metal pollution in the St. Lawrence River, Quebec, Canada. Sites were ranked as follows: Île Dorval < Îles aux Sables < Îlet Vert < Beauharnois. Biomarker measurements did not correspond completely to the perceived pollution gradient. Total protein content was highest at a site 4 km downstream of municipal effluents (Îlet Vert) exposed to moderate and high levels of heavy metals and faecal coliforms, respectively. Thiol content was highest at the reference site (Île Dorval) with the lowest contaminant levels. Glutathione-S-transferase (GST) activity was highest in fish from the site furthest downstream that was exposed to moderate metal contamination (Îles aux Sables). Glutathione reductase (GRd) activity was high in both gill and head kidney tissue of fish from the reference site (Île Dorval) and highest in the kidney of fish from the most contaminated site (Beauharnois). Catalase activity was highest in head kidney tissue in fish from this latter site. Ceruloplasmin activity was lowest in head kidney from fish collected at the reference site and highest at Beauharnois. Lysozyme activity was lowest in head kidney tissue from fish at the reference site and highest in tissue from fish at Îlet Vert, downstream of municipal effluents. These results suggest that the direction and magnitude of oxidative stress biomarker response and innate immune function biomarker response vary between tissues and among complex mixtures of contaminants, complicating interpretation of results. Results further suggest that bacterial loading, as measured by faecal coliforms, affects the oxidative stress metabolism and the innate immune response.     

工业的力量--中山歧江公园规划设计：一个打破常规的公园设计

美国《景观设计学》杂志2003年6月发表了特约撰稿人Mary G.Padua教授的文章，对获2002年全美景观设计年度荣誉奖的俞孔坚教授及北京土人景观规划设计研究所设计的广东中山岐江公园，进行了较全面的评介，认为这个在旧造船厂上设计的公园，保留造船厂的废旧设备及周围的自然植被，对旧船厂进行了产业用地再生设计，使岐江河岸的水—生物—人得以在一个边缘生态环境中相融共生，歧江公园用现代创新设计语言，讲述了中国近现代工业化历程。