New Building - Seacliff House

Seacliff House by Chris Elliott Architects

What makes this such a particularly AWESOME house, the fact that they created this beautiful structure with such passion! The house itself situated in Sydney, Australia has been created with curved openings in the walls that looks like gills.

These openings, previously called gills makes out the windows to bathrooms as well as bedrooms allocated in that specific area of the three-level house.

The Seacliff House is situated in the seaside suburb of Bronte overlooking the most amazing views of the ocean. The house also have a swimming pool on 2 of the floors.

The house has been dug into the site material namely limestone which makes out the exposed cave-like basement walls.

They have created a study on the roof and opens out onto a terrace, while the remaining rooftops are covered with plants and photovoltaic panels. 

Yet again an amazing thought becoming reality... something so simple can make a difference.

Love the idea and can do with some in my own home.

http://www.dezeen.com/2012/06/26/seacliff-house-by-chris-elliott-architects/

http://www.homedsgn.com/2012/07/25/seacliff-house-by-chris-elliott-architects/

New Building - The Shard

The Shard - Europe's tallest building, officially opened with a laser show in London.

The Shard (also referred to as the Shard of Glass,Shard London Bridge or the London Bridge Tower) is a skyscraper in London, England and opened on 5 July 2012.

"Just in time for the London Olympics 2012 the Shard Building stood in all its glory 309,6m high in the sky, and being the tallest building in Europe and also the second-tallest free-standing structure in the United Kingdom, after the 330-meter (1,083 ft) concrete tower at the Emley Moor transmitting station.

The Shard replaced Southwark Towers, a 24-story office block built on the site in Southwark in 1975. Renzo Piano, the Shard's architect, worked with the architectural firm Broadway Malyan during the planning stage. The tower has 72 habitable floors, with a viewing gallery and open-air observation deck – the UK's highest – on the 72nd floor, at a height of 245 metres (804 ft). The Shard was designed with an irregular pyramidal shape from the base to the top, and is clad entirely in glass. Its structure was completed in April 2012."   

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shard

"Twelve lasers and 30 searchlights lit up the night sky, to celebrate the external completion of The Shard - the tallest building in Europe. Green lasers and streams of light stretched out from the 95 story building - which is 1,016ft high / 309,6m - on London's Southbank."

"The lasers reached across to landmarks including the London Eye, the Gherkin and Tower Bridge

The show, observed by the Duke of York and the Qatari prime minister, was the finale to The Shard's inauguration celebration. The display was set to two pieces of classical music, performed live by the London Philharmonic Orchestra."

"The building is owned by LBQ Limited, comprising the State of Qatar (the majority shareholder) and Sellar Property Group, with non-equity funding by Qatar National Bank.

"The building is made up of 11,000 glass panels. The finished building provides 31.4 acres of space. There are 44 lifts and eight escalators to transport people to the 72 occupiable floors. The Shard is illuminated against the night sky and creates an incredible picture."

Slog blog 1

Hey everyone,

First "SLOG BLOG"-JUST AN "ON THE WAY" BLOG TO LET YOU KNOW I'M STILL HERE!

Thank you so much for following my blog. It is just amazing to see how many people shares the same interest. This has also given me the opportunity to communicate with the 'industry'; architects, builders, technologists, designers and way more than I expected!

At the same time this has given me the opportunity to grow in a field I have great passion for = Research!

From a little holiday I am now returning and promise to start updating the blog as soon as possible.

I would like to see if I can't get some new products on the line to feature them so keep on following and if you want to make comments, please feel free to do so.

Questions are welcome as well as new Post Ideas... 

You can also reach me on trasee.s@gmail.com

Take care and happy blogging you all!

New design idea - The Sea Orbiter

Is it a boat or is it a floating building? ...

“French architect Jacques Rougerie has designed a cross between a skyscraper and a boat for exploring the unchartered territories of the earth’s oceans.” – This was the first part of the interesting paragraph that kept me hooked like a fish on a line.

This proposed vessel is called the “Sea Orbiter”. This is a creation that is meant to accommodate a random number between 18 – 22 researchers that would be able to spend 24h a day underwater.

This design has been clearly thought through as there are more to this multi-functional structure as what the eye can see. As mentioned in an article: “Marine scientists will use the facilities to study relationships between the seas and the earth’s climate, while archaeologists will be able to further explore ancient shipwrecks and astronauts will be able to use the pressurised environments to simulate the experience of being in space.”

Also stated was that this 58-metre-high “boat structure” will be constructed from recycled aluminium and weigh approx. 500 tons. It has been designed to move with the oceans currents but also harvests its energy from the sun, wind and waves to propel it when necessary.

An Amazing 30 year research and technology; done by a team also known as the “Human Adventure Dedicated to Men and the Planet”. All the credit goes to the designer himself as this is once again an amazing addition to the technology of today.

Read more about this awesome design and the process of how they got to the end result at:

http://earthsky.org/earth/seaorbiter-construction-to-begin-october-2012