Archive for September, 2007

africa biogas initiative

http://www.myninjaplease.com/green/

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Click the title of this post to visit green.MNP and learn about the Africa Biogas Initiative : In May 2007 at a conference in Nairobi, Kenya an initiative was launched to begin an African biogas development program with the goal of installing two million biogas plants throughout Africa by 2020.

Posted: September 17th, 2007
at 9:18am by orangemenace


Categories: sidenote

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Photo du Jour 17.09.2007

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Municipal library of Nembro, Bergamo by Archea Associati.

Posted: September 17th, 2007
at 5:00am by orangemenace


Categories: architecture, photographie

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Moshe Safdie : Architecture Interaction

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8107286933032457139

Welcome to our latest Video Sunday! This week we’ve got a lecture form Moshe Safdie entitled Architecture Interaction, given in 2003 at UC San Diego.

Posted: September 16th, 2007
at 10:10am by orangemenace


Categories: architecture, videos

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mnp podcasts

itpc://myninjaplease.podbean.com/feed/

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A new MNP podcast is out – ‘No Sandweed’ – and should be copped immediately, because its FIRE. Just click the title of this post to have the podcast start downloading [no more pasting HTML!] in iTunes. Enjoy!

Posted: September 14th, 2007
at 8:03am by orangemenace


Categories: sidenote

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Tham & Videgård Hansson – House K

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First and foremost – linear houses are great, and I wish I had one. That fact, combined with both the simplicity of the volume [its a box] and that scale-like siding has me drooling over Tham & Videgård Hansson Arkitekter’s [of Sweden] House K [located in Stocksund, North of Stockholm].

The 285 square meter house was completed in November of 2004 – with a structure constructed of site cast concrete, finished in white plaster and white ash [interior wood details, seen below].

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While it may not look it from the boxy form of the house, the design is very much based on the site + surroundings. Placed with its long side across the property, the house breaks up the front yard from the garden in the rear [south-west] – which both encloses in the garden/back yard, and allows for the interior spaces to have the privacy needed for its large south facing openings. This positioning on the site also causes visitors to experience it almost entirely frontally when approaching, so that the house ‘appears as if just a line, a wall with a certain depth to fit in space for living’.

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The shallow block provides spaces that can introduce light from several directions. This is enhanced by the two double-heights that also guide views diagonally through the interior. The plan is simple: entrance and stairs fits into one box on ground level, a central passage on the upper floor gives access to bedrooms. The interior is one continuous space in two levels. As a result, movement through the house is characterized by visual shortcuts, spaces and activities overlap.

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All that great site work and interior space planning aside, lets get to what’s the most eye catching about the house : the stained black 18mm plywood panels [I would assume marine grade], mounted on a framework of slow-grown pine, that makes up the house’s siding. The panels vary in width, seemingly based both on the window opening and designer’s preference, which adds some more visual interest to the simple volume of the house, and the simplicity of the ’scales’ [I'm sticking with scales to describe it].
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As you can see below, the interior really is simply white plaster and white ash – used in the flooring, stairs and wainscoting.

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Funny side note – when I search Stocksund [location of house] on Wikipedia, I learned that thats where ABBA recorded the album ABBA. And now you know.

::Tham & Videgård Hansson Arkitekter – photos by Åke E:son Lindman::

::info + quotes via Arkinetia::

Posted: September 14th, 2007
at 1:41am by orangemenace


Categories: architecture, featured ninjas, housing

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Boston City Hall

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This month’s Architecture Boston features ‘Rethinking Boston City Hall’ – an article covering proposals by 6 design teams to give City Hall a much-needed makeover, and articles discussing the history of the building, and its possible future.

pinkcomma gallery will be hosting an exhibit showcasing the different proposals, which will be open this weekend – if you’re in Boston, be sure not to miss it. And if you can’t make it, check back here on Monday for MNP’s coverage of the exhibit, and my take on the City Hall / Government Center dilemma.

pinkcomma is located at 81B Wareham Street, Boston – the exhibit is open September 15-16 from 11-6 [I hope it runs longer than that, but I'm not sure].

Posted: September 14th, 2007
at 12:23am by orangemenace


Categories: architecture, events

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art day is back!!!

http://myninjaplease.com/

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You read it right – art day is back on the MNP main page [click the title of this post to follow link]. We’ll be coming at you every Friday with a collection of the illest artists we come across, so check back every week. What’re you looking at right here, you ask? Oldman.com finished by ~Dangerstorm – a STENCIL. Yeah, thats right, all that detail came from cut paper and spray paint – MYNINJAPLEASE!

Posted: September 14th, 2007
at 12:05am by orangemenace


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Fallingwater like you’ve never seen before

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Animation of FLW’s FallingWater by Cristobal Vila.
::via Eterea::

[[post by Austin]]

Posted: September 13th, 2007
at 5:05am by Arco


Categories: architecture, tech

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Public Apology

I, César, have sinned… I said I would go and get pictures of the Liquid Sky project once it was finished, but I never did. A combination of things prevented me from doing it: I volunteered for helping at the parties, but only went once (it was lame), I found the parties quite retarded (they’re during the day and people are in a pose) and a girl I met there and really liked ditched me (she hurt my ego).

Anyways you can find tons of beautiful pictures in flickr (you recognize the finished project when you see funnels that go down between the ones that go up, sorry I can’t filter it)

Nevertheless I’ve been working on another pavilion. This time for The Storefront for Art and Architecture (the place that made me join the ninja family) that is turning 25

Here’s a sneak peak…

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[[Post by César]]

::Ed. Note: While César apparently feels the need to apologize, everyone should know that nobody else here has anything but love for our ninja who’s holding it down on arquitectura.MNP. I mean, how’s he actually going to roll on three of us at Postopolis! – after my goofy/nervous comment about looking for someone to translate the page/contribute – and join the shogunate right there on the spot? Then he comes with these installations he’s working on, and drops the Ninja Arithmetic posts? My Ninja, Please – no apology necessary::

Posted: September 13th, 2007
at 5:00am by cesarcotta


Categories: architecture, installation

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blue lagoon

http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=1389

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More ridiculousness from Dubai.

Posted: September 13th, 2007
at 12:14am by orangemenace


Categories: architecture, sidenote

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