The amazing Aqua Tower is located at 211 North Columbus Drive, south of the Chicago River and very close to the Lakeshore East Park, Chicago, Illinois, USA. The building has very quickly become a true architectural design icon, since according to the viewpoint from which you look at street level and through an optical effect, the feeling that there is water in front of the building itself through the reflection of glass in the windows.

The spectacular rectangular tower has a sculptural form because of the different terraces with white wavy shapes simulating water also adorn the facade and fly in some cases up to 3.5 meters, thus using these sinuous forms terraces, each floor is totally different.

Books are one of the threads of humanity. Contributors to transmit knowledge from generation to generation, from them, build a new wisdom.

Have help to shared. The feelings of the human being, created wars, strains, affection and hatred found. Through them, you can baste the recent history from a thousand different perspectives, to plunge into the chaos of confusion.

Alicia Martín (Madrid, 1964) based his artwork on the books. Not as a writer, but as raw material for their works. Cascades of thousands of books coming out of a window and rushed into the street. Books that seem to emerge from the doldrums in the soil wall, two steady hands to break a book in two …

Using the book as a leitmotif in his work, Alicia Martin wants to highlight the informative role of the written work, but information overload in society today.

There has been limited to the sculpture, but has traveled the plastic medium from the video or photography to printmaking. His works include among others. The series of sculptures “Contemporary” “Biography,” a facility located in an old mill by the Roman bridge in Cordoba, or “Polyglot”, a video version of the labyrinth of the Minotaur computer-animated 3D, where the books dealing with the roles of Theseus, Ariadne and the Minotaur himself, lost in the maze of the Tower of Babel today.

There are many kinds of problem that you might have in your home, especially when your home gets older. One of the most common problems that many home owners have is plumbing problem. Dealing with water has never been easy. The plumbing problem can happen on the roof, wall, floor, sewer, and many other parts of your home. It can be really frustrating and stressful. If the problems are not too serious, then you can fix it by yourself. But is the problems are serious, you need to get help from the professional plumber.

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The architectural firm of Joaquin Torres, presented a project for rehabilitation and restructuring of an industrial building in Madrid, to convert it into lofts, professional offices. It has a total area of 7.602m2, with a register within a rectangle of dimensions 20.50 m, 58.50 m, with a chamfer on the sloping terrain northeast northwest with pedestrian access from surrounding streets and for vehicles. This is an existing building with all water supply facilities, drainage, electricity, so the project can only modify the internal configuration of these networks.

At the request of property, redistribution takes place inside the premises that previously existed, while respecting the existing structure, and adapting the facade of the new interior configuration, but without losing the spirit of the original building. The program consists of two basements for parking, ground floor premises and intended for access to upper floors and garages, three floors of industrial buildings of business and under-cover with the same use. Floor on floors 1, 2 and 3 and 15 local on the top floor arrange sixteen localities.

The building is divided into 7 levels:

Basement-2, in which 29 parking spaces located between 12 and 22m2 in length, with an area of common ground where is located the staircase, lobby, facilities, circulation, a second hall and a pump unit, all in 400m2. Read the rest of this entry »

Gaudi’s work could be inscribed within the modernist movement, but far exceeds the originality of their ideas and ability to break the mold and create new solutions.

Gaudi architecture, in a first time, is influenced Neo-Mudejar and eastern neomedieval even later introduced elements, but resulted in modernism, creating a personal style which emphasized their innate sense of geometry and volume. He created a new architecture based on curved lines and geometric shapes as the hyperbolic paraboloid, the form taken by the tendons between the fingers of one hand and Gaudí him into the vaults of the crypt of the Colonia Güell. The hyperboloid, the shape of the femur, used in the columns of the Sagrada Familia, or helix, the shape of the trunk of the eucalyptus used in Teresian College twisted columns.

Another key element in his work is the catenary curve, used at that time only in the construction of suspension bridges. Gaudí was first used as a common architecture. This element could be seen in the Crypt of Colonia Güell or the Holy Family and one of its main characteristics is its great strength.

Perfectly combined geometry and mathematical calculations with intuitive and elementary methods applied to architecture, so that getting get balanced forms very similar to those of nature. Read the rest of this entry »