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Just…Do It

SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute

Fourteen years after Hong Kong was promised a purpose-built cultural district the site of the project in West Kowloon remains a blank canvass but the new Chief Executive, Michael Lynch, has promised to break through the inertia and make the dream a reality.

Field Of Eames

SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute

There are few people who have had greater impact on the way we live than Charles and Ray Eames. Their chairs and houses did for furniture and architecture what Steve Jobs did for the computers. The first exhibition of their life and work took place this autumn at the HKDI and it has helped to spark a global reappraisal of the couple's contribution to modern design.

World Environment Day

SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute

…Architectural installation at the World Environment Day in Tamar Park…

Miami A City Reborn

SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute

From Art Deco to Deconstructionism, Miami has long been a centre for architectural design. We look at its history and the architects planning its future.

Interior Intelligence

SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute

In celebration of World Interiors Day, HKDI held a series of seminars with prominent interior designers and a workshop to promote this year's theme of intelligence.

In The Frame

SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute

A sneak peak at what's to come at the HKDI this autumn.

Play On

SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute

Music lab is the work of Higher Diploma in Interior Design student, Forest Lai Yip Lam, and pays tribute to the Hong Kong music Industry…

Building The Revolution

SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute

A collection of pre-crafted houses and pavilions, created by the world's best architects, designers and artists, forms Revolution. We look at this epic collection and its creators.

Talking About My Regeneration

SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute

Benedetta Tagliabue is one of the founding partners of EMBT, the architecture firm renowned for its urban regeneration work. She speaks to SIGNED about her projects and the exhibition at HKDI.

Innovation Explorers

SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute

A group of Masters students in architecture from Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (KADK) spent three weeks in the extreme colds of the Arctic to try out their innovative prototypes. The results are astounding.

Back To The Future

SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute

The unique urban regeneration style of Spanish architecture firm EMBT is showing how to make the old into the new. For many architects the goal is to build something new, for Miralles it was about regenerating the old.

Help-To-Buy Scheme Is Detached From How We Really Live, Lorcan Sirr

Media

The government’s help-tobuy scheme, announced in the budget, was rightfully criticised by many people. Various ministers seemed a little surprised, if not a bit tetchy, that fewpeople had rowed in behind their latest genius wheeze. In research carried out by Davy stockbrokers and the property website myhome.ie, even firsttime buyers did not expect a helpto- buy scheme (people are not too easily schmoozed these days). Two other things flew under the radar when the proposal was announced. First, the silence from retail banks was deafening, which was strange given the allegedly positive response from the Central Bank. It nowlooks as …

Antonyms And Synonyms In Relation To The Buildings Performance, Binak Beqaj, Blerta Vula Rizvanolli, Gent Hasimja

UBT International Conference

The facade is a representative element of a building which may faces the roads or public spaces. It is essential that the facade is correctly built because it directly influences the performance of the building.

Unesco World Heritage And Kosovo Towards A Tentative List For Kosovo, Caroline Jaeger Klein

UBT International Conference

In 2015, Kosovo tried to join UNESCO and failed by three quotes. Is Kosovo ready for its UNESCO membership? At least for its national architectural heritage, this question is to answer with no. The intensively discussed issue of the medieval monuments of Kosovo inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage by Serbia and Montenegro before the declaration of independency in 2008 and their further management through Kosovo is just one aspect. More troubling is that the rather young state not yet could establish sufficient structures to gain a systematic inventory of its monuments, sites and historic ensembles, nor to extract a tentative …

An Evaluation On Applications Of Sustainable Approaches In Condominiums, Nida Yildirim

UBT International Conference

Nowadays, as the result of the damage caused by building sector to the environment and with increased depletion of natural resources, sustainable architecture has required to be an integral part of the construction industry. To prevent unhealthy construction and to increase the number of sustainable or green buildings in terms of the environment, there were established several sustainable building rating systems. These sustainable building rating systems, while maintaining human health and comfort, also try to decrease the damage of the environment to a lower level. However, rating systems have specific criteria depending on their countries climate and culture. Therefore, these …

From Asclepius To Ospedale - The Evolution Of Space For Healing From Antiquity To The Age Of Enlightenment, Nuran Saliu, Andrea Maliqari, Kujtim Elezi, Ulvie Memedi Usejni

UBT International Conference

In the construction industry, where in recent times every detail is looked over and planned with the most scientific and technological responsibility, hospitals represent the most investigated and scrutinized facilities.

Related closely with institutional and medical practices, hospital design has undergone many reconfigurations. The second half of the past century experienced and produced many hospital models (L, H, T, K type, Patients Tower, Block Plan, etc.), all with the same denominator – too big, isolated and highly complex structures, strictly opposed to nature, oriented towards medical technology rather than patient’s well-being.

By the end of the twentieth century, a group …

Professional Access Of Woodworking Engineers To The Labor Market, Ramadan Topuzi, Arben Bejtja, Leonidha Peri

UBT International Conference

In the Wood Industry Department at Agricultural University of Tirana, wood processing engineers have been graduating for years. Faculty performs its mission through trainings provided for the student during the learning process and practice until his graduation. This is considered as the fulfillment of institutional responsibility as there is no possibility of their employment management. The private sector constitutes real employment opportunities for Wood Processing engineers in Albania. The wood industry in Albania (after '90) was transformed from a centralized industry to free enterprise. Today it is mainly organized in small to medium enterprises, which produce and trade furniture and …

Legislative Framework Conflicts And Their Impact In Generating The Phenomena Of Coastalization In Albania, Doriana Musaj

UBT International Conference

This paper argues about the legislative and institutional overlapping in managing the territory of Golem area (and country level) and the consequences that these conflicts have in generating the coastalization phenomena.

This research seeks to discover the relationship between land tenure systems, urban planning, sustainable tourism in terms of legislative framework and policies. In order to understand the past, to approach the present and to plan the future development of sustainable tourism in the coastal areas.

Failure to clarify the ownership of securities, non-implementation of planning instruments or territory management, non-implementation of property laws etc. has bring consequences in the …

Cultural Spaces Research On Architecture And Identity, Ulrike Herbig

UBT International Conference

Architecture is the result of a multilayered process influenced by numerous factors. Thus, comprehensive architectural research can only be achieved through a holistic approach and in collaboration with experts from different disciplines. Although interdisciplinary research is a common framework for architectural studies and should be an integral part of the education for future architects, yet, this is not usually the case. With its module entitled “Cultural Spaces – Research on Architecture and Identity” at the TU Wien, a set of courses has been developed to arouse the interest of students of architecture in setting up their own research project. This …

Daily Migration As Indicator To Defining Functional Urban Region – Case Of Prishtina, Elvida Pallaska

UBT International Conference

Cities and metropolitan areas are major contributors to national economies and play a key role as nodes in global markets. Moreover, at a time of deepening globalisation and increasing international competition for investment, metropolitan regions have become the targets of a wide range of public interventions.

Evaluation of existing and future potentials, role and function of Prishtina as capital city vs its region- neighboring cities (Fushw Kosove, Kastriot, Lipjan and Podujeve), with the capital infrastructure resources, functions and management, classification and definition of its commuting zone from the perspective of its daily migration as per OECD criteria.

Definition of the …