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The King Hamad General Hospital photo
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The jewel of traditional Bahraini architecture The Shaikh Isa Bin Ali Al Khalifa House, more photos in the
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Fresh photographs reflecting the completion status of the Bahrain National Theatre project have been added to the
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The project involves construction of a 5-star hotel comprising a basement level, a ground floor and 14 additional floors offering 323 rooms. Facilities in the project will include: 5 restaurants, cafe's, lounges, a 1, 500 square metre conference centre, a poolside bar, a health club, a swimming pool and a private beach area.
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From the album: Renaissance Hotel - Amwaj Island
© Martin Svitak
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From the album: Renaissance Hotel - Amwaj Island
© Martin Svitak
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From the album: Renaissance Hotel - Amwaj Island
© Martin Svitak
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From the album: Renaissance Hotel - Amwaj Island
© Martin Svitak
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From the album: Renaissance Hotel - Amwaj Island
© Martin Svitak
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From the album: The Bahrain National Theatre
© Martin Svitak
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From the album: The Bahrain National Theatre
© Martin Svitak
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The Bahrain National Museum is the largest and one of the oldest museums in Bahrain. It is constructed near the King Faisal Highway in Manama and opened in December 1988. The museum complex covers 27,800 sq meters and consists of two buildings. The museum possesses a rich collection of Bahrain's ancient archaeologyical artefacts acquired since 1988, and covers 6000 years of Bahrain's history. This US$30 million complex includes three halls devoted to archaeology and the ancient civilisation of the Dilmun, while two other halls depict the culture and lifestyle of Bahrain's recent pre-industrial past. (Wikipedia)
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From the album: The Bahrain National Museum
© Martin Svitak
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From the album: The Bahrain National Museum
© Martin Svitak
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In this post I would like to share with you the process of creation of the Bahrain World Trade Centre I have taken with my Sigma DP1x camera in autumn 2011. I am in no means a professional photographer and the below recipe is just to introduce some methods which I have come across and which you may find useful, I will be very much looking forward to your comments and ideas! The iconic Bahrain World Trade Centre twin towers are located on the northern bank of Manama overlooking the Persian Gulf sea as the main dominant of the Manama skyline. In one ow my walks I have taken this photograph with my compact Sigma DP1x digital camera. I had no tripod at the time and was rather experimenting with finding different interesting views for photographing the skyline. The photograph was taken at around 5:30pm before the sun set which is the only time when the sun can reflect on the facade of the towers to further render interesting texture of the sea waves. For its unique chip structure (no Bayer mask) the camera has I use it every time i need to achieve the sharpest possible image and line rendition. Tho photograph was shot in RAW format which enables later loss-less fine tuning of the exposition values, color balance and other attribute of the photograph. 1. Processing in SIGMA Photo Pro 5 The SIGMA Photo Pro 5 is the native post processing application provided by SIGMA for fine tuning the RAW and JPEG files captured by SIGMA cameras. When opened in the application the photograph looked like shown on the left image. While it appeared to have the correct exposure, my intention for the further use was to have it a bit lighter, and so here we have the second photograph for which I have increased the exposure value by +0.9 EV. While I had found the composition and the texture of the photograph quite interesting I wanted to reduce the colour information as it wasn't in my opinion contributing to the overall atmosphere. I had the feeling the colour information is forcing us to stay in this reality preventing us to start dreaming about the sea and the sky and the mankind's desires to reach it. Be converting the photograph to a monochrome scale I was expecting it to start talking to us solely by the means of the its composition and the game of lights and shadows and its texture. While the middle photograph indicates the result after converting the color scale to a monochrome scale, I have also created 2 additional black-and-white versions of which one was underexposed by 1 EV (on the left) and one was overexposed by 1 EV (on the right). This was necessary for further processing in the HDR software I was intended to use in the next step. Just a reminder - unlike with JPEGs the change of the exposition values in RAW format enables us to control the exposition without losing the pixel information. Further, working with RAW format enables us to create the EV bracketing from a single file, benefit of which is no need of use of a tripod at the time of taking a photograph. Another benefit is the elimination of loss of sharpness when aligning the resulting photographs for HDR processing. 3. Rendering in Photomatix Pro 4.0 Photomatix is an HDR application which enables additional postprocessing of photographs. It controls not only many important parameters of the photographs, it also provides a control over composing HDR photographs as well as additional rendering of their details. For the purpose of this photographs I wished to render some interesting texture to the sea surface and use the HDR function to brighten the high contrast photograph and to give it some additional surreal character. I have imported the above 3 BW photographs into the application in a batch, asking the software to combine them using the Tone Mapping method, specifically the BW Enhancer preset. I have further adjusted the White Point, Black Point and Gamma to achieve the brightness and contrast matching my taste. When satisfied I let the software render the whole result in high resolution TIFF which looked like this (resized). 4. ACDSee to add the GPS information While I was almost satisfied with the result I needed to add the GPS information into its TIFF's EXIF header so that it could be used later by various online applications, such as our Ideon Gallery which are capable of displaying the location the photo was taken from on a map. To achieve this I opened the file in the ACDSee Pro 5 application which enables addition of the GPS information with extreme ease by simple dragging and dropping the files to a map. I prefer using this post processing method to enabling the in-built camera GPS function as it prevents significant draining of the camera's batteries. 5. Photoshop CS6 for layers The last thing I needed to add to the photograph was the Caption and the Copyright layers, which would not only provide a title to the photograph but, once circulated, it would also enable users to be navigated back to its source of origin at Ideon.cz. In Photoshop I added several layers with the text and the logo and I positioned them symmetrically at the bottom of the page so as to support the existing composition. In Photoshop (although this was done at the very beginning of the process). I have also rectified the geometry of the photograph so that the verticals were really vertical, the photograph was also cropped with precision so that the WTC towers were aligned with the absolute vertical axis of the format. Before flattening the layers I have also added fine sharpening touch to the photograph. 6. The resulting photo
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ART. 1 THE AIMS OF THE COMPETITION The Trieste Contemporanea Committee publishes the tenth edition of the International Design Competition with the aim of showcasing the most original design offerings from the countries of Central Eastern Europe. The initiative is sponsored by the Central European Initiative (CEI). ART. 2 THEME OF THE 2012 COMPETITION In a saturated consumer market where design is everywhere (and nowhere) there are objects from the recent past whose traces are being lost. They are anonymous or everyday objects, on a small scale or mass production. The aim is to build a large memory atlas dedicated to the anonymous design of the countries of Central Eastern Europe, therefore in this year’s competition, participants are asked to identify an object from the collective memory, which demonstrates design skill, it can be simple or complex as long as it is meaningful. The object could be a household tool or alternatively professional equipment or small objects for building. Once the participants have singled out their object they must photograph it on a white backdrop, outline in writing a brief history, comment on the motivations behind the choice and then proceed onto a reuse and redefinition project, which could take shape in a ready-made project or simply a change of function. ART. 3 CRITERIA FOR PARTICIPATION The competition is open to all designers born in CEI Member States (Albania, Austria, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Serbia, Slovenia and Ukraine) as well as Estonia, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania and Turkey. The potential groups should only comprise participants born in the countries listed above. Every participant should submit: - 3 photographs of the object on a white backdrop (JPG or PDF format, minimum resolution 300 dpi); - a text outlining the story of the object (maximum 800 characters); - a text accounting for its selection and explaining the new project (maximum 800 characters); - the new project presented for the competition that must be original and composted of no more than 3 plates in jpg or pdf format, minimum resolution 300 dpi (freehand design, cad, rendering, etc…) The project should contain all the necessary elements to execute the object. ART. 4 TERMS OF PARTICIPATION AND DEADLINE Participation in the competition is free. Prospective participants should register using the online form on the webpage www.triestecontemporanea.it. The online application form should be filled out in full in English or Italian and the submitted project must comply with the specified terms. The groups wishing to participate should fill out the form with the name of the head of the group and list the names and countries of birth of the other group members. The application and attached project – complete with the material described in ART. 3 together with an ID document – must be presented by midnight (Italian time) of the 31st May 2012. All the requested materials should be included directly in the application form. Projects submitted to the committee via alternative application systems will not be accepted. Designers selected by the jury will be notified after the jury have completed their task, estimated by the end of September, and they will be able to submit any final pieces useful to the integration of their project (prototypes, images or videos of real or digital prototypes, etc) in line with deadlines and terms, which will be communicated with those selected directly. ART. 5 CONFIDENTIALITY AND RIGHTS OF USE All material submitted will be treated as strictly confidential and under no circumstances handed over to third parties, namely anybody external to the judging commission, before the close of the competition. The same confidentiality should be upheld by the selected competitors until the official publication of the results from the organizing body. The Committee reserves the right to publish in an online catalogue the documentation of the competition and the projects of the selected participants and winners. If a contestant wishes to protect their work by applying for copyright or a patent registration, they may do so before displaying their work in the competition. ART. 6 EXAMINING COMMISSION AND EVALUATION CRITERIA The jury will be headed by Gillo Dorfles and comprise international experts and representatives from CEI and the Trieste Contemporanea. It will convene in the month of June 2012 and will evaluate the projects in the competition according to the following criteria: 1. Originality and depth of research in the study of the memory object; 2. Creation and innovation of the reuse proposal; 3. Completion and clarity in presentation of the work submitted. ART. 7 SELECTED PROJECTS AND PRIZES - SELECTED PROJECTS: the jury will select a number of works which will be shown in an exhibition in Trieste and published in the online catalogue provided. - BEBA PRIZE for the youngest designer among those selected: 1000 Euros. - CEI PRIZE for the best designer from one of the CEI countries not an EU member: 3000 Euros. - GILLO DORFLES PRIZE – TRIESTE CONTEMPORANEA DESIGN 2012 for the best project: 4000 Euros. ART. 8 REALIZATION OF THE SELECTED PROJECTS In the eventuality that Trieste Contemporanea wishes to realize the three winning projects of the respective prizes, it will inform the winners immediately. They will in turn be invited to assist in the execution of their work. The final objects will remain the property of Trieste Contemporanea. ART. 9 PUBLICATION OF THE COMPETITION RESULTS The competition results will be accessible online at www.triestecontemporanea.it from the month of July 2012. The catalogue will be published online together with the opening of the final exhibition. The results of the exhibition will also be made public by the Committee through the international media and press. ART. 10 PARTICIPATION HORS CONCOURS The organizers reserve the right to invite a number of designers to take on the 2012 theme hors concours and to exhibit in the scheduled exhibitions. ART. 11 EXHIBITION OF THE SELECTED AND WINNING PROJECTS All the selected and winning projects as well as those presented by the designers invited hors concours, will be exhibited in Trieste within December 2012 by the Trieste Contemporanea Committee, which reserves the right to supply other exhibiting venues in Italy and abroad. ART. 12 AWARDS CEREMONY The award ceremony will take place in Trieste at the opening of the scheduled final exhibition. The winning designers will be invited to collect their prize in Trieste with expenses covered by the organizing Committee. Source: http://www.triestecontemporanea.it
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Dear all, I have initiated this group to share and learn more about architecture in Bahrain. Please feel free to participate and share your ideas, news, photos. To start with, please feel free to take a look into the Bahrain Architecture gallery album in which I have uploaded photos of some of the most significant projects of Bahrain. I am looking forward to your feedback! :)
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BIM Conference, Istanbul - May 2012 The Turner Innovation Series provides an opportunity for our colleagues and industry peers to explore some of the recent innovations through a series of conferences to be held in major cities around the world. This series brings together building professionals looking to collaborate and increase their impact on the built environment. The first conference of the Turner Innovation Series will explore the practical application and value of Building Information Modeling in creating a significant shift in the delivery of work throughout preconstruction, construction, and facilities management. Event Details This is a one day conference that will take place on Thursday, May 10, 2012 and again on Friday, May 11, 2012. Both the Thursday and Friday sessions will have the same presentations. You should only register for one session, either the Thursday session or the Friday session, but not both. Simultaneous translation from English to Turkish will be available. Source: Cvent.com
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Build4Asia– A 4-in-1 Sustainable Architecture, Design, Building Services and Electrical Engineering Tradeshow, comprising Asian Elenex, Asian Building Technologies, Asian Architectural Interiors and the brand new Hospitality Design & Technology is making a triumphant return on 4-6 June 2012 at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre. Build4Asia 2012 is anticipated to accommodate over 500 international exhibitors at the exhibition space of 15,000 m2. The show will be matching the global exhibitors up with 12,000+ Asian trade buyers. On top of displaying a cross-section of the latest global products and technologies, ranging from electrical supply, transmission & distribution, architectural interiors, light, sound & visual to hospitality design & technology, the show will also comprise value-adding events including the 2012 FAPECA Conference, Integrate 2012 Facility Management Conference and Architecture and Design Conference for industry leading minds to network and share ideas and experience. Source: Build4Asia
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June 2012 Japan Architecture, Art and Design Tour. Tokyo Only. 9 – 16 June Japan Design Tour 9 – 16 June 2012. An Experience of Art, Design, Architecture and Culture in Tokyo. Join us for this fantastic design experience in Tokyo. This 7-Day tour will visit some of Tokyo’s most famous galleries and museums, see some great art, visit some fascinating architecture and enjoy the culture of Japan in one of the world’s most vibrant and dynamic cities. Hurry! Book now for the June 2012 Japan Design, Art and Architecture Tour. Limited places available. 9 June – 16 June. 7 Day tour - $3200 AUD* Inclusions: Accommodation, venue and gallery entries, ground transport costs, full tour guidance. Exclusions: Airfares, meals, airport transfers. (Ask about our Special Student Discount Price. Conditions Apply) Japan is a country of great contrast with architecture that is an eclectic mix of ancient and modern, east and west. Tokyo is a dynamic metropolis where you will find some of the worlds most unique and fascinating architecture and see world class art exhibitions. Highlights include National Museum of Western Art, National Art Center Tokyo, Ghibli Museum, Prada Boutique, Aoyama Design College and many more. This is not just the typical sight seeing tour, but a definitive display of Japanese design expression that also affords the opportunity to meet with local Japanese architects, to visit some of Tokyo’s great galleries and museums, see some of the world’s great art masterpieces and visit some out of the way places in Tokyo not normally on the tourist map. A truly unique design experience, this fully guided 7-Day tour will be conducted and guided by Architect, former Tokyo resident, Licensed Travel Agent and Japan expert, Robert Day. To book your place on the tour or to find out more details, contact Robert on robert@rdayarch.com.au or leave a comment for Robert in the Comments box above.
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The Villa Tugendhat in Context 19 June 2012 - 19 August 2012 Tuesday, 10am - 8pm; Wednesday and Friday, 10am - 5pm; Saturday, 10am - 1.30pm Venue: British Architectural Library, 66 Portland Place London W1B 1AD Description: This exhibition of material drawn from the Library's collections celebrates the completion of the two-year restoration of Mies van der Roha's Villa Tugendhat by placing his remarkable glass and steel hillside villa in context with his work in Europe and America. Associated event Mies van der Rohe and the Villa Tugendhat Student Seminar, 3 July 2012, 3pm Free, but booking required Join exhibition curators for this guided tour of Mies van der Rohe's work featured in the exhibition. This seminar is aimed at undergraduate students of architecture, architectural history and related disciplines. For more information or to book your place, please email library.education@riba.org. Fees: Free admission Photo ID required for entry Contact: British Architectural Library - Tel: +44 (0)20 7307 3882(phone line open Monday - Friday 10am - 5pm) Source: RIBA
