Introduction On February 22, 2011 Christchurch was severely damaged by the magnitude of 6.3 earth quake that brought down many buildings. A lot of heritage buildings and modern buildings were affected, more than half of the structures in the central business district were forced to be demolished, leaving it with brownfield developments –the redevelopment of an area of land that has been previously used; the land has consequently either become vacant, deserted or contaminated. The Buildwise Properties are interested in redeveloping a previously factory premises on the outskirts of Christchurch. This report covers the client’s requirements –in terms of time, cost and quality; factors that have a significant impact on design solution and project cost; and forecasting techniques, sources of data and total cost per square meter. The projected location is a small site fit in between existing recently developed housing estates and small retail premises. The existing factory buildings were demolished some time ago that leaves all mains services to be replaced and renewed. Client’s Requirements The client, Buildwise Properties specialises in the provision of housing for sale, primarily aimed at the middle range of the property market. The company requires developing the land with a minimum of 38 units at 170 m2 per individual unit. Buildwise Properties as a new client to the company would require quality outcome of the project. Quality of the housing is a factor to be considered
Cruickshank, Garth& Romano is a startup company, formed by Richard, Chris and Wayne to provide industrial, residential and commercial evaluations, and also consulting services and feasibility analyses in National Capital Region (NCR). Based on the experienced principals who enjoy good reputations, Cruickshank, Garth& Romano is aimed at providing high quality service as NCR’s top four firms which dominate the commercial appraisal market in NCR, but they tend to do business with the owners of smaller properties. Recently, because of the economic regression, to get sufficient revenue, the principals have realized that getting new larger developers is crucial to
The Middle Ages, also known as the Medieval era, though scarred with a history of violence and war, has given the world some of the most marvelous and beautiful pieces of art, particularly in architecture. The Middle Ages is the name given to the time period from the late 5th century to the 15th century, particular to European history. The construction of these types of buildings was a constant for various cultures for a thousand years. They can be categorized into three phases; Pre-Romanesque, Romanesque and Gothic. The most important buildings during medieval times were religious, defensive and governmental or power related.
Question 1. Choose an architect or practice whose work is covered by or relevant to this course and discuss critically one or more of their design projects or drawings or urban proposals as precedent case-studies. Selectively situate this work in relation to their body of work, and against the practices and concerns of the period. Focus on the architectural qualities of a specific key aspect of the design of the projects. Selectively consider how they might relate to the historical situation, cultural values, theoretical concerns and design practices of the time. This may involve a selective analysis of compositional design practices, material fabrication production and the experiential reception of built outcomes of the projects.
Mr. Alexander is new to the property management arena and has no experience with multi-family dwellings. Due to our clients limited capital he cannot afford to hire a property manager. Because Mr. Alexander will also be working his normal full-time job, and doing the property management as a ‘side-job’ the ability to manage multiple subcontractors will be highly inefficient and could lead to disgruntled tenants and higher vacancy rates.
Further one this assignment will continue on the infrastructure of the economy which supports construction, this will include told, power tools, transport for materials and any objects used in order to complete a construction project which has to be order, rented or a special efforts made n order to allow for these certain services.
The scope is that within the budget of CAD $900,000 the property to include: foundation with
The Carnegie Building at Penn State has a deep and rich history. It was constructed in 1904 due to a $150,000 donation from Andrew Carnegie, a member of the Penn State Board of Trustees. The Carnegie Building has held various functions over the years, such as being the home to the school’s first library. After a renovation in 1940 and the moving of the library to the current location, the building became the office and rehearsal space for the music department. The Penn State Marching Blue Band was initially established because of another generous gift on behalf of Carnegie. The Daily Collegian, the school newspaper, housed its headquarters in the building from 1972 to December of 1989 before moving downtown to the
Green buildings could become one of the main factors to preserve our rapidly decaying environment. There is no easy way to define a green building, but a green building is essentially a structure that amplifies the positives and mitigates the negatives throughout the entire life cycle of the building (Kriss, 2014). There are many definitions for a green building, but all of them include the planning, designing, constructing, and operating of the building while taking into huge considerations of the energy use, water use, indoor air environment, materials used and the effect it has on the site the green building is being built on. The first green buildings dates back to as far as the 1970’s, when solar panels went from experiments to reality. Green buildings were not as popular as they are today due to their extremely high pricing. With technology rapidly growing, solar panels are becoming cheaper and cheaper, making the transition to creating green buildings more affordable. This is the primary reason for the increased growth of green buildings today. A modern company that is paving the way to the growth of green buildings named LEED, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, focuses primarily on new and effective ideas for environmentally friendly buildings projects. With more than 60,000 commercial projects worldwide and 1.7 million square feet being certified every day, LEED is one of the leading groups for promoting green buildings. LEED has popularized the entire
In the early 19th century, Gothic Revival architecture style accompanied by immigration imported to Canada from Britain and United States. The style first appears in Quebec, the French speaking area, as the first early Gothic church rose in Ile-de-France. And Gothic Revival becomes the major style gradually influences almost whole Canadian architectures. By definition, Gothic Revival, a term first used in England in the mid-19th century to describe buildings being erected in the style of the Middle Ages and later expanded to embrace the entire Neo-Gothic movement. In this article, I will mainly analysis one of the Gothic-inspired building in London, Ontario — St. Peter Cathedral Basilica. St. Peter Cathedral Basilica as one of the Gothic Revival style Cathedral, it succeed majority of significant components
The time of this disaster was from the 22 of February 2011 at 12:51pm. The earthquake hit the Canterbury region in New Zealand’s south island and was centered 2 km west of the port town of Lyttelton, and 10km south east of the center of Christchurch, at the time ne Zealand’s second most populous city. The damages to Christchurch where shocking as there were road and bridge damage and hampered rescue efforts. Soil liquefaction and surface flooding also occurred. Road surfaces were forced up by liquefaction, and water and sand were spewing out of cracks. A number of cars were crushed by falling debris. In the central city, falling buildings crushed two buses. Because the earthquake hit during the lunch hour, collapsed buildings buried some people on the footpaths. Damage also occurred to many older buildings and on the 28th of February 2001 the prime minster at the time announced that there would be an inquiry into the collapse of buildings that had been signed off as sale after the 4 September 2010 earthquake, This earthquake killed an amount of 180 people which is shown on page 2 and this is
There is often some confusion when people start talking about the post-modernism and modernism in architecture in terms of their philosophical terminology differences. Modern architecture is known for its minimalism (Linder, 2004); buildings were functional and economical rather than comfortable and beautifully decorated. The post-modernism architecture, however, is called a “neo-eclectic, significantly assuming the role of a regeneration of period styles for designing houses, and a never-ending variety of forms and characteristics, asymmetrical designs for commercial buildings” (Fullerton Heritage, 2008). An example of these two polar opposites, “Less is more” made by Mies van der Rohe in 1928 (Blake, 1976) and "Less is a bore" made by
The term “Mid-Century Modern” is used to broadly describe a style of architecture and furniture design that was prominent during the post-World War II years.
The infrastructure damage was significant with over 1000 buildings in the central business district (CBD) and 10,000 residential homes have been demolished, leaving many homeless and closures of businesses (Kaiser et al, 2012). The Canterbury earthquake series instigated severe and continuing impacts on the social, economic, and natural environments of the area.
Larkin put "The Building" in the middle of his collection for a reason, it is a pillar that supports the rest of the collection with its long lines and many verses, and because of this, is maybe a bit more clearer than some of his other poems in the ideas and views that are expressed through it. Of course, being a Larkin a poem, there is the obligatory underlayer which so many people miss, but in "The Building" it is easier to discern and comprehend.
Finally, many tools were used to document our site visits that would used during the modeling of the buildings. As stated before, PlanGrid was very useful when viewing the construction sheets. PlanGrid was used on an iPad for easy access during the site visit. The iPad, as well as our phones, was used to take pictures of any notable changes or major features of the buildings. The pictures were used as references during the modeling portion of the project. A measuring tape was also used to take the dimensions of sections of the buildings that were not clearly labeled on the construction sheets. For example, the Architecture Annex’s terrance needed a measuring tape to measure its dimensions because the top-down view was absent from the