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A.I.

Let me try to resume what I am reading these days: leading US tech firms are achieving milestones with boosting values at stock exchange. The magnificent seven are the main part of the S&P 500. there are mergers that combine classical software companies (as for example Microsoft) with future companies as e.g. Open AI singularContinueContinue reading “A.I.”

COMFORT ZONE

Thanks to the Russian´s agression, the West is waking up. Typical pick-up at California highway near Monterey, 2022 Foto: Claus Spix “Whenever we heat, we consume energy. Whenever we heat with fossil fuels, we produce CO2.” Whenever we switch on an air condition or we stoke a fireplace, we do a little damage to theContinueContinue reading “COMFORT ZONE”

The Dream of the Green – Part 2

BACK TO THE HAMPTONS, CLAIRE! „Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York—every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulpless halves. There was a machine in the kitchen which could extract the juice of two hundred oranges in half anContinueContinue reading “The Dream of the Green – Part 2”

The Dream of the Green – Part 1

Hospital Facade refurbishment Frankfurt, Image © Claus Spix During the last century huge efforts have been made with political reforms and medical research. As we learned at school, as a consequence of this the world population has begun to grow steadily more than 120 years ago and it is this still without reaching its peak.ContinueContinue reading “The Dream of the Green – Part 1”

How safe are our Train Stations?

Covid-19 and public transport “All around us are people, of all classes, of all nationalities, of all ages.” Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie Cologne Central station, PHOTO © Claus Spix “It was five o’clock on a winter’s morning in Syria. Alongside the platform at Aleppo stood the train grandly designated in railway guidesContinueContinue reading “How safe are our Train Stations?”

PIER 39 – COVID ON THE BEACH

Beaches at the Atlantic have been reopened and webcams on the scene give anyone who is interested an authentic view. Some see the images of the beach with a feel of triumph, others however are condemning the new optimism after tough weeks with Covid-19. Simultaneously, we receive images from the Baltic Sea and the NorthContinueContinue reading “PIER 39 – COVID ON THE BEACH”

Expandability and variability versus façade demands and legal constraints at vertical residential schemes

© Chapman Taylor http://www.chapmantaylor.com Istanbul/ Madrid, April 2020 “Strategies for optimizing the planning and rationalization of the building process characterize the architecture of the boom years” . While in the 1960s and 1970s great attention was paid in planning to the adaptability of a building to changing user requirements, at Büyükyali we were facingContinueContinue reading “Expandability and variability versus façade demands and legal constraints at vertical residential schemes”

Composing Architecture is like Cooking!

Unexperienced architects are full of creativity and energy to apply their current ideas and knowledge, when they leave the Universities and they begin to offer their services on the market. However, when they have their first encounter with clients they usually are confronted with a series of problems that they were not trained for. ReadContinueContinue reading “Composing Architecture is like Cooking!”