stone look FACTORY

Characteristics

Material:

concrete
Location:

exterior, interior
Options:

stone look

Description

A contemporary brick for a refined decor.

The sleek modern décor gets straight to the point. Its a reflection of your active, urban lifestyle that still needs the comfort of a well-designed home
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The natural minimalism of the jointless modern brick finish is the finishing touch you need to give your home 21st century authenticity. The slot-together design makes lining a stretch of wall in your kitchen or living room easier than ever.

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Concrete wall cladding panel / exterior / interior / stone look ATLAS

Characteristics

Material:

concrete
Location:

exterior, interior
Options:

stone look

Description

The authenticity of minerals… Warm, welcoming and comfortable

Transport rock minerals in their rough form into the warm, welcoming and comfortable environment of your home.

Many a design success has been achieved by contrasting materials, such as stone with fabric or iron with wood.

Atlas cladding comes in three basic formats to allow you to create a realistic, seamless, dry-stone look that is quick to fit.
Its palette of colours and shading will lend a rustic and authentic air to your interiors.

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How will President Obama’s move to require overtime pay change architecture?

President Obama signing a bill, via wikimedia.org

For decades, bosses [in certain professions] have groomed their assistants to be the next generation of big shots by working them long hours for low wages.

Call it the “Devil Wears Prada” economy, after the novel depicting life working for a fictionalized Anna Wintour, the longtime Vogue editor.

But now, with the Obama administration moving to require time-and-a-half overtime pay for most salaried employees making less than $47,476 a year, that business model is suddenly under assault. — the New York Times

“The change presents more than an economic challenge for the companies that rely on the willingness of young, ambitious workers to trade pay and self-respect for a shot at a prestige job down the road.”

The article doesn’t explicitly reference architecture, but as Archinect’s past coverage on the state of internships in the field makes clear, it could. Many firms employ a business model that involves underpaying interns and other young workers – or not paying them at all.

Like many of the employers quoted in the article, some architects contend that this culture breeds better architects in the long run. Additionally, since some firms won’t be able to afford overtime hours, their interns will end up getting less “training time” (and fewer opportunities to impress the highers-up).

Thoughts?

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Wood wall cladding / textured / smooth / exterior ARMADILLO BOX

Characteristics

Material:

wood
Finish:

textured, smooth
Location:

exterior, interior

Options:

sound-absorbing

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Gabinete de Arquitectura’s “Breaking the Siege” – Winner of the Golden Lion at the 2016 Venice Biennale

Bricks are an iconic element of Solano Benítez’s studio. An ancestral material, forged by man using an ancient technique of modeling and baking. Bricks are very versatile, cheap and easy to manufacture – even marginalized areas of the world can afford to build houses with brick. Benítez feels the poetry of brick and has experimented with its versatility, relying solely on bricks as the main construction material. [1]

Gabinete de Arquitectura‘s exhibition, designed by Solano Benítez, Gloria Cabral and Solanito Benítez, wasawarded the Golden Lion for Best Participant in the International Exhibition, Reporting From the Front, for “harnessing simple materials, structural ingenuity and unskilled labour to bring architecture to underserved communities.”

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