Colour Memories explores the role of colour in architecture and design
Words by Staff writer
The exhibition by The Museum of Architecture and sponsored by Axalta, captures the personal colour stories and inspirations of over 20 architects
Colour Memories, a new exhibition by The Museum of Architecture and sponsored by Axalta, which just opened yesterday, celebrates the role of colour in architecture and design.
Capturing the personal colour stories and inspirations of over 20 architects, the exhibition gives insight into the colourful worlds of, among others, Jonathan Hagos’ connections to salmon orange, Harbinder Singh Birdi’s traffic red and Paul Monaghan’s link to Victorian tile green.
Dubai: A newly built multi-storey car parking building in Dubai has won an international award for powering itself with the electricity generated from solar panels on its rooftop.
Built by Dubai Municipality, the car parking building in Al Garhoud has covered car parking with solar panels that are connected to Dubai Electricity and Water Authority’s (DEWA’s) grid.
Covering an area of 2,494 square metres, the solar energy system consists of 1,530 solar panels, with 500 KW capacity, the municipality said on Monday. There are 1,530 rooftop solar panels which have a capacity of 500KW Image Credit: Supplied
The carbon footprint of the building is equivalent to minimising the production of 143.7 tons of carbon dioxide annually.
(MENAFN - Dubai PR Network) for the environmentally friendly parking building project at Garhoud Dubai, 26 April 2021: Dubai Municipality has won first place in the International Architecture Award in the Green Good Design category for the car parking building project in Garhoud.
The parking building that consists of a ground floor and five additional floors, built on an area of 7,539 square meters, is strategically located near a group of important government facilities such as the Personal Status Court, the RTA building in Garhoud and the Dubai Municipality building in Garhoud, in addition to a group of neighboring schools.
The award is organized by the European Centre for Architecture, Art Design and Urban Studies and the Chicago Athenaeum represented by the Museum of Architecture and Design. The Green Design Award monitors the most important global examples of sustainable design, and is working on developing an awareness program about international companies and insti
8 major cultural trophies the USSR took home after WWII Public domain; Raphael/Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister; Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts The triumphant return of Soviet troops in 1945 was accompanied by large amounts of captured paintings, sculptures, books and gold - items of the world’s cultural heritage that had survived the flames of war. Later, many of these unique works of art were returned to Germany, but some stayed in the Soviet Union.
1. The collection of the Old Masters Picture Gallery in Dresden
Raphael.Sistine Madonna Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (Old Masters Gallery in Dresden)
In February 1945, Allied forces - British and American - launched a massive aerial bombardment of Dresden, one of the most beautiful German cities, and it seemed the treasures of the famous picture gallery had perished in the terrible fire - the collection of the Electors of Saxony included paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Giorgione and Vermeer, Bott