Meredith Corporation has made some changes to its editorial leadership.
According to The New York Post, Shape publisher Tim O’Connor has been let go and Chris Guilfoyle will take his place. Carey Witmer, how has been with Meredith since 1998, also has a new role.
O’Connor was named publisher of Shape last year. He joined Meredith in 2014. Guilfoyle was most recently senior vp and group publisher of Meredith’s women’s group and publisher of Better Homes & Gardens.
Witmer has been promoted to executive vp and group publisher of Meredith’s food group, which includes Allrecipes, Rachael Ray Every Day and EatingWell. Witmer previously served as executive vp and president of Meredith’s parents network.
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The scheme contains 93 residences in the Berges du Lac-Ginko development area, which is part of a wider urban regeneration project underway in the north of the French city.
Marjan Hessamfar & Joe Verons Associates was tasked with translating the practical needs of residents in the lakeside area known as Ginko into a proposal for an entire city block.
The proposal confronts infrastructure concerns including the balance between parking and pedestrian circulation, along with the relationship with its surrounding context, distribution of energy and ecological issues including the integration of nature into the design.
The studio – which previously completed a child welfare facility in Paris with gold shutters spread across its monochrome facades, and a rural education centre comprising a row of timber-clad boxes projecting from a grassy slope – sought to accommodate varying housing typologies within the development.
Ranging from detached and terraced houses to residential towers, the differing heights of the buildings lend the scheme an eclectic aesthetic and help to identify the properties, despite their uniform design expression.
“The juxtaposed cascade arrangement both attenuates the block-like effect typical of long, low-rise developments and avoids urban sprawl,” said the architects in a project statement.
“This fragmented massing makes it easier for residents to appropriate the homes, and we have ensured that most of the units command views of the lake.”
The architects chose to locate the buildings around the four corners of the plot, and to incorporate a central communal garden above the ground-floor car park.
At street level, landscaped areas and private gardens provide a buffer between the buildings and the road. These gardens help to make the space around the development more attractive to pedestrians.
Staircases lead up from the street to the central courtyard on the car park’s roof. The rooftop is planted with trees, shrubs and grasses, with benches providing spots for residents to relax surrounded by nature.
Pathways crisscross the garden to lead towards entrances to the various buildings, which can also be accessed from the street or from inside the car park on the lower level.
The entire scheme is united by the use of corrugated metal cladding that covers the facades and roofs of the various structures. The elevations surfaces are interrupted by recessed vertical windows that are also common to all buildings.
In one corner of the courtyard is a cluster of detached houses with archetypal pitched-roof forms. This motif is repeated on the upper floors of the apartment towers, where the structures accommodate penthouses perched on top of more conventional stacked levels.
Each of the apartment buildings is ringed with balconies featuring balustrades that complement the vertical lines of the cladding material.
The positioning of the towers in the corners of the plot means each apartment and balcony has windows facing in two different directions.
A+Awards: another project lauded at this year’s Architizer A+ Awards is this Mexican hacienda, where crumbling buildings were restored and connected with new elements by local studio AS Arquitectura to create a hotel (+ slideshow).
Situated in Champotón, on the gulf coast of Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula, the Niop Hacienda comprises a series of ruined stone structures that formed a residential complex complete with small farm and industrial buildings, as well as a chapel.
AS Arquitectura aimed to unite these different elements to form a hotel and event spaces for weddings, while maintaining the character of the old overgrown walls.
“The project consists of a series of subtle interventions ranged from the generality of reordering the zoning of their uses, to the particularity of solving the most intricate detail of how the contemporary merges with pre-existing,” the studio said.
The new programme includes a restaurant, banquet rooms, utility spaces, and large open spaces for holding various events.
It also encompasses guest rooms and villas, as well as spaces for “reflection and isolation”.
AS Arquitectura created a route through the complex to unite these various amenities, using wooden flooring and steel-framed bamboo canopies to direct guests around the site.
A concrete basement was constructed to link the chapel and bridal suite. Across the site, reflecting pools mirror the buildings and vegetation, while gravel areas offer spaces for outdoor gatherings.
Contemporary features were added in the reception area and bathrooms, where smooth surfaces contrast with the rough stonework.
“The interventions of these new occupants within the complex are inserted discreetly,” said the studio.
Niop Hacienda was one of the winners in the Hotels & Resorts category at the A+Awards 2016.
Organised by Architizer, the awards promote and celebrate the year’s best projects and products. Their stated mission is to nurture the appreciation of meaningful architecture in the world and champion its potential for a positive impact on everyday life.
NASA’s Juno spacecraft flew closer to the giant planet than any spacecraft ever, revealing stunning images and gathering detailed information about the planet for NASA scientists. The record-breaking mission was launched five years ago, and the spacecraft has travelled 1.8 billion miles to reach Jupiter’s orbit. NASA’s Juno mission successfully executed its first of 36 orbital flybys of Jupiter today. The time of closest approach with the gas-giant world was 6:44 a.m. PDT (9:44 a.m. EDT, 13:44 UTC) when Juno passed about 2,600 miles (4,200 kilometers) above Jupiter’s swirling clouds. At the time, Juno was traveling at 130,000 mph (208,000 kilometers per hour) with respect to the planet. This flyby was the closest Juno will get to Jupiter during its prime mission. “Early post-flyby telemetry indicates that everything worked as planned and Juno is firing on all cylinders,” said Rick Nybakken, Juno project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.There are 35 more close flybys of Jupiter planned during Juno’s mission (scheduled to end in February 2018). The August 27 flyby was the first time Juno had its entire suite of science instruments activated and looking at the giant planet as the spacecraft zoomed past.The Juno spacecraft launched on Aug. 5, 2011, from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and arrived at Jupiter on July 4, 2016. [ NASA ]..(Read…)
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