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“No one works on film anymore. I don’t shoot on film: That’s the only reason I can be a photographer. To be a photographer now, you just have to kind of catch a base image, and then you can rebuild it, rework it, recolor it. Those old guys like [Helmut] Newton and [Richard] Avedon—and [Irving] Penn—were just incredible in the way they could pull off the images they did on film, with no retouching. They truly understood the mechanics of their craft.

For most photographers today—I won’t necessarily mention names—you see a picture of 10 people in a magazine, and none of those people were shot together. They take the best head from here, stick it on the best body from that shot, move that over there, and you fill in, which is fine, but that’s a different kind of art—an impressionistic way of interpreting something. I don’t necessarily think it’s a bad thing, but it’s a different way of working.”

-Fashion designer, photographer, and filmmaker Tom Ford

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Go green with the “brown” shipper

Already using entirely recycled fibers for their shipping materials, UPS adds even greater sustainability to their express envelopes with a second adhesive strip that makes an extra use possible. The Reusable Express Envelope not only cuts down on wasteful paper, but the convenient reseal system also allows for easy return of documents without the hassle of locating another envelope.

A no-brainer way to reduce at least some of the impact of express mailing, the envelopes come in letter and legal sizes and are available from the UPS website.

Stuttgart office Birk und Heilmeyer Architekten with Knippers Helbig Advanced Engineering have completed this wooden observation tower in Hemer, Germany.

The Jübergtower Hemer Landmark has a hyperboloid structure comprising 240 straight timber batons, criss-crossing in two directions around the tower.

The batons thin out towards the top, affording different views as visitors rise through each of the five observation levels to the top deck.

The 23.5-metre tower has a footprint of six metres, fanning out to nine meters at the top.

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Here’s some more information from the architects:

Jübergtower Hemer Landmark of the regional garden and flower festival “Landesgartenschau Hemer 2010”, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

With a 23.5 m high look-out tower, the “Landesgartenschau Hemer“ contributes a new landmark upon the city. The tower, which has been completed after a planning and construction period of merely nine months, comprises a hyperboloid of straight timber members.

In 2008, it won the second prize in a competition and has been designed, planned and completed by the working group Birk und Heilmeyer Architekten BDA and Knippers Helbig Advanced Engineering, Stuttgart. It was officially commissioned on 17 April, the day of the opening of the “Landesgartenschau”. The look-out tower has been donated by the foundation of the Stadtsparkasse Hemer.

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Visible from far away, the look-out tower Jüberg is prominently positioned at the end of a long flight of stairs, marking the end point of the city and the transition to landscape. The upwards expanding shape of the tower reacts immediately to the local circumstances; the forested hill Jüberg, the urban centre line and a 360-degrees view.

The construction of the building is based on the principle of the hyperboloid, which had frequently been used for steel constructions by the engineer Vladimir G. Suchov (1853 – 1939). It consists of 240 straight timber members of Siberian larch (glued laminated timber) with a cross section of 8 x 8 centimetres. A large-mesh structure has been designed by inclining two reverse planes of members, on which only the outer, delicate member system bears the loads. Additional vertical members, such as steel columns or a centre mast, were consistently omitted.

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The simplified static model of the tower resembles a clamped tube. Due to the horizontal wind forces, the maximal applied load develops at the clamping position. Steel needles anchor the construction up to 6 metres deep in the bedrock. Above the foundation, the rigidity of the tower is reduced gradually from the bottom to the top by decreasing the number of timber rods. According to the diminishing loads, the mesh structure expands towards the top. The supports in the lowest plane consist of six individual rods, which are reduced to five in the next level, then four, three, and finally two rods. This allows for an increasing panoramic view the higher you get to the observation deck. Each of the five landing platforms creates an individual atmosphere due to the diminishing rod system.

Corresponding to the forest aisle, the foot of the tower has been kept slim with its dimension of around 6 metres. Inside the structure, five flights of winding steel stairs with altogether 125 steps lead to the observation deck at a height of 23.5 metres. The observation deck, which has a diameter of 9 metres, offers a spectacular 360 degree view.

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Client: Foundation of the Sparkasse Hemer Represented by Landesgartenschau Hemer 2010 GmbH
Architecture: Birk und Heilmeyer Architekten BDA, Stuttgart Stephan Birk, Liza Heilmeyer
Structural engineering: Knippers Helbig Advanced Engineering, Stuttgart New York Thorsten Helbig, Jan Knippers Diana D’Souza, Fabian Friz, Adam Seidel (contributers)
Planning period: 9 months
Construction period tower: 6 weeks

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Completion: 2010
Construction: Timber Rod-Hyperbolid
Height: 23.5 metres
Diametre foot: 6.0 metres
Diametre observation deck: 9.0 metres
Material: 240 straight timber members of larch glulam

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The classic road-trip snack gets a healthy, sustainable update

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