Finalist presentation – Software Design – Singapore, Mama-Bear , Opera House July 7th 2010
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Teacher’s Think Tank (T3) is a website and SMS system that provides a support network for teachers. T3 hopes to do three things: improve the quality of teaching in schools through harnessing the collective wisdom of the online community, motivate teachers to improve their teaching methods, and reduce the rate of attrition and repetition in primary schools.
Team:
Wei Hao Kwan
Kang Long Trex Lim
Li Ping Debbie Lim
Satrughan Kumar Singh
Mentor:
Shaw Wen Yeak
Hopi House - Grand Canyon - South Rim
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I went up early to the Grand Canyon South Rim for a big backpacking trip and visited several of the tourist destinations. This is the historic Hopi House.
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In Hopi House, Colter's concern for an ethnohistorical correctness in this replication was an effort fueled by the contemporary scholarly interest in southwestern archeology. The building opened in 1905, at the same time that archeologist Edgar Hewitt of Santa Fe, New Mexico, was promoting the Act for the Preservation of American Antiquities which passed in 1906--an act that resulted in the establishment of a series of national monuments set aside to preserve the southwestern archeological ruins they contained. Colter's design of Hopi House went beyond the basic task of providing a good atmosphere for merchandising Indian goods. She introduced different aspects of Indian cultures--especially their architecture--to the rail-travelling public at a time when the preservation movement in the United States was in its infancy.
Hopi House (1905) is a large multi-story structure of stone masonry, shaped and built like a Hopi pueblo building. The building is rectangular in plan, and the multiple roofs are stepped at various levels giving the building the impression of pueblo architecture. The sandstone walls are reddish in color. Tiny windows, like those of true Hopi structures, allow only the smallest amount of light into the building.
On the interior, the floor finish on the first story is concrete, covered with carpeting in some of the rooms. Most of the rooms have the typical ceiling of that type of architecture: saplings, grasses, and twigs with a mud coating on top, resting on peeled log beams. Corner fireplaces, small niches in the walls, and a mud-plaster wall finish, typical of Hopi interiors, are also characteristics of this structure. Openings from one room to the next are characteristically small, and wood door frames where they exist are made of peeled saplings. The first floor is used as a sales area and an office.
The stairwell to the second story has Hopi murals on its mud plaster. The mural's artist is unknown. The second story, now used only for storage, has a wood floor, ceilings similar to those throughout the building, and mud-plastered walls. The original room configurations remain, and little has been done to change this area that is now closed to the public. One corner fireplace on this story is decorated with a "bulto" (Spanish religious statue) attached to its mantle. Paired gates separating two of the rooms are made of peeled saplings. Also on this floor is a room now erroneously called "the Kiva" which contains a Hopi shrine somewhat similar to the Powamu shrine Colter had constructed inside her Indian Building in Albuquerque. The shrine area holds religious artifacts such as kachinas and prayer feathers (ceremonial sticks with feathers attached) with bald eagle feathers. The opposite side of the shrine room contains more Hopi religious artifacts and some household and utilitarian items such as manos and metates for grinding corn, various pieces of pottery and baskets, and a piki oven for baking the paper-thin piki bread made from blue corn. The floor in this room is hard-packed adobe rather than wood. Access to this room is through a tiny handmade door, now locked for security.
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Design visual of improved highway and new Davis Slough bridge
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Plans are in the works to raise and widen SR 532 and replace the Davis Slough bridge. WSDOT engineers are designing the improvements now and expect to start construction in summer 2013. The highway will be raised 5 to 9 feet and the shoulders, lanes and median will all be widened between Smith and Eide roads, west of the new Camano Gateway Bridge.
The current bridge was built in 1949. We will replace the 2-lane, 32-foot wide bridge over Davis Slough with a new 56-foot wide bridge. The new bridge will be 9 feet taller, provide one 12-foot lane in each direction, a 4-foot median, and shared 14-foot shoulders to accommodate bicyclists and pedestrians and allow room for vehicle breakdowns. The highway on either side of the bridge will be raised approximately 5 feet in order to raise the roadway above potential flood and storm influences.
We had this design visual on display at a community open house in August 2012. The open house was an opportunity to review plans and pictures for the project, as well as talk with engineers.
If you have any comments or questions about the project, an online comment form is available on the project website - www.wsdot.wa.gov/projects/sr532/davissloughbridge.
Grizzly Bear + Beach House
Image by Rachel G. Goss
if you're in the ny city or hudson-valley area, gb and bh are playing vassar college. you can buy tix online @ ticketweb.com or at the door. cash.
1804 Roxbury Road, Rear View, by F. F. Glass Company, 1918
Image by UA Archives | Upper Arlington History
This is a rear view of 1804 Roxbury Road, a home eventually owned by Immer Lee Godfrey. It is an example of houses designed and built by the F. F. Glass Company. The Upper Arlington Company showed and sold the buildings to potential homeowners. The houses were touted as durable, attractive, marketable and affordable, and their advertisement stated, "one obtains a home on a Service Basis, rather than on a Price Basis, and yet Price may not be prohibitive."
This image available online at the UA Archives >>
View the related "Norwester" magazine advertisement at the UA Archives >>
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Identifier: hinw08p011i02
Date (yyyy-mm-dd): c. 1918-06
Original Dimensions: 6.3 cm x 5.0 cm
Format: Black and White Halftone Photograph
Source: Norwester, June 1918, page 11
Original Publisher: Upper Arlington Community (Ohio)
Location/s: Upper Arlington (USA, Ohio, Franklin County)
Repository: Upper Arlington Historical Society
Digital Publisher: UA Archives - Upper Arlington Public Library
Credit: UA Archives - Upper Arlington Public Library (Repository: UA Historical Society)
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