Text description provided by the architects. The new building designed for 110 children combines a classic municipal kindergarten and a Waldorf kindergarten in a single building located near the confluence of the Jizera and Oleška rivers on the outskirts of Semily town. The aim was to create a building with centralized facilities and a kitchen for two independent two-class kindergartens for children aged three to six. Site PlanFrom the center, it is also easy to get an overview of what is happening in or around the kindergarten. The primary role of the service boxes is to articulate the space and to differentiate the rooms intended for the children's stay. This creates a dichotomy between enclosed service and opens serviced spaces. The color scheme is based on Ostwald's chromatic circle and the seven chosen colors refer to the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo/purple, violet/pink). © BoysPlayNiceThe layouts of the two kindergartens are identical, but their designs differ in the choice of materials and colors. In the Waldorf part, the floors, furniture, and walls are made of wood (similar to the toys), while the rooms of the Treperka kindergarten are placed between individual colored boxes. Storage spaces and elements are designed as built-in furniture, with the safety of the children in mind, without any protrusions. © BoysPlayNiceThe external walls are clad with HPL façade panels The building meets the parameters of the passive house standard and sustainability The heating is provided by an air-to-water heat pump and a gas-condensing boiler (assumed coverage ratio of 75% heat pump Controlled ventilation is provided by two central air handling units with heat recovery Shading roller blinds reduce unwanted solar heat gains in summer The building is thermally stabilized by a ceiling cooling and heating system (TABS) You'll now receive updates based on what you follow Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors If you have done all of this and still can't find the email Germany -- USA Luge's Emily Sweeney picked up her team-best fifth medal of the World Cup season on Sunday Julia Taubitz of Germany won the race in 1 minute Anna Berreiter of Germany was second in 1:51.891 and Sweeney was third in 1:52.038 It was Sweeney's fourth singles medal of the season the first three of them being silvers and one of them coming in a sprint race She also was part of a team relay bronze-medal run earlier this season for the Americans "It's nice to be back on the podium," said Sweeney who has dealt with recurring neck issues this season It was Taubitz's 20th career World Cup win Germany again was the dominant team on the weekend with Max Langenhan winning in men's singles Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt winning in men's doubles and Jessica Degenhardt and Cheyenne Rosenthal prevailing in women's doubles the Wendl-Arlt sled and the Latvian women's doubles team of Anda Upite and Sanija Ozolina also won World Cup sprint race golds on Sunday who created the role of Emily Webb in the original Broadway production of Thornton Wilder’s American stage classic Our Town and received an Academy Award nomination for repeating the role in the film version died in California of natural causes on Wednesday Since various sources list the actress’s birth year differently there is disagreement as to whether she was 88 or 90 at the time of her death The musical opens at the Imperial Theatre on April 10 Get the best deals and latest updates on theater and shows by signing up for TheaterMania's newsletter today This purchase is available as a free download with your MyC-SPAN account C-SPAN.org offers links to books featured on the C-SPAN networks to make it simpler for viewers to purchase them C-SPAN has agreements with retailers that share a small percentage of your purchase price with our network C-SPAN earns money from your qualifying purchases C-SPAN only receives this revenue if your book purchase is made using the links on this page Any revenue realized from this program goes into a general account to help fund C-SPAN operations Please note that questions regarding fulfillment or issues relating to your book orders should be directed to the Webmaster or administrator of the specific bookseller's site and are their sole responsibility MyC-SPAN users can download four Congressional hearings and proceedings under four hours for free each month There are three ways to set in and out points for a clip: Check your selection with the "Preview Clip" option If you are editing the times of an existing clip you may only set a start and end time within the original clip boundaries "I am deeply sorry and ashamed for putting something that awful out in the universe," she wrote Slaven Vlasic/Getty;JONATHAN ERNST/POOL/AFP via Getty STEVE HELBER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images; 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Emily Serpico impressed the Face Off judges once again last night but this time she came up short of Top Looks in the show that pits special effects makeup artists against one another As a G-Star grad and Wellington resident, Emily has a strong fan base in South Florida, but eight episodes into the Syfy show she’s winning admirers nationally. And for those who aspire to be like her, she’s posted videos on tricks of the trade. What this girl can do with some clay, a paper pocked with holes and a hairpin! Emily has a great plan to create a cage over her character’s entire head using string, but when the structure collapses under its own weight on application day, she has to scrap it and whip up something fabulous out of feathers – which she does, naturally. She’s like the MacGyver of makeup, this one. 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SCHOOLS IN: Fairchild Group chairman Thomas Fung and actress-wife Amy usually draw business political and cultural guests to their annual garden party with son Joseph having founded the Fairchild Junior Academy in Hong Kong local educational-facility top brass shared the lawn and Simon Fraser University presidents Santa Ono and Andrew Petter George’s Senior School headmaster Tom Matthews and West Point Grey Junior School head Ciara Corcoran An after-supper singalong fronted by host-guitarist Fung could have been Edmonton-born Hsieh founded the Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra in 2003 and has been music director ever since with no successor even contemplated THE YOGI BERA AWARD: Goes to industrial safety trainer Chris Samson for his August quote: “I’m all for taking risks transportation minister Claire Trevena is runner-up for: “I think it’s very good to have a regulated market in the way that we have a regulated market.” THEY’RE LOVIN’ ’EM: Ryan and Nicole Stark were heartbroken in May So were staff at 73-bedroom Ronald McDonald House where the Fort St Children’s Hospital staff fought to save Hadley Spirits soared this July when three-month resident Nicole delivered daughter Clara along with sons Sawyer and Soren “Families want normalcy,” said CEO Richard Pass while welcoming the triplets at an RMH donor reception “That means more stay-together programs for whole families.” The record stay there is 497 days BEEP: Phone messages for classic-car minder Vern Bethel are answered promptly Ones for daughter Pamela can end up on stage Umpteen 1990s calls to and responses from then-teenaged Bethel constitute her lauded 2017 show playing the Vancouver Fringe Festival’s The Nest theatre to Sept Those dialing 250-885-1285 might even hear themselves in a sequel THEY’RE ON: Whatever their luck with horse-race bets Jordan Kalman and Tyson Villeneuve sure pick winning weather Sunshine bathed Hastings Racecourse when their 11th annual event’s record crowd of nattily attired younger folk enjoyed music Mile’s End Motors dealer David Bentil’s usual pavilion and tree-shaded compound had guests loll alongside such exotic jalopies as a 2017 Ferrari F12 TDF worth $1.5 million Quite a change from the vacuum cleaners Bentil sold door-to-door along and near his native East London’s Mile End Road R.I.P.: Former Sun editor-restaurant reviewer Alex MacGillivray died recently — no funeral by request — but his name lives on via actress-daughter Caroline who founded non-profit BeautyNight (beautynight.org) in 2000 and has helped endless marginalized women gain confidence BREATH OF LIFE: Guest John Yee wasn’t whisked away from the Fungs’ party to perform another of the 60 double-lung-transplant surgeries he’s undertaken yearly on six hours’ notice The Sun’s Pamela Fayerman reported that Vancouver General Hospital’s new vivo lung perfusion process allows more precious time to assess donor organs Yee still laments cystic-fibrosis patient Eva Markvoort who Philip Lyall and Nimisha Mukerji’s documentary about Markvoort 65 RedRoses (that’s how many youngsters pronounce “cystic fibrosis”) will screen at a Vancouver Playhouse gala Sept 8 to help fund CF research and encourage organ donation HAPPY FIFTEENTH: To the Belgian-themed Chambar Restaurant Karri and Nico Schuermans opened on Beatty Street and moved next door in 2014 which Glowbal Restaurant Group president-CEO Emad Yacoub located in Yaletown and upmarketed to Alberni Street in 2009 Chambar recently staged a dinner by five female chefs and same-gender Vancouver Community College students to help fund scholarships Its anniversary highlight will be an all-invited block party’s pig roast and waffle fest on Sept DOWN PARRYSCOPE: Late French president Charles de Gaulle whose vetoes made petitioning Britons wait 12 years to join what is now the European Union might relish their current opera bouffe to get out transmission or republication strictly prohibited This website uses cookies to personalize your content (including ads), and allows us to analyze our traffic. 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By continuing to use our site, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy You can manage saved articles in your account Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung came up with the term synchronicity to describe meaningful coincidences it meant that everything in the universe was connected there is a meaningful coincidence in the rise of two legendary early 20th-century painters on opposite sides of the Pacific Ocean Emily Carr made her mark with vivid paintings of local scenery Using vivid colours and strong brushstrokes she depicted changes in the landscape of British Columbia Carr was strongly influenced by Fauvism Similarly, Taiwanese artist Chen Cheng-po devoted much of his career to painting the natural landscape in bold His oil paintings touched upon industrialization in Taiwan Here’s another meaningful coincidence: both Carr and Chen were painting in regions in the throes of colonial exploitation settlers had stolen the land from Indigenous people who were confined to small reserves under federal law; in Taiwan Chen painted the natural world in a land ruled by Japan through much of his lifetime “They both lived in similar times in history,” says becky tu a Taiwanese-born and Vancouver-based researcher with the Asian-Canadian Special Events Association “They were able to see the beauty in their local surroundings And their willingness to try to capture that in their painting is very good for historical records now.” tu says that she can see the British Columbia capital of Victoria a century ago from Carr’s perspective “It reaches through time and space to people like us today,” tu adds In addition to being aware of Carr’s paintings tu has also read a great deal of the artist’s written work While Carr demonstrated sympathy for Indigenous people this didn’t carry over to the sizeable Asian population in her hometown she doesn’t leave a lot of space for Asian immigrants at the time,” tu who’s also associated editor of Pancouver tu feels that Carr put herself in the position of an anthropologist recording a disappearing culture their culture is still alive because they live it every day,” tu says tu respects Carr’s bravery and determination to forge her own artistic path even if it wasn’t widely accepted while she was alive It was only long after her death that her paintings started selling for millions of Canadian dollars the Asian-Canadian Special Events Association’s managing director points to another similarity between Carr and Chen: both were eager to capture Indigenous life Chen would venture into the mountains of Taiwan to make sketches of Aboriginal people “He might have done this at the request of the Japanese government because they wanted an artist to be able to take these images down,” Wu says Chen was painting when the Japanese colonizers did not view the Taiwanese as Japanese, even though the island was part of Imperial Japan from 1895 to 1945. Chen studied Western-style watercolour painting under Kinichiro Ishikawa and Yet when Chen moved to Shanghai to teach art in 1929 Wu says that Chinese people viewed him as Japanese And as tensions between Japan and China intensified in the early 1930s In 1933, Chen returned to his hometown of Kagi (now Chiayi) where he cofounded the Tai-Yang Art Society to help young artists he laid a foundation for the rise of a distinct Taiwanese identity One of Chen’s contemporaries and close friends was another brilliant landscape painter, Chen Zhi-qi says that whereas his uncle largely stuck to landscapes Chen Cheng-po often inserted people in his paintings Pan maintains that this reflects the influence of the proletarian art movement on Chen Cheng-po “He wanted to show he was on the side of the people,” Pan says Chinese nationalist soldiers shot Chen dead in March 1947 in the wake of the Kuomintang government’s notorious 228 massacre On the last day of February that year and in subsequent weeks the KMT killed an estimated 18,000 to 28,000 people died from illness in 1931 at the age of 26 Chen Zhi-qi also studied at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts and was twice selected for the prestigious Imperial Art Exhibition “During his lifetime he was brilliant,” Pan says “Everybody in the family knows that if he didn’t die of natural causes Chen Cheng-po’s work was not exhibited in prominent galleries after his death Wu says it’s because the KMT government still saw Taiwan as part of China “All these major galleries would only exhibit the famous painters or artists from China,” Wu says The local artists were not seen as important.” He attributes this to an anti-Japanese mindset Wu thinks KMT officials believed that Chen Cheng-po had been influenced by the Japanese Wu says that many KMT supporters—who moved en masse to Taiwan after the Chinese Civil War—felt superior to the local population Taiwanese art lovers kept Chen’s work in private collections Many did not show them in public until after the end of martial law in 1987 “They are surfacing now because Taiwanese identity is seen as important,” Wu says Carr’s works received major showings long after she had died in 1945 Perhaps this is another example of synchronicity Wu is general manager of the Society of We Are Canadians Too Pancouver fuels creativity and promotes a more inclusive society You can contribute to support our mission of shining a spotlight on diverse artists Donations from within Canada qualify for a tax receipt says that he and Leung wanted to show authentic multi-faceted characters of Asian ancestry on-screen The Society of We Are Canadians Too created Pancouver to foster greater appreciation for underrepresented artistic communities A rising tide of understanding lifts all of us We would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the traditional and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam Indian Band) we thank the Indigenous peoples who still live on and care for this land We would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the traditional and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) a 21-year-old recent college graduate from North Kingstown made the cut in last night’s edition of “So You Think You Can Dance” and will return next week for another round in the Fox series You can vote for her now on fox.com/dance or through the series’ official Facebook page, facebook.com/SoYouThinkYouCanDance EW talks to ''CSI: Miami'''s Emily Procter The ballistics expert shoots off about her role and the successful show Murtz A few days after she was evicted out of the Big Brother Canada 5 house I had the chance to catch up with Emily Hawkin to discuss what happened We chatted about why she chose to align herself with the veterans instead of teaming up with the new players and what happened during the first week She also talked to me about her relationship with Dillon and we discussed what tipped Kevin off to not use the veto Emily revealed the biggest lesson she learned from her time in the house TV Movies Games Comics Fights Wrestling Figures Music Sports About Contact Work With Us