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All rights reserved german office wurm + wurm architekten have redesigned the production plant of auma a company who specialize in the development and building of electric actuators and gearboxes reasoning that the original premises did not offer the business sufficient opportunity to expand the organization decided to purchase a neighboring plot of land and construct a new manufacturing space in addition to redeveloping the existing site the exterior of the design is characterized by a gently reclining black façadephoto by ester havlova enabling the factory to continue operations uninterrupted the project was carried out over a number of years stage one of the process began in 2009 and involved the construction of a production hall and loading bay after relocating to the new site in january 2011 the previously existing building was redeveloped the project’s exterior has been subtly landscapedphoto by ester havlova the exterior of the design is characterized by a gently reclining black façade enveloping the plant’s entrance and extending across the eastern elevation the large production area at ground level is surrounded by new offices and brightly lit conference rooms while an upper storey houses a canteen and changing rooms for the company’s employees new offices and conference rooms are provided at ground levelphoto by ester havlova the new stairway connecting the two storeysphotos by ester havlova the canteen on the upper levelphoto by ester havlova the area is brightly lit and offers external viewsphoto by ester havlova the development also included the renovation of the company’s exiting premises photo by ester havlova germanycompleted: 2012client: auma riester gmbh & co.kgnew building area: 4,990 sqm (53,713 sqf)renovation area: 3,900 sqm (42,948 sqf)photography: ester havlova AXOR presents three bathroom concepts that are not merely places of function but destinations in themselves — sanctuaries of style 09-15-2016DESIGN Designers are finding unusual ways to house refugees by integrating them into communities–while pushing the envelope on affordable design BY Adele Peters When hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants started arriving in Europe in 2015 many cities started quickly building simple shelters sometimes repurposing old shipping containers as temporary places to sleep instead of tents But these makeshift sites were also often on the edges of cities isolating the arriving community from other residents and any sense of normalcy Designers are now working on longer-term solutions that can help arrivals better adjust to their new lives–and potentially improve housing for entire societies “This is a huge opportunity to rethink the resources that we have, not only to serve asylum seekers well, but to serve a lot of disenfranchised communities within our own society,” says architect Marco Steinberg, who led From Border to Home a competition to create better housing designs for the refugee crisis He thinks that by looking at an extreme case architects can also take the opportunity to improve everyday housing Co.Exist is running a series of stories this week about how we can create a refugee-ready, refugee-friendly world. You can read a collection of all the coverage here where the number of asylum seekers increased tenfold in 2015 one conceptual design would create flexible space within standard apartments the added space would just be an extra room the idea is that the government could ask the occupants to use pre-installed partitions to temporarily divide their apartment in two In exchange for living in one of these “donor apartments,” the tenant would get a 25% discount in rent “The idea is that when we have these peaks of migration rather than at the last minute trying to frantically respond to the peak–with expensive short-term housing solutions–that we have that capacity built in,” says Steinberg This type of design could help European cities respond to future waves of people fleeing political unrest or climate change But it could also potentially help Helsinki better deal with its existing housing shortage by allowing families to adjust their housing as their situation changes the design could help provide immediate social connections to Finns since their apartment-mate is a permanent resident In a typical shelter or complex built specifically for asylum seekers it’s difficult for new arrivals to quickly learn the local language and make local friends the architects presented it to the Finnish government earlier this year Several other designs also focus on integration–and provide new affordable housing for other groups a new building that floats over a university parking lot (on stilts so people can still park below) will house both refugees and students a new energy-efficient apartment complex houses refugees with formerly homeless people a group of artists plans to turn a huge old government complex–the former East German House of Statistics–into a new home for refugees says that it addresses two problems at once: the fact that artists are being gentrified out of the city and the influx of refugees and asylum seekers into the city “We saw that this is another way to address all these questions of integration or participation,” he says would give asylum seekers tiny houses in the backyards of homeowners refugees would work on the construction themselves–a form of training that would help them earn a diploma and prepare them for a building job Because the tiny houses would be part of established neighborhoods refugees could begin to feel like part of local culture more quickly architecture has the capacity not only to answer the ‘bed’ question but to do so in a way that has a strategy of community building,” says Steinberg Still other projects focus on using space wisely or making housing flexible so it can be converted to other uses once the influx of refugees and migrants slows where many public schools and day cares are in need of renovation or rebuilding another team of architects proposes designing temporary shelters that can later transform into schools Centrally located in neighborhoods near families the buildings could also give refugees better opportunities to meet Finns and other permanent residents architecture students at Leibniz University designed a concept called “Fill the Gap” to build housing on underutilized spaces throughout the city of Hannover–over parking lots Many European cities that have housing shortages also have an abundance of office space. One proposed design, called Mezzahome uses a modular structure to quickly fill abandoned buildings with new apartments It’s something that could easily be adapted to build more affordable housing for anyone “[Politicians] tend to argue that cities are full,” architect and Leibniz professor Jörg Friedrich told a German website There is plenty of vacant space.” He notes that 40% of spaces in multistory car parks are usually empty many of the new ideas would take time and money to implement–and often require changing building codes or other regulations And they seem like a far reach compared to where refugees are often living when they arrive in Europe today like the overcrowded tent encampment in Calais or the deserted Olympic stadiums that have been turned into makeshift shelters in Athens In cities that are responding most quickly to new demand though planners are still attempting to focus on ideas like integration where around 126,000 asylum seekers arrived last year (many moved on the city is quickly building 1,000 new units by early 2017 all in addition to public housing that was already planned for a growing city The city is siting the new buildings throughout the city “Finding proper and available public and private building areas to set up apartments so quickly is the most difficult challenge urban planning is facing at the moment,” says Martin Klamt with Munich’s department of urban planning “Building affordable housing for refugees will thus create tensions with all those already waiting for affordable housing because now they are competing on a shrinking market.” But if cities take a more creative approach to urban planning–adopting some of the solutions that architects propose–it may soon become clear that the influx of refugees can lead to better housing for everyone some architects have suggested Airbnb-like sharing solutions for refugees; similar ideas could also help other populations while elderly people often have extra space and struggle with loneliness “We know the elderly have a need for social connection and we know students have the ability to provide some of that,” says Steinberg That’s where I come back to this idea that solving this problem actually creates solutions for everyone else.” Have something to say about this article? 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Learn More Plasteurope.com is a business information platform for the European plastics industry It is part of KI Kunststoff Information and PIE Plastics Information Europe one of the leading content providers for the European plastics industry We offer daily updated business news and reports polymer prices and other services for the international plastics industry News | Polymer Prices | Suppliers Guide | Jobs | Register | Advertising This is the first in a series of six articles on the current exhibition Switzerland is currently holding an exhibition dedicated to the works of Vladimir Tatlin (1885-1953) one of the most important artists of the Russian and Soviet avant-garde famed especially for his extraordinary monument to the Third (Communist) International Tatlin—new art for a new world will run until October 14 More than a hundred works of art are on display in Basel two reconstructions of Tatlin’s models for his legendary monument and his elegant flight apparatus costumes for theatrical performances and two of his later paintings director of the Museum Tinguely explains in his introduction No comprehensive exhibition has been dedicated to this great artist for almost twenty years Later artists such as Swiss painter and sculptor Jean Tinguely (1925-91) looked upon Tatlin as an inspiration whose art the Basel museum is dedicated to also regarded himself as someone “pledged to an art which was socially engaged” The central hall of the Museum Tinguely is the show’s centrepiece Two reconstructions of Tatlin’s monument to the Third International have been placed in this space and attached to the ceiling is his Letatlin Grouped around the towers on the walls are the paintings that made his reputation before 1914 as an avant-garde artist realistic paintings—with their memento-mori motifs—belong to the period when Tatlin went into internal exile to escape the bureaucratic dictates of Stalinist “socialist realism” whose art works can also be viewed from the outside through the windows shows the revolutionary artist in all his complexity and visionary creativity The large hall leads off into smaller rooms with reconstructions of his “counter-reliefs” as well as drawings A movie theatre shows a fifty-minute film produced by Russian state television that was revised for the exhibition The exhibition ends in the basement with a presentation of Tatlin’s works for theatre a sphere he dealt with during his entire life as an artist The explanations accompanying the various works and commenting on his creative efforts are concise and allow visitors with little knowledge of the Russian and Soviet avant-garde or the times in which Tatlin lived to orient themselves the son of a railway engineer (father) and a poet (mother) Until 1913 he produced only paintings and drawings Tatlin seems to be looking into the future openly The self-portrait is surrounded by three wonderful nude portraits from 1912-13 that document his closeness to Cézanne and cubism and his subsequent evolution toward abstraction while hinting at the same time his deep roots in the traditions of Russian popular art and icon painting one can see the “corner counter-relief” (1914) from the Russian State Museum in St It is one of the very few remaining examples of the “counter-relief” an art form created by Tatlin after visiting Pablo Picasso It constitutes a challenge to previous forms of painting and sculpture and attains its effect solely through its organisation of diverse materials in space During the Stalin era almost all these works were either lost or destroyed With these constructions Tatlin freed himself from painting and its depicted content He began to assemble these structures from everyday objects and bits and pieces mounting them on freely suspended ropes or wires recalling boat riggings or stringed instruments When the counter-reliefs were first exhibited Tatlin insisted: “Let us place the eye under the control of touch” His point was to give the materials a role of their own beyond merely their visual reception Tatlin earned the money to make his visit to Picasso in Paris by performing as a “blind” bandura [stringed folk instrument resembling a lute or zither] player in Berlin There is no doubt that Picasso had a great influence on Tatlin’s turn to abstraction but the latter surpassed his idol with his material assemblies that not only brought together pieces of wood but organised them in free space and removed them from their original contexts The two reconstructions of “Tatlin’s Tower” (The Monument to the Third International) are the real heart of the exhibition They reflect Tatlin’s boundless determination to put his creative work at the service of the October Revolution of 1917 and its extension to the entire world Tatlin later said he was “the first artist who went to work for Soviet power” (which may or may not have been an exaggeration) he regarded the building of a new world to also be the task of art Tatlin wrote in an autobiographical fragment: “1917 To accept or not to accept the October Revolution At the end of 1918 he was appointed to a position at the Free State Artistic Workshops (SVOMAS) in Petrograd During the following years he took on further assignments to help train a new generation of artists He focussed on the scientific exploration of fabrics and forms that would be just as decisive for art as for the development of technology in industry In the workshops he cooperated in an interdisciplinary fashion with a collective of experts on architecture Tatlin realized that the revolution not only imposed new duties and responsibilities on art but that the new art must be an essential and necessary part of the revolutionary development the artists’ group New Tendencies in Art in 1923 proclaimed this as its motto for an exhibition in Petrograd in which they opposed the rejection of all the achievements of bourgeois culture as well as any absolute glorification of all that was modern Tatlin’s tower had been conceived as a helical [spiral] tapering metal construction whose axis was to run parallel to the earth’s axis and which was meant to reach a height of 400 metres (higher than the Eiffel Tower) three or four rooms surrounded by glass and shaped as cubicles cylinders or hemispheres were to rotate at different speeds Inside those rooms the different organs of a future world socialist workers republic were to hold their meetings From the tower beams of light would be projected on the sky and a radio station would continuously broadcast in every language The rotations of the various elements of this structure were to quite literally represent “revolution” This monument to the Third International never materialized—hampered not only by the civil war but also the terrible shortage of materials and the legacy of Russian economic backwardness a glimpse at the plans and models on view at the Tinguely exhibition give a sense of the elation and optimism that prevailed among artists dedicated to Soviet power after the revolution Aside from the brilliance of the tower’s design those sentiments no doubt help explain the enduring appeal of Tatlin’s tower and its ability to inspire so many artists to reconstruct the artist’s lost or destroyed models With his tower Tatlin sought not only to create an impressive building with a great aesthetic and social impact but at the same time usher in a new type of monument: not another memorial simply dedicated to the dead and what was past but rather a monument expressing the hopes in a new form of life and the great historic moment of the revolution The tower’s first name was: “Monument to the October Revolution of 1917” the Basel exhibition features two reconstructions of the Letatlin Tatlin’s delicately conceived flight apparatus to create an apparatus with bird’s wings that would enable an individual to ascend into the sky on a sort of aerial bicycle relying solely on his or her muscular strength should not only have the most technically developed airplanes at their disposal due to the perfected form of a flight apparatus “I came to the conclusion that the aesthetic forms that nature produces are also the most economical” of which only one version has been preserved was exhibited in the Italian hall of the State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow (nowadays the Pushkin Museum) next to sculptures by Verrocchio and Donatello and immediately next to a copy of Michelangelo’s David It pointed to the Renaissance idea of a human being as a perfectible Tatlin’s main concern was not merely the construction techniques involved in such a machine as a 1934 newspaper article that includes a photo-collage seems to assume The article can be seen in the documentary section of the exhibition where the Letatlin is presented as an example of “The Inventor—front-line fighter for the most up-to-date defense technique” which in fact probably contradicts its original aim the model was also shown at a show of gliders in 1933 in Moscow There are also some highly interesting reconstructions of Tatlin’s works to be found in the smaller rooms of the exhibition There are only photographs left of most of the sculptures and it has been difficult to recreate precisely the original pieces of art One counter-relief was rebuilt twice in order to give some sense of the original but demanding its own artistic effort and imagination each reproduction has quite a unique character The most important reconstructions were made in London by Martyn Chalk a Russian town about 400 miles southeast of Moscow Penza was the place where Tatlin concluded his artistic training Among the works for the theatre that almost make up an exhibition of their own are recurring references to Richard Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman (not surprising given Tatlin’s extensive experience as a sailor) there is a draft stage design with wonderful shades of blue that remind one of the sea These works were done by the artist without any commission The colourful and down-to-earth drafts for stage design and costumes for the popular play Tsar Maksemyan [Maximilian] and His Disobedient Son Adolfa (1911) testify to Tatlin’s close bonds with his native country In their colour and forms of expression they recall Matisse stage design models and costumes from the staging of Zangezi a play by the futurist poet Velimir Khlebnikov but also played the leading role of the prophet Zangezi containing apparently many illogical and absurd juxtapositions Sections of the play can be heard at the exhibition an art form that involves the cooperation of many people This work gave him a chance to stay artistically active during the years of reaction from the mid-1930s onward It also enabled him to support himself modestly without having to renounce his original ideas and succumb to the dictates of the Stalinist cultural bureaucracy The exhibition at the Museum Tinguely in Basel attracted a large crowd on its opening day the Basellandschaftliche Zeitung wrote: “The exhibition is the highlight of this year’s art summer in Switzerland It will be long before you get another chance of seeing Tatlin presented in such a comprehensive and outstanding way” The exhibition is not only of European but also of international significance In the wake of the current Building the Revolution exhibition in the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin it is the second major European exhibition to deal with Soviet art after the 1917 Revolution This turn toward a “new art for a new world” toward art in post-revolutionary Russia is not accidental humanity is entering a new period of social upheaval major class struggles and political transformations the October Revolution and its associated revolution in art and culture have been considered dead and buried in many circles Their re-emergence has an objective significance [1] “Tatlin uses the term ‘Counter-Relief’ meaning ‘a new form that had successively emerged from the relief but disclaimed it [2] Letatlin: a neologism and play on words combining the artist’s name and the Russian word letat--to fly Bolshevism and the avant-garde artists (1993) [17 February 2010] A collection of projects (spanning scale and location) are enlisted apparently designed to respond to challenges posed by weather—the short lived symptom of climate An intuitive structure that is designed to be modular and versatile, this single-family home in France is a dynamic structure with movable elements The modularity of these elements allows for a playful flexibility in the spaces and their orientation and opportunity for the inhabitants to vary their usage and allowing for views that caution the inhabitants of imminent weather the house went through diagrammatic mutations that are site responsive and adaptive to its adjacent context While such an approach seems to generate more microcosmic ideas of private spaces as opposed to being integrative with the locale on the flipside it does allow for more agency of the structure 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and towbarless aircraft tractors In the Goldhofer plant on some 100,000 m2 of grounds in Memmingen more than 650 employees work on innovative transport solutions and produce perfectly engineered vehicles for payloads varying between 25 and 10,000 tons for demanding customers around the globe The history of Goldhofer Aktiengesellschaft goes back over more than 300 years to 1705 on a training field near Ostfildern in the forested southeast of Stuttgart local sixth-tier side Viktoria Backnang played a friendly against Valeriy Lobanovskyi’s Dynamo Kiev Dynamo won easily and was much the better side Even allowing for the fact that Dynamo was a highly trained professional team he was startled by how it always seemed to have an extra man just to make sure it hadn’t actually sneaked on a 12th That was what extremely disciplined pressing could do that player-manager was named the interim manager of Manchester United through the end of the season Ralf Rangnick is 63 now and widely regarded as one of the most influential coaches of his generation His list of honors may be sparse—a second-flight title with Hannover a German Cup with Schalke 04—but he was one of the pioneers of pressing in Germany an inspiration for the school of coaches that now dominates European football German football was defined through the 1980s and early '90s by the idea that the game was about individual battles To believe that the most effective way to play was with zonal marking and pressing was to be a radical thanks to the likes of Wolfgang Frank and Volker Finke Rangnick was finally accepted as a visionary He did not relish the pressure of being a frontline coach and so he retreated into the background emerging again for two brief stints at RB Leipzig essentially keeping the seat warm for a younger coach His greatest success was as overall head of football development at Red Bull coordinating the philosophy across its range of clubs around the world he held a similar role at Lokomotiv Moscow the greatest significance of his appointment at Old Trafford is less what he does as coach between now and the end of the season and more what he is able to do as consultant in the two years after that “Ralf is one of the most respected coaches and innovators in European football reflecting the invaluable leadership and technical skills he will bring from almost four decades of experience in management and coaching," Man United director of football John Murtough said in a statement “Everyone at the club is looking forward to working with him during the season ahead and then for a further two years in his advisory role.” preferring to find an individual who could reanimate the club David Moyes was Ferguson’s anointed choice Louis van Gaal evoked memories of the '90s incarnation of Total Football but with little sense of the overhaul of the club and its academy that would probably have required José Mourinho was a short-term fix who made things worse Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was the ideal antidote to Mourinho he never seemed close to the required level Watch Premier League matches online all season long with fuboTV: Start with a 7-day free trial! by some alchemy of personality and smart signings the three managers under whom United has won the league But modern football is far more about processes than individuals far more about tactical nuances than motivation United didn’t even have a director of football until March the appointment of Rangnick marks a radical departure a belated attempt to build a structure that might bring consistent success rather than three isolated periods over a century Whether his hard-pressing philosophy will work with this United squad is another issue would seem like an awkward fit (and when he was Leipzig coach six years ago Rangnick said he would not sign Ronaldo—albeit that Leipzig then was a very different club to United now) It was at least intriguing that Ronaldo was left out of the starting lineup to face Chelsea on Sunday But at 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lecture who contributed interpretation of the artwork both have long associations with the Klee Foundation at the Art Museum and the Paul Klee Center and their research benefited from a wealth of newly available archival material The book is beautifully designed and printed  and profusely illustrated with 250 color plates and as many black and white illustrations pertaining to his biography The particularly clear writing makes it suitable for a serious general reader as well as for artists and art historians They leave the emotional intensity to the art But he decided that the ideal no longer had significance for art in the early 20th century Klee was always aware of the need to make himself known in the right circles as a means of advancing his career and of the significance of museum exhibitions for his reputation and He was equally sensitive to the significance of both newspaper criticism and other critical and historical writing and cooperated with authors who supported his work he claimed: I cannot be grasped in the here and now for I reside as much with the dead as with the un-born This monograph discusses his family life and very supportive marriage earned a living by teaching piano before Klee was established as an artist It covers the artist’s personal friendships and relations with other artists supported the artist with regular income during a period in the 1930s when he had no teaching position and there was almost no market for art Klee notably expanded the size of his paintings after his forced exile from Germany and return to his home town and the authors scrupulously cite the varying motives attributed to the decision by scholars and the mixed appraisal of the success of the enlarged scale Baumgartner explicates recurring imagery and forms in Klee’s work and make a convincing case that what might appear to be fantastical combinations of figures glyphs and patterns have clear meanings in the context of the artist’s oeuvre and biography written by other staff of the Paul Klee Center on parallel topics Klee’s highly experimental technique is addressed in enough detail to make the book of particular interest to artists and layered glazes of variously aqueous and oil paints – contrary to all standard advice adhering both paper and various fabrics to board and would incorporate the texture from an early stage of a painting into its final form one of several printmaking techniques he adapted to paintings The book also addresses his methods of mounting works on paper and occasional decision to employ varnish or wax to protect the paintings’ surfaces abstract collages of Anne Ryan at Washburn Gallery Legoland Brutalism and the building blocks of urban development Sid Sachs’s ‘Invisible City,’ Philadelphia’s bustling experimental art scene Essential digital access to quality FT journalism on any device Complete digital access to quality FT journalism with expert analysis from industry leaders Complete digital access to quality analysis and 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information about WorldSkills Lyon 2024, please visit our website: WorldSkills Lyon 2024 - 10 to 15 September (worldskills2024.com) The centenary of Lina Bo Bardi has heightened the fervor for her figure The critic Rowan Moore considers the Italian-Brazilian “the most underrated architect of the twentieth century”; however she who Martin Filler describes as “the Anna Magnani of architecture” – because of the vital and passionate character of her work and person – is enjoying an extraordinary wave of acclaim through publications and exhibitions Her death in 1992 and the monograph published the following year by the Institute dedicated to her memory were covered in Arquitectura Viva by Ruth Verde and Hugo Segawa but there is a parenthesis of silence until the thesis of Olivia de Oliveira in 2006 the exhibition in the Venice Biennale in 2010 Now comes the turn of the Munich show curated by Andres Lepik with the catalog offering essays by a dozen experts – including Lima and Wisnik – which do much to throw light on the multifaceted personality of a by now mythical figure Her friend Valentino Bompiani called her la dea stanca but this ‘tired goddess’ described herself (on the occasion of her first exhibition held in 1989 at the University of São Paulo) as “Stalinist and anti-feminist,” honoring her political convictions and the fact that in Brazil she had never felt discriminated as a woman Lina Bo had studied in Rome under traditionalist architects like Giovannoni and fascists like Piacentini and after graduating in 1939 she was part of the Milan circle of Gio Ponti and Domus editor who at the time was close to Mussolini the journalist and dealer Pietro Maria Bardi so her alignment with the Communist Party can only be explained by her radical independence In Brazil this freedom distanced her from Costa and Niemeyer criticizing their Brasilia and choosing a creative path that openly deviated from the tropical modernity sanctioned by the MoMA in the 1943 exhibition ‘Brazil Builds.’ closer to the Californian houses of the period than to the canonical glass houses of Mies or Johnson and whose extension with a conventional wing for servants’ quarters has been compared by Barry Bergdoll to the hybrids of modern and vernacular previously built by another expatriate in São Paulo Bernard Rudofsky; thus her Art Museum of São Paulo of 1957-1968 in tune with Vilanova Artigas or the younger Paulo Mendes da Rocha her most ‘Paulist’ work in its structural daring and its generous creation of a public place; and thus finally her finest work an obsolete factory built in 1938 with a prefabricated concrete structure of dramatic industrial beauty transforming its spaces into a civic center that manages to fuse culture with everyday life and the MASP exactly what one could hope for the SESC experience is so fertile and moving as to surpass all expectations and explains the present fascination with Achillina di Enrico Bo whom the world by now knows simply as Lina there arent any match using your search terms AeroVironment has received a major contract to supply 41 large-sized advanced uncrewed ground vehicles (UGVs) to the German Federal Armed Forces Initial deliveries are expected to begin in summer 2025 with further orders continuing through 2027 was chosen after a competitive procurement process for its capabilities in explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) and counter-IED missions Designed for high-risk tasks in complex terrain it features an advanced manipulator arm and high mobility across unstable environments called the contract one of the most significant in 15 years reinforcing their strategic partnership with the German military The systems will be manufactured at the Ostfildern facility in Germany The HT300 is part of AeroVironment’s growing portfolio of multi-domain uncrewed systems supporting force protection and operational success in challenging environments WPML eklentisi aktif değil veya çeviriler mevcut değil Türkiye’s first international defense industry publication platform available in six languages aims to reflect the dynamic progress and significant advancements of the Turkish defense industry in recent years onto the media landscape the platform aspires to become a primary news source for the defense sector © 2025 Tüm Hakkı Saklıdır - Eddifa Medya Organizasyon A building with explicit references to medieval architecture replaces an obsolete brutalist annex that never managed to gain acceptance in the historical core of the city of Frankfurt An entrance plaza envisioned as an open-air exhibition space divides the museum into two parallel parts: one integrated into the historical ensemble of the Saalhof; the other on its own but evoking its forms The carefully devised composition of facade and roof apertures make for an abundance of daylight indoors as well as the building’s openness to the exterior connecting the items on display to the surroundings Obra WorkMuseo de Historia de Fráncfort Historical Museum Arquitectos ArchitectsLederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei Architekten / Arno Lederer Daniel Steinhübl (arquitectos responsables de proyecto project team leaders); Eva Caspar Consultores ConsultantsBobran Ingenieure Akustik + Bauphysik (física de las construcciones building physics); Diezinger Architekten (rehabilitación restoration work); Halfkann + Kirchner (protección contra incendios fire protection); Lenz Weber Ingenieure (estructura structure); Steinigeweg Planungs (instalación eléctrica electric services); Werner Sobek (ingeniería de control control engineering); ZWP Ingenieur (instalaciones MEP services) Vision and Automation Solutions for Engineers and Integrators Worldwide are very aware of the need to conserve raw materials including Trautwein SB Technik (Ostfildern manufacture reverse vending machines (RVMs) that can identify specific products such as bottles and cans placed within them reading barcodes and security marks placed on the labels of each bottle or can and then returning a monetary deposit to the consumer “Although reading barcodes on each bottle is not new,” says Christoph Baumer director of engineering at Insensiv (Bielefeld “the latest codes specified by the DPG Deutsche Pfandsystem (Berlin Germany; www.dpg-pfandsystem.de) include a security mark on each one-way bottle or can and the parameters needed to decode it These security codes indicate whether a specific bottle has been manufactured for the German market and verify whether a refund should be made.” such coding will be required on every one-way deposit label sold in Germany from May 2007 Insensiv is set to address the problem of identifying both barcode marks and security codes on these products with a smart camera system that can be embedded in RVMs “Lighting plays a critical role in illuminating each bottle or can as it is rotated within the RVM,” says Baumer it can be illuminated in both visible and infrared (IR) light While the security code can be detected in the visible spectrum it disappears when subjected to special IR light a novel lighting design was required to illuminate the bottle or can under visible and IR lighting conditions Insensiv developed a custom lighting design that uses different LEDs mounted in a housing to illuminate each bottle or can as it is placed in the RVM (see figure) “Since the DPG specifies the way in which a DPG code must be read in both visible and IR modes,” says Baumer “the two lighting scenarios are switched by the imaging system to illuminate the package at the best.” The images are then captured using a CMOS imaging camera developed specifically for Insensiv by Smart Network Devices (SND; Jülich Germany; www.smartnd.com) that uses a CMOS image sensor from Micron Technology (Boise “Featuring two I/O lines to control the LED lighting system and both a serial and Ethernet interface the camera’s on-board processor,” says Baumer “allows images to be processed as they are shot off-loading these tasks from the host PC.” As well as reading the barcode and security code the system can detect different types of bottles placed in the machine This is done by locating specific regions of interest of the shape of the bottle and measuring parameters such as white-to-gray transition points within each image and profile of the bottle can be determined data describing individual bottles are transmitted to the host PC using the camera’s Ethernet interface This can then be correlated with the barcode information and compared with stored data in the PCs database the system can automatically track the different types of bottles the consumer has placed within the RVM Insensiv was established in 2005 out of the Ingenieurbüro für Bildverarbeitung Christian Gieselmann (Bielefeld Its main focus is currently the development of customer-specific image-recognition systems particularly embedded systems for vending-machines and for the agriculture and pharmaceutical industries in Europe Festo’s newly revamped factory in Ostfildern-Scharnhausen Festo is applying new technologies and systems in a planned strategy to showcase its own machines and products as they are being used to build It’s all under the umbrella of a strategy called Industry 4.0 which the company sees as its opportunity to remain competitive on a global scale Chairman of the Management Board of Festo AG & Co Industry 4.0 is about industrial digitalization “It makes the whole world one marketplace,” said Dr Speaking to an international group of senior magazine editors at Festo’s 14th International Press Conference in December 2015 Veit noted that the key elements of industrial digitalization are the individual components that communicate with each other within an overall system and that can control and regulate themselves Festo is using such technology at its newly revamped factory in Ostfildern-Scharnhausen a close co-operation between the industrial associations and the spheres of industry and politics is ensured by “Plattform Industrie 4.0,” a consortium established to create a basis for a uniform understanding of the concept of Industry 4.0 Technological standards are being developed along with business models and new forms of co-operation that will strengthen the global competitiveness of industry the participants in “Plattform Industrie 4.0” are carrying out intensive work on the future topics of standardization but also regarding aspects of new working worlds and training,” explained Dr “We are talking here about the transformation of industrial manufacture into a fully networked we must take the initiative with our characteristic spirit of inventiveness and give shape to this new development.” “Digital refinement will give rise to increasingly intelligent products,” said Dr the individual elements of an overall system will be able to communicate with each other and autonomously control and regulate themselves They are the core of industrial digitalization and support the production process through enhanced functionality – from self-sufficient energy supply up to condition monitoring.” Festo is working in close collaboration with its customers – it has 300,000 worldwide – to develop new concepts and business models – from the development of communication-capable components to their integration into modern automation environments Festo is relying on Industry 4.0 not only for its products Pilot projects have already been initiated at the new Scharnhausen Technology Plant the company is able to keep abreast of developments in the industry The tasks of the human employee are also changing from merely operating machines to solving complex problems Festo is strategically concentrating on a triad comprising new technologies state-of-the-art training and further education The completely revamped Scharnhausen factory which is Festo’s main production plant for valves opened in September 2015 and employs 1,200 “We wanted it to be a reference factory for our customers,” said Stefan Schwerdtle The human operator is and will remain the key element of modern production but will be assigned more and more new tasks “The role of the human within the industrial value creation process is now being transferred from that of a machinery operator to a problem-solver for which employees will be prepared by means of appropriate education and training measures education is becoming the key success factor,” he explained Employee learning plays a central role at the Scharnhausen Technology Plant “We have integrated a Learning Factory into our plant where we can convey teaching content in a practical way “We believe learning is a continuous process.” Courses are designed around the KISS principal Head of Sales Region Germany Training and Consulting “Keep it short and simple.” Many courses are simply one-point lessons They range from 10-20 minutes to a maximum of two days The topics can be as basic as how to use tools “Every one of us in the factory is a customer and has a customer,” said Festo’s Stefan Labonde The materials management team (which also manages equipment maintenance) meets every morning “to plan the perfect day.” Maintenance is a proactive function A big part of the job is to reduce bottlenecks in production “Our objective is to have the maximum availability of [production] machines,” said Florian Fuch who works in the factory’s maintenance department Maintenance employees carry tablet computers that show faults and can display the status and history of all production machines “We function as mobile maintenance specialists,” said Fuch checks the availability of spare parts if needed and can access detailed instructions on the tablets photographs can be sent directly to the machine’s manufacturer for troubleshooting assistance To make the work experience more comfortable for employees the lighting in the factory shifts colour throughout each day and more red later – just like real daylight,” said production worker Annette Ostertag The plant also offers four colourful creative rooms for ‘Ideenschmiede’ (roughly The rooms are designed to foster a creative culture for those working on projects “Employees can use them their own way to find new ideas,” said Zimmermann “The rooms allow them to see things they have not seen before.” For anyone visiting the Scharnhausen factory it’s definitely an experience in seeing things not seen before It’s on the leading edge of future technology for production and Festo’s open-door attitude means many others will be able to learn from its advances Bill Roebuck was the editor of Machinery & Equipment MRO from 1985 to 2015 He can be reached at broebuck@sympatico.ca Karolina Swiecki and Matthew Pearson announce their engagement The bride to be is the daughter of Christoph and Dorota Swiecki of Weinstadt She earned her graduate degree in 2009 from the University of Stuttgart in Environmental Engineering She is currently pursuing her Doctorate at the German Aerospace Center in Vaihingen The groom to be is the son of James and Catherine Pearson of Preston He is a 2003 graduate of Norwich Free Academy and graduated in 2007 from the University of Connecticut with bachelors in Computer Engineering and German Studies He is currently employed as a Software Development Engineer at Pilz Automation Safety in Ostfildern 2010 wedding is planned at Wilhelma Botanical Garden in Stuttgart Germany with an additional reception in Connecticut in spring 2011 The Local Europe ABVästmannagatan 43113 25 StockholmSweden Police found 49-year-old Jürgen Brümmer at the bottom of the 55-metre-high Körsch viaduct near Stuttgart at around 3am on Tuesday A passer-by had alerted them after spotting an empty car on the bridge where his wife found their 15-year-old son dead in his bed in their Ostfildern-Nellingen house the same night The newspaper added that police believe Brümmer killed his son before killing himself READ MORE from The Local's Sport section here An accident in February 2012 had left the gymnast's son unable to walk or talk He is believed to have been been run over by a vehicle and required full-time care The nine-time national gymnast championship winner and competitor at the 1988 Seoul Olympics had left the circuit and set up a physiotherapy clinic in Stuttgart working with people suffering from physical disabilities He also used to train Germany's national junior team and football team the Stuttgart Kickers SEE ALSO: Rising biathlete star, 19, dies Please log in here to leave a comment Sie sind angemeldet.Abmelden Sie sind angemeldet. Abmelden Helen Kevric (7) ist ein Bewegungstalent mit enormer Sprungkraft und zählt zu den Hochveranlagten beim SV Ostfildern Stuttgart - Helen Kevric wird gerade hübsch gemacht langen Haare mit einer kunstvollen Flechtfrisur den blauen Turnanzug mit den Strasssteinchen hat die kleine Turnerin schon angezogen Um sie herum herrscht ein reges Gewusel von Jungen und Mädchen in der Turnhalle in der Sportschule Ruit Gleich folgt die Generalprobe für den Auftritt am Abend bei einer Feier der Turnabteilung des SV Ostfildern Helen und ihre Turnkolleginnen führen einen Tanz auf Es ist jedoch nur ein einmaliger Ausflug in eine andere Welt denn eigentlich ist die Siebenjährige aus Ruit Kunstturnerin würde sie vielleicht Fußball spielen wie ihr Vater Adnan Kevric der als Mittelfeldspieler von 1993 bis 2000 für die Stuttgarter Kickers gespielt und bei 205 Einsätzen 46 Tore erzielt hat Heute arbeitet der 45-Jährige bei Daimler in Untertürkheim in der Instandhaltung und freut sich über die Begabung seiner Tochter Doch die erst Siebenjährige bringt gleich ein ganzes Gesamtpaket von Eigenschaften mit die man für diesen Sport benötig hat jede Menge Power und einen unglaublichen Willen“ Beim Landesfinale der VR-Talentiade in Ellhofen im November wurde sie Erste in ihrer Altersklasse und sicherte sich einen Platz im Talentteam März in der Stuttgarter Porsche-Arena geehrt wird in der die Grundlagen sehr früh gelegt werden müssen Helen wurde als Vierjährige gesichtet und für hochveranlagt befunden dass sie nach der Schule vier- bis fünfmal die Woche jeweils bis zu drei Stunden in der Turnhalle steht Ihr Programm besteht aus Gymnastik und Arbeit an der Körperspannung Die folgende Zeit verbringt sie an irgendwelchen Holmen und am liebsten mache ich Handstandüberschlag“ ausspielen und bringt jede Menge Luft zwischen sich und das Gerät Doch sie überzeugt auch am Stufenbarren „Hier beherrscht sie schon die Kippe und hat für ihr Alter schon einen sehr hohen Leistungsstand“ Auch körperlich ist die Zweitklässlerin den anderen voraus In ihrer Altersklasse ist sie bei den Wettkämpfen oft unterfordert immer wieder muss die Trainerin einen Antrag stellen damit sie auch bei einem Kürvierkampf mitmachen darf dann kann sie in der Mini-Liga durchstarten Shila Tandogan (9) turnt dort schon mit und zählt wie Alinah Jörder (9) zu den weiteren Talenten des SV Ostfildern Seit Oktober 2015 ist Viktor Weber als Coach für die Jungs zuständig und arbeitet hauptamtlich für den Verein Die Turnabteilung des SV Ostfildern ist jedoch ein sehr junges Pflänzchen und wurde erst vor vier Jahren gegründet die Talente aus der Region zu fördern und damit den Unterbau für den Olympiastützpunkt Stuttgart weiter zu sichern wenn ein Talent wie Helen nicht gleich von den größeren Vereinen abgeworben wird“ Deshalb wird der begabte Turnfloh auf zahlreichen Lehrgängen gefördert war Spezialist für Ringe und am Reck und ging 2011 auch für den Bundesligisten MTV Stuttgart an die Geräte Das Gesamtkonstrukt des SV Ostfildern zielt aber nicht ausschließlich auf Erfolg ab Auf Dauer reichen die Mitgliedsbeiträge und Kleinspenden nicht aus „Natürlich wünschen wir uns Sponsoren“ Trotz des Leistungsdrucks setzt er zusammen mit Janina Schumbera auf eine familiäre Atmosphäre „Die Kinder verbringen ja mehr Zeit mit mir als mit ihren Müttern“ Wie aufs Stichwort kommt die kleine Tally und zeigt ihren Wackelzahn.