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Japanese Garden; Portland, Oregon, USA, January vs October
Японский Сад в Портланде, Орегон, США, Январь и Октябрь
Please join AIA Central Valley, Romp Creative, Sacramento Old City Association and SacMod (Sacramento Modern) for a free screening of "The Human Scale" at 5:45 on April 22, 2014 at AIA Central Valley - 1400 S Street in Sacramento.
This documentary addresses key lessons about city planning with implications for our future. Those of you with an interest in our city's many current and proposed building projects should attend.
The solution to these complex problem involves understanding human needs — and increasing opportunities for vitality and spontaneity. Learn what elements are vital for making cities better places to live. Among concepts covered: better pedestrian access and more opportunities for social gathering and interaction.
All in attendance are invited to give their input at an informal discussion afterwards about the ways in which some of the planning principles identified in the film relate to Sacramento.
RSVP here: humanscale.bpt.me/ Looking forward to seeing you there!
… photopolymer print taken from an image from a copy of Humanscale 4/5/6 that I had at the time … now sold …
The final Setup, the lack of cables on view and cleanliness is lovely. Features 27in Apple Cinema Display, Apple Macbook Air 11in Core i5
The future flat facade of a new dormitory building towers at the Berkeley College of Music. The bay-windowed facade of a decades-old apartment building stands across from it on Mass Ave.
The final Setup, the lack of cables on view and cleanliness is lovely. Features 27in Apple Cinema Display, Apple Macbook Air 11in Core i5
On Thursday - in Athens - some of us left the hotel in a small coach with a guide to visit Poseidon’s temple at Sounion on the southernmost tip of the Greek mainland, marking the entry to the Saronik Gulf, with safety for wind blown sailors both north or south of the Cape. I’d read, as a child, how King Aegius had waited on this headland for his son’s return from challenging the Minotaur in the maze at Knossus. His ship stopped at Delos and, amid the celebrations, Theseus forgot to change his black sail to the prearranged white to signal his safe return. From beside the temple, I gazed south and thought how, waiting for my son, I might have seen many vessels with white sails heading north and hoped, but then, at about the expected time for the annual return of the tribute vessel from Crete, glimpsed or pretended not to see, slowly rounding a hazy island headland, a sail of undoubted blackness on course for Athens, and known the boy lost and a sheer drop close to hand. The temple occupies less land than nearby hotels – slender-scaled to the human physique - despite, as our guide said, the craft being available to build on the scale of the pyramids. ‘Harmony between man and the earth - the thing we’ve lost … have always been losing and finding again,’ she said.
Japanese Garden; Portland, Oregon, USA, October 2014.
Японский Сад в Портланде, Орегон, США, Осень 2014
samsung lcd is wall mounted. both monitor & speakers are wired in-wall. a mac mini & g drive are in the top drawer, wired to a numeric keyboard and magic mouse; also an apple extreme for wireless printing & a roku player.
humanscale freedom chair designed by niels diffrient - both intuitive & comfortable.
the flat panel speakers are planar magnetic transducers w 2.5" mid-range cones; the vented-cube houses a monopole subwoofer w an active crossover. this little system delivers clear, realistic sound.
The final Setup, the lack of cables on view and cleanliness is lovely. Features 27in Apple Cinema Display, Apple Macbook Air 11in Core i5
I find it easy to get caught in the 5PM rush in most large cities worldwide. It's hectic, maddening and overwhelming. Portland is not immune to this, but I find rush hour on the streets of Downtown Portland to be subtle, intriguing, and in some instances, relaxing. There's a pace and rhythm to the commute home, but its more tolerable. More interesting, achieving a more humane scale than most comparable large cities.
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Japanese Garden; Portland, Oregon, USA, January vs October
Японский Сад в Портланде, Орегон, США, Январь и Октябрь
13 October 2010. One of my favourite Tottenham views - southwards from the towpath near Ferry Lane bridge.
It isn't Venice or Amsterdam. But still an example of what humanscale architecture can achieve when building homes in harmony with a waterway.
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§ View from the bridge with Google Street View.
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Here you can see the back of the Cinema Display at the Humanscale M7 Monitor mount. Along with the cable tidy hidden under the desk to take all the cables
Here is a final shot of the my setup. You can see my macbook all hooked up as well as my custom office chair made from a Cobra clubman seat. This is take from the back.
The Humanscale M7 Mount in place and ready for the display. I used to use this on my old desk with a much smaller display. The weight killed my old desk, but this one is much more solid.
The final Setup, the lack of cables on view and cleanliness is lovely. Features 27in Apple Cinema Display, Apple Macbook Air 11in Core i5
Japanese Garden; Portland, Oregon, USA, January vs October
Японский Сад в Портланде, Орегон, США, Январь и Октябрь
Next up cutting the square out of the desk for the Aluminium Cable port. A bit of a pain, but worth it.
A chart from Kirkpatrick Sale's book Human Scale (1980) pp. 259-260.
"In terms of translating energy into transportation, there is nothing, neither animal nor mechanical, that is superior to a human being on a bicycle; as the chart on the following page makes clear."
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Note the exposed framing and exterior vertical boarding. Also the rhythm of the trussed structure. All New Zealand native timbers.
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Taken in 2011.
The human scale (not) outside the Tufts Medical Center subway station on Washington Street.
This is my current setup, it's a bit smaller than my old office, but far more practical. The car is actually a computer.