Saturday 18 September 2010

Monday 5 April 2010

30 St Mary Axe (Known as the Gherkin and the Swiss Re Building).

I like to talk about a building! which is looked different!

Gherkin! Yes Gherkin, but not the one that found in the sandwiches. (hahaha) I like this Building, because I found it different from traditional buildings. In my opinion, all buildings are look like a CUBE. In spite of this fact that Gherkin has been named Erotic Gherkin, the Towering Innuendo and Crystal Phallus; but it is a innovation in architectural designing. It is look like a building in a Science Fiction Film.

30 St Mary Axe or (as known by everybody) the Gherkin stands on the former site of the Baltic Exchange building, which was severely damaged on 10 April 1992 by the explosion of a bomb placed by the Provisional IRA. It was constructed by Skansa completed in December 2003 and opened on 28 April 2004.

The primary occupant of the building is Swiss Re, a global reinsurance company, who had the building commissioned as the head office for their UK operation. As owners, their company name lends itself to another nickname for the building, variants on Swiss Re Tower, although this has never been an official title. (Building, 2009)

The building uses energy-saving methods which allow it to use half the power a similar tower would typically consume. (Building, 2009) Gaps in each floor create six shafts that serve as a natural ventilation system for the entire building even though required fire breaks on every sixth floor interrupt the "chimney." The shafts create a giant double glazing effect; air is sandwiched between two layers of glazing and insulates the office space inside.

The building is 180m high, and the 76,400m2 area inside includes 34 floors of office space, retail areas on the ground floor, three floors of restaurants and a reception hall at the top.

If you want to know more about 30 St Mary Axe just click on the following link:

Read more: http://www.building.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=3111783#ixzz0kG0aCdky


Wednesday 24 February 2010

Millennials

Millennials or Generation Y is the generation who were born after 1976. The most important specification of this Generation is that they were ( and are) born in the period of history which is influenced by Media.
This Generation has been bombardment by Information.

Wednesday 10 February 2010

Millennials

I have learnt a new, impressive word:
Millennials

THE FOOTSTEP OF HOPE

Natural Disaster, Poverty and Crime are a part of daily news in whole the world.
While UNWFP in highest international level struggle to fight with hunger in the world, somewhere in this world, not so faraway in a remote distance country, a philanthropist PERSIAN (IRANIAN) BAND has played a lovely music to show their altruism.
This Music Band started playing POP Music in Iran, since ten years ago. The only difference between this band and the others is three women vocalist (Due to Islamic rule, women should not sing in a public place, however there is no religious restriction for female singer in a group, chore and vocalist).
The following link is another way to know more about IRAN (PERSIA) and people:

The name of the music is: "THE FOOTSTEP OF HOPE"

Thursday 4 February 2010

Hi Everybody. If you like to know more about Iran, just check the following LINK:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n59zt

It is a programme, which has been presented by BBC4