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Very interesting juxtaposition of simple forms with elegant detailing in this house in Portugal.
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Interesting elevational treatment (as well as the usual elegant Japanese minimalism) in this Orthodontists' offices.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. If there's anything good that has come out of the financial crisis it's the slew of high-quality graphics to help us understand what's going on. Some visualizations attempt to explain it all while others focus on affected business. Others concentrate on how we, as citizens are affected. Some show those who are responsible. After you examine these 27 visualizations and infographics, no doubt you'll have a pretty good idea about what's going on.
Visual Guides to the Financial Crisis
Let's start things off with some comprehensive guides to the financial crisis. Several of these are from GOOD magazine's recent contest to make sense of it all.
2008 Financial Crisis by Carolyn Aler and Sam Conway
A Visual Guide to the Financial Crisis by Jess Bachman
Jess from WallStats put this together for the Mint blog. I'm pretty sure they have him on retainer.
The Global Finanical Crisis by Cypher 13
Where Did All the Money Go? by Emilia Klimiuk
From Feliciano Rahardjo
Looks like the beginning of a comic book.
A Closer Look at the Global Financial Crisis by Liam Johnstone
Economic Meltdown of 2008-2009 by Pei San Ng
The Global Money Mess by Karen Ong
Crisis of Credit Visualized by Jonathan Jarvis
We saw this one a few days ago in animated form.
Stimulus vs Bailout Plans
OK, now that we have an idea of what's going on here, let's take a look at the stimulus/bailout plans. The government is handing out a lot of money. Where's it all going and when?
Bailout Tracker by The New York Times
Congressional Voting on the Bailout Plan by The New York Times
Gotta go through a lot of voting before deciding whether or not to spend $700 billion.
Total Spending by The Washington Post
Obama's $787 billion Dollar Economic Stimulus Plan by CreditLoan
Bubbles, bubbles, and more bubbles.
Slicing Up the Economic Stimulus Bill by Associated Press
Recovery.gov from Obama Administration
The Obama administration seems to understand that it's important to provide information to the public.
Effects on Business
Will the bailout do any good? What effect has the current state of the economy had on big business?
Map of the Market by The New York Times
How this Bear Market Compares by The New York Times
Making Sense of Problems at Fannie and Freddie by The New York Times
Golden Parachutes by Jess Bachman
The Fall of GM by Jess Bachman
The Cost of Bailing Out AIG via Many Eyes
Effects On the Individual
Enough about business. How are you affected?
Job Losses in Recent Recessions by Time Magazine
Visualizing Money
Right.org
One Trillion Dollars by Mint and WallStats
How Much is $700 billion? by USA Today
What Does One Trillion Dollars Look Like from PageTutor
Looks at Past Recessions
The best way to prepare for the future is to look at what was done in the past.
How the Government Dealt with Past Recessions by The New York Times
A Tally of Federal Rescues by The New York Times
See. I told you that you'd understand a this financial crisis a little better. Did I miss any other stellar graphics?
Resources:
- GOOD Magazine
- The New York Times
- USA Today
- The Wall Street Journal
- The Big Picture
- Mint
- WallStats
- Many Eyes
- Cool Infographics
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Now you too can nod wisely along with people who talk about the global financial crisis...
© René de Wit
Architects: Shift Architecture Urbanism
Location: Tilburg, The Netherlands
Project architects: Harm Timmermans, Pieter Heymans
Collaborators: Sabine Hogenhout, Bahar Akkoclu, Tjeerd Bloothoofd
Developer: Van der Weegen Bouwontwikkeling, Tilburg
Main contractor: Van der Weegen Bouwgroep, Tilburg
Project area: 518 sqm
Project year: 2011
Photographs: René de Wit, Jos Bedaux
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Tilburg University has extended its campus with the Faculty Club, a multipurpose pavilion for the academic staff and their guests. Shift architecture urbanism took the initiative to reanimate the quintessential quality of the Tilburg campus: strong solitary buildings in the green. The monumental modernism of Jos Bedaux served as a frame of reference. Bedaux designed the first – still the best – buildings for the university in the sixties.
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By creating a strong formal relation between the existing university buildings and the new Faculty Club, an ensemble of omni-directional solitaires is created. This enables one to recognize the Faculty Club as part of the university, despite its peripheral forest location and exclusive program.
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The Faculty Club is designed as a carved-out-monolith, one simple box in which transparency and massiveness melt together. The central restaurant is carved out from the centre, creating a tunnel-effect in the front façade. In order to strengthen its solitaire character the building is lifted from the ground. The height difference is bridged by outside stairs and a ramp integrated within the front façade.
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Each façade has only one window. By recessing each window, outdoor spaces are created within the front and rear façades. These mark the entrance in front and form a large covered terrace in the back. The simplicity and plasticity of the three-dimensional window treatment further contributes to the building’s sculptural qualities.
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The primary program consists of a restaurant for eighty persons, a lounge and two conference rooms. The secondary program consists of a kitchen, storage space and other services. The further the functions are situated from the campus, the more intimate and informal the space becomes. The conference rooms look out over the campus, while the lounge completely relates to the forest and the garden. All main functions are physically linked by a transparent axis running the length of the building.
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Both the lounge and the restaurant are connected to the carved-out terrace situated at the rear of the building. A four-rail system of sliding windows enables one to open up two-thirds of the total eighteen meters of glass façade. This intensifies the experience of the forest without the visitor having to step outside the building envelope.
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The construction principles of the Faculty Club are deceptively simple. In order to emphasize contrasting space and mass, the structure, installations and details are integrated within walls and floors. The starting point for the engineering was the visual absence of technique. Key contractors and consultants were engaged early in the process of preliminary design, enabling the development of precise and project-specific details that consistently support the overall concept. Shift architecture urbanism was responsible for the design, including the execution drawings and the site supervision.
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The result is an integral, durable and engaging building. A monolith carved in such a way as to both profit and profit from the surrounding landscape while maintaining its distinct primary form. Its architecture refers to the heritage of Jos Bedaux by abstracting and updating his formal language. This makes the building into a solidary solitaire, sober and luxurious, massive and transparent, silent and outspoken.
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University Faculty club in Tilburg, Netherlands
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A modification of the classic London Underground map - but geographically accurate!
