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CECILE

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(07/01/2009 2:00 PM)

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Hi Weng and Sara..

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(07/01/2009 2:32 PM)

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http://makeitrightnola.org/mir_SUB.php?section=homes&page=duplex

Make It Right Architects Break New Green Ground with Duplex Designs

Families from the Lower 9th Ward can now choose to build a duplex in the Make It Right neighborhood. Until now, only single family homes were available and being built on the site devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Fourteen acclaimed local, national and international architects volunteered their time, met with the community and potential homeowners and applied their experience and creativity to come up with high quality designs that push the envelope.

The Designs

While each of the 14 duplex designs is unique, the architects tackled some common problems and arrived at innovative solutions that could change the way multi-family homes are built:

Flexibility - A number of the designs feature interchangeable floor plans that allow the families to change the size and configuration of the two homes as their family size, needs or economic situation changes.

Integration with the Street - Increasing the elevation of the homes made them safer from flooding, but interrupted the connectedness between the porch and life on the street -a relationship valued by the Lower 9th Ward community. To solve this problem, several architects created midpoint landings or stoops in the stairways where the family could gather.

Landscaping as a design and energy element - Several architects incorporated landscaping into their design of these solar-powered, highly energy efficient homes to maximize exposure to sun and shade and cut heating and cooling costs. And because outdoor living is such a core part of life in the Lower 9th Ward, many of the designs include courtyards, interior gardens, and social use of the area under the elevated house.

Affordability - To cut the cost, but not the quality of these duplexes, several of the architects, stacked the houses one on top of the other to reduce the "footprint" of the home and simplify construction.

Click on the links below to view the designs.

Atelier Hitoshi	Bild Design	Billes	buildingstudio
BNIM	Constructs	Elemental	Gehry Partners
GRAFT	Kappe Architects	MVRDV	Pugh + Scarpa
Waggonner & Ball Architects	William McDonough + Partners

WENGSAN

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(07/01/2009 2:33 PM)

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bdj wrote:
http://www.forbes.com/200...t-hollywood_slide_3.html
Angelina Jolie

For all her do-gooder work and parenting, Jolie makes most of her money by kicking butt. Last year's Wanted earned a healthy $341 million at the worldwide box office.

She's getting a big upfront paycheck for her next film, Salt, about a disgraced CIA agent.

© J

can't wait for this.

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(07/01/2009 2:53 PM)

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dulcinea13 wrote:
http://makeitrightnola.org/mir_SUB.php?section=homes&page=duplex

Make It Right Architects Break New Green Ground with Duplex Designs

Families from the Lower 9th Ward can now choose to build a duplex in the Make It Right neighborhood. Until now, only single family homes were available and being built on the site devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Fourteen acclaimed local, national and international architects volunteered their time, met with the community and potential homeowners and applied their experience and creativity to come up with high quality designs that push the envelope.

The Designs

While each of the 14 duplex designs is unique, the architects tackled some common problems and arrived at innovative solutions that could change the way multi-family homes are built:

Flexibility - A number of the designs feature interchangeable floor plans that allow the families to change the size and configuration of the two homes as their family size, needs or economic situation changes.

Integration with the Street - Increasing the elevation of the homes made them safer from flooding, but interrupted the connectedness between the porch and life on the street -a relationship valued by the Lower 9th Ward community. To solve this problem, several architects created midpoint landings or stoops in the stairways where the family could gather.

Landscaping as a design and energy element - Several architects incorporated landscaping into their design of these solar-powered, highly energy efficient homes to maximize exposure to sun and shade and cut heating and cooling costs. And because outdoor living is such a core part of life in the Lower 9th Ward, many of the designs include courtyards, interior gardens, and social use of the area under the elevated house.

Affordability - To cut the cost, but not the quality of these duplexes, several of the architects, stacked the houses one on top of the other to reduce the "footprint" of the home and simplify construction.

Click on the links below to view the designs.

Atelier Hitoshi
Bild Design
Billes
buildingstudio

BNIM
Constructs
Elemental
Gehry Partners

GRAFT
Kappe Architects
MVRDV
Pugh + Scarpa

Waggonner & Ball Architects
William McDonough + Partners

if you click on the "GRAFT" design, in the 3rd page of the PDF design of the house, there is a pic of pax in the design plan for the GRAFT house. and i am not even lying

, check it out, it's cute!

dulcinea13

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(07/01/2009 3:18 PM)

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I still want to hear Brad's take on all of this, preferably in a Charlie Rose-type interview.

From Anne Thompson of Variety

http://weblogs.variety.com/thompsononhollywood/2009/07/soderbergh-and-mann-too-smart-for-the-room.html#comments

July
1 Soderbergh and Mann: Too Smart for the Room?

As much as I want to see the Steven Soderbergh/Brad Pitt version of Moneyball, reality needs to return to the movie business. Soderbergh himself occupies a strange nexus within Hollywood. He once told me that he didn't want to direct movies out of the back seat of a limousine. And he is willing to play studio ball or indie ball, as he sees fit. At the same time, like all gifted directors, he wants to push himself, and the art form. But he often loses interest in what movie audiences might want.

Sony chief Amy Pascal (who explains herself to the LAT's Patrick Goldstein) has every right to pull the plug on a movie that started to look too risky for a $57 million starter budget. Add marketing costs and the movie would have to score at least $100 million theatrically, and the DVD cushion isn't there any more. (The NYT reports its Moneyball analysis here.)

That's the real reason that reality has set in. Soderbergh has also stated that the economics of the movie business are out of whack. He's right. A correction is long overdue. But I hate to see worthy movies going by the wayside. It would make sense for more filmmakers to step into the "specialty" side of the business and make these risky movies for a price.

Of course the Soderberghs and Michael Manns of the world want to express themselves as artists. And ride the studio gravy train. But the studios are not going to indulge their whims anymore at high budget levels. I hate for Public Enemies' mixed reception to give the studios an excuse to not make movies like this anymore. I also don't want Universal execs to abandon their willingness to try out-of-the-box movies that sometimes work (Wanted, Mamma Mia!) and sometimes don't (State of Play, Duplicity). The last thing we want is for them to make more movies like Land of the Lost!

Kim Masters examines Mann's movie m.o..

Because it's only going to get tougher for smart movies for adults to get made, moviemakers who land a chance at bat need to hit these films out of the park--and connect with audiences. Now is not the time for navel-gazing and experimentation at big-budget levels. That's the deal.

WENGSAN

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tkmwelfare wrote:

dulcinea13 wrote:
http://makeitrightnola.org/mir_SUB.php?section=homes&page=duplex

Make It Right Architects Break New Green Ground with Duplex Designs

Families from the Lower 9th Ward can now choose to build a duplex in the Make It Right neighborhood. Until now, only single family homes were available and being built on the site devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Fourteen acclaimed local, national and international architects volunteered their time, met with the community and potential homeowners and applied their experience and creativity to come up with high quality designs that push the envelope.

The Designs

While each of the 14 duplex designs is unique, the architects tackled some common problems and arrived at innovative solutions that could change the way multi-family homes are built:

Flexibility - A number of the designs feature interchangeable floor plans that allow the families to change the size and configuration of the two homes as their family size, needs or economic situation changes.

Integration with the Street - Increasing the elevation of the homes made them safer from flooding, but interrupted the connectedness between the porch and life on the street -a relationship valued by the Lower 9th Ward community. To solve this problem, several architects created midpoint landings or stoops in the stairways where the family could gather.

Landscaping as a design and energy element - Several architects incorporated landscaping into their design of these solar-powered, highly energy efficient homes to maximize exposure to sun and shade and cut heating and cooling costs. And because outdoor living is such a core part of life in the Lower 9th Ward, many of the designs include courtyards, interior gardens, and social use of the area under the elevated house.

Affordability - To cut the cost, but not the quality of these duplexes, several of the architects, stacked the houses one on top of the other to reduce the "footprint" of the home and simplify construction.

Click on the links below to view the designs.

Atelier Hitoshi
Bild Design
Billes
buildingstudio

BNIM
Constructs
Elemental
Gehry Partners

GRAFT
Kappe Architects
MVRDV
Pugh + Scarpa

Waggonner & Ball Architects
William McDonough + Partners

if you click on the "GRAFT" design, in the 3rd page of the PDF design of the house, there is a pic of pax in the design plan for the GRAFT house. and i am not even lying , check it out, it's cute!

true!the kid from the first pix look like mad.

dulcinea13

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(07/01/2009 3:28 PM)

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A few more pics, including one with Brad, of the Mini Capsule Hotel that Brad recently bought in Basel

http://www.b3designers.co.uk/blog/2009/06/mini-capsule-hotel-by-atelier-van.html

Mini Capsule Hotel, a six-bed dorm by Atelier Van Lieshout, featured in an outdoor installation called Never-EverLand at Design Miami/Basel earlier this month. Curated by Natalie Kovacs and presented by Carpenters Workshop Gallery, the installation was billed as a "dystopian/utopian garden of unearthly delights". Mini Capsule Hotel was bought by actor Brad Pitt (see picture), who apparently plans to install it on his private beach.

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(07/01/2009 3:57 PM)

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Hi all! Thanks for the articles.

I always liked that mini capsule hotel, the kids are probably going to love it.

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Edited By: dmargarind 07/01/2009 6:14 PM. Edited 1 times.

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hi everyone

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http://www.movieline.com/2009/07/mlb-approval-still-murky-as-moneyball-circles-the-drain.php

Debacles

MLB Approval Still Murky as Moneyball Circles the Drain

Written by S.T. VanAirsdale | 01 Jul 2009, 12:30 PM

Last we checked, a rumor making the rounds insisted that Moneyball stalled because it didn't have Major League Baseball's stamp of approval. Today, meanwhile, Sony co-chairman Amy Pascal opened up a bit about the problems with the Steven Soderbergh/Brad Pitt film that infamously imploded last week just before shooting was to begin. In a separate report, the NY Times offers some of the perspective that we've heard at Movieline HQ as well. Like that whole Soderbergh-vs.-Pascal script issue? I don't doubt it, but I'm not getting the warmest, fuzziest feeling about the project from Major League Baseball, either.

Contacted yesterday afternoon in a follow-up by Movieline, MLB spokesman Matt Bourne corroborated what he told the NYT: The league had been "having a dialogue" with Sony to approve the use of their franchises' logos and uniforms, thus nailing down the historical accuracy of author Michael Lewis's best-selling source material. But pressed further over whether any approval had been granted - it's a pretty straight yes-or-no question - Bourne reiterated that the league continued to work with the studio on clearances for the film, adding, "We're not the reason for the hold-up."

Sony reserved its own comment for the blowout piece over at the LAT, where Pascal elaborated on the company line that Soderbergh's script revisions went too experimentally far afield for the studio's taste:

To hear her tell it, Soderbergh delivered a script that was inventive but a radical departure from the film Sony thought he was going to make. It was, put simply, more of a dramatic re-creation than a feature film.

"I've wanted to work with Steven forever, because he's simply a great filmmaker," Pascal told me today. "But the draft he turned in wasn't at all what we'd signed up for. He wanted to make a dramatic reenactment of events with real people playing themselves. I'd still work with Steven in a minute, but in terms of this project, he wanted to do the film in a different way than we did."

Pascal confirms she'd still be interested in shooting Steven Zaillian's original script with Pitt, a Soderbergh loyalist whose agents at CAA would still love nothing more than to bundle in one of their directors and put this humiliation behind them. (Co-star and fellow CAA client Demetri Martin could use the gig, too.) But with the parties on no fewer than three different development pages (literally), the smartest step for everybody may just be to let it die. Soderbergh needs to get back to Cleo anyway, right?