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You know, where you can find aerial views of buildings -roughly 30-45 degrees, and preferably, lit from the right and unobscured by bushes and trees- bases can be made from the shot, too.
(http://blogs.artinfo.com/artintheair/files/2014/02/NSA.jpg)
New York-based artist and geography PhD Trevor Paglen has provided the world with the first new images of U.S. spy headquarters in the 21st-century. Published yesterday, on the new digital magazine The Intercept (part of the Pierre Omidyar and Glenn Greenwald initiative First Look Media), Paglen’s images were taken at night by helicopter and are now part of the public domain.The photographs, produced in partnership with Creative Time Reports, are stunning and dramatic views of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) in Chantilly, Virginia, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) in Springfield, Virginia, and the National Security Agency (NSA) in Fort Meade, Maryland. Apparently, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) denied Paglen’s requests to take aerial shots of its headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
(http://blogs.artinfo.com/artintheair/files/2014/02/NGA.jpg)
“Since June 2013, article after article about the NSA has been illustrated with a single image supplied by the agency, a photograph of its Fort Meade headquarters that appears to date from the 1970s,” Paglen wrote on the Intercept. “My intention is to expand the visual vocabulary we use to “see” the U.S. intelligence community. Although the organizing logic of our nation’s surveillance apparatus is invisibility and secrecy, its operations occupy the physical world.”
The high resolution images are accompanied by a lengthy explanation written by the artist detailing the inspiration for the project, his intentions for placing them in the public domain, and a short video about the process of bringing it all to fruition.
(http://blogs.artinfo.com/artintheair/files/2014/02/NRO.jpg)
The images are all available for download through links on the Intercept, Creative Time Reports, Flickr, and Wikimedia Commons.
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— Alanna Martinez (@lanna_martinez)
(From Top: NSA, NGA, NRO, all photos courtesy Trevor Paglen)
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POSTED BY CSGUSERS ON 18 MAR 2014
Costing Services Group, Inc. provided cost management for the ambitious new 200,000 SF 26-acre headquarters at Aerotropolis near the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. The center will consolidate the company’s North American administration, technical, training and other operations in a contemporary workplace for 400 employees, a Technical Service and Training Center, and a Customer and Driver Experience Center with an integrated road handling track. The design by HOK turns the go-go feeling of zipping around in a Porsche into glass and steel. Subtle motorsport-related cues and a test track cutting through the heart of the building immerse employees, dealers and customers in the Porsche experience.
LEED Silver certification is anticipated: the building will be enveloped in an energy conserving shell that will protect it from solar gain. Natural ventilation will help the large campus maintain cool air circulation efficiently. The richly planted green grass roof shields the interior from the hot Atlanta sun while filtering rainwater. The storm water runoff will be collected and stored for use on the track wetted surfaces.
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Darcons Headquarters has been recently completed by Arquitectura en Proceso in Mexico.
The building was conceived as a frame that captures part of the surrounding landscape and at the same time defines a plane that divides the intercity from the suburbs.
This skin was manipulated in order to differentiate the public space from the internal activities of the company: the main reception and the costumer rooms are outside the envelope raised above the ground as a Piano Nobile and organized as self defined entities.
The operation space is contained within the envelope and flows throughout the building in a three dimensional open plan that honors the hierarchical organization of the company.
In order to solve the continuity of the circulation the mass of the building was divided in various transversal slices, each presenting an intentionally different profile and two of them defining the geometry of the north and south elevations.
ESO (European Southern Observatory)
(http://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/screen/140609038-cc.jpg)
The ESO Headquarters in Garching, Germany, seen from above. The old headquarters, the extension offices and the new technical building are all visible. The place which now hosts the white barracks on the top left will be the future building site of the ESO Supernova.
Credit:
ESO/E. Graf
(Angle is steep, but light direction is right.)
* (LEED, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is a set of rating systems for the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of green buildings, homes and neighborhoods. Developed by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), LEED is intended to help building owners and operators be environmentally responsible and use resources efficiently. Proposals to modify the LEED standards are offered and publicly reviewed by USGBC's member organizations, which number almost 20,000. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadership_in_Energy_and_Environmental_Design (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadership_in_Energy_and_Environmental_Design))