Dragan's

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Final Design Model

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Plans and Sections

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Developing Early Stage

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Concept model

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25 mapping exercises

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Project 3-Art Gallery

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Project 3-Art Gallery

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Project 3

Floor plan and section mixed with rendering, site plan

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Project 2-Room and Narrative

Narrative: 'Man that seeks the night light'

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Project 2

Light and shadow study drawings

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Mother's House

Drawings

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Mother's House

Parti Drawings

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Assignment 1-Mother's House

Model

filefront link to assignment file

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filefront link to assignment file

developed images of architecture

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draft images of architecture

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table

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elevator

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Animation 2- path of elevator

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Animation 1- path of elevator

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36 Custom Textures

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2 Point Perspective sketches

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1 Point Perspective sketches

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Ratan Tata News Article

Tata Power keen to buy Dabhol

Our Bureau

MUMBAI, Aug. 10

THE Tatas are interested in buying Enron's Dabhol power project and "informal talks are on".

Mr Ratan Tata, Chairman of the group's power company Tata Power, today said Tata Power will watch the developments on Enron's Dabhol Power project closely and would ``conceivably think of buying it if it makes sense for us''.
Mr Tata was addressing shareholders of Tata Power at its annual general meeting.

Mr Adi Engineer, Managing Director of the company, later told reporters that any formal discussions on Dabhol Power Co (DPC) would begin only after the legal problems related to the project were solved. ``Informal talks are on,'' he said, without revealing who the company was speaking to.

He said Tata Power was waiting in the wings and would take over DPC if there was a ``good opportunity''.

``We cannot forget that there is a valuable asset created and lying there and it cannot be wished away. We have our ears close to the ground. But the subject of stepping in does not arise till the legal tangle is solved,'' Mr Engineer said.

On being questioned about the statement made by the Enron India chief, Mr Wade Cline, on his readiness to sell the Dabhol project for $1 billion, Mr Engineer said he did not have that much money in his wallet.

``The project can be made viable but the Government will have to take tough decisions such as rationalising the consumption of power. They have to tie up the areas with power deficit with those with a surplus,'' Mr Engineer said.

Mr Ratan Tata also said that it could not be forgotten that Dabhol power was expensive power as the project was a gas-based one. ``But someone has to buy the project,'' he said.

PTI reports: Meanwhile, Dabhol Power Co has moved the Bombay High Court requesting an early hearing of its petition filed as per the Supreme Court order of August 6, challenging the State Electricity Regulatory Commission's (MERC's) jurisdiction to adjudicate in the dispute with the Maharashtra State Electricity Board.

The US energy major would also raise additional grounds supporting its petition in the court, including its objection to the MERC member, Mr Jayant Deo, legal sources said.

Pic.:Mr Ratan Tata, Chairman, Tata Power, and Mr A.J. Engineer, Managing Director, at the company's AGM in Mumbai on Friday.

2007-10-20T11:00:00.000-07:00

Carlos Slim News Article

Sources:‘Giuliani’s Mexico City Game Plan’, The Narco News Bulletin, http://www.narconews.com; ‘Yo Quiero Todo Bell’, http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.01/slimpr.html; ‘World’s richest people’, http://www.forbes.com/finance/lists/10/2003; Carlos Slim: ‘The key is the Internet, Business Week, http://www.businessweek.com/2000/0008/b3669023.htm; ‘Mexico City’s historical centre is cleaning up’, Laurence Iliff, The Dallas Morning News, 3 Nov 03.

Carlos Slim is a man with a mission. The Mexican tycoon is already Latin America’s richest person with a net worth of more than $14 billion, according to Forbes magazine. The grey-bearded, swashbuckling 63-year-old controls a dizzying array of companies across Latin America. And now he is looking north. In recent years he’s snapped up the ailing US internet provider, Prodigy, as well as CompUSA, the Dallas-based, big-box computer retailer.

It is fair to say that the average Mexican would have difficulty getting through the day without adding to Mr Slim’s fortunes. You name it and just-plain-Slim, as he’s known locally, has probably got a slice of the action. His Grupo Carso conglomerate includes 305 Sanborns stores in Mexico as well as mining operations, auto parts makers and Cigatam, the country’s leading cigarette maker. Together his companies make up more than half the value of the Bolsa, the Mexican stock exchange.

Not bad for the son of Lebanese immigrants. Carlos Slim’s father, Julian, fled the Ottoman Empire’s military draft as a teenager and wound up in Mexico in 1902. A few years later, at the height of the Mexican revolution with Pancho Villa marching on Mexico City, Slim’s father took a gamble and bought up some prime real estate in the city core – a shrewd move as it turned out.

‘That was courage,’ says Slim, ‘He taught me no matter how bad a crisis gets, Mexico isn’t going to disappear, and that if I have confidence in the country, any sound investment will eventually pay off.’

Like the wizened American investment guru Warren Buffet, Carlos Slim has a nose for bargains. With the Mexican economy mired in debt in the mid-1980s and company values at record lows Slim decided to go shopping, picking up dozens of businesses for a song. Less than a decade later the market value of those firms had jumped an average 3,000 per cent.

But Slim’s biggest coup was the purchase in 1990 of controlling interest in Telefonos de Mexico (Telmex), the Mexican national telephone company. Strong-armed by the IMF and the World Bank to open the economy to market forces, the Government began a massive privatization campaign, selling off hundreds of state-owned companies.

As it happens Slim was good buddies with then-President Carlos Salinas de Gortari. In 1993, at a gala fundraising dinner, Slim – along with 30 other business leaders – pledged an average $25 million each to Gortari’s PRI party. (Salinas left office in 1994, was charged with massive fraud and corruption and has been in exile in Ireland ever since.)

A few sore losers complained that friends in high places gave Slim a leg-up on the Telmex deal, a charge that he strenuously denies. In any event Slim creatively partnered with Southwestern Bell Corporation and France Telecom, and scooped up Telmex for a cool $1.7 billion. Today the company has a market value of $37 billion, a landline monopoly in Mexico and 70 per cent of the country’s long distance market. Since the 1990 acquisition Slim has used Telmex profits to jump into the digital age. His American Movil is a leader in the Latin America mobile phone industry and now has 41 million subscribers across the region.

Despite his colossal wealth, Slim is thrift-conscious. He has few extravagances. For decades his headquarters has been a drab, two-storey concrete building surrounded by skyscrapers in Mexico City’s glitzy Lomas district. His world-class collection of Rodin sculptures is now in a museum. He does have an addiction to fine Cuban cigars and a weekend home in Cuernavaca but that’s about it.

After the recent death of his wife, Soumaya, his main preoccupations are his children and his work. His three sons (Carlos Slim Domit, Marco Antonio and Patrick) now run the day-to-day operations of the three major arms of his business empire.

Lately, the mercurial tycoon has repackaged himself as a nationalist critic of what he calls Mexico’s failed neo-liberal economic model – a curious charge from someone whose business empire has blossomed under NAFTA. But Slim has the crafty self-interest of a seasoned politician. Playing the nationalist card makes good business sense, especially since US-based giants like AT&T are challenging his Telmex monopoly. Slim wants to protect his home base at the same time as he looks abroad and he knows the power of populism. His foundations run by Telmex and Grupo Carso give away millions every year in scholarships. Heck, he’s even got the unions on his side. Francisco Juarez Fernandez, leader of the 49,000-strong telephone workers’ union told a rally in Mexico City: ‘We’re not going to accept turning over the market to foreigners?’

Like his father before him, Carlos Slim is now eyeing the Mexico City real estate market. And he’s counting on ex-New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani for help. Slim recently led a group of business interests who paid Giuliani’s consulting firm $4.3 million for a report on how to clean up the city’s historic centre. Both the mayor and the police chief embraced the report’s recommendations. Not surprisingly, they echo Giuliani’s approach in New York – which was basically to make it impossible for the poor to live there. The report calls for a crackdown on street vendors, prostitution, graffiti and homeless kids who watch parked cars for a few pesos. Critics fear the project is an attempt to boost property values for real estate speculators while pushing the poor to the city’s crowded suburban slums. Slim is not deterred.

‘Those who say that I am taking over the city centre, that I have already bought up everything? are not going to stop me from continuing my project.’

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Zhang Yin News Article

The packaging of Zhang Yin: other people's trash has made her fortune

January 21, 2007

By Allen Cheng

Zhang Yin started collecting wastepaper in 1990 in Los Angeles and shipping it to China to make the cardboard needed by growing export industries. Her company, Nine Dragons Paper Holdings, is now China's biggest packaging maker. Nine Dragons' stock has risen fourfold since its initial public offering in March last year, pushing Zhang's fortune to $4.7 billion (R34 billion).

"Other people saw scrap paper as garbage, but I saw it as a forest of trees," says Zhang. "I had to learn from scratch. The business was just my husband and me, and I didn't speak a word of English."

Investors such as Merrill Lynch and Baring Asset Management are betting on Zhang as the Chinese companies that make everything from computers to bicycles demand more and more cardboard boxes. China's exports have increased fivefold to $762 billion during the past decade.

"The company is the leader in the industry," says Lilian Co, a manager of Baring Hong Kong China Fund, Nine Dragons' fourth-biggest shareholder, with 29 million shares. "There's an expanding market and a shortage of supply. We still like her story."

Zhang is the world's richest self-made woman, ahead of chat show host Oprah Winfrey and eBay chief executive Meg Whitman, according to Hurun Report, which ranks wealthy people in China.
Hurun says Zhang is China's richest person, topping Huang Guangyu, who founded Gome Electrical Appliance Holdings. The magazine estimates Zhang's fortune at $3.4 billion, compared with Huang's $2.5 billion.

The shares of Nine Dragons have fallen 3.9 percent since reaching a record HK$14 (R12.97) on November 22. Nine Dragons posted net income of 1.37 billion yuan (R1.3 billion) in the year to June, up 450 percent from a year earlier.

Zhang's career tracks China's economic opening, which has been spurred by the production of consumer goods for export. Arriving in the then British colony of Hong Kong from Guangdong province in 1985, Zhang was an accountant at a Chinese trading company that went bust within a year.

Her father, Zhang Deen, had been a lieutenant in the Red Army, giving him influential connections after the Communist Party took power in 1949, says Albert Louie, a risk management consultant at A Louie & Associates.

"Her father's war buddies have played an instrumental role in Zhang's rise, in that they helped her open doors at all levels of government," says Louie.

Zhang says her father left the army to become the general manager of a metallurgy company in Guangdong. "It was hard work that helped me achieve my success."

Instead of taking the job offer, Zhang founded a company with start-up capital of 30 000 yuan and began buying scrap paper through intermediaries in the US.top.

Zhang tapped the US market directly in 1990, moving to the Los Angeles County city of Pomona and running a paper collection company out of her apartment. With her husband, Liu Ming Chung, a doctor who was born in Taiwan and raised in Brazil, she bought refuse from garbage dumps, building American Chung Nam into the biggest exporter of wastepaper from the US.

"Garbage dumps were more than happy to have her haul off the paper for minimum payment," says Xue Xu, a management consultant and professor of marketing at Beijing University.

Zhang secured low shipping rates to China because many vessels were almost empty on the return to China, after disgorging their cargoes in the US, says Rupert Hoogewerf, the publisher of the Hurun Report. "Chinese manufacturers were desperate for scrap paper," Zhang says. "All I did was help fulfill a need."

In 1998 Zhang expanded from recycling into production of cardboard as demand for packaging increased. Use of cardboard may rise to 34 million tons by 2010, making China the largest consumer, according to Resource International Systems (RIS). The country uses about 18 percent of global demand.

Chinese companies are rushing to boost output as US rivals close plants. The country's cardboard production capacity will increase 53 percent from 2006 to 2008, RIS estimates. Nine Dragons plans to add five new factory lines next year, boosting its capacity by 60 percent.

New plant openings may result in excess supply, cutting prices and profit margins, says Baring Asset Management Asia.

Rising prices for wastepaper may reduce profit. Scrap paper is increasingly treated as a commodity in the US, pushing prices to $135 a ton, from $100 in the 1990s, according to Herman Woo, an analyst at brokerage BNP Paribas Peregrine.

"Her [highest] risk is government policy," says David Wong, an environmental science professor at Shanghai Second Polytechnic University. "There is a possibility that the US may restrict the export of scrap paper to China."

Nine Dragons is seeking to diversify its sources of raw material by investing in an Inner Mongolia plant that produces pulp from logs and wood chips.

Zhang's success reflects the growing power of women in the country's thriving economy. There are 48 Chinese women with fortunes of at least $63 million, according to the Hurun Report.

Zhang downplays the significance of gender. "I don't separate women from men. I can withstand a lot of pressure." - Bloomberg

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Final SketchUp Model- Dragan Pasatovic

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Animation 3

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Animation 2

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Animation 1

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Final SketchUp Model

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3rd SketchUp Model

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Staircase Concept

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2nd SketchUp Model

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1st Sketchup Model

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36 Custom Textures

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18 Sketch Sections

Chosen Sketch

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sketches

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more sketches

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and more

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+ little bit more sketches

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PICCININI: BABIES, STAGNATE, DAINTY

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DUCHAMP: CIRCUIT, LOCOMOTE, ADVENTIOUS

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DA VINCI: VITRUVIAN-MAN, PORTRAYING , AMBROSIAL

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Ratan Tata News Article

Tata Power keen to buy Dabhol

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FileFront

Final Unreal Editor File

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Final Images

Extended walkway resembles balance and equilibrium by infering man's upright position. Two main shapes disturbing this indicate intangible variables, missed at times.

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Suggested Meeting Space

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Chosen Interconnected Drawing

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Space 2- Darwin

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Space 1- Hawking

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36 Custom Textures

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The 18 Sketch Axonometrics

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Client Quotes

Charles Darwin: "A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life."

Steven Hawking: “Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.”

Florence Nightingale: I think one's feelings waste themselves in words. They ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

The chosen 2 clients are Darwin and Hawking

Electroliquid Aggregation

Timing, precision and happiness may not give equilibrium. Life is governed and played with by other means, which may or may not, be seen at times.