| Fed's Tarullo Outlines Broad Changes to Stress Test Regime
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 In a speech Monday, Federal Reserve Gov. Daniel Tarullo outlined sweeping changes to the Fed's hallmark supervisory program, including bank-specific — but substantially higher — capital minimums and dropping a qualitative grade for all but the largest and most complex banks.
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| Henning Larsen Architects Wins Competition to Design New City Hall in Uppsala
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 © Henning Larsen Architects Henning Larsen Architects, in collaboration with SLA and Tyréns, has won a competition for the design of a new city hall in Uppsala, Sweden, beating out proposals from Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects, White Arkitekter, Ahrbom & Partners, and 3XN Architects. The project will include a refurbishment and addition to the existing city hall building, which was built in 1957 and only partially completed in accordance with the original drawings. Henning Larsen Architects' design will close off the L-shaped building, connecting the old and the new with a glass-roofed courtyard to create a new public gathering place for residents of Sweden's 4th largest city. © Henning Larsen Architects The new 25,000 square meter (270,000 square foot) city hall will reflect the government's desire for transparency and accessibility, inviting the public inside via an opening connecting the streetscape directly to the interior plaza. The glass-covered courtyard will serve as the new meeting place where ...
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| Sneak Peek: Zaha Hadid Architects' Nanjing International Youth Culture Center
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 © Khoo Guo Jie Photographer Khoo Guo Jie of Béton Brut has provided us with some new images of Zaha Hadid Architects' Nanjing International Youth Culture Centre, now nearing completion along the Yangtze river in Hexi New Town, Nanjing's new central business district. Occupying a 5.2 hectare site, the complex contains 465,000 square meters of floor space, which includes a hotel, conference center, offices and underground parking, and is part of a larger masterplan by ZHA that will feature a pedestrian bridge linking the plaza with the other side of the river. © Khoo Guo Jie "The Culture and Conference Centre masterplan expresses the continuity, fluidity and connectivity between the urban environment of Hexi New Town, the agricultural farmland along the Yangtze river and the rural landscapes of Jiangxinzhou Island," explain the architects. © Khoo Guo Jie © Khoo Guo Jie The complex consists of two towers rising from a five-story, mixed-use podium. The taller of the towers rises 314 meters (68 floors) and ...
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| Maiten House / Cristian Hrdalo
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 © Guy Wenborne • Architects: Cristian Hrdalo • Location: Puerto Octay, Los Lagos Region, Chile • Area: 950.0 sqm • Project Year: 2008 • Photographs: Guy Wenborne, Cristian Hrdalo © Guy Wenborne From the architect. Maitén House is a country holiday house located on the southern region of Chile near Puerto Octay city. On the shores of the Llanquihue Lake, overlooking the Puntiagudo, Osorno and Calbuco volcanoes © Cristian Hrdalo This plot of green pastures becomes narrower while descending towards the lake, bounded between two streams with impenetrable forests of Ulmos, with a beach at the lake shore. Floor Plan © Guy Wenborne Floor Plan The clients have a very big family, 8 children's and 12 grandchildren's, our proposal was to fragment the program into several smaller cabins, giving independence to the families of the sons or guests and then the Maitén House was conceived as a common space to shelter the guest of the cabins and with a master bedroom and 3 rooms for single children's. © Cristian Hrdalo The ...
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| House Refurbishment in Conde de Torrejon Street / Donaire Arquitectos
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 © Fernando Alda • Architects: Donaire Arquitectos • Location: Seville, Spain • Architect In Charge: Pablo Baruc • Collaborators: Ana Benítez Morales • Area: 180.57 sqm • Project Year: 2016 • Photographs: Fernando Alda • Budget: 110.000,00 € © Fernando Alda The house located in the old city center of Seville, Spain. The project is a low cost intervention in an old small house built in 1958. The house has an irregular shape which is considered one of the characteristics of the area. © Fernando Alda The intervention focuses on creating a modern and functional house. Starting with the research and study of the house typology and how to keep and reinforce its authenticity while at the same time allowing it to answer to contemporary living standards. The main reason for the house ́s adaptation process was to arise its historical footprints using creative resources at the lowest cost possible. © Fernando Alda Plan © Fernando Alda This new structure was painted in dark gray to easily make the distinction between ...
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| Lakers in the post-Kobe era: 'We're a whole new group'
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 Live updates from media day: Lakers talk about national anthem statement 'as team' Sept. 26, 2016, 11:53 a.m. While the Dodgers just clinched a division title, the Rams are off to a 2-1 start and USC and UCLA are stumbling through the early part of their season, it is never too early to turn your...
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