Two Pioneering Female Architects in South Africa: Gertruida Brinkman and Eleanor Ferguson

This paper continues on from a recently completed research project on shared built heritage of South Africa and the Netherlands from 1902–61, mainly created by Dutch–born architects. It focuses on two pioneering female architects in South Africa, Gertruida Brinkman (1906–77, née Siemerink) and Eleanor Ferguson (also Stakesby–Lewis; 1900–82),...

A sparse spin qubit array with integrated control electronics

Current implementations of quantum computers suffer from large numbers of control lines per qubit, becoming unmanageable with system scale up. Here, we discuss a sparse spin-qubit architecture featuring integrated control electronics significantly reducing the off-chip wire count. This quantum-classical hardware integration closes the...

Bilateral collaboration in built heritage material research and resource maintenance supportive to smart and sustainable cities

Built heritage contains value on many scales. On the most basic level it represents the investment of building materials following a constructional logic. As the use of once-predominant materials goes out of fashion due to changing technological regimes and architectural styles, knowledge about them is lost. Yet retaining and maintaining their...

The conservation of modernist urban ensembles: Case studies from Amsterdam

Urban conservation, notably in Western Europe, grew from a reaction to the large Modernist monofunctional sub-urban expansion projects and programmes aimed at rationalising messy multifunctional historic cities. Conservationists responded reactively by celebrating the diversity and multi-layered character of the historic city. In the Netherlands...

Cross-sectional flow measurements during spin-down of a rotating torus

This paper reports the experimental determination of the flow structure of an outer streak observed when a rotating torus is suddenly brought to rest. Previous top-down experiments have allowed for visualisation of a streak on the inner wall followed by one on the outer wall, however a new experimental design has allowed for the first time cross...

The development and testing of an optimized ride control system for a 102-metre trimaran ferry

Development of a portable atmosphere control unit for military applications by integration of submarine and diving technology

Comparison of full scale and predicted responses of two frigates in a severe weather trial