Reviving the Forgotten Gasholders: Harnessing the potential of heritage sites through complementary architectural gestures

Throughout the course of time, there has been a progression starting from the preservation of buildings and sites, to the conservation of specific elements of these landmarks, and now shifting towards adaptive reuse where the goal is to maintain cultural heritage through values and attributes. According to Aldo Rossi, there is no guarantee of...

Painting national character: A comparison of nationalist art by A.M. Mucha and V.M. Vasnetsov

This paper examines how nationalist sentiments are differently manifested in the works of Alphonse Mucha and Viktor Vasnetsov. In order to understand the nature of these sentiments, the biographies of the painters and the socio-political circumstances of their relative homelands are considered. Additionally three works from each painter are...

Designing a Privacy-Preserving Rebalancing Algorithm for Payment Channel Networks

In the past 8 years, Bitcoin has dominated the cryptocurrency markets and drawn attention from academia, developers and legislators alike. Bitcoin has been praised for its impact on decentralizing trust and currencies but also criticized for its volatility and energy-inefficient consensus mechanism. To improve its limitations, in 2016, payment...

Modern Industrial Heritage: A catalyst to new sustainable development

To reduce carbon emissions and restrict global average temperature rise, coal power plants are being decommissioned in the EU under the Paris Agreement. In the next few decades, defunct coal-powered plants would pop up all over the EU and the world. This raises concerns regarding the modern industrial landscapes, their possibilities and...

c[l]amping: City Hotel in Amsterdam

The project seeks to stabilise and reverse the degradation of the pier’s walls so it remains available to its users. The structure acts as a stabilizer for this piece of land, so as not to let it disappear.<br/>The light structure takes inspiration from a bird perched on a branch, a metaphor for young Amsterdammer’s searching for their place in...

Flemish Renaissance Revival: A very Belgian story

The Flemish Renaissance Revival is a style developing around the middle of the XIXth century in the newly created Belgium, in pursuit of identity. The movement draws its inspiration from the Golden Age of Flanders during the Renaissance which had a strong architectural identity. The style started in Antwerp where it became really popular and...

Revived Beauty: Researching aesthetic pleasure in material experience to valorise waste in design

Eco-friendly materials have great potential to foster sustainability, but there is limited progress in relation to aesthetics. Therefore the focus of this study is to explore the aesthetic pleasure in eco-friendly material design. The main objective is to address the following question: How should materials derived from discarded raw materials ...

The 'Beograd na vodi' masterplan, Belgrade's latest identity make over

Foreign investment by the United Arab Emirates in the 'Beograd na vodi' master plan sets the stage for the largest urban development in the Serbian capital since the planning of Novi Beograd. While the government embraces the plan as an instrument to spur economic growth in Serbia, critics are more cautious and warn for clichéd corporate...