architecTranslator

@architectransl2

Translator from German to English (MITI) since 2003 with degree in architecture (Dip'Arch (Hons) B'Arch) specialising in architecture and construction

Joined May 2019

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architecTranslator @architectransl2

about 2 years ago

@FABSITEUK Both seem to work well for me n the morning - loads of green tea for breakfast and a blast of coffee mid morning! So far I have not noticed any side effects 😉

architecTranslator @architectransl2

about 2 years ago

@itiwesternregio Lovely! I recognise some faces, but a name check would be good. Who is that hiding three from the back on the right? 😉

architecTranslator @architectransl2

about 2 years ago

Do you follow developments in sustainable architecture? If so you might be interested in reading my latest blog article about the Aquatics Centre for the Paris Olympics 2024. https://t.co/tHk4cNSV22

architecTranslator @architectransl2

about 2 years ago

#MyXAnniversary my thoughts have been elsewhere for a while, but glad to be back here for my five year anniversary.

architecTranslator @architectransl2

over 2 years ago

@BettinaSRoss1 I've also heard "Labersack" in Schwabenland, they were not referring to me of course 😉

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The Cultural Tutor

@culturaltutor

almost 3 years ago

12 Reasons Why Cities Need More Trees: 1. Temperature Control One large tree is equivalent to 10 air conditioning units, and the shade they provide can reduce street temperature by more than 30%. 2. Noise Reduction Trees can reduce loudness by up to 50%. In urban areas filled with the sound of cars, construction, sirens, aeroplanes, and music, trees are essentially the best way to block noise and keep cities — along with the homes and workplaces in them — quieter. 3. Air Purity Trees remove an astonishing amount of harmful pollutants and toxins from the air. In urban areas air quality is often disastrously bad — with severe consequences for our health. Trees make the air we breathe much cleaner. 4. Oxygen And, while absorbing all those pollutants, trees also put more oxygen back into the urban environment. Oxygen levels are significantly lower in cities compared to the countryside; trees help to solve that problem. 5. Water Management Trees do more than just shelter us and our buildings from rain — which is, in fact, extremely important. They also absorb huge quantities of water, reduce run-off, neutralise the severity of flooding, and make flooding more unlikely altogether. Not to forget that their roots absorb pollutants and prevent them from feeding back into a city's water supply. 6. Psychological Health Studies have proven what we instinctively know to be true: that human beings are significantly happier when surrounded by nature rather than sterile urban environments. Our emotions, behaviour, and thoughts are shaped by the places we spend time — and trees have a profoundly positive effect on our psychology. The consequential benefits of being happier and more peaceful — as individuals and as a society — are immense. 7. Physical Health Beyond all the other ways in which trees improve air quality and the urban environment, much to the benefit of our health, they also encourage people to go outside. Cycling, running, and walking are all more common in urban areas with plenty of trees. A knock-on effect of people spending more time outdoors is also social integration and stronger communities. 8. Privacy A simple point, but not inconsequential, is that trees provide privacy. 9. Economics The total economic benefit of urban trees is hard to calculate. There are costs, of course, including the repair of infrastructure damaged by roots and maintaining the trees themselves. But the total economic benefit — a consequence of everything else in this list and more — far outweighs the expenditure. Trees make cities wealthier. 10. Wildlife Trees are miniature cities all of their own, serving as a habitat for hundreds of different species, including birds and mammals and insects. 11. Light Pollution Trees don't only block the light shining down, therefore keeping us and our cities cooler — they also disrupt light shining up, from street lighting, cars, houses, and billboards. Skies are clearer in cities with more trees. 12. Aesthetics And, finally, trees are beautiful. They break up the potential monotony of urban environments — the sharp geometry, the greyscale roads and buildings, the endless rows of cars — with their trunks, boughs, canopies, and flowers. Just think: the gold and red of falling leaves in autumn, the white and pink blossom of spring, the vast green canopies of summer, and the branches lined with hoar-frost in winter. Every single tree is a myriad of intricacy and texture, of colour and scent, of dappled light on the pavement, mottled bark, knotted roots, of clustered leaves and delicate petals and stern boughs. Few streets would not be improved by the kaleidoscopic aesthetic delights of a tree, not to mention the many different species of tree, all over the world, whether willow, oak, lime, cherry, aspen, maple, birch, horse chestnut, dogwood, hornbeam, ash, sycamore... the list goes on. There are some drawbacks to urban trees, most of them context-specific, and they are not — of course — universally appropriate. But it seems fair to say that many cities would benefit from at least a few more trees here and there.

culturaltutor's tweet photo. 12 Reasons Why Cities Need More Trees:

1. Temperature Control

One large tree is equivalent to 10 air conditioning units, and the shade they provide can reduce street temperature by more than 30%.

2. Noise Reduction

Trees can reduce loudness by up to 50%. In urban areas filled with the sound of cars, construction, sirens, aeroplanes, and music, trees are essentially the best way to block noise and keep cities — along with the homes and workplaces in them — quieter.

3. Air Purity

Trees remove an astonishing amount of harmful pollutants and toxins from the air. In urban areas air quality is often disastrously bad — with severe consequences for our health. Trees make the air we breathe much cleaner.

4. Oxygen

And, while absorbing all those pollutants, trees also put more oxygen back into the urban environment. Oxygen levels are significantly lower in cities compared to the countryside; trees help to solve that problem.

5. Water Management

Trees do more than just shelter us and our buildings from rain — which is, in fact, extremely important. They also absorb huge quantities of water, reduce run-off, neutralise the severity of flooding, and make flooding more unlikely altogether. Not to forget that their roots absorb pollutants and prevent them from feeding back into a city's water supply.

6. Psychological Health

Studies have proven what we instinctively know to be true: that human beings are significantly happier when surrounded by nature rather than sterile urban environments. Our emotions, behaviour, and thoughts are shaped by the places we spend time — and trees have a profoundly positive effect on our psychology. The consequential benefits of being happier and more peaceful — as individuals and as a society — are immense.

7. Physical Health

Beyond all the other ways in which trees improve air quality and the urban environment, much to the benefit of our health, they also encourage people to go outside. Cycling, running, and walking are all more common in urban areas with plenty of trees. A knock-on effect of people spending more time outdoors is also social integration and stronger communities.

8. Privacy

A simple point, but not inconsequential, is that trees provide privacy.

9. Economics

The total economic benefit of urban trees is hard to calculate. There are costs, of course, including the repair of infrastructure damaged by roots and maintaining the trees themselves. But the total economic benefit — a consequence of everything else in this list and more — far outweighs the expenditure. Trees make cities wealthier.

10. Wildlife

Trees are miniature cities all of their own, serving as a habitat for hundreds of different species, including birds and mammals and insects.

11. Light Pollution

Trees don't only block the light shining down, therefore keeping us and our cities cooler — they also disrupt light shining up, from street lighting, cars, houses, and billboards. Skies are clearer in cities with more trees.

12. Aesthetics

And, finally, trees are beautiful. They break up the potential monotony of urban environments — the sharp geometry, the greyscale roads and buildings, the endless rows of cars — with their trunks, boughs, canopies, and flowers.

Just think: the gold and red of falling leaves in autumn, the white and pink blossom of spring, the vast green canopies of summer, and the branches lined with hoar-frost in winter. Every single tree is a myriad of intricacy and texture, of colour and scent, of dappled light on the pavement, mottled bark, knotted roots, of clustered leaves and delicate petals and stern boughs.

Few streets would not be improved by the kaleidoscopic aesthetic delights of a tree, not to mention the many different species of tree, all over the world, whether willow, oak, lime, cherry, aspen, maple, birch, horse chestnut, dogwood, hornbeam, ash, sycamore... the list goes on.

There are some drawbacks to urban trees, most of them context-specific, and they are not — of course — universally appropriate. But it seems fair to say that many cities would benefit from at least a few more trees here and there.

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architecTranslator @architectransl2

almost 3 years ago

@Furmadamadam @PaddingtonCen @BritishLandPLC And so are we!

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almost 3 years ago

@Furmadamadam @PaddingtonCen @BritishLandPLC It's so exciting to have such an amazing object there, I can't wait for my next trip to London in September, via Paddington of course!

architecTranslator @architectransl2

almost 3 years ago

@DesignMuseum I love how you can turn stairs into sculptural objects, this one has me asking so many questions, why this, why that, what is happening on the other side?

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the Design Museum

@DesignMuseum

almost 3 years ago

Nicknamed the Rusty Nail, this 30-metre-high observation tower between Dresden and Berlin is a symbol of landscape change and a walk-in sculpture all in one. Designed from 2007-2008 by architect Stefan Giers, from the top visitors can see three lakes at once. 📸 Stefano Perego

DesignMuseum's tweet photo. Nicknamed the Rusty Nail, this 30-metre-high observation tower between Dresden and Berlin is a symbol of landscape change and a walk-in sculpture all in one.

Designed from 2007-2008 by architect Stefan Giers, from the top visitors can see three lakes at once.

📸 Stefano Perego https://t.co/YoMGBdAKlX

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architecTranslator @architectransl2

almost 3 years ago

This week, I wrote on LinkedIn about relaxing to music in my summerhouse after work, it appeared in the LinkedIn News Europe weekly round-up alongside an article about Hip Hop. If you like jazz, the saxophone and getting creative with music... https://t.co/NNOveHzlGB

architecTranslator @architectransl2

about 3 years ago

@pavitraHbaxi Amazing! When you "nip out for a bit of fresh air" that's the way to do it!

architecTranslator @architectransl2

about 3 years ago

@SonyaTiggy @ClassicGuitarR1 Great band! My first Rush gig was in 1983 at Ingleston Edinburgh, last one 2014 at O2 arena - both epic!

architecTranslator @architectransl2

about 3 years ago

@areasvellas This has such purity, which makes the projecting boxes all the more intriguing I wonder what their function was?

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Angel Muñiz @areasvellas

about 3 years ago

Tomado Building, Dordrecht, Netherlands. 1958 Huig Aart Maaskant 1907-1977 #architecture #arquitectura #HuigMaaskant #Maaskant https://t.co/ngaf7MfYfL