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Aspire sculpture - Nottingham - United Kingdom

In the Mid of 2008, the university of Nottingham Inaugurated new sculpture at the Jubilee campusthey.

They call it Aspire. This sculpture is the highest sculpture in U.K., approximatelly 60 meters above the ground, the thing which made this sculpture special is the engineers made it from metel coulmns. Then, they paint it with red colour.

In my opinion, The architect took the design from a popcorn cone or A bouquet of flowers.

Picture(2)

as you see the picture number 2 the Aspire tower is higher than the Statue of Liberty in New-York

some fact of Aspire(*):

1,250 ...metres of steel tube used

400 ...metres of weld

620 ...square metres of paint

52 ...height of steel mast in metres

8 ...height of concrete column in metres

13 ...number of stacked double decker buses which could fit alongside Aspire

854 ...weight of Aspire in tonnes

122 ...number of bull elephants equal in weight to Aspire

4.82 ...diameter in metres at widest point

2.19 ...diameter in metres at narrowest point

(*) this info was taken from www.aspire.nottingham.ac.uk

Picture(3)

I am really apologize that is the picture number 3 is not related to Nottingham Aspire

But, it is Qatar Aspire tower !!

In addition, I am so disappointed when I saw some arabian countries bought some ready plans and designs from other west countries.

without careing of any mistakes or thinking that will be effect on our culture or local environments

The question is: what is the reason of doing this method ??

Are we have poor quality of ARCHITECT ??

Or do the arab thing that " the foreign experience is stronger than our "

Finally:

I HOPE THIS VIEW WILL CHANGE A.S.A.P.

Nottingham Jubilee Library

This library is located on the Nottingham University campus - jubilee branch - in the city of Nottingham - UK. This library was designed on a small island in the middle of artificial lake on the center of the campus. the name of this library is Mr. and Miss Tkflo who built this library and give it as gift to the University .

This library was designed by the architect / Michael Hopkins in 2004. The designer has taken the idea of creating the library from the top of cone shape. Also, he located the elevator in the heart of the library, the aspect of the library used wrapped stairs around the perimeter of the building from four sides and it pass in every level of the library until it reaches to the end of this stairs which is the (fourth floor), but the stairs doesn't have thresholds.
The main reason for choosing this library because the issue is that the civil engineer for this building they did not take into their account the weight of books which are filling the shelves of books yet?? But finally the solve it smartly by add more supporter elements underneath the island's which is carrying the library .. That was Fatal Error!!