Centerapotheke St. Pölten

here the 'centerapotheke' in the nice austrian st. pölten, by purpur
no garden but a 2nd level...or a hub or a pod or whatevva...

Design of a pharmacy in a shopping centre
While passing innumerable booths the eye rapidly registers one interior life after another: the shopping centre functions in this simple and serial way. Whereas in a shopping street the facades and the views of the distance compete for the pedestrians´ attentions, indoor retail areas generally go no further than offering a rapidly changing microcosm of different interior lives.
Instead of placing the sales area behind a threshold the Center Apotheke [pharmacy] sucks its customers inwards. The mall space is continued into the pharmacy, the asymmetric form of the plan, defined by continuous shelving elements, is oriented on the principal direction of the flow of customers. As a metaphor for a pharmacist´s white coat the fronts are upholstered in artificial white leather, horizontal slits, like pockets, reveal the products that are presented in backlit niches.

Only a few selected items are allotted a role as ´teasers´ to attract customers, for the small size of the unit made space-saving a priority. The heart of the pharmacy is therefore ´off stage´: a completely automated storeroom - with soundproof insulation - is connected with the cash register. At the press of a button an arm speeds off on its search for the required medication [using air pressure as well as mechanical means] and delivers it to a slot where it slides down a stainless steel channel to arrive at its destination.

So that passers-by in the Mall can also see something of this state-of-the-art technology the medicine storeroom is part of the display front - if you press your nose against the glass pane you can satisfy your curiosity about what is going on inside. But the logistics of the pharmacy business are also applied where they are no longer externally visible. Each square centimetre and each minute of the working process is minutely utilised: from deliveries to the automatic sorting system, nothing is left to chance.

And all necessary measures have already been taken to replace the night service system through the so-called unstaffed vis-à-via system at some time in the future. Nighttime customers will be able to communicate by image and sound with the pharmacist on duty who, even from his own home, can give a command and dispatch the required product from the storeroom. A few seconds later a small dispatch window opens in the facade and the packet of aspirin [or whatever] slides out into the night.

here a picture of the rooftop herbal garden of the pharmacy below

Pharmacy in Vienna

Architects: ARTEC

This pharmacy on the fringes of Vienna has a complete program that includes a herb garden (on the roof), seminar/multipurpose room, laboratory, courtyard, self-serve/counter area, and seperate tea display zone.

Source: Architectural Record, vol.193, no.9, Sept., 2005, pp. 138-143.

Pharmacy in Munich

Architects: Birgit Huber, Hannes Rossler, Munchen

This pharmacy in Munich includes an automated dispensing unit (no pictures available), a computer controlled system for putting together prescriptions.

Source: Detail, vol. 45, no. 1-2, Jan., 2005, pg.34

Local Material Sources

British Columbia Industrial Materials Exchange
http://www.bcimex.ca/

Directory of Local Recycling Depots
www.gvrd.bc.ca/buildsmart/pdfs/depotdirectory07.pdf

CHECK THAT OUT:

3M's Prism Brightness Enhancement Films

click here for: HOT SHIZZLE

Godfather of Prismglass

Dr.-Ing. Werner Lorenz explains how prismglass works,
how to calculate, how to use it and so on...:


there's also a huge link-list with manufacturers .........

is there anyone with undergrad in physics out there?

Prism Glass

I found a bit of information on prism glass and thought I would share it.

Before electric lighting, around 1900, prism glass was widely used as an architectural glass to redirect sunlight to interior spaces. It uses refraction through a faceted glass to bounce light in many directions.



Penn Station used prism glass to create its bright interior. Unfortunately, it doesn't exist anymore, but you might remember it from history class.



Prism glass was used widely in ship and boat applications before architecture, and used in sidewalk or vault blocks like at the Insurance building down the street (the sunken purple glass blocks). Later, tiles were also developed, which would have been what our building most likely used, laced into a paned window.

Here is a top and side view of a vault prism block manufactured in Montréal.

Drawings

Download the drawings so far:

http://www.bryanbeca.ca/school/pharmacology/Drawings.zip

MATERIALS

for cool materials -okok, they're high-tech- check out:

www.zumtobel.com
www.3m.com

i try to get an adress of an german firm, which produces
mirror-films, hot shizzle...
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then i signed up for MATERIA, a dutch material-database, which
was now merged with the former 'materialexplorer'

www.materia.nl

username: phittus(at)gmail.com
password: pharmacy .......coloured text is hot

LTL Architects

Stacked felt and plywood sheets create this dizzying texture. Relatively cheap materials produce a pretty incredible effect. The lighting fixtures also provide brightness for a space that has only one source of natural light and a deep footprint.





Thousands of bamboo skewers create this ceiling texture. It reminds me a lot of Tom Friedman's toothpick sculptures, both in texture and in painstaking effort to create.

Tom Friedman

Tom Friedman works with everyday materials, often in a meticulous and painstaking way to produce sculptures with a character inherently different from where they started, but still linked to their sources. Toothpicks create the first, seemingly the inspiration for LTL Architects Tides restaurant where bamboo skewers create a unique ceiling treatment.

Mirrors, Glass and Lights... Oh My!

Moco Locco
designer: Eleanor Read

Mirror panels with embedded backlit glass elements.
Innovative combination of mirror, light and glass in wall panels for home and public applications. A unique approach to color and reflection that creates something new and compelling.

Some More Material/Light Explorations

GlassScapes of recycled wine bottles and a
Canopy of junked umbrella
fabric in Socrates Sculpture Park
by NY installation artist, Jean Shin

Untitled clouds of styrofoam cups
(think dixi cups...hmmm...)
and Haze of stacked drinking staws
by NY based artist, Tara Donovan

Paul Cocksedge

Paul Cocksedge is a young lighting designer from England who uses a lot of recycled materials such as polystyrene cups, old Bombay Sapphire bottles, or beakers. The flower lamp uses the stem's own sap to close the circuit and conduct electricity to provide light.

barkow leibinger

http://www.barkowleibinger.com/

those guys are (obviously) friends of olafur eliasson,

in their --> TRUTEC BUILDING / SEOUL / KOREA

they've applied his 'TILE FOR YU-UN'

olafur eliasson

also nice: olafur eliasson, artist working mostly with light and its effects

http://www.olafureliasson.net/

Mayfair Café 1938

1938 photo that Courtney found at the library.

Historic Timeline version 1.0

I'll update this soon, as I got a bit more information from the city yesterday. For now...here it is.

Download the pdf.

Current Pictures

Farmácia Henriques in Porto

Orange stands for optimism and joie de vivre and is said to have invigorating and wholesome powers. The Portuguese architects Plaren Projectos have probably known this when transforming the Farmácia Henriques into a refreshing health oasis. A striking spot of colour in a dreary side street in Porto.

Download the full article in pdf format.

Linden Apotheke in Ludwigsburg

The long-established Ludwigsburg pharmacy 'Linden Apotheke' received a contemporary and completely new appearance in 2006. In a radical move, a fresh, flowery spring breeze replaced the autumnal dreariness of the 1970s. The chemist Meike Raasch dared to venture his courageous project in collaboration with the Stuttgart ippolito fleitz group. The result is a piece of design culture – customer specific, individual and need-orientated.

Click here to download the full article in pdf format.

Historical Photographs

Here are the historic photographs of 29 West Hastings that we found at the City of Vancouver Archives. These are web resolution images. To download full resolution, please click here.



This image was marked as 1895, however, 29 West Hastings was only constructed in 1910, so this must be from around that date.



This image, looking west, is dated from 1912. The BC Electric Building is now on the corner and powerlines seem to have been either moved to the alley, or supplied underground.



This image is also from 1912 showing a vibrant night scene, looking east. Allen's Café was the first business to be established at 29 West Hastings.