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Spencer Museum of Art to host architecture lecture
ICALEB SISK
csisk@kansan.com
Recent trends in architecture will be highlighted tomorrow morning during a lecture at the Spencer Museum of Art.
The School of Architecture and Urban Planning has paired with the Spencer Museum of Art to host a guest lecture geared towards architecture students. Architect Marshall Strabala will be giving the lecture this Friday at 11:30 a.m.
Strabala is a prolific member of the architectural community with offices in Chicago, Shanghai and Seoul. He is a partner in the firm 2DEFINE Architecture, which specializes in complex and high profile projects. Strabala was involved in a few of the biggest architectural achievements in recent memory, including the Shanghai Tower and the Burj Khalifa. Strabala said he believes that these projects represent far more than just very tall buildings.
These buildings become identifiers for their respective cities
when they show up in post cards and the like. For instance, when you think of Chicago, you picture the Sears Tower and the Hancock Center", said Strabala.
Students will be able to hear firsthand what goes into the design and planning process for these structures from one of the most knowledgeable sources on the planet. Strabala said there are maybe 13 such buildings in the world, and he helped design three of them. This is an opportunity that Dominic Sosinski, a senior from Kansas City, Kan., said he plans to take full advantage of.
"It will be interesting to hear from an architect that was involved in some of the most well known and famous building being constructed today," Sosinski said.
Strabala plans on profiling some of his major projects in hopes that students will gain perspective for their future careers. Erin McFarland, a senior from Lenexa, hopes to gain this very perspective through her attendance.
about high rise buildings because it is a topic that is important to understand for the future of architecture," McFarland said.
With advances in technology and design, architects are able to push the envelope when it comes to designing these large-scale buildings, so creativity is key.
I'm excited to hear Strabala talk
"The forces of nature frequently dictate what can and can't be done when it comes to buildings of this size, so often times creative solutions to these problems decide the success of a project." Strabala said.
succeed in it.
Strabala said he hopes that students take more away from his lecture than simply how to build really tall buildings. Specialization is something that he believes is indispensable in his field.
This lecture is an opportunity for students studying architecture and design to learn what it takes to become successful in their field. The lecture will be held at 11:30 a.m. at the Spencer Museum of Art and it is open to the public.
Edited by Hannah Barling
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An artist's rendering depicts NASA's Juno spacecraft with Jupiter in the background. Juno is set to arrive at Jupiter in 2016.
Juno on track despite snag
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LOS ANGELES NASA's Jupiter-bound spacecraft hit a snag Wednesday soon after it used Earth as a gravity slingshot to hurle toward the outer solar system, but mission managers said it's on course to arrive at the giant planet in 2016.
Juno emerged from Earth's shadow in safe mode, a state that spacecraft are programmed to go into when there's some trouble.
Nybakken of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which manages the $1.1 billion mission.
when they met the problem, "we believe we are on track as planned to Jupiter," said project manager Rick
Engineers continued to diagnose the issue, which occurred after Juno whipped around Earth in a momentum-gathering flyby. Up until Wednesday, Juno had been in excellent health. While in safe mode, it can communicate with ground controllers, but its activities are limited.
Previous missions to the outer solar system have used Earth as a celestial springboard since there's no rocket powerful enough to make a direct flight. The Galileo spacecraft buzzed by Earth twice in the 1990s en route to Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet located 484 million miles from the sun.
Launched in 2011, Juno flew beyond the orbit of Mars, Earth's closest planetary neighbor, before looping back toward our home planet for a quick visit. Wednesday's rendezvous boosted Juno's speed from 78,000 mph relative to the sun to 87,000 mph — enough momentum to cruise past the asteroid belt to Jupiter, where it should arrive in 2016.
By space mission standards, Juno's Earth rendezvous was low-key.
Dylan Maz pours beer during a tour on Oct. 3 at Lakefront Brewery in Milwaukee. The shutdown has closed an obscure agency that quietly approves new breweries, recipes and labels, which could create huge delays throughout the rapidly growing craft industry, whose customers expect a constant supply of inventive and seasonal beers. Brewery officials are frustrated that some of their new labels and a new recipe might be held up with the federal government shutdown.
Government shutdown causes holdups for craft beer industry
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MILWAUKEE — The federal government shutdown could leave America's craft brewers with a serious hangover.
Stores will still offer plenty of suds. But the shutdown has closed an obscure agency that quietly approves new breweries, recipes and labels, which could create huge delays throughout the rapidly growing craft industry, whose customers expect a constant supply of inventive and seasonal beers.
Mike Brenner is trying to open a craft brewery in Milwaukee by December. His application to include a tasting room is now on hold, as
are his plans to file paperwork for four labels over the next few weeks. He expects to lose about $8,000 for every month his opening is delayed.
"My dream, this is six years in the making, is to open this brewery," Brenner said. "I've been working so hard, and I find all these great investors. And now I can't get started because people are fighting over this or that in Washington. ... This is something people don't mess around with. Even in a bad economy, people drink beer."
The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, or TTB, is a little-known arm of the Treasury Department. The agency will continue to process taxes from existing permit holders, but applications for anything new are in limbo.
"One could think of this shutdown as basically stopping business indefinitely for anyone who didn't have certain paperwork in place back in mid-August," said Paul Gatza, director of the Brewers Association, which represents more than 1,900 U.S. breweries.
A woman who answered the phone Oct. 2 at TTB's headquarters in Washington abruptly hung up after explaining that the government was shut down. Assistant Administrator Cheri Mitchell did not respond to telephone or email messages.
the shutdown began Oct. 1, and a group of House Republican lawmakers blocked a budget deal in a last-ditch effort to stop funding for President Barack Obama's health care law.
The closing isn't expected to have much effect on industry giants such as MillerCoors or Anheuser-Busch. They can continue to produce existing products as usual. But the shutdown poses a huge problem for craft brewers, who build their businesses by producing quirky, offbeat flavors and introducing new seasonal beers, sometimes as often as every quarter.
Craft brewers around the country say TTB was taking as long as 75
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days to approve applications before the shutdown. Now they're bracing for even longer waits. And tempers are flaring.
"(Expletive) Feds are gonna shut down the already incompetent. Gov while hundreds of small breweries, including us, have labels pending. Nice." That was followed with "Wanna regulate? Perform or get out of the way."
Tony Magee, owner of Lagunitas Brewing Co. in Petaluma, Calif., posted messages on his Twitter account this week ripping the shutdown.
Lagunitas Chief Operating Officer Todd Stevenson called the TTB shutdown a "headache." He said the company was planning to submit an application to package its autumn seasonal Hairy Eyeball in 22-ounce bottles instead of 12-ounce bottles but can't move forward.
"It's just aggravating," Stevenson said. "It is frustrating that government can't do its job. Doing what they're doing now is unprecedented."
Bryan Simpson, a spokesman for New Belgium Brewing in Fort Collins, Colo., said his brewery has three recipes and five new labels awaiting approval. The company is especially worried that the release of its new spring label, Spring Blonde, could get pushed
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back. More delays might force New Belgium to shell out extra money to speed up the label printing and rush the beer to market, he said
"Everybody is frustrated in general," Simpson said. "The whole way this has played out has been disappointing for the entire country."
Lakefront Brewery in Milwaukee has applications pending for new packaging of its IBA dark ale and for permission to offer a sour cherry dark lager called John, a brewery employee's own coconction.
The brewery hopes to launch the IBA packaging in November and John in December, but nothing is certain now. If the shutdown causes delays, the brewery will probably have to rush the beers to market, said brewery spokesman Matt Krajnak.
"If we lose that first month, we lose out on a good chunk of money," Krajnak said. "Right now, it's only been a week so it's not too bad. Two weeks, three weeks is when we're really going to start sweating here."
Brenner said politicians don't seem to care how much damage they're causing.
"For them it's just another day," he said. "They are still getting paid, but I'm losing $8,000 a month."
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