神秘座椅

一别指望像OMA这样的建筑巨头会去加泰罗尼亚这样名不见经传的巴塞罗那北部村庄买家具.但是当Rem Koolhaas办公室为最近的项目需要配置一种特殊的座椅时,泰罗尼亚村庄成了他们的目的地.因为泰罗尼亚的Figueras,专业为礼堂,剧院,会议中心以及其他公共室内场所定制座椅.OMA受委托要为纽约州伊斯卡的康奈尔大学设计新建筑.Milstein Hall大胆地将三座独立的建筑用高架14,000平方米的玻璃封闭结构连接,这一设计被形容为适度设计,精细搭建.该建筑分为学生区,工作区和会议室,成为康奈尔大学建筑艺术学院的区域.会议室有两个基础功能:教学以及学校管委会的会议场所.正是出于会议室的双功能要求,OMA向Figueras定制灵活座椅.     

深藏不露

在新加坡,无数的商场星罗棋布,一间店铺很难在看起来无穷无尽的百货大楼里将自己与竞争对手区别开来.然而Grey Canopy为英国品牌J Shoes设计的店面做到了,在这座城市最大最繁忙的地下商场(或者说是连接三个地铁站的地下迷宫),其不拘一格的内饰满足并凸显了客户现代工艺美学的审美品味.这个受到童话故事启发的灵感将会被整个亚洲的商铺当作模板.这就像偷看一个传统的鞋匠作坊,老鞋匠和他的妻子静静地躲在里面,等待着精灵出现,并开始用他们的皮革制鞋.Grey Canopy的Sam Ang说.     

柔软

日本时装设计师Ken Okada的精品店坐落在别致和优雅的巴黎第七区.虽然店面低调谨慎,只有紧凑的50平方米空间,但其采用新颖的茧状的内饰,足以抓住路人的目光,它对于进店的客人来说绝对是一个惊喜.Okada的服装只限女式衬衫,拥有复杂和细致的剪裁,非常柔软而女性化.这家商店的内部由建筑师Fran(c)ois Roche设计,也充分体现了Okada自己的创作风格.Roche用层层叠叠的棉布填满了空间,剪裁成洞穴一般,不予缝合,形同半成品.透明薄纱的景观传达出Okada本人的精妙气质,同时也区分了精品店内不同的功能区域.     

披萨速递

披萨速递好像他们的餐厅一样,具有与当地相关的原始特色.普利茅斯被认为是英国皇家海军的故乡.所以,在室内装潢上运用海的元素是一个合理的出发点.餐厅的一边是一堵大型的木制波浪形墙,其中的填充物描绘了抽象的水波纹.木料也可以被当做是船的外壳.白色的橡胶线条是墙壁的额外一层,增添了整个墙壁的层次感.     

Multi-party computation mechanism for anonymous equity block trading: A secure implementation of turquoise plato uncross

Dark pools are financial trading venues where orders are entered and matched in secret so that no order information is leaked. By preventing information leakage, dark pools offer the opportunity for large volume block traders to avoid the costly effects of market impact. However, dark pool operators have been known to abuse their privileged access to order information. To address this issue, we introduce a provably secure multi-party computation mechanism that prevents an operator from accessing and misusing order information. Specifically, we implement a secure emulation of Turquoise Plato Uncross, Europe's largest dark pool trading mechanism, and demonstrate that it can handle real world trading throughput, with guaranteed information integrity.     

Analysis of SMEs partner proximity preferences for process innovation

This paper explores small and medium enterprises’ (SMEs) proximity preferences when selecting partners for collaborative process innovation. Drawing on a survey of 362 Danish SMEs, we address four partner proximity characteristics: geographic, cognitive, organizational, and social. The results show that SMEs prioritize geographic openness over regional clustering. Furthermore, to simultaneously facilitate collaboration and ensure innovation, firms tend to collaborate with partners that are characterized by cognitive similarity at a technological level and knowledge distance at a market level. Technological proximity is also found to be more relevant than social proximity when it comes to bridging the potential geographic and market distance between the collaborative partners. Finally, the results indicate that the tendency of organizational proximity to facilitate informal interactions with partners enhances process innovation only at two of four process innovation levels. Thus, the results highlight the fact that the value of partner proximity characteristics change with the level of process innovation considered.     

After-market liquidity and IPOs underpricing： Evidence from Shari＇ah and non Shari＇ah-based firms

The underpricing of initial public offerings （IPOs） is generally explained with asymmetric information and risk. We complement these traditional explanations with a new theory proposed by Ellul and Pagano （2006） where investors worry also about the after-market illiquidity that may result from asymmetric information after the IPO. The less liquid the after-market is expected to be, the larger will be the IPO underpricing. The samples are the 41 IPOs carried out between 2001-2005. The samples are 7 Shari＇ah-based firms and 34 non Shariah-based firms. Shariah-based firms are those included in Jakarta Islamic Index （JII）, at least one period （one semester）. Regression results show that the relationship between after-market liquidity and underpricing is insignificant unless we use trading frequency as proxy for liquidity for non Shariah-based firms.     

A Cantina小酒馆

该工程共有两处占地,与加利西亚档案馆相连,建筑与Cidade da Cultura de Galicia(加利西亚文化城)完美地结合在了一起,被用来作为自助餐厅和博物馆商店.在将两个区域分开的一堵厚墙上面分别凿出两个凹槽,并通过凹槽将两个区域连接在一起.这样,既保持了两个空间的独立性,又可以像加利西亚村庄的所有传统餐厅一样,同时使用和管理两个区域.设计师提议想要通过一种当代的语言,支持加利西亚的流行文化.这种选择宏观地暗示了文化身份所产生的通常共鸣.     

一种定制的扭曲美感

一 确切来说,新加坡设计工作室Upstairs在成立6个月后才完成了自己的第一个大型项目.Dennis Cheok和Joyce van Saane共同建立了Upstairs,工作室的名字表示的是理念和设计与现实相左,他们为"英国灵感"的N.Tyler品牌男装设计了一个150平米的旗舰店,而这个店座落在新加坡最富盛名的购物天堂. "这是我们接受的第一个委托",Van Saane说道,"所以你可以说我们被挑选出来,完全是因为挑选方的盲信.它们让我们自由发挥,我们找不到另外比N.Tyler更好的客户了.这是一个致力于寻求变化和迎接新想法的品牌.我们被委任去将这个活跃的品牌引入到零售市场.我们的客户想通过这个旗舰店传达一种奢侈感,即使N.tyler潮牌并不是奢侈品牌."