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Cutting-edge tech captures pollution from vehicle brakes

Spotted: When vehicles slow down, brake pads press against the brake discs, emitting a fine dust of particulate matter. The dust is a major source of air pollution and is highly damaging to lung tissue. Ironically, because electric vehicles are heavier – and so take more braking force to stop – they actually contribute greater amounts of this toxic, braking-related particulate matter than fossil fuel equivalents.

Tallano Technologies is one company working to tackle this problem. Its TAMIC system can capture fine particulates emitted by braking systems, including the brakes of cars, heavy goods vehicles, and trains. The technology consists of a suction and filtration system that prevents fine particles from being dispersed into the air by retaining them at source.

The system is activated using an onboard electronic control and requires very little maintenance – changing of the filter every two years or 30,000 kilometres is all that’s required. The startup claims that its TAMIC system can reduce fine particle emissions from brake abrasion by up to 85 per cent.

From 2025, emissions standards (Euro 7) will come into effect on new vehicles sold in Europe, requiring a 27 per cent reduction in particulate emissions until 2035 and further reductions after that. It is therefore no surprise that Tallano won the Grand Prix Impact award for mobility and transport at the end of last year, and has already partnered with companies like Audi.

Reducing air pollution is the subject of several recent innovations spotted by Springwise, including a concrete that cleans the air in road tunnels and tyres that reduce pollution.

Written By: Lisa Magloff

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ste murray captures bristol’s modernist clifton cathedral on its 50th

By Zarkon Group,26/10/2023

Clifton Cathedral in bristol marks its 50th anniversary

Architectural photographer Ste Murray expands his quest to document modernist buildings on their 50th anniversary with a fourth-part series — this time, spotlighting the Clifton Cathedral in Bristol. Using his approach as a means to reflect and represent these mid-century icons to a contemporary audience, Ste Murray began this photographic journey in 2018 with the CAA building (1968) in London, followed by the John Hancock Centre in Chicago (1969) in 2019, and then the Brunswick Centre in London last year — 50 years after it was built in 1972. Take a tour inside the impressive modernist cathedral, where light, glass, and height collide into a majestic architectural body seeped in spiritual grandeur

all images © Ste Murray

ste murray honors the building’s renovated grandeur

The Clifton Cathedral in Bristol was completed and designed 50 years ago, in 1973, by Ronald Weeks, alongside his colleagues Frederick Jennett and Antoni Poremba at the Percy Thomas Partnership. Between 2015 and 2018, the Bristol’s Grade II landmark, previously known as the Roman Catholic Cathedral Church of SS. Peter and Paul, underwent a £3 million renovation by British Architecture firm, Purcell — during which the cathedral remained open and in use. ‘The renovation replaced 86 tons of lead on the roof and finally made the building watertight after 45 years of leaks, slightly altercating the design, but making the cathedral safer for use, while honouring and celebrating the aesthetic intentions of the original roof design,’ writes Ste Murray (see more here).

Clifton Cathedral photographed by Ste Murray

During Ste Murray’s photographic pilgrimage, as he describes it, he placed particularly emphasis on spotlighting one of the Clifton Cathedral’s most noticeable changes; the replacement of the initial wire mesh glass with a new thermally-broken, self-cleaning glass system. ‘The mesmerising stained glass windows and heavenward roof draw further attention to the silence within this spiritual space, now that it’s so much more difficult for draughts, rain, noise and other outside elements to intrude,’ concludes the photographer.

documenting the modernist building’s 50th anniversary

the cathdral was renovated in 2018 by Purcell Architects

natural light floods the dramatic interiors

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Photographer Marc Goodwin captures Frankfurt architecture studios

By Zarkon Group,16/11/2022

British architectural photographer Marc Goodwin provides a look into architecture studios in Frankfurt in the second edition of his three-part series documenting architectural offices in Germany.

The series offers a look into eight architecture studios based in Frankfurt including the office of Schneider+schumacher, Crossboundaries, Apd architektur+ingenieurbüro and Max Dudler.

“This was a follow-up to the previous story in Berlin,” Goodwin told Dezeen. “The German market is interesting because it is large and produces work of such a high standard but is perhaps less well known outside of Germany than might be expected.”

“My next stop is Vienna to be followed by Swiss studios,” he said. “The goal is to finally publish the book which I was on track for prior to Covid by the end of 2023.”

When asked about the project, Goodwin told Dezeen that this three-part series in Germany was one of his longest trips, compared only to his work capturing 27 Nordic architecture offices in 2016.

“It was one of the longest trips I have taken, comparable only to the Nordic studio’s story that started me off on this adventure,” he told Dezeen.

Goodwin is the founder of the architectural photography studio Archmospheres and has captured behind-the-scenes looks into architectural studios worldwide – including in Berlin, Dubai, Panama City and Beijing.

Goodwin and Archmospheres have also recently photographed a lakeside sauna and restaurant in Finland as well as Hopkins Architects’ Khor Kalba Turtle Wildlife Sanctuary in the UAE.

Read on for a glimpse into eight architecture studios across Frankfurt:

Schneider+schumacher

In this space since: 2009
Number of members of staff: 160
Size: 1650 square metres
Building’s history: former post office

Apd architektur+ingenieurbüro

In this space since: 2015
Number of members of staff: 25
Size: 240 square metres
Building’s history: former clothing factory and fur warehouse, now occupied by creatives, artists and architects

FRANKEN Generalplaner Gmbh

In this space since: 2009
Number of members of staff: 25
Size: 250 square metres
Building’s history: former factory for cardboard envelopes

Max Dudler

In this space since: 2022
Number of members of staff: 14 staff members of 134 total
Size: 300 square metres
Building’s history: former 20th-century German type-foundry used by D. Stempel AG

Turkali Architekten, Prof. Zvonko Turkali

In this space since: 2008
Number of members of staff: 20
Size: 400 square metres

Crossboundaries

In this space since: 2014
Number of members of staff: 8 to 10
Size: 120 square metres
Building’s history: former apartment

MEIXNER SCHLÜTER WENDT

In this space since: 1997
Number of members of staff: 42
Size: 1000 square metres
Building’s history: former commercial and industrial building

HGP Architekten Leben Kilian PartG mbB

In this space since: 2017
Number of members of staff: 23
Size: 300 square metres
Building’s history: former Society for Psychoanalytic Social Psychology e. V.

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Cutting-edge tech captures pollution from vehicle brakes

ste murray captures bristol’s modernist clifton cathedral on its 50th

Clifton Cathedral in bristol marks its 50th anniversary

ste murray honors the building’s renovated grandeur

Photographer Marc Goodwin captures Frankfurt architecture studios

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