Haycock-shaped
hotel made designed by a Lviv architect
Eco hotel ‘Three Haycocks’ developed by Levko Davydyuk
from Lviv, bested at Environmental design category of All-Ukrainian Designers
Competition ‘Ukrainian Design: The Very Best Of’. This work also was included
into Chinese book ‘World Bionic Buildings’.
Levko Davydyuk is a designer and architect, graduated
from the National University Lviv Polytechnic. He designed his first house at
the age of 10. He started his career right after first year of University,
developed designs of restaurants, offices in Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil
and Kyiv.
He had been working at Eco hotel ‘Three Haycocks’
project for a year. According to his idea it must be four-store buildings. The
first floor is wooden; other three floors are made from reed laid out by dutch
technology.
At the moment Levko is looking for investors. He was
already given several offers from Poland, Greece, Caribians, SAR. However, the
young designer sees this project just in Ukraine, ‘This building will be
perfectly blended in with Ukrainian realities, somewhere in the country, for
example, on Svityaz lake’.
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‘The
Living Fire’ awards Special Jury Prize at HotDocs, Canada
A movie ‘The Living Fire’ by Ostap Kostyuk awarded
Special Jury Prize at International Feature Documentary HotDocs, Canada.
During four years the filmmakers had been learning
life of their characters, sheep breeders living in the Carpathians.
‘It is a unique for Ukraine project in a sense of
complexity and time of shooting’, Olha Bezkhmelnitsina, executive producer,
mentioned.
The movie will be released in Ukraine this autumn.
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Kherson
karatekas best in Europe again
29th Kyokushin Karate European Championship took place
in Berlin on May, 9.
For the fifth time Oleksandr Yeremenko from Kherson
defended his title Champion of Europe in 90kg category.
His countryman Eldar Ismailov became three-time winner
of Championship of Europe in up to 90kg category.
Mykyta Peshenko and Tatiana Nemtseva secured three
medal places in their weight categories.
Switzerland
gives CNF15 million for an energy efficient project in Zhytomyr
May 7, 2015 the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs
of Swiss Confederation and the Ministry of Regional Development, Housing and
Communal Services of Ukraine, Zhytomyr City Council, municipal enterprise
‘Zhytomyrteploenegro’ singed the Memorandum of Understanding on financial
support of energy efficient project to be implemented in Zhytomyr.
Total project budget (including contribution of
Zhytomyr) is CNF18.6 million (15.1 million is a grant donated by the Swiss
Federal Council).
284m
long wooden defensive wall was built in ‘The Kyivan Rus Park’
‘The longest reconstructed wooden defensive wall’ was
built in ‘The Kyivan Rus Park’. It took more than 10 000 wooden blocks to
construct a wall.
The wall length is 284m. It consists of 6 towers and 6
sections. The highest point of defensive works is 20m. The wall’s average
height is from 6.4m to 8.4m. A fortress wall is a log construction built from
non-rounded blocks (95% pine, 5% oak). The log is built without any nails.
The wooden fortress wall reconstruction is built on
the bases of scientific data. Defensive works of Volodymyr the Great epoch
looked exactly like this. Later the city had been growing and new constructions
had been built around the perimeter of Kyiv. Kyiv entrance gate was already
built from stone. However, wooden defensive wall built at Volodymyr epoch
stayed up to XIII when Kyiv was ruined by Batu Khan.
‘I think that if we complete a study and send all
necessary data to London we have good chances to prove international status of
this construction and be included into Guinness World Records which will be
published in 2016’, Vitaliy Zorin, expert of National Records of Ukraine, mentioned.
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