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New App Makes Converting Text Documents on Ubuntu Easier

There are a number of ways to convert documents on Ubuntu but few are as quick and easy to use as Morphosis. Morphosis is a desktop app written in Python and GTK4/libadwaita and powered by Pandoc, a command-line document converter tool for Windows, macOS, and Linux, and WebkitGTK. Pandoc is a powerful and efficient tool but not everyone is comfortable at the command line (and even those who aren’t sometimes don’t want to have to swot up on the various arguments and flags needed to convert). Enter Morphosis, which wraps the power of Pandoc in a super-simple GUI. Using the 
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 https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/06/convert-text-documents-easily-ubuntu

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Morphosis designs Athenæum cultural district at University of Texas at Dallas

Architecture studio Morphosis has designed a performance hall and two art museums for a new cultural district called Athenæum at a Dallas university.

The district – officially called the Edith and Peter O'Donnell Jr Athenæum – will encompass 12 acres (4.9 hectares) on the main campus of the University of Texas at Dallas.

Morphosis will design a complex for the University of Texas at Dallas

Positioned on the southeastern edge of campus, the district will "allow both students and the surrounding community to experience the convergence of art and architecture in ways not previously possible at the university", said Arne Emerson, a partner at Morphosis who is serving as design lead.

The master plan has a two-acre plaza that is flanked by three cultural buildings and a parking structure. The plaza will feature gardens, tree-lined walkways, water elements and an amphitheatre.

The spaces will be dedicated to arts and culture programming

"Landscaping and open space are used intentionally in the master plan to knit together the various buildings within the district and to create an important link to the rest of the campus," the team said.

Each of the cultural buildings has a second floor that is suspended over the exterior ground level, which can be used for studying, events and the display of artwork.

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Facades will consist of white, precast-concrete panels with a three-dimensional pattern designed by Morphosis and created in collaboration with local fabricator Gate Precast.

The largest of the three structures – and the first slated to be built – is the Crow Museum of Asian Art, which also has a location in the downtown Dallas Arts District.

Totalling 68,000 square feet (6,317 square metres), the museum will offer a large amount of gallery space, along with a conservation lab, a reading room, seminar rooms, offices and storage space.

"Large windows at the ends of the galleries allow for ample natural light, but can also be blacked out for more light-sensitive objects," the team said.

The concrete patterns made by Morphosis will continue inside the structure

The textured pattern found on the facade will continue indoors.

"The precast panel surface is further animated through a process of sandblasting that exposes the local, coloured aggregate and silica," the team said.

The performance venue – planned for phase two – will total 53,000 square feet (4,924 square metres) and include a 600-seat concert hall and rooms for practising and rehearsal rooms.

Phase three will entail the construction of a museum for traditional arts of the Americas, which will total 50,000 square feet (4,645 square metres).

Across the plaza, to the east, the team has designed a 1,100-car parking structure with two above-grade levels and a basement. The garage will be masked by a freestanding wall along the plaza clad in the same concrete panels used on the cultural facilities.

"A secondary facade peels away from the main parking structure, creating a three-storey, open-air, landscaped entry garden in the space between the facade and building," the firm said.

The structures will be primarily used for museum and gallery space

The new cultural district is part of an initiative called New Dimensions, which aims to "attract talent to North Texas" and support the work of faculty and bring researchers and artists together in one place.

California-based Morphosis was selected for the project via an international search and was chosen to design the project in 2019. Construction began this month, and the first phase is scheduled to be finished in 2024.

Cofounded in 1972 by Pritzker Prize-winner Thom Mayne, Morphosis has offices in Los Angeles, New York, Dubai, Seoul and Shanghai.

The firm's other projects include an asymmetrical, supertall skyscraper in Shenzhen that has a detached structural core and a Seoul research facility with a facade made of the same high-tech fibre used to make bullet-proof vests.

The imagery is by Morphosis.

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Morphosis creates asymmetrical supertall skyscraper in Shenzhen

US architecture studio Morphosis has unveiled the 359-metre-tall Hanking Center supertall skyscraper in Shenzhen, China, which has a detached structural core.

Described by the studio as an "asymmetrical skyscraper", the supertall building in the high-tech district of Nanshan in Shenzhen appears as two interconnected towers.

Hanking Center is a supertall skyscraper in Shenzhen designed by Morphosis

The skyscraper has a structural steel core containing the majority of the building's lifts and mechanical services.

This is separated from the 65-storey-building's office space in a structural arrangement similar to Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners' Leadenhall building, which is known as the Cheesegrater, in London.

The structural core and offices of the skyscraper are separated

The offices and structural core were built ten metres apart and connected by numerous bridges to create what Morphosis founding partner and Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne describes as "a threshold" space.

"As a typology, skyscrapers tend to emphasize shape as the primary differentiator," said Mayne.

"Instead, we focused on lived experience within the city. The delamination between the circulation core and the office spaces within the tower generates a threshold, an intensification of the urban landscape as part of the day-to-day."

A series of bridges connect the lifts to the office spaces

Morphosis separated the structural core from the offices to create a form that responds to the nearby Shenzhen University campus.

The decision also created large, column-free spaces in the glass-clad office tower that have expansive views across the city.

The office tower is connected to the structural core by braces

"We were interested in several primary concepts when approaching the form for Hanking Center: first, offering a large, contiguous, column-free floor space with 270-degree views, which could be achieved by a detached core configuration; second, not to get trapped in a game of 'sculptural shaping'; and finally, to respond to the campus of Shenzhen University which lay directly south of the tower," explained Morphosis partner Eui-Sung Yi.

"This resulted naturally in an asymmetrical skyscraper with two joined 'towers': a clear primary front volume facing the campus of the Shenzhen University, and the core tower to the north."

While the steel structural core rises vertically, the office tower's form contracts and then expands as the building rises to give the skyscraper "a sense of movement".

The arrangement also created a variety of different-sized floor plates within the tower.

The structural arrangement creates column-free office spaces inside

"The shape was driven both by structural dynamics –achieving stability by being wider at the bottom, narrower at the top – and the opportunity to provide different-sized floor areas for different tenant types," explained Yi.

"For example, some tenants seek the symbolic value of having a whole dedicated floor despite a smaller workforce and space demands."

The glass facade of the skyscraper faces Shenzhen University

The studio hopes that the tower embodies the spirit of Shenzhen.

"With its enthusiasm for new possibilities in the design and experience of a commercial tower, you could say Hanking Center embodies the entrepreneurial and innovative ethos of Shenzhen, a prototypical 21st-century city which has utterly redefined global touchstones of urban development," said Yi.

"Locally, it anchors Shenzhen's emerging high-tech district in Nanshan, and the expressive structure and material palette speaks to the focus of its projected tenant base of startups and leading tech companies."

The office tower features angled glass facades

Founded by Mayne, architecture studio Morphosis has offices in Los Angeles, New York, and Shenzhen. The studio recently revealed a pair of contrasting towers for Viper Room nightclub site in Los Angeles and a headquarters building for athletic clothing brand Lululemon in Vancouver.

The Hanking Center is the latest supertall skyscraper – a building over 300 metres – to be built in Shenzhen with Kohn Pedersen Fox's bullet-shaped office for the China Resources export company recently completing.

Hanking Center is the latest skyscraper to be built in Shenzhen

Other upcoming supertalls in the city include a pair of connected 400-metre-tall towers being designed by Zaha Hadid Architects and Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill's 700-metre-high Shenzhen-Hong Kong International Center, which would be the tallest building in China.

Project credits:

Architect: Morphosis
Associate architect: Zhubo Design
Interior architect: Hassell Hong Kong
Structural concepts: John A. Martin & Associates
Structural engineer: Halvorson and Partners, WSP
MEP / Facade Concepts: Stantec
MEP / Fire Protection: Parsons Brinckerhoff
Landscape architect: SWA Group (Concept); Ohtori Consultants (Design)
Lighting: Gradient Lighting Design
Facade: SuP Ingenieure GmbH
Vertical transportation: Parsons Brinckerhoff
Traffic: MVA Transportation, Planning & Management Consultants
Wind consultant: RWDI
Tower consultant: w.erk studios
Visualization: Aveson Luxigon
General contractor: China Construction Fourth Engineering Division Corp
Facade contractor: Shenzhen Fangda Building Technology Group, Co
Steel contractor: China Construction Steel Structure Corporation

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