Eligible models for a payout include the Series 0, 1, 2, and 3.Apple has agreed to a $20 million settlement in a class action lawsuit over battery swelling in early Apple Watch models. If you experienced the issue and owned an Apple Watch Series 0, 1, 2, or 3, you may be eligible for a small payout. The lawsuit, Smith et al. v. Apple Inc, was filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. In both the settlement agreement and claim website, Apple explicitly denies that its smartwatches ever had battery swelling issues and denies all allegations of wrongdoing and liability. Instead, it says that Apple is choosing to settle to avoid further costs of litigation. In a statement sent to The Verge, Apple spokesperson Aushawna Collins says the company strongly disagree[s] with the claims made against these early generation Apple Watch models.To be eligible for a payout, you have to have owned an eligible watch model and have reported any potential battery swelling issues to Apple between April 24th, 2015 and February 6th, 2024. Anyone who fits those criteria has until April 10th to confirm or update their payment information to receive a payout. According to the settlements FAQ site, the payment is estimated to be roughly $20 to $50 per covered watch. Accepting a payment means you also give up any future action regarding battery issues on these particular watches. Those who do not wish to be part of the settlement have until February 24th, 2025 to exclude themselves or object to the settlement.Update, January 31st: Added comment from Apple.

WhatsApp says it disrupted a spyware campaign last month that targeted journalists and civil society members, according to reports from The Guardian and Reuters. The campaign originated from an Israeli spyware company called Paragon Solutions and impacted around 90 users.WhatsApp told The Guardian that it has reached out to affected users, saying it had high confidence that they were targeted and possibly compromised. The Meta-owned app also sent a cease-and-desist order to Paragon and is exploring its legal options, The Guardian reports.Paragon, which Reuters called a competitor to Pegasus maker NSO Group, bills itself as an ethical cyber defense company. It was acquired by the Florida-based private investment firm AE Industrial Partners last year, while a recent report from Wired revealed that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement signed a $2 million contract with Paragon in September 2024.WhatsApp sued NSO Group in 2019 for targeting 1,400 users, including journalists, activists, and government officials. The spyware company has since been found liable.This is the latest example of why spyware companies must be held accountable for their unlawful actions, WhatsApp said in a statement to The Guardian. WhatsApp will continue to protect peoples ability to communicate privately. WhatsApp didnt immediately respond to The Verges request for more information.

LatestMachine LearningDeepSeek Fine-Tuning Made Simple: Create Custom AI Models with Python 0 like January 31, 2025Share this postLast Updated on January 31, 2025 by Editorial TeamAuthor(s): Krishan Walia Originally published on Towards AI. Learn to fine-tune the DeepSeek R1 model for all your use cases.This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium.Not a member?Access the full article here (and dont forget to leave a clap )Why be late to leverage the best in class reasoning with this DeepSeek R1 model?Fine Tune and use it for your awesome project!!While everyones racing to build applications on ChatGPT, savvy developers are quietly discovering DeepSeek-R1s fine-tuning capabilities which is a hidden gem that turns a general-purpose AI into your specialized digital expert.Through this article, you will learn how you can turn a general-purpose DeepSeek R1 model into a specialized, and domain-specific LLM.There has been an emerging group of developers and founders that are not just discovering the latest and well-performing DeepSeek-R1 but are also looking out for ways by which they can integrate this model into their own products.By fine-tuning the model we can make it possible to answer in a specialized and more domain-specific way. With the advanced reasoning capabilities of DeepSeek, it becomes an excellent choice for almost every task that involves thinking or problem-solving, all in a more organized and thoughtful manner.In this article, we will be diving into the process of fine-tuning the DeepSeek-R1 model using Python. Through this article, Read the full blog for free on Medium.Join thousands of data leaders on the AI newsletter. Join over 80,000 subscribers and keep up to date with the latest developments in AI. From research to projects and ideas. If you are building an AI startup, an AI-related product, or a service, we invite you to consider becoming asponsor. Published via Towards AITowards AI - Medium Share this post

Its already a rare win for a horror movie to get an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture, especially one as gleefully gross as Coralie Fargeats The Substance. It would be rarer still for one to actually win, but Demi Moores lead performance has collected at least one hefty early award at the Golden Globes, and shes now the odds-on favorite for Oscar night. No stranger to baring it all onscreen in previous roles, including Striptease and The Scarlet Letter, Moores turn as an aging actress in crisisand the nudity required for its body-swapping plotis no longer a cause for moral panic. Instead Moore is celebrated as brave and transgressive, almost to the point of condescension by virtue of her getting naked onscreen in her 60s.Yet the scariest part of Elisabeth Sparkles descent into self-absorbed madness and monstrosity isnt during all of those spine-splitting scenes of her giving birth to her younger, better half, Sue (a luminous Margaret Qualley, who was unfortunately among the actors snubbed by this years Academy). Moores physicality as she convulses on her bathroom floor and contorts into an ancient crone is brave, no doubt. But Elisabeth is most vulnerable, and affecting, in the quiet moments when she looks at herself in the mirror.If theres one scene that encapsulates The Substance, one perfect moment of realness in its glossy, gory satire that makes its audience squirm, its directly in the middle.With her acting prospects declared dead on her 50th birthday, Elisabeth turns to the mysterious Substance to get a new lease on life, thinking nothing about its true cost. But as younger Sue starts to steal vitality from her matrix mother, Elisabeth becomes even more obsessed with chasing the high of external validation. Shes lived her life in the public eye; her sex appeal to men is her entire sense of worth. So when Sue is offline, Elisabeth has even less of an identity, a life, than she did before taking the Substance. She has no purpose. Thus she spends all of her time alone, eating in front of the TV.Then she remembers Fred, her dorky high school classmate. She wouldnt have given him the time of day before, but now lost, Elisabeth needs her fix of affirmation and calls the man who still remembers her as the most beautiful girl in the whole wide world and asks him to dinner. She sighs in relief when he naturally, excitedly, accepts.What happens next is devastating.You Are OneDemi Moores performance in her date night preparation scene is the hinge of The Substance: we are all at war with ourselves.Maybe Fred is the thing she can use to fill those empty hours when shes not Sue. Maybe not. Fargeat plays up Elisabeths anxiety with perfectly timed tension. The music gets high-pitched and ominous as Elisabeth tries on outfits, settling on one that does look too sexy and fussy for a casual Italian dinner with an old friend. But, you see, this is her last grasp at playing the bombshell, even if its for an audience of one.The camera cuts between Elisabeth checking her appearance in the mirror, the ticking clock, the sleeping beauty of Sue in her time-out closet, and the giant, taunting Sue billboard outside her window. The more Elisabeth compares herself to Sue, the more her self-doubt increases, and this is where the physical mastery of Moores performance is at its best, in those growing cracks in the perfect Elisabeth mask.If theres a human alive who hasnt even once looked in the mirror and hated their own reflection, well, they might not be human at all. Weve all been in Elisabeths shoes, trying to hype ourselves up for a big event. But when youre trapped inside with your own dark thoughts for too long, its easy to become your own worst enemy.Its the voice inside your head that makes you try on every outfit in your closet and decide not one single thing looks right. It tells you that your hair is too thin, or it wont ever sit right. You look tired. You look old. Who are you trying to fool in that get-up? You look ridiculous. No one will want you, not even poor, dorky Fred.Join our mailing listGet the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox!Youre stupid. Youre worthless. Its pathetic to even try. You shouldnt apply for that dream job. You shouldnt go to that meet-up. Maybe you shouldnt leave the house at all. Maybe you even get to a point where you cant leave the house at all.Elisabeths total desperation builds to an explosion of self-hate and ravaged makeup and she is once again alone, in the dark, staring at Freds incoming texts.Poor, dorky Fred. There was a moment where Fargeat could have shown a crack in Freds facade as well. Another nice guy turning nasty in the face of female rejection is certainly not unheard of. It wouldve almost been a relief if Fred had called Elisabeth a fucking ugly old bitch for standing him up. Bullet dodged. But Freds seemingly genuine concern makes Elisabeths inability to leave her apartment even more heartbreaking. The date with Fred was the final off-ramp Elisabeth could have taken. Maybe she could have found enough with him to keep herself from slipping away into Sue and the grotesquerie that soon follows, but Elisabeth couldnt even let herself try.We are all at war with ourselves, and who knows better how to sabotage you than you?After that aborted attempt, The Substance descends into Requiem for a Dream-levels of unsubtle disaster. Elisabeth Sparkle may be just as deluded and lost as Sarah Goldfarb (played by Ellen Burstyn in another Oscar-nominated performance), but Demi Moore and the pop culture baggage she brings injects Elisabeth with an ironic, gleeful rage that turns The Substances final half into an over-the-top bloodbath condemning the unfair, ridiculous industry thats destroying Elisabeth Sparkle and could be rewarding Demi Moore with its top prize; Hollywood and its monster, they are one.

Apple TV+ kicked off 2025 with two big returning seriesSeverance and Mythic Questthat will continue airing new episodes throughout February. But the streamer also has a varied lineup of fresh debuts coming in the month ahead. Highlights include the Anya Taylor-Joy movie The Gorge, medical drama Berlin ER, a new season of Surface, a sports docu-series, new childrens show, and more. Heres everything coming to Apple TV+ in February.Love You to Death (A muerte)When: February 5What:TV ShowGenre: Romantic Comedy (Spanish language)Love You to Death (A muerte) tells the story of the cautious Ral (Joan Amargs), who reconnects with free-spirited and newly pregnant Marta (Vernica Echegui) following his heart cancer diagnosis. They resume a friendship that began in childhood, and in a relationship brought together by fate, begin to test their beliefs about love. Can the commitment-phobic Marta fall in love? And can Ral meet the love of his life?GoldieWhen: February 14What:TV ShowGenre: Kids & FamilyInspired by Emily Brundiges award-winning 2019 animated short film of the same name, Goldie follows Goldie, a giant girl with a big heart, as she sets off on epic adventures with her best friends in their beloved town of Boysenberg. Across 13 half-hour episodes, together they learn that being different is something to celebrate, and that theres space for everyone in this world even giants.The GorgeWhen: February 14What: MovieGenre: ThrillerIn The Gorge, two highly-trained operatives (Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy) are appointed to posts in guard towers on opposite sides of a vast and highly classified gorge, protecting the world from an undisclosed, mysterious evil that lurks within. They bond from a distance while trying to stay vigilant in defending against an unseen enemy. When the cataclysmic threat to humanity is revealed to them, they must work together in a test of both their physical and mental strength to keep the secret in the gorge before its too late.Onside: Major League SoccerWhen: February 21What:Limited SeriesGenre: Sports DocumentaryGo beyond the pitch with the personalities that power MLS in Onside: Major League Soccer. With unprecedented access to players, coaches and clubs, this series explores the electrifying moments and captivating stories that make the 2024 season unforgettable.Surface (season 2)When: February 21What:TV ShowGenre: Mystery, DramaSet in high-end San Francisco, Surface stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw (The Morning Show) as Sophie, a woman who has suffered a traumatic head injury that has left her with extreme memory loss, believed to be a result of a suicide attempt. As Sophie embarks on a quest to put the pieces of her life back together with the help of her husband and friends, she begins to question whether or not the truth she is told is in fact the truth she has lived. Through twists and turns and a shocking love triangle, this sexy, elevated thriller asks: What if you woke up one day and didnt know your own secrets? Surface is a story of self-discovery which contemplates if we are pre-programmed to become who we are, or if we choose our own identity.Berlin ERWhen: February 26What:TV ShowGenre: Drama (German language)Managing a chaotic emergency room in the toughest and most overcrowded hospital in Berlin is no small task for the young Dr. Parker, who is seeking a fresh start in the big city after her private life implodes in Munich. In Berlin ER, when she tries to implement necessary reforms, Parker is confronted with resistance from the underpaid, ill-equipped and chronically fatigued hospital staff who only survive with an indispensable dose of black humor. But in the face of an increasingly merciless healthcare system, the battered team must put aside their differences and pull together to save lives.Apple TV+ is available for $9.99 per month and features hit TV shows and movies like Ted Lasso, Severance, The Morning Show, Silo, and Shrinking.Which of these Apple TV+ February releases are you most excited about? Let us know in the comments.Best Apple TV and Home accessoriesAdd 9to5Mac to your Google News feed. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More.Youre reading 9to5Mac experts who break news about Apple and its surrounding ecosystem, day after day. Be sure to check out our homepage for all the latest news, and follow 9to5Mac on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to stay in the loop. Dont know where to start? Check out our exclusive stories, reviews, how-tos, and subscribe to our YouTube channel

Googles $20 billion per year search deal with Apple was ruled last summer to violate antitrust law. Though Apple isnt a defendant in the case, its outcome could have a big impact on the company. As a result, Apple has just asked for a stay on proceedings.New filing shows Apples desire to get involved with proceedingsEarlier this week, Apple was denied a motion to present witnesses at the upcoming Google trial.Apple itself is not accused of wrongdoing in the case, but back when it first made the motion, the company explained: Google can no longer adequately represent Apples interests: Google must now defend against a broad effort to break up its business units.In other words, even though Apple isnt formally involved in the case, it knows that Google has to focus on its own defense interests, so Apple wants the chance to represent itself.Since its motion was just denied, Apple has followed up with another option: requesting a stay on proceedings to protect its rights pending appeal.The new filing reads:Absent a stay, Apple will suffer irreparable harm: the deprivation of its right to participate as a party in the remedial phase of this case moving forward, including possibly at the trial itself, while its undisputed property rights are adjudicated. These harms are magnified by a position Plaintiffs revealed in a recent meet-and-confer with Apple.The full document cites that courts have commonly granted stays pending appeal of orders denying intervention, and thus Apple believes this court should do the same.If Apple isnt able to participate as desired, it has another ask instead:In the alternative, the Court should at minimum afford Apple full access to the record as a nonparty until the D.C. Circuit rules.One way or another, Apple believes its participation in court proceedingsto some degree or anotherwill be necessary to avoid having to suffer irreparable harm.Do you think Apple should be able to participate in Googles case? Why or why not? Let us know in the comments.Best iPhone accessoriesAdd 9to5Mac to your Google News feed. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More.Youre reading 9to5Mac experts who break news about Apple and its surrounding ecosystem, day after day. Be sure to check out our homepage for all the latest news, and follow 9to5Mac on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to stay in the loop. Dont know where to start? Check out our exclusive stories, reviews, how-tos, and subscribe to our YouTube channel

But her emails...Email EmpowermentTurns out that putting underqualified kids in charge of the federal government's HR agency wasn't the smartest move. Last night, an exploit in the Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) new home-cooked email serverseems to have made it possible for anyone with an email address to blast messages to vast numbers of federal employees.As a result, over 13,000 employees with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found their inboxes bombarded with spam and messages from vulgar trolls. Some users signed the NOAA up for newsletters from entities like the Church of Scientology, or the Perfect Jean "Welcome to Jean Perfection," a screenshot reads. One particularly vulgar email offered pointers on Trump's alleged performance at a sexual act. An "Important Weather Alert" warned that the next four years have a 99 percent chance of fecal showers. "Aren't you tired of working for a complete c***?" asked one sender. A missive from a sender identified as "Craig" simply reads "yo."Ken Klippenstein, the national security reporter who revealed the breach, once again took the opportunity to plug his infamous newsletter with the subject line: "urgent, time sensitive."If you feel this paints a pretty grim picture of the state of our government agencies, you're not alone. "Goes to show you how fast this [new comms system] was cobbled together," one NOAA employee told Ken Klippenstein. "No security or screening on this address."Spam of GodThe whole thing apparently stems from an overhaul at the OPM led by oligarch-in-chief Elon Musk. On Tuesday, Wired reported that Musk had been given free reign to replace the agency's high-level staff with lackeys from his previous ventures.Those included a 21-year-old who had previously worked for Peter Thiel, and a summer intern from Neuralink who just graduated high school. It also included Amanda Scales a former xAI HR staffer who is reportedly in place as the OPM's new chief of staff.Scales is allegedly implementing what some have called a hostile takeover of the OPM, axing the Chief Information Officer Melvin Brown II for refusing to implement the new regime's in-house email server. Brown evidently made the right call, as the new system on top of all the aforementioned drama was immediately hit with a class-action lawsuit for failing to pass Bush-era cyber security checks.All this server drama is important, as it's reportedly key in DOGE's goal of gathering information on every government employee. Tuesday's much-reported "fork in the road" email memos came from this unsecured server, which unintentionally revealed the involvement of two non-government individuals, both heavily involved in Project 2025.As Trump's acolytes look to gut the federal government and install their own yes men, the drama swirling around this email server will have a lot to reveal about the new administration's unprecedented strategy.More on email leaks: In Leaked Email, Elon Musk Admits Defeat on TwitterShare This Article

Remember the plot to the 1984 sci-fi blockbuster "The Terminator"?"There was a nuclear war,"a character explains. "Defense network computers. New... powerful... hooked into everything, trusted to run it all. They say it got smart, a new order of intelligence. Then it saw all people as a threat, not just the ones on the other side. Decided our fate in a microsecond: extermination."It seems like either the execs at OpenAI have never seen it or they're working overtime to make that premise a reality.Don't believe us? OpenAI has announced that the US National Laboratories will use its deeply flawed AI models to help with a "comprehensive program in nuclear security."As CNBC reports, up to 15,000 scientists working at the institutions will get access to OpenAI's latest o1 series of AI models the ones that Chinese startup DeepSeek embarrassed on the world stage earlier this month.According to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who announced the partnership at an event in Washington, DC, the tech will be "focused on reducing the risk of nuclear war and securing nuclear materials and weapons worldwide," as quoted by CNBC.If any alarm bells are ringing by this point, you're not alone. We've seen plenty of instances of OpenAI's AI models leaking sensitive user dataand hallucinating false claims with abandon.OpenAI's been making a huge push into government. Earlier this week, the Sam Altman-led company released ChatGPT Gov, a platform specifically designed for US government use that focuses on security.But whether the company can deliver on some sky-high expectations while also ensuring that its frequently lying AI chatbots won't leak the nuclear codes or trigger the next nuclear war is anyone's guess.The news comes after the Wall Street Journal reported that OpenAI is in early talks for a new round of funding that would value it at a gargantuan $340 billion, double its previous valuation last year.Altman has also fully embraced president Donald Trump, gifting him $1 million for his inauguration and claiming that he had "really changed my perspective on him" after trashing him in years past.OpenAI also signed onto Trump's $500 billion AI infrastructure deal, dubbed Stargate, with the plan of contributing tens of billions of dollars within the next year.Whether the company's o1 reasoning models will prove useful in any meaningful way to the researchers at the US National Laboratories remains to be seen.But given the widespread dismantling of regulations under the Trump administration, it also feels like an unbelievablyprecarious moment to be handing over any amount of control over nuclear weapons to a busted AI system.Share This Article

OMA Creates Scenography With Monumental Archetypal Elements For The Islamic Arts Biennalehtml PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"OMA has created a scenography that reinterprets archetypal architectural elements in a monumental scale for the Islamic Arts Biennale in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.The scenography, titled And All That Is In Between, was designed by OMA Partner and Director Iyad Alsaka and Associate Kaveh Dabiri.The 2025 Islamic Arts Biennale is on view from 25 January to 25 May in Jeddah, organized by the Diriyah Biennale Foundation.The show examines how faith influences craftsmanship and artistic expression. There are more than twice as many historical artifacts and 29 contemporary art commissions on display compared to the first edition.Through an environment of abstract forms that recreate classic architectural components, OMA's scenography unifies the exhibition. The material palette is purposefully limited; white fabric of various kinds is utilized throughout, and slight lighting variations provide the illusion of color diversity."Its an honor to continue working with the Diriyah Biennale Foundation on the second edition of the Biennale and to contribute to the expansion of this event, in Saudi Arabia and on the global art scene," said Iyad Alsaka, OMA Partner."Creating harmony and cohesion within the scenography design, while establishing a dialogue between the historical and contemporary artworks on such a monumental scale, has been both a significant undertaking and an inspiring process," said Kaveh Dabiri, OMA Associate."We achieved this by adopting an abstract architectural language, materialized through lightness and translucency, that moves away from conventional museum-like presentations," Dabiri added.The exhibition, which is spread across seven indoor and outdoor spaces at Jeddah's King Abdulaziz International Airport under the canopy of SOM's Hajj Terminal, is called AlBidayah - the Beginning, AlMadar - the Orbit, AlMuqtani - Homage, AlMidhallah - the Canopy, AlMukarramah - the Honored, AlMunawwarah - the Illuminated, and AlMusalla, a place for prayer and gathering.Dedicated to the sacred, AlBidayah is made out of expansive areas with curved translucent walls that emphasize the size of the items on exhibit.This section's focal point is the Kiswah, the cloth covering the Holy Kaaba, which is being displayed in its entirety for the first time outside of Makkah.Along with modern artwork, these galleries also display various items from Madinah and Makkah. The vitrines' black painted frames mimic the hues of numerous pieces of art and antiques.More than thirty universities from more than twenty nations contributed to AlMadar, which has a forest of thirty-seven abstract rectangular columns.Constructed from concentric layers of translucent textiles and lit from the inside and bottom, they appear as extrusions of the vitrines below and fade into the darkness of the ceiling over time.Visitors can find the participating institutions and traverse the thematic clusters with the aid of the column density.The two collections shown in this section are intended to be given equal weight in AlMuqtani's scenography. The gallery is divided into two equal-sized triangles, one for each collection, using a bowtie-shaped arrangement.Symmetrical pleated walls that rise from eye level to the room's entire height define the triangles. A vitrine is housed in each pleat, creating a smooth display front that is only visible as guests go through the gallery. The highlights and treasuries of the exhibition take up the middle of the gallery.The concept of gardens in Islamic cultures is the subject of several site-specific artworks that AlMidhallah displays. OMA's 2023 landscape intervention now includes extensive plantings, which help to organize the artwork location.A more condensed and personal experience is produced by their combined occupancy of a square of nine canopy bays in the middle of the outdoor area.Two pavilions honoring Makkah and Madinah, AlMukarramah and AlMunawwarah, acknowledge the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's guardianship of these sacred towns.AlMukarramah examines the potent interplay between Makkah al-Mukarramah's centrality and universality by combining rare early pictures and film, historical artifacts related to the Holy Kaaba, and a modern art installation.With a collection of fabrics embroidered with gold, AlMunawwarah delves into the heritage of Al-Madinah al-Munawwarah. The pavilion's design captures the renowned coziness of Madinah's ambiance.The Islamic Arts Biennale's curatorial team consists of by Abdul Rahman Azzam, Amin Jaffer, and Julian Raby, while Muhannad Shono serves as the curator of contemporary art.In 2023, OMA also created the scenography for the inaugural Islamic Arts Biennale. With this initiative, the office's long-standing engagement in Saudi Arabia enters a new phase.Image Frans ParthesiusImage OMAImage OMAImage OMAImage Frans ParthesiusImage Frans ParthesiusIslamic Arts Biennale, site plan, courtesy of OMAAmong the projects in OMA's Middle Eastern portfolio are the Qatar National Library, the Qatar Foundation Headquarters, and Concrete on Alserkal Avenue in Dubai. AMO, OMA's think tank, has written extensively about the region's fast urbanization in two special issues of Volume magazine: Al Manakh: Gulf Continued (2010) and Al Manakh (2007).Recently, OMA and Andrea Tabocchini Architecture remodeled the Gallery of the Kings at Turins Museo Egizio in Italy. In addition, OMA/Rem Koolhaas and Chris van Duijn opened in Bordeaux, France.Project factsProject name:And All That Is In BetweenArchitecture:OMALocation:Jeddah, Saudi ArabiaClient: Diriyah Biennale Foundation, Ministry of Culture of Saudi ArabiaYear:2025Program: Scenography 70,000 m2: Interior exhibition space 10,000 m2; Landscape and outdoor exhibition space 60,000 m2; Total site 120,000 m2Partner: Iyad AlsakaAssociate:Kaveh DabiriTeam:Victoire Bouillot, Dagna Dembiecka, Catalina Dumitru, Sarah El Harouny, Raffaele Guercia, Emanuele Moro, Giovanni Stoppoloni, Andrea VerniModel:Marc Heumer, Tijmen Klone, Heming Liu, Arthur WongCollaboratorsLighting Design: les claireursScenography and art production: Black EngineeringDisplay case design and object display:Colin Morris AssociatesArt handling and logistics:HasenkampDisplay mount design and fabrication: CubicExhibition wayfinding and signage:Penguin CubeConservation and restoration:Plowden and SmithDisplay case manufacturing: GoppionGraphic design:Morcos KeyAll images Marco Cappelletti, courtesy of OMA unless otherwise stated.> via OMA

The Former Steelworks Of A Power Plant Are Integrated With Organically-Shaped Greenhouse Pavilionshtml PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"The former steelworks of a power plant were integrated with organically-shaped greenhouse pavilions to establish the twin dualities of industry, nature, tradition, and the future.Named Expo Cultural Park Greenhouse, the 41,000-square-metre building was designed by Vienna-based architecture firm Delugan Meissl Associated Architects(DMAA).Entrance pathReaching at 35 meters in height, the greenhouse complex is located in the center of Pudong, a sparsely populated industrial enclave that has developed into one of Asia's most breathtaking high-rise skylines.As Delugan Meissl Associated Architects explained, the inner-city leisure area was once home to a steel mill and a coal-fired power station before being transformed into the Expo Cultural Park. After that, it was renovated to serve as Expo 2010's site.FacadeThe steel framework of a former industrial hall served as a geometric superstructure for the new Greenhouse Garden project, which was further complemented with naturally curved pavements."The zeitgeist has shifted towards recognizing nature as the essential basis of our living environment," said DMAA."And nature has also moved to the heart of architecture. In recent years, as it has repeatedly addressed the specific task of greenhouse design, we have developed extensive technical and cultural knowhow."Exterior evening"With a population of 23 million, the megacity of Shanghai is the focal point of Chinas urban and internati- onal development.""But the Shanghai Region is also directly threatened by the consequences of unlimited growth and climate change. Given biting smogs, water shortages, and rising temperatures, the countrys leaders are looking for solutions that take the form of radical largescale steps steps that should not only preserve natural habitats but also steer Chinas technological and economic efforts in a sustainable direction," said the firm.Exterior parkfrontThe decision by the municipal administration to transform such a large, centrally located plot of land into a first-rate recreational area is unmistakable proof of the general trend toward more intensive planting of Shanghai's core urban zones. Shanghai is one of the world's largest cities with a subtropical climate.The creation of a zero-energy building was one of the project's specific goals because greenhouses typically use a lot of energy. This was accomplished by using single glazing, which was chosen since simulative studies indicated that double glazing would be less energy efficient because the impact of the artificial lighting needed by the plants would more than offset the reduction in heat loss.Exterior parkviewThe studio modified the opening windows in the perforated roof to allow for the passive cooling and natural ventilation that produce the ideal climate for the particular plants. In addition to providing cooling, a pool next to the pavilions uses photovoltaic panels situated just below its surface to power the greenhouse.With its sandy and rocky terrain, the first pavilion replicates the extreme aridity of the desert and represents the home of drought-tolerant yet endangered plants on every continent. The final pavilion's vertical flower beds provide room for traveling exhibitions, while the second pavilion showcases the rainforest's tropical vegetation.Entrance pavilionAn overview of the entire park and the structures that make up the periphery of the surrounding urban fabric may be seen from the terrace above the pavilions. A sizable circular area beneath the listed steel structure and between the three pavilions and the entrance building unifies the proposal with the natural surroundings.The greenhouses' internal and external passageways provide new attributes. Visitors actively navigate this network, moving through each spatial sequence and interacting with the constructed material in a certain way.Interior desertThese visitors are revealed by glazed parapets, and their movement is accelerated or decelerated by mild gradients. The difference in water levels between desert and tropical flora is a natural phenomenon, but it also provides a global political viewpoint because of the concerns about future water supplies brought up by climate change.In this sense, the facade's naturally flowing shape serves as a leitmotif for both the internal structure and the new, flexible human-nature relationship.Interior tropical forest pathwayInterior tropical forestBirdviewBirdview top nightSketchSite planFirst level floor planSecond level floor planThird level floor planRoof floor planDelugan Meissl Associated Architects (DMAA) was established in 1993 by Delugan and Elke Delugan-Meissl. The office tackles today's social and environmental concerns with a passionate and relentless focus on the novel and the unusual, defying conventional answers.By working on several extremely successful greenhouse projects over the years, DMAA has gained technical and cultural know-how that is currently being used on Shanghai's Greenhouse Garden.Project factsProject name: Expo Cultural Park GreenhouseArchitects:Delugan Meissl Associated ArchitectsLocation:Shanghai Expo Cultural Park - Guo Zhan Lu Pudong Xinqu, ShanghaiCompetition: 2018 (1st Price)Start of construction:01/2020Completion year:09/2024Gross surface area: 41,000 m2Site area: 47,000 m2 (within the whole Park)Height: 35mProject manager:Diogo TeixeiraProject team:Yue Chen, Jurgis Gecys, Thomas Peter-Hindelang, Toms Kampars, Prima Mathawabhan, Sebastian Michalski, Ernesto Mulch, Maximilian Tronnier, Toni Nachev, Marillies Wedl.ConsultantsCoordination:Yiju DingExecutive Planning: SIADR Co.LtdStructural Engineering:Bollinger + Grohmann ZT GmbHEnergy Design:Transsolar Energie-technik GmbHLandscape Design:Yiju DingAll images CreatAR.All drawings Delugan Meissl Associated Architects.> via Delugan Meissl Associated Architects