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  • Ever Seen a 13th Floor?

    20 Nov 2009 | 2:00 am
    Funny how superstition can influence the way we build and the names we use for our buildings. A reader in our Discussion Forum wonders whether any tall buildings in the USA have a floor that is actually designated as the 13th floor. Somehow, American skyscrapers skip the unlucky number and floors jump magically from 12 to 14. Can you name a building with a 13th floor? Tell us! Related: World's Tallest Buildings Famous Tall Buildings Tall Buildings Ranked Ever Seen a 13th Floor? originally appeared on About.com Architecture on Friday, November 20th, 2009 at 10:00:07.Permalink | Comment | Email…

  • Celebrate Saarinen!

    17 Nov 2009 | 3:00 am
    Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen only lived to 51, and yet he created a dramatic body of work, from furniture designs to airport terminals. An amazing collection of his sketches, working drawings, models, photographs, furnishings, and other items are on display at the Museum of the City of New York through January 31. The exhibition, Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future, then moves to Yale University, which houses the world's largest archives of Saarinen papers. Making the Face of Modernism Familiar in the New York Times The Purpose-Driven Wife in Newsweek Exhibition Catalog: Eero…

  • What Else Do Architects Do?

    14 Nov 2009 | 4:00 pm
    We all know that architects design buildings, but how about all that other stuff they do? From teapots to lunar cities, great minds have taken on some pretty far flung projects. What else? How about shoes? Architects Tread in New Territory: Shoe Design in Architectural Record More: What Can I Do With a Major In Architecture? Tell Us: What Qualities Make a Great Architect? What Else Do Architects Do? originally appeared on About.com Architecture on Sunday, November 15th, 2009 at 00:00:16.Permalink | Comment | Email this

  • High Design For Your Car

    12 Nov 2009 | 4:00 pm
    Frank Lloyd Wright had the right idea when he drew plans for the Gordon Strong Automobile Objective and Planetarium. That tourist destination never got built, but nowadays architects are designing all sorts of structures that put cars in fancy places. Exhibit: House of Cars, Innovation and the Parking Garage at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. through July 11, 2010. Book: The Parking Garage: Design and Evolution of a Modern Urban Form by Shannon Sanders McDonald (compare prices) Photos: Parking Outside the Box in Metropolis Magazine. Images: Above: "Pez-dispenser" design for a…

  • Rise and Fall of a Gilded Age Giant

    11 Nov 2009 | 5:00 pm
    Philadelphia architect Frank Furness was born on November 12, 1839. Known for his bold and oversized Victorian buildings, Furness became one of the greats of the Gilded Age. However, his dramatic buildings faded in popularity and many have been remodeled or destroyed. Wonderful photos of Furness's works are housed in the Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania.Rise and Fall of a Gilded Age Giant originally appeared on About.com Architecture on Thursday, November 12th, 2009 at 01:00:00.Permalink | Comment | Email this
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  • Song, Memory, When

    Bear Up North
    20 Nov 2009 | 4:41 pm
    This thread needs no explanation. Continue your scan..... Hanky Panky Living on the beach. Jennifer. 1966 Nights In White Satin Close to the end of first marriage. Cynthia. 1971 Jesus Is Just Alright Bachelors III Dance Bar. 1972 or 1973 Love Changes Everything Close to the end of another marriage. Carole. 1989. Ghostbusters Theme Detroit Tigers' World Series Championship 1984 (morphed to "Goosebusters") 1984 _____ Your turn. Bear

  • Traffic-calming bumpout design

    southern_yank
    20 Nov 2009 | 2:10 pm
    I've started using microstation for some in-house design work. I'm working on a road diet for a residential collector which currently acts as a high speed through street between an urban arterial and our downtown. I've designed about 7 or 8 different kinds of bumpouts, but because the neighborhood blocks aren't a traditional grid, some of the turn radii vary greatly and don't fit a standard bumpout design. Can anyone recommend a design manual for bumpouts? It would be nice to have some templates I can refer to so when I take my designs to our engineers, I can refer to a previously built…

  • APA National Conference - April 2010 - NOLA

    RichmondJake
    20 Nov 2009 | 1:48 pm
    Is it too early to start this thread? Very difficult economic times, but is anyone else planning to attend? I received verbal approval to head for the Big Easy and I know a couple of other Cyburbians are making plans to attend. Maybe a Laefest at Acme Oyster House or Larry Flynt's Hustler Club? Both are in walking distance of each other in the Quarter. Just starting the ball rolling.

  • hello from florida

    nuHIrail
    20 Nov 2009 | 1:05 pm
    i am going to be a graduate of FSU in three weeks. i did the interdisciplinary social sciences undergrad program, my primary study (21 hours) is urban and regional planning, with a secondary concentration (12 hours) in economics. i became interested in urban planning after i began attending the university, and will be pursuing a path in economic development [preferably] in my next academic venture. however, another path i have recently become interested in pursuing is the planning involved in a high speed rail network president obama is pushing to create. i have discovered a newly found…

  • Cheboygan, MI - Planner

    BrianVDB
    20 Nov 2009 | 12:38 pm
    This is a good opportunity for someone with limited experience. The tip of the mitt is a beautiful place to live! :h: PLANNER Cheboygan County, Michigan encompassing 800 square miles of nature's best and strategically located at the tip of Michigan's Lower Peninsula along the pristine shores of Lake Huron is seeking to hire a "Planner". Job requirements include: Assisting with amendments to Master Plan, preparing zoning amendments, conducting special planning projects, overseeing planning activities in conjunction with GIS system for the County; maintains, administers and enforces…
 
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  • Johnson Haunts Harvard

    20 Nov 2009 | 3:34 pm
    Philip Johnson's first completed project, a modest house not far from Harvard Square where the architect was studying in the '40s, caused a stir when it was built more for what went on behind its 9-foot walls than the building itself. But it continues to rankle today, as the school looks to turn the demure building into a salon for students while Cambridgians cry out. The Architect's Newspaper

  • Erosion of Public Education in CA and Nationwide

    20 Nov 2009 | 1:51 pm
    As we hear reports of Alameda County sheriffs entering the Berkeley campus with tear gas today, and (on the positive side) the University of California teams doing very well in the WPA 2.0 competition (winners UCLA's cityLAB as well as Berkeley faculty runners-up Rael and de Monchaux), it's worth listening to this report on Democracy Now. | Don't forget, we're also documenting the contribution of the UCs to the arts and design disciplines here.

  • Recent Results

    20 Nov 2009 | 11:07 am
    cityLAB Design Competition WPA 2.0 Rides Perfect Storm in DC WPA 2.0: Working Public Architecture, the design competition organized by UCLA�s cityLAB, culminated with the announcement of �Carbon T.A.P.// Tunnel Algae Park� as the winner of the professional competition and �R_Ignite� and �Aquaculture Canal_New Orleans� as the winners of the student competition... Rietveldprijs 2009 Goes to Business Park in Utrecht Papendorp The design for Papendorp Business Park in Utrecht, The Netherlands, West 8 designed together with Wissing Stedebouw en Ruimtelijke Vormgeving, has won the…

  • The Architect as Totalitarian

    20 Nov 2009 | 9:20 am
    The City Journal's Theodore Dalrymple says "Le Corbusier was to architecture what Pol Pot was to social reform."

  • Pontiac - a hard sell

    20 Nov 2009 | 9:14 am
    As we reported earlier this week, the Pontiac Silverdome was recently purchased by a Canadian buyer for only $583K. According to an article in Crain's today, however, "An Oakland County judge has ordered an injunction to stop the sale of the Pontiac Silverdome after a complaint was filed by attorney H. Wallace Parker, who planned to develop the building as a horse-themed development."
 
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  • Architecture students to unveil vision for Ottawa - LaSalle News Tribune

    20 Nov 2009 | 3:15 pm
    Architecture students to unveil vision for OttawaLaSalle News TribuneOTTAWA — Earlier this fall, more than a dozen students seeking master's degrees in architecture visited Ottawa to discuss the future of the downtown.

  • Designing architecture for humanity - Aljazeera.net

    20 Nov 2009 | 11:05 am
    Aljazeera.netDesigning architecture for humanityAljazeera.netSinclair is the co-founder of Architecture for Humanity, a non-profit organization that provides design, construction and development services to

  • Asian Architecture Expert Lectures - UK News

    20 Nov 2009 | 10:56 am
    Asian Architecture Expert LecturesUK NewsJianfei Zhu studied architecture in China and England. He lectured at the AA (Architectural Association), Bartlett School of Graduate Studies at University

  • Animal hospital wins UK's richest architecture prize - BBC News

    20 Nov 2009 | 10:47 am
    BBC NewsAnimal hospital wins UK's richest architecture prizeBBC NewsThe judges said: "This is a highly complex work of architecture which sets new standards in the design of buildings for veterinary medicine. Doolan Prize: Archial's Small Animal Hospital lands £25000 first prizeArchitects' JournalTouch of animal magic as £15m pet hospital named best new buildingScotsmanall 4 news articles »

  • Design for George W. Bush's presidential library is unveiled - Washington Post

    20 Nov 2009 | 8:59 am
    United Press InternationalDesign for George W. Bush's presidential library is unveiledWashington PostStern is the dean of the Yale School of Architecture, and it's tempting to read something into that, as if Bush is reconnecting with his (and his father's) Mrs. Bush unveils architecture planssmudailycampus.comNew George W. Bush Presidential Center will include -- surprise! -- some Texas Los Angeles TimesPlans for the Green George W. Bush Presidential Center ReleasedInhabitat (blog)USA Today -Dallas Morning News -Los Angeles Timesall 303 news articles »
 
 
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  • AD Directory - December 2009

    AchitecturalDigest.com
    31 Oct 2009 | 9:00 pm
    Look here for a listing of the designers, architects, hotels, museums, galleries and dealers featured in each month’s issue of Architectural Digest.

  • Kelsey Grammer

    Patricia Leigh Brown
    31 Oct 2009 | 9:00 pm
    (Slide Show) In Bel-Air, the Actor and His Wife, Camille, Preserve the Legacy of “Henry’s House”

  • Brad Pitt Makes It Right: An Update

    AD
    31 Oct 2009 | 9:00 pm
    (Slide Show) See what’s happened since AD’s January 2009 story on the actor’s efforts to rebuild New Orleans’s Lower Ninth Ward, hard hit by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

  • James Burrows

    Peter Haldeman
    31 Oct 2009 | 9:00 pm
    (Slide Show) The Veteran Television Director and His Wife, Debbie, Recast Their Bel-Air Home

  • Donna Karan

    Judith Thurman
    31 Oct 2009 | 9:00 pm
    (Slide Show) With Local Materials and Tropical Detailing, the Fashion Designer Dreams Up a Family Retreat in the British West Indies.
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  • Louvre Abu Dhabi

    John
    20 Nov 2009 | 2:03 pm
    The idea of a Louvre branch on Abu Dhabi's Saadiyat Island is just mind-boggling. When completed in 2013, the museum will present "works drawn from the Louvre and other French museums and from its own permanent collection." But if the numbers in Adran Hornsby's article on the end of "starchitecture" in the latest Hunch are any indication -- approximately half of the $1.4 billion budget is allotted for "Louvre art loans and management and curatorial services" -- the majority of art will be shipped to Abu Dhabi.But what art? Curators will have to pass on paintings depicting the female nude, a…

  • Today's archidose #373

    John
    20 Nov 2009 | 11:15 am
    Here are a couple Friday afternoon facades.[Beekman Tower in Manhattan by Gehry Partners, under construction | photo by Philippe2032 from Paris][Campus Audiovisual in Barcelona, Spain by David Chipperfield Architects, 2008 | photo by jmtp]To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just::: Join and add photos to the archidose pool, and/or:: Tag your photos archidose

  • Half Dose #71: Grand Teton National Park Discovery and Visitor Center

    John
    18 Nov 2009 | 7:00 pm
    Completed in the summer of 2007, the Grand Teton National Park Discovery and Visitor Center -- officially the Craig Thomas Discovery and Visitor Center -- by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson still racks up the awards, most recently a 2009 AIA Seattle Honor Award and a 2009 Western Red Cedar Architectural Design award. It's easy to see why in the playful yet restrained design that echoes the surrounding mountains of northwest Wyoming.[photo by Nic Lehoux]When I think of a national park visitor center the one overlooking Mount Rushmore, as portrayed in Alfred Hitchcock's North By Northwest, comes to…

  • Today's archidose #372

    John
    17 Nov 2009 | 10:55 am
    Nottingham Contemporary, originally uploaded by stoneroberts. The Nottingham Contemporary in Nottingham, England by Caruso St John Architects, opened on November 14, 2009. See many more photos in stoneroberts' flickr set on the building.To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just::: Join and add photos to the archidose pool, and/or:: Tag your photos archidose

  • Monday, Monday

    John
    15 Nov 2009 | 9:30 pm
    My weekly page update:Horizontal House in Shiga, Japan by EASTERN design office.This week's book review is The Atlas of American Architecture: 2000 Years of Architecture, City Planning, Landscape Architecture and Civil Engineering by Tom Martinson.Some unrelated links for your enjoyment: Build BostonThe 25th year for "the largest regional convention and tradeshow for the design and construction industry." November 18-20.DesigNYCA web page with "the mission of improving life in NYC by connecting community and civic groups in need of design services with professional, pro bono design…
 
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  • Long Durations

    enrique
    16 Nov 2009 | 1:30 pm
    Jeanne Dielman (Delphine Seyrig) Slowly, Surely Peeling Potatoes, from Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (dir. Chantal Akerman, 1975) (Source)"Here you will learn an extremely important truth", writes Charles Fourier in his delirious Theory of the Four Movements (Théorie des quatre mouvements et des destinées générales) (1808). "[T]he ages of happiness last seven times longer than the ages of unhappiness, like the one we have been living in for several thousand years … For 70,000 years, therefore, you will share in the happiness which is in store for the globe; so you…

  • "Ideological Mildew"

    enrique
    4 Nov 2009 | 2:46 pm
    Against ideological mildew, from Z (dir. Costa Gavras, 1969) (Source)In the opening moments of his political ciné-romanZ (1969), director Costa Gavras shows us a room filled with uniformed government officials. All are listening to a lecture concerning the proper maintenance of crops. The speaker, an elderly, knowledgeable-looking fellow, shows an image of a blighted olive leaf—a portent if ever there was one, an indication that things are not what they seem. This lecturer then steps aside to introduce a stern, mustachioed General (Pierre Dux) who quickly elaborates on the political…

  • Structural Engineering: A Hipster's Tale

    enrique
    1 Nov 2009 | 8:08 pm
    Structural engineering is hip. In fact, it is so hip, that structural engineering has perhaps become a kind of emblem for erudition. A cocktail conversation or beer bust suddenly enters another plane of hipsterdom as Gustave Eiffel, Ove Arup, or Félix Candela are namechecked in the same breath as Television, The Flying Burrito Brothers, or Buzzcocks. That structural engineering has some level of hip caché becomes evident in David Gordon Green's hipster-action-stonerroman Pineapple Express (2008). You may remember the scene where Saul Silver (James Franco) confesses to Dale Denton (Seth…

  • A Sentient City is a City

    enrique
    14 Oct 2009 | 6:26 pm
    Too Smart City's regurgitating trash can (Source)I must start off this piece on Toward the Sentient City with an admission: as I write this, I am unsure as to what my own take on this excellent and thought-provoking exhibition should be. Which hat do I wear? Am I a technologist? Kinda. An architect? Definitely not (although I am affiliated with an architecture school). Urbanist? Unless someone can offer me a specific definition for this term, or circumscribe its putative scope, my only response is, who isn't an urbanist? So let me spin this question around and redirect it somewhat: What…

  • For The Interactive Set ....

    enrique
    2 Oct 2009 | 8:41 pm
    Fox and Kemp, Interactive Architecture (2009)History affords a glimpse into the future. This may seem counter-intuitive, but it really isn't. For example, history can be used to legitimize an architectural agenda in order to project it into an alternative realm. We like to call this mode of writing "operative history"—a kind of history writing that looks to contemporary architecture to make a claim as to what building will and should be. This kind of writing has been a staple in architecture schools for decades and continues to provide designers, educators and scholars with a fulcrum with…
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  • Seat Back, Rocker On: Modern Curved-Wood Rocking Chair

    d0rn0b
    20 Nov 2009 | 3:00 pm
    Maybe more than any other kind of chair, rockers have certain cultural associations as a furniture type – they are traditionally ornate, featuring turned-wood elements and many pieces cut and fit into one another along mortise-and-tenon conventions. From the narrow profile to the swooping lines and plywood styling, this is anything but your ordinary rocking chair design. And yes, this design rocks. Made of skinny layers of maple and walnut to accent its curves, each bend is clean, crisp and minimal in this somewhat non-traditional approach to rocking chair construction. Moreover, the…

  • Cool DIY Design Idea: Big Modular Blocks to Make Furniture

    d0rn0b
    20 Nov 2009 | 9:00 am
    Like LEGOs come to life, it was only a matter of time until somehow thought (literally) big about how to apply similar principles at the scale of real people – modular pieces to make furniture for actual human use. The result? A fantastic set of custom building-block modules for space-saving furniture that you can transform at will made from a combination of soft, hard, transparent and opaque parts that can be reused essentially forever. To be fair: these are colorful, creative and interactive … though anything but cheap. Fortunately, it does not seem to take many to build…

  • Real-Life 3D Wallpaper: Off-the-Wall Room Decorating Idea

    d0rn0b
    20 Nov 2009 | 4:15 am
    Wallpaper is supposed to sit flat and blend into the background – a simple decorative surface over otherwise bare walls. Colors and patterns of traditional wallpapering types inform the rhythms of this offbeat design idea but are just the beginning of a unique alternative to boring old wall coverings. A standard stripe pattern ‘lifts up’ from the floor and folds into a series of functional shelving spaces for books and other odds and ends – there is even a ‘blank’ space below where, conceptually, the wallpaper was moved to accommodate this…

  • Colorful Ceiling Shower Concept, Seeks Extra-Long Curtain

    d0rn0b
    19 Nov 2009 | 1:00 pm
    Ever see those pictures of perfectly pristine, clean and organized modern bathrooms and wonder if anyone actually lives like that? While this shower is a cool concept fixture, the design seems to leave out the functionally necesary  floor-to-ceiling curtain – along with hooks, rails and rods – and it looks doubtful that the standard 84-inch type will do the trick. Created by Antonio Lupi to be (almost magically) minimalist, a simple square or rectangle ceilings-suspended shower head lets out a broad rainwater-style stream of water designed to drop down into the abstract curved…

  • Rustic Modern + Rural Retro = 6 Forest & Mountain Homes

    d0rn0b
    19 Nov 2009 | 7:00 am
    From  small and cozy cabins of times past to luxurious modern vacation homes, the best rural houses seem to be built and designed with nature strongly in mind.  These six eco-centric structures from BCJ Architects embrace their forest and mountain environments and fully engage in the ecology of their rural settings and rugged surroundings. Most of all, they manage to reflect historic and regional styles but also combine them with contemporary materials and building strategies. Set on the gentle slopes of rural Utah, this forested home by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson Architecture starts with a…
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  • Amazing Vintage Images from Japan’s Forgotten Master

    Delana
    20 Nov 2009 | 10:00 am
    Photographs of Japan from the Meiji and Taisho Periods (1868-1926) have captivated viewers around the world since they were first circulated. One photographer in particular captured Japanese life so beautifully that his work has been seen by countless people all across the globe. Until very recently, though, his name was virtually unknown. Now we know that the prolific photographer’s name was T. Enami – or rather, that was his trade name. He was born Enami Nobukuni, and his work made a deep and far-reaching impact on photography. Some of T. Enami’s most popular and memorable…

  • 15 (More!) Crafty Metal, Wood & Spiral Staircases

    Delana
    19 Nov 2009 | 10:00 am
    Stairs aren’t just a boring, utilitarian part of our homes and public buildings. They’re an opportunity for an architect to really make a statement and do something bold and distinctive. From staircases that float to stairs that fit in impossibly tiny spaces to staircases that go nowhere, this often-overlooked part of everyday architecture is being rethought by many designers and architects. You’ll see no beige-carpeted run-of-the-mill staircases here; these are some (more!) of the best, strangest, and most beautiful staircases in the world. Lello Bookshop Stairs These…

  • Truly Geeky Gadgets: 15 USB Weapons From FAIL To Fantastic

    Angie
    18 Nov 2009 | 10:00 am
    We geeks love our gadgets. We get bored with simple office instant messaging to co-workers. We get creative. But of course our creativity ties back into our computers and a USB port. It started with ninja-geeks and weapon-shaped USB flash drives. However, that was not enough to spice things up around the office. The USB arms race began and sneaky office warfare has never been the same. Some USB weapons are fun to shoot at your office buddy, but some are used to strike fear in your cubicle neighbor’s heart. Guard your office, guard your room, guard your computer. Here are 17 USB…

  • The Future Sounds Like This: 10 Magnificently Modern Musical Instruments

    Mike
    17 Nov 2009 | 12:24 pm
    The study of musical instruments (’organology’ – no, really) is the study of the human condition. Every culture is defined by its own distinctive set of trills, whistles, parps, honks and beats, and every corner of the world has evolved its own location-specific indigenous instrument to renew a sense of cultural identity through noisy self-expression. And instruments evolve – never more so than now, in the midst of a technological revolution that has opened up entirely new ways to make music. So settle back and compose yourself as we look at ten new instruments that…

  • Mod Body Extremes: 10 Male & Female Meta-Modifications

    Marc
    16 Nov 2009 | 6:00 pm
    Body modification is a broad category that covers anything from socially acceptable ear piercings to culturally mandated circumcisions, but there’s a small niche in this category that involves the most extreme manipulation of the human body. Some trendsetters treat their bodies like a work of art and some cultures are simply handing down tradition, but all of the following examples are shocking in their own way, so brace yourself. Here are 10 shockingly extreme body modifications that aren’t for the faint of heart (or stomach). (Images via arkangel666, qeana, renzo_dinali) Society…
 
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  • Billable Hours.

    Christoph
    18 Nov 2009 | 3:18 pm
    From Inside PR, a weekly Canadian podcast about public relations, by Terry Fallis and David Jones: 30 seconds about billable hours (a rough transcript from the podcast) "I actually hate billable hours. Don’t get me wrong – I like working – I really like bringing in the money.. but I just don’t like tracking every minute of my time – especially when it comes to multi-tasking and working on more than one thing, or often a lot of things at once. I also think billable hours aren’t a good measure of the value people bring based on experience but may just take an hour to create. I know…

  • Public Art.

    Christoph
    16 Nov 2009 | 2:04 pm
    Pieter Bruegel’s Tower of Babel, image by Kunsthistorisches MuseumThe Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna presents its masterpieces in public. In Vienna, on about 29 busy locations – subway stations, railway stations, house walls – the museum is showing treasures from the collection: Pieter Bruegel’s Tower of Babel, Raffael, Lucas Cranach and much more. The campaign should bring the museum back to the people’s mind.Parmigianino, Amor,at Rüdigergasse, image by Christoph WassmannLucas Cranach, Judith und Holofernes, at Hütteldorferstrasse, image by Christoph WassmannNeedless to say,…

  • Pie Plan.

    Christoph
    14 Nov 2009 | 2:02 am
    Divided by amount of utilization - by Abi Huynh, graphic designer. Let's build it! [via It's Nice That]content by anArchitecture

  • Metro-Net. Capturing Globalization.

    Christoph
    8 Nov 2009 | 3:11 am
    transportable subway entrance, 1997, Madulain, image from artpublicplaiv.chMetro-Net is about constructing a global metro network, composed of fake subway entrances, ventilation shafts, subway-sounds and generated air flow. The first station of Kippenberger’s Metro-Net was built at the Greek island Syros in 1993. Additional entrances were erected in Dawson City West (Canada), at the documenta X 1997 in Kassel and at the “Sculpture Project” in Münster. A “transportable subway entrances” (Transportabler U-Bahn-Eingang) is located in Madulain, Switzerland. Metro-Net is part of…

  • Brick-Wheel.

    Christoph
    2 Nov 2009 | 8:17 am
    Alternative uses - via today and tomorrow.content by anArchitecture
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  • Johnson Haunts Harvard

    20 Nov 2009 | 3:34 pm
    Philip Johnson's first completed project, a modest house not far from Harvard Square where the architect was studying in the '40s, caused a stir when it was built more for what went on behind its 9-foot walls than the building itself. But it continues to rankle today, as the school looks to turn the demure building into a salon for students while Cambridgians cry out. The Architect's Newspaper

  • Erosion of Public Education in CA and Nationwide

    20 Nov 2009 | 1:51 pm
    As we hear reports of Alameda County sheriffs entering the Berkeley campus with tear gas today, and (on the positive side) the University of California teams doing very well in the WPA 2.0 competition (winners UCLA's cityLAB as well as Berkeley faculty runners-up Rael and de Monchaux), it's worth listening to this report on Democracy Now. | Don't forget, we're also documenting the contribution of the UCs to the arts and design disciplines here.

  • Recent Results

    20 Nov 2009 | 11:07 am
    cityLAB Design Competition WPA 2.0 Rides Perfect Storm in DC WPA 2.0: Working Public Architecture, the design competition organized by UCLA�s cityLAB, culminated with the announcement of �Carbon T.A.P.// Tunnel Algae Park� as the winner of the professional competition and �R_Ignite� and �Aquaculture Canal_New Orleans� as the winners of the student competition... Rietveldprijs 2009 Goes to Business Park in Utrecht Papendorp The design for Papendorp Business Park in Utrecht, The Netherlands, West 8 designed together with Wissing Stedebouw en Ruimtelijke Vormgeving, has won the…

  • The Architect as Totalitarian

    20 Nov 2009 | 9:20 am
    The City Journal's Theodore Dalrymple says "Le Corbusier was to architecture what Pol Pot was to social reform."

  • Pontiac - a hard sell

    20 Nov 2009 | 9:14 am
    As we reported earlier this week, the Pontiac Silverdome was recently purchased by a Canadian buyer for only $583K. According to an article in Crain's today, however, "An Oakland County judge has ordered an injunction to stop the sale of the Pontiac Silverdome after a complaint was filed by attorney H. Wallace Parker, who planned to develop the building as a horse-themed development."
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  • A Social Philosophy of Buttresses

    Geoff Manaugh
    20 Nov 2009 | 9:10 am
    [Image: The front and back covers of Support Structures].The last book launch I want to mention today—it seems like the only things going on these days are launches!—is for a fantastic-looking book called Support Structures by Céline Condorelli. The launch is coming up on December 3 at Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York (although Storefront's website currently has the wrong date listed—see a complete catalog of launch dates here). [Image: From Support Structures].The book "exposes an almost complete absence of literature or theory on what constitutes ‘support’,"…

  • The squalor, the possibilities, the madness

    Geoff Manaugh
    20 Nov 2009 | 8:41 am
    It is clearly the season for book launch events! Tomorrow, Saturday, November 21, at the Columbus Circle Borders in Manhattan, Jeff VanderMeer will be reading from his new book Finch—and then engaging in a conversation about fiction and the city with Jeffrey Ford, Ron Hogan, and myself.[Image: The cover to Finch, designed by John Coulthart].From the event description:What do writers take from the real world when creating their fantastical creations? What does the real world take from fantasy? VanderMeer's new noir phantasmagoria, Finch, takes place in a once-prosperous failed city-state.

  • Landscapes of Energy

    Geoff Manaugh
    20 Nov 2009 | 8:11 am
    Tonight in Cambridge, Massachusetts, New Geographies will be kicking off its second issue, "Landscapes of Energy," with a launch party and panel discussion. The new issue includes many contributors, ranging from Kazys Varnelis and Mirko Zardini to the Center for Land Use Interpretation and Carola Hein, and it was edited by Rania Ghosn.[Image: Some page spreads from the new issue, designed by Thumb].Things kick off at 5pm tonight—Friday, November 20—in Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Harvard. Be sure to stop in and say hello!

  • The Fall

    Geoff Manaugh
    19 Nov 2009 | 10:18 am
    Photographer Richard Mosse, interviewed here on BLDGBLOG earlier this year, has a show opening up tonight in New York City: The Fall. [Image: Richard Mosse, "Grand Voyager Sunni Triangle" (2009), courtesy of the Jack Shainman Gallery].For the past year, Mosse has been traveling the world on a Leonore Annenberg Fellowship, documenting distant sites of aviation wreckage, war ruins, and more. From Iraqi battlefields and ruined palaces to bullet-riddled trucks and disaster-preparation test-landscapes, his new exhibition, The Fall, "is a photographic survey of our historic unconscious," the…

  • Refuge

    Geoff Manaugh
    18 Nov 2009 | 9:42 am
    [Image: Photo by Bas Princen, from Five Cities Portfolio].Photographer Bas Princen has a new book out, Five Cities Portfolio: Amman, Beirut, Cairo, Dubai, Istanbul, coinciding with a conference to be held this Friday, November 20, at the Netherlands Architecture Institute. That event, called "Refuge: Architectural Propositions for Unbound Spaces," will feature—among many other things—a presentation by Philipp Misselwitz and Can Altay, whose research accompanies (and seems to have at least partially inspired) Princen's photos.[Images: Photos by Bas Princen, from Five Cities…
 
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  • Nicholas Szczepaniak – A Defensive Architecture

    Ruairi
    12 Nov 2009 | 4:26 am
    Nicholas Szczepaniak will recieve the RIBA Silver Medal next month for his extraordinary graduate project “A Defensive Architecture”. I am delighted to be the first person to be publishing his work in my recently release book “Digital Architecture: Passages Through Hinterlands“. Nick’s work really is out on the hinterlands, a landscape plighted by climate change and rising water levels, social order breaks down, resources become rationed and public space becomes further militarised to maintain social order. Set in the Blackwater Estuary, Essex, his allegorical…

  • Digital Architecture: Passages Through Hinterlands

    Ruairi
    25 Oct 2009 | 4:16 pm
    Digital Architecture: Passages Through Hinterlands is a collection of provocative projects from a young generation of digitally enabled designers. This publication oscillates between the analog and the digital, from concept to realisation, mapping processes as it explores the diverse digital paths that lead innovative spaces, poetic narratives and social interactions. sixteen* (makers), 55/02 Shelter, Kielder Forest, UK The book covers a spectrum of London’s leading graduates and young practices, featuring projects from the Architectural Association, Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL),…

  • Living Light

    Ruairi
    18 Oct 2009 | 4:22 pm
    Living Light by David Benjamin and Soo-in Yang (aka “The Living“) is a permanent outdoor pavilion in the heart of Seoul with a dynamic skin that glows and blinks in response to both data about air quality and public interest in the environment. The skin of the pavilion is a giant map of Seoul with the 27 neighborhood (gu) boundaries redrawn based on existing air quality sensors of the Korean Ministry of Environment—each shape in this new map encloses the air closest to one of the sensors. Then the map illuminates to become an interactive, environmental building facade. Citizens…

  • Towards a Sentient City

    Ruairi
    18 Oct 2009 | 4:10 pm
    An exhibition critically exploring the evolving relationship between ubiquitous computing, architecture, and urban space. Curated by Mark Shepard and organized by the Architectural League of New York www.sentientcity.net As computing leaves the desktop and spills out onto the sidewalks, streets, and public spaces of the world around us, we increasingly find information processing capacity embedded within and distributed throughout the material fabric of everday urban space. Artifacts and systems we interact with on a daily basis collect, store, and process information about us, or are…

  • Hand from Above

    Ruairi
    13 Oct 2009 | 8:09 am
    Hand from Above from Chris O'Shea on Vimeo. By far one of the most interesting urban screens project I’ve seen to date, Chris O’Shea’s describes his public art “Hand From Above” as encouraging “us to question our normal routine when we often find ourselves rushing from one destination to another.” “Inspired by Land of the Giants and Goliath, we are reminded of mythical stories by mischievously unleashing a giant hand from the BBC Big Screen. Passers by will be playfully transformed. What if humans weren’t on top of the food chain?
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  • Polar Bear Robots Replace Dead Bears at St. Louis Zoo

    Beth Shea
    20 Nov 2009 | 11:00 am
    Officials at the St. Louis Zoo are preparing for their holiday Wild Lights exhibit by installing electronic polar bear proxies in place of the deceased polar bears who died in their captivity. The gesture is rife with social commentary, given the fact that polar bears have become the iconic images of climate change, and our generation could witness their extinction. Could artificial animal zoo exhibits be the reality of the near future? See what PETA proposes and learn more about this new breed of bear at Inhabitots.READ MORE AT INHABITOTS > Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags:…

  • Power Your Music Player With Your Running Pants

    Ariel Schwartz
    20 Nov 2009 | 9:32 am
    Instead of just burning calories, why not use all that energy from exercising to power your MP3 player? The Dancepants Kinetic Music Player, a shortlisted entry in Designboom’s Green Life competition, lets you do just that by converting kinetic energy from running, hopping, jumping, etc. into electricity to power an iPod or other music player. According to the Dancepants designers, the product is a “100 percent interactive way to feel the value of energy on your own.”READ MORE AT ECOUTERRE > Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: dancepants, ipod, kinetic energy, mp3,…

  • Construction Begins on Amazing Tunnel-Shaped Rotterdam Market Hall

    Bridgette Meinhold
    20 Nov 2009 | 7:56 am
    Imagine having this sweet public market pop up in your town? Well the lucky residents of Rotterdam are actually getting one! This week, the mayor of the city announced the commencement of construction on the huge tunnel-shaped market hall which will flash images of gigantic fresh fruits and vegetables via LCD screens on the inside and be lined with balconied apartments offering killer views on the outside. This true mixed-use development combining residences, shopping, restaurants and a public market will be a central hub of activity for citizens and tourists. The project is being developed…

  • Modern Manifesto House Made From Wood Pallets and Shipping Containers

    Bridgette Meinhold
    20 Nov 2009 | 3:00 am
    While not totally prefabricated, the Manifesto House by Infiniski utilizes pre-made materials like shipping containers and wooden pallets to create a totally rad modern house. Infiniski’s mission is to build homes cheaply and quickly using sustainable materials while incorporating renewable energy systems. They have many designs already available, which can be interchanged and easily modified. Read the rest of Modern Manifesto House Made From Wood Pallets and Shipping Containers Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Chile, Infiniski, James&Mau, Manifesto House, Prefab,…

  • LivingHomes Delivers KieranTimberlake Prefab in Orange County

    Evelyn Lee
    19 Nov 2009 | 12:40 pm
    LivingHomes had the honor of building the first LEED Platinum certified home in the US, and now they’re on schedule to deliver the first LEED Platinum certified home in Orange County. The new KieranTimberlake LivingHome 1.5 (KTLH1.5) was erected earlier this month in a single day. Located in the city of Newport Beach, we carry no doubts that the home will be LEED Platinum certified given LivingHomes‘ track record. Read the rest of LivingHomes Delivers KieranTimberlake Prefab in Orange County Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", Green…
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  • Waterpleinen

    Alexander Trevi
    2 Nov 2009 | 9:59 pm
    (Image by De Urbanisten and Studio Marco Vermeulen.)To launch its 14th anthology, Water, Alphabet City has organized a series of events this week in Toronto, two of which are the HYDROCity symposium and its accompanying exhibition at the University of Toronto. Another event is a lunchtime talk in which Jeroen Bodewits will discuss Waterpleinen, a project designed by Florian Boer and Marco Vermeulen to reconfigure the stormwater infrastructure of Rotterdam.(Image by De Urbanisten and Studio Marco Vermeulen.)In Florian Boer and Marco Vermeulen's proposal, rainwater runoff isn't funneled into a…

  • FantastiCity

    Alexander Trevi
    1 Nov 2009 | 7:21 pm
    (MEtreePOLIS, NYC-based HWKN's contribution in Kerb 17: Is Landscape Architecture Dead?, envisions a genetically modified Atlanta, Georgia, a hundred years from now: stratified like a forest, with a canopy at the top collecting water and energy and a single-surface city floor below of bio-renewable moss with no roads or pavements. Watch Matthias Hollwich and Marc Kushner give a tour of their “fantasticity” here.)Coinciding with the next issue (#18) of Kerb, the annual landscape architecture journal edited by students at RMIT, Melbourne, is their first ever international design…

  • Links for 2009-10-21 [del.icio.us]

    Alexander Trevi
    Peak Water in Yemen "Yemen is set to be the first country in the world to run out of water, providing a taste of the conflict and mass movement of populations that may spread across the world if population growth outstrips natural resources." [Times]

  • Great Street Games

    Alexander Trevi
    20 Oct 2009 | 3:14 pm
    (Image by KMA.)Speaking of augmented game spaces, here is an interesting interactive installation set to come online at the of the month in three UK cities. Created by KMA, Great Street Games will be a “huge, participatory, high-tech athletics tournament” in which participants in Gateshead, Sunderland and Middlesbrough compete against each other virtually in real-time using the city as platform.KMA will use projected light and thermal-imaging technology to create interactive 'courts' in which human movement triggers light effects. The physical movements of players determine the outcome…

  • Urban Golf

    Alexander Trevi
    20 Oct 2009 | 10:28 am
    (All photos via Urbangolf.fr.)Actions: What You Can Do With The City finally comes to Chicago at the Graham Foundation. Organized by the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the exhibition features “experimental interactions with the urban environment [that] show the potential influence personal involvement can have in shaping the city.”These “actions” tend to be modest in scale and budget, opportunistic and informal, communal and participatory. If broadly categorizing, they might fall messily under the heading of urban hacking. They are not the great tectonic reconfiguration of urban…
 
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  • The Cloud

    Marcus Trimble
    17 Nov 2009 | 11:45 pm
    Dan Hill at City of Sound on The CLOUD, a massive interdisciplinary proposal for an observation deck and giant data display over London for the duration of the Olympic Games.

  • Extra Ordinary

    Marcus Trimble
    17 Nov 2009 | 10:31 pm
    Extra Ordinary—the Australian Institute of Architects 2010 National Conference. The conference under creative director Melanie Dodd, will have a focus on collaborative practice with Urban Splash, Sean Griffiths of F.A.T, and Elemental among others lined up to speak.

  • Accident Sketch

    Marcus Trimble
    17 Nov 2009 | 4:13 pm
    Accident Sketch—”Create a Perfect Sketch of Your Accident”

  • Fridges

    Marcus Trimble
    9 Nov 2009 | 7:44 pm
    A photo series of the interiors of the fridges of: Nurse, Crossing Guard, Science Teacher, Bartender, Short Order Cook

  • Linked Hybrid

    Marcus Trimble
    26 Oct 2009 | 10:24 pm
    Steven Holl Architects’ Linked Hybrid towers in Beijing has been named the “Best Tall Building Overall” by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. We like this project.
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  • Friday Funny: Chicken Supports Chicken Ordinance

    Nate Berg
    20 Nov 2009 | 2:00 pm
    An unidentified person dressed in a chicken costume came out to a recent city council meeting in Durango, Colorado to support the city's recently-passed backyard hen ordinance. read more

  • Class Divide in NY Inclusive Buildings

    Tim Halbur
    20 Nov 2009 | 1:00 pm
    At the 101 Warren in Manhattan, developers split the building into luxury and affordable rentals to take advantage of tax breaks. Tensions have resulted, and now a proposed re-zoning would send the affordable residents' kids to a different school. read more

  • Alternative Fuels Won't Change the Expense of Driving

    Tim Halbur
    20 Nov 2009 | 12:00 pm
    One of the conclusions of a new study in the San Francisco Bay Area is that switching to electric and alternative fuel cars won't reduce the burden on households because ownership is the most significant expense. Thus, density is the only way out. read more

  • Not Just About Jobs

    Tim Halbur
    20 Nov 2009 | 11:00 am
    When then-Pres. Bush signed a transportation bill in 1991, he said it 'could be summed up in three words; jobs, jobs, jobs. Bruce Katz and Robert Puentes of Brookings say that infrastructure spending is much more than that. read more

  • Suburbs See Rise in Kids in Poverty

    Wren W
    20 Nov 2009 | 10:00 am
    2008 Census estimates reveal that in the city center of Fort Worth, Texas, the number of school-age children living in poverty has dropped whereas the surrounding suburban communities have seen increasing numbers. read more
 
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  • Generic Powerpoint Template: Delivering Bad News

    12 Nov 2009 | 2:26 pm

  • Duplicate Array

    26 Oct 2009 | 4:43 am
    Just back from Lausanne, where FATs show "Duplicate Array' opened at Galerie Lucy Mackintosh. "Duplicate Array: Objects/Buildings/Plans presents a series of architecture, design and art projects by London based practice FAT ranging in scale from objects to buildings and masterplans. The projects explore an idea of architecture as narrative, media and communication engaging directly with the culture, communities and scenarios that surround them. Using tactics which include appropriation, irony and juxtaposition they set out an architectural agenda addressing issues of taste, ornament and…

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  • The Best New Building In London

    27 Sep 2009 | 9:44 am
    This, I love. It's on Commercial Street, on the southern side of Bishopsgate Goods Yard. An assemblage of totally ordinary elements (billboard, hoarding, fencing) and totally ordinary programmes (newsagent, advertising site, mini cab office). But the realtionship between these elements makes it something amazing. A certain kind of symbiotic relationship which forms - out of all expectation - the kind of elegance you rarely find in big A architecture. One part becomes the structural support for another, something else becomes a revenue stream generated from a perimeter enclosure. Together,…

  • Book Review: The Infrastructural City

    14 Sep 2009 | 4:43 am
    "I learned to drive in order to read Los Angeles in the original' quipped Reyner Banham with deadly seriousness. For Banham, LA was a culmination of his own reading of Modernism - a trajectory of machines, of gadgets and gizmos that stretched from early 20th century Futurism to the Freeways of Southern California. In his reading - developed 'Architecture of the Four Ecologies' - LA was a non-plan kind of place, liberated from historical forms of urbanism by movement. Banhams techno-optimism seems quaint now, his faith in technology exposed by our own experience. 40 years later, with Americas…
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  • Shelter of the day

    Sascha Pohflepp
    19 Nov 2009 | 10:42 am
    Part of Thomas Demand's show Nationalgalerie, Haltestelle is a large-scale photograph of a paper model resembling a nondescript rural German bus shelter, which happens to be the place just outside of Magdeburg where a teen pop band were waiting for their school bus every morning. continue

  • Feedforward. The Angel of History. Part 1: Wreckage and countermeasures

    Regine
    17 Nov 2009 | 6:48 am
    The exhibition addresses the current moment in history where the wreckage of political conflict and economic inequality is piling up, while globalized forces--largely enabled by the "progress" of digital information technologies--inexorably feed us forward continue

  • Book Review - Art and Electronic Media

    Regine
    15 Nov 2009 | 1:10 am
    A comprehensive, timely international survey that addresses the relationship between art and electronic technology, this volume explores the presence and meanings of mechanics, light, graphics, robots, virtual reality and the Web in the art and visual culture of the last hundred years. It also considers the reaction, development and future of artistic practice in the face of new technology continue

  • Mark Amerika retrospective at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens

    Regine
    13 Nov 2009 | 4:43 am
    Developing projects on the net, filming with mobile phones, remixing common moments and figures of today`s culture in an VJ-like audiovisual rhythm, Amerika redifines the characteristics of today's culture and opens up the possibilities for new interpretations and thoughts from the audience itself continue

  • Venice Biennale: Juan Burgos at the pavilion of Uruguay

    Regine
    10 Nov 2009 | 11:22 pm
    Burgos expands urban apocalyptic visions which proliferate in daily life. His starting point is a children's storybook, from which he constructs a delirious collage. Anything is possible in his productions. With amazing dexterity he cuts, pastes, digitally photocopies and photocopies again, the result of which he fits into a fascinating stage design. Within these metaphors, there are, mingled with a large cast of characters, iconic elements of national images continue
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  • An addiction to the inconsequential.

    things
    18 Nov 2009 | 4:00 am
    Are video games indistinguishable from just looking out of the window? These faux time lapse scenes in GTA IV - by no means up to the minute technology - illustrate a persistent, living world that embraces the mundane as well as the spectacular, from the play of dappled light coming through a canopy of trees to the flaneur-like pleasure derived from watching 'people' come and go. It's a hackneyed point, perhaps, but at what stage will people be literally unable to distinguish between game worlds and the real world? When the simulacra of reality accommodates not just the epic and the…

  • Ways of looking

    things
    13 Nov 2009 | 8:00 am
    Tim Abrahams on Tempelhof in Blueprint. The airport is now mothballed: 'The Mayor seems determined to build on Berlin’s reputation as a playground. It is ironic that he is closing airports given how vital he clearly thinks weekend trips are to Berlin’s future. It is hard not to visit Tempelhof and think what a great airport it would make.' Alternatively, how about The Berg, a frankly silly use for the large amount of empty urban space (via archinect). Shades of MVRDV's Serpentine Mountain, ultimately dismissed as unbuildable. More Berg at ArchDaily. Terraforming technology needs to speed…

  • A thing of stasis

    things
    10 Nov 2009 | 12:30 pm
    On momentum. A hard thing to sustain. At times this site seems to gather itself up and float out onto the internet on invisible wings. At other times, it's all too ready to gather dust and let everything pass it by. So apologies for not keeping everything up to date. The internet's burgeoning museology has little in common with the museums of real life beyond metaphor. Whereas a collection - whether historic or simply - can gain aura through the accumulation of cobwebs and neglect, the website that simply dies becomes a dull thing of stasis almost instantly: there's little joy in stalking a…

  • Bits and bobs from here and there

    things
    4 Nov 2009 | 4:40 pm
    Home Movie Reconstructions 1974 / 2004, a project by Elliot Malkin / photography by Youngsuk Suh / skate photography at they call me osde / My Playground, a new firm about Parkour and Freerunning / Wild Particle, a weblog / 50 3D milestones in gaming / A Common Nomenclature for Lego Families. Superb evocation of domestic taxonomies / also at tmn, The Babysitter / m. gerwing architects notebook, a weblog.Gimme Shiny pumps in 'popular images from Flickr and deviantART' (blog) / see also Dear Computer's image ripper / a demonstration of Sketchpad by Ivan Sutherland (via quiero tiempo y dinero /…

  • Snippets

    things
    3 Nov 2009 | 12:00 am
    A beautiful little animation exploring the world of scale / a timeline for Primer, the low-budget time travel film / Cloudy Weather, English Russia drags up some urban exploring images of Moscow's emerging new skyscraper cluster / A Million Years of Isolation: An Interview with Abraham Van Luik, BLDG BLOG on the challenges of architecture and design that will endure for all eternity. It beats archival cockroaches. Leonardo Finotti's architectural photography blog celebrates its one year anniversary / Bank Notes, 'a collection of bank robbery notes' (via) / 2001: A Spiritualized Odyssey, a…
 
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  • Pushpullbar sketchup related websites

    Young
    17 Nov 2009 | 1:04 am
    Some useful links from a thread from pushpullbar for your reference. For those who not yet a member of pushpullbar. Do participate for it's great resources available for you. ::Five Most Recent Entries:: Ruby Scripts - The SCF Power Toolbar at Quarr-ITOne of most well-thought toolbars for SketchUp. Go to "Ruby" section and don't forget to watch "Tutorials". Blog - Ronen BekermanA pushpullbar veteran bakbek's blog is about SketchUP, 3d Studio Max, V-Ray, Maxwell Render, Fryrender, Photoshop and more. Exporters + Importers - skp_to_dxf.rbConvert Sketchup SKP files to DXF or STL for FREE!

  • Ronenbekerman 3d architectural visualization

    Young
    16 Nov 2009 | 11:28 pm
    http://www.polytown.co.il/Some quality work by Ronen bekerman. "RonenBekerman.com is a blog about 3d architectural visualization. If you are interested in modeling and rendering architectural subject matter using software such as SketchUP, 3d Studio Max, V-Ray, Maxwell Render, Fryrender, Photoshop and more, then this is written for you." to find out more...

  • Architectural Fantasies

    Young
    7 Nov 2009 | 12:38 am
    “Architectural fantasy stimulates the architect’s activity, it arouses creative thought not only for the artist but it also educates and arouses all those who come in contact with him; it produces new directions, new quests, and opens new horizons. Architectural fantasy in all cases propels the culture of architectural problems, and with the freshness of new thoughts, with the transition to new phases of architectural creativity, it serves as the best aid in real design work. We also use the help of architectural fantasy in finding a form for presenting architectural representations, in…

  • bonzai3d 1.2 new release

    Young
    9 Oct 2009 | 7:58 pm
    Really hope google sketchup can be enhanced with some of bonzai3d's modelling features. Although Bonzai3d do not consist of animations or walkthrough functions, with it's powerful tools and user friendly interface, it is definitely worth an invest of time in it. It's NURBs modelling and flexible modification tools are truely making our life easier.Image from http://www.bonzai3d.com/bonzai3d_homeN.html

  • AT 103 + BGP Architecture / 'Ave Fenix' Fire Station

    Young
    9 Oct 2009 | 12:34 pm
    AT 103 + BGP Architecture / 'Ave Fenix' Fire Station from 0300TV on Vimeo.info located via http://hrarchitecture.com/2009/10
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  • Andrek's new work [Flickr]

    jeanricard.broek
    20 Nov 2009 | 9:59 am
    jeanricard.broek posted a photo: RAW -just a snap, no crop, no Photoshop

  • Chrome OS now in Open Source

    20 Nov 2009 | 3:44 am
    Google Chrome OS Webcast from marketingfacts on Vimeo.Effective 11/19-2009 Google is releasing the Chrome OS code to the public under an open source license, along with the associated design documents. "As of today, the code will be fully open," said Chrome OS director of engineering Matt Papakipos, "which means Google developers will be working on the same tree as external developers."Bookmark this:

  • Linden Lab now monitizing the Long Tail & Bites the hand that feeds it.

    20 Nov 2009 | 12:49 am
    Image sourse: wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Ouroboros_1.jpgIn January of 2008 almost two years ago, still infused with nieve optimism, long before the OpenSpace tsunami, after the rise and fall of the Corporate/SL Developer wave, I posted here a prediction for 2008. I predicted that 2008 would be a year of the long tail. I proselytized that the creative community of residents all along the tail would be a force that would be "the tail that wagged the dog".How wrong I was.I was living high on the hog at the time, courtesy of a good friend, high above Hippotropolis, a Linden owned sim…

  • Avatar - The Movie

    15 Nov 2009 | 2:28 pm
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  • RealTime is the new Web 3.0

    13 Nov 2009 | 8:28 am
    I was wondering why Linden Lab would experiment with providing a hardware platfrom with their SL Enterprise. I can understand shipping SL in a box, but why the hardware? To beat the lag? for now.....This leads to the question of just how does it scale and what is the next wave of server side technologies under development. While Linden Lab worked on SL Enterprise with IBM, they are also Microsoft connected. Will Microsoft and/or Linden Lab use Silverlight & MoonlightSharepoint & high end rendering servers like OnLive and or Nvidia Reality Server to build a new real-time immersive…
 
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    TreeHugger

  • Houses Get Small (Sort Of) In Response to Recession

    20 Nov 2009 | 7:57 am
    Wall Street Journal Is it just the economy or is there a real change going on? Michael Phillips writes in the Wall Street Journal about how builders are offering smaller houses than they have in years. The Scarlett O'Hara stairs and two storey halls are out, and the plans are simpler, square-er, and way more efficient. Some might say that it is simply a response to the economy; as one commenter said " In a down economy smaller houses sell, and in a good economy bigger houses sell. Unless we have all ... Read the full story on TreeHugger

  • Witold Rybczynski On The Four Paradigms of American Cities

    20 Nov 2009 | 4:32 am
    Bettina B. Cenerelli, Trudeau Foundation Witold Rybczynski could be described as a public intellectual, a prolific writer of accessible books about houses, cities and urban design. He opened the Trudeau Foundation's conference Cities and the Public Sphere: Rethinking the Urban Commons. with the remark that "one of the advantages of getting old is that you can look back in horror and dismay at some of the things that we did as architects and planners." He then proceeded to look back at the four parad... Read the full story on TreeHugger

  • World Toilet Day - Really? Yes...Really.

    19 Nov 2009 | 4:54 pm
    "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Image credit:flickr, recubejim's photostream World Toilet Day , which happens to be right now, is needed for good reason. Per the WTD website: "2.5 billion people worldwide are without access to proper sanitation, which risks their health, strips their dignity, and kills 1.8 million people, mostly children, a year;" and, "Because even the world's wealthiest people still have toilet problems - from unhygienic public toilets to sewage disposal that destroys our waterways." They ar... Read the full story on TreeHugger

  • Sulusso Offers 20% Off Sustainable Jewelry

    19 Nov 2009 | 12:00 pm
    Image via Sulusso. Looking for high-end, luxurious jewelry while being sustainable as well? The pieces found at Sulusso are just that, and so much more. Sulusso is an online marketplace featureing jewelry designers that all have one thing in common - a commitment to social and environmental responsibility. Sulusso offers the best selection of beautiful jewelry made with recycled metals, confli... Read the full story on TreeHugger

  • Help Wanted: Extreme Green Consultant to Help TreeHugger Founder Renovate 420-square-foot Apartment in NYC

    19 Nov 2009 | 10:18 am
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  • LEED Platinum Ross Street House

    Preston Koerner
    20 Nov 2009 | 9:27 am
    This is the Ross Street House in Madison, Wisconsin.  It's located just a mile from the University of Wisconsin campus and the first LEED Platinum home in the entire state!  I first noticed the home in an article on Cadalyst, where author Kenneth Wong discussed the use of ArchiCad software to model the home and neighboring properties for context.  Owner Carol Richard, partner in the Atlanta firm of Richard Wittschiebe Hand, also used modeling to optimize the amount of natural light brought into the home.  The front of the house faces south and was designed to capture as much winter sun as…

  • SMU Bush Library Goes for Platinum

    Preston Koerner
    19 Nov 2009 | 10:09 pm
    Yesterday, First Lady Laura Bush, architect Robert A. M. Stern, and landscape architect Matthew Urbanski unveiled the design of the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, Texas.  Located on the east side of SMU's campus, the design will complement the consistent Georgian architecture of the rest of the university.  And when complete, the $250 million building will be LEED Platinum certified.   Green features of the George W. Bush Presidential Center include locally sourced materials, recycled materials, solar hot water panels, solar photovoltaics, native landscaping, minimal use of…

  • Five Unique and Green Home Designs

    Preston Koerner
    19 Nov 2009 | 7:28 am
    Architect and interior designer Johnna Barrett, Barrett Design, Inc., recently launched a set of five modern green home designs ranging in size from 1,800 to 2,500 square feet.  Offered for sale on Sustain House, the designs are contemporary and provide for energy savings of 20-30% above a home built to code.  The plans also include a LEED checklist designed to facilitate the earning of a LEED Gold or Platinum level certification, assuming an optimal site selection.  Check out these five homes in the Modern Forest Series ... do you have a favorite design? Nishiki House (click for…

  • Green Clayton i-House Set in Kentucky

    Preston Koerner
    18 Nov 2009 | 7:47 am
    There's been a lot of talk of the i-House ever since Clayton Homes announced its launch in about January of this year.  The home is contemporary, affordable, and energy efficient.  Landowners Bob and Melinda bought a 37-acre swath of land in 2006, hoping to someday build a home on it and live the good country life.  They're 95 miles from Louisville in western Kentucky and had an i-House delivered just about a month ago.  I was able to get in touch with Bob by email and he tells me they're putting the finishing touches on the green, factory-built home.  He should have final interior and…

  • New Precautionary List Provides Choices to Harmful Building Products

    Preston Koerner
    17 Nov 2009 | 9:52 pm
    Last week at Greenbuild 2009, Perkins + Will unveiled its new Precautionary List, which tracks 25 of the most common dangerous chemicals found in commonly used building materials.  The list provides an explanation of the properties of the chemicals with suggested alternatives.  Some of the chemicals on the list include: arsenic, lead, urea formaldehyde, and cadmium, just to name a few.  Over time, the Precautionary List will evolve and provide more information and alternatives.  Right now, using the Precautionary List website, you can navigate based upon the health effects (for example,…
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  • Call for Papers: MillionTreesNYC Green Infrastructure and Urban Ecology Research Symposium

    asladirt
    20 Nov 2009 | 12:32 pm
    According to MillionTreesNYC, the purpose of its 2010 research symposium, which will be held March 5-6 in New York City, is to showcase “research and projects that contribute to knowledge on urban landscapes, green infrastructure, and public health in cities and urban areas.” The organization is soliciting papers on research that is either completed or substantially in progress that addresses diverse science questions in the following areas: Local Air Quality and Urban Heat Island Water Quality, Storm Water Management Economic Impacts and Quantifying Returns on Investment…

  • New Geoengineering Idea: Turning Deserts into Forests

    asladirt
    20 Nov 2009 | 9:46 am
    Leonard Ornstein, a cell biologist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, and Igor Aleinov and David Rind, two climate modellers at NASA, argue that foresting the Australian outback and Saharan Desert would “solve climate change.” While numerous geoengineering schemes have been proposed to mitigate the adverse effects of greenhouse gas (GHG) build-up, many of the more ambitious ideas, including ocean-based aerosol sprayers, space mirrors, C02 air scrubbers, or artificial C02-capturing “trees,” have been examined and labeled cost-prohibitive or…

  • Edible Walls Grow in Popularity

    asladirt
    19 Nov 2009 | 11:01 am
    The New York Times reports that some building manufacturing firms are moving into the nascent but growing green wall market. In the case of Barthelmes Manufacturing company, the firm is producing vertical metal panels that can be filled with soil and seeds. Green walls have some of the same benefits of green roofs. “Like green roofs, walls include a thick layer of vegetation on the outside of buildings to provide insulation and reduce heating and electricity costs.” In fact, Time Magazine listed green walls as one of the top 50 inventions of 2009, and cited…

  • WPA 2.0: Working Public Architecture Competition Jury on Next Generation Urban Infrastructure

    asladirt
    19 Nov 2009 | 6:03 am
    This is part two in a series of posts on the WPA 2.0: Working Public Architecture competition. Part one highlights the keynote speech by Ron Sims, Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), which framed the overall competition, and explains the six finalists’ ideas. WPA 2.o was organized by UCLA’s cityLAB and held at the National Building Museum earlier this week. Before deciding on the winning project, “Carbon T.A.P.// Tunnel Algae Park” by PORT architects, the jury discussed the concepts illustrated by the finalists, as well as the…

  • WPA 2.0: Working Public Architecture Competition Announces Winners

    asladirt
    18 Nov 2009 | 7:52 am
    UCLA cityLAB announced the winners of its WPA 2.0: Working Public Architecture competition, which claims “whoever rules the sewers, rules the city.” “Carbon T.A.P.// Tunnel Algae Park” by PORT architects won the professional competition, and “R_Ignite” and “Aquaculture Canal_New Orleans” jointly won the student competition. UCLA Architecture and Urban Design Chair Hitoshi Abe announced the winners at the end of day-long symposium at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. Sponsors of WPA 2.0 include: The Graham Foundation, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill,…
 
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  • Venice workshop results

    Sally Stone
    16 Nov 2009 | 2:16 pm
    Work by CiA year six students at this year’s Archaeology’s Places and Contemporary Uses Workshop, created in collaboration with students from the schools of architecture in Barcelona and Venice, and the School of Archaeology in Catania. More pictures  Archaeology’s Places and... (more...)

  • Thiepval in August

    Dominic Roberts
    11 Nov 2009 | 2:00 am
    Superimposed red line marking the axis between the Thiepval arch (east) and the River Ancre (west) in the Somme region. Note the persistent marks of trench systems below the cultivation. Early evening in late August 2009 and the sun is almost coinciding with the east/west axis. The light glances... (more...)

  • North West Regional Studies

    Sally Stone
    31 Oct 2009 | 3:18 pm
    Dominic Roberts of CiA will be talking about Architecture and some uses of Tradition: Projects by Francis Roberts Architects at the Centre for North West Regional Studies, University of Lancaster on Saturday 7 November, 2009. The talk forms part of the Architecture of the North West study... (more...)

  • Architect, client and tour de force

    Dominic Roberts
    21 Oct 2009 | 9:57 am
    Get the full picture at Iconic Photos  (more...)

  • The Times on Architecture School

    Dominic Roberts
    20 Oct 2009 | 9:18 am
    The avant garde absolutely gushes: TimesOnline  (more...)
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  • Think Confident, Be Confident Winner

    Cherie Burbach
    20 Nov 2009 | 3:20 pm
    Many of you commented on how much you’d like to win the giveaway for Think Confident, Be Confident. It seems that no matter where we are in life, we can always use a bit of a boost to help us along when things get us down. I wish I could have given away a copy to each and every one of you! Alas, we can only have one winner. I used random.org to select our winner, and that person is our 22nd commenter: Aisling! The comment this person left was: I’d love to read this and share with several family members. Who doesn’t need some mentoring in self-confidence? My thoughts exactly! For…

  • Ways to Cut Back on Christmas Cards

    Cherie Burbach
    20 Nov 2009 | 3:04 pm
    Christmas, despite being one of the most important Christian holidays, often gets a bad rap for making people stressed out. We bring it on ourselves, don’t we? We just seem to want to do everything: buy the perfect gifts, make homemade cookies, and send cards to everyone on our mailing list. The problem, of course, is that we run out of time. Perhaps the following tips will help you save time for one of those busy Christmas items, and that’s is the sending of cards. How to cut back? Read on. Send Only to Those You Don’t See Do you really need to send a Christmas card to that…

  • Measure Everything During a Remodel

    Katelyn Thomas
    20 Nov 2009 | 1:16 pm
    Are you under the impression that a 24 foot by 24 foot room is actually going to be 24 foot by 24 foot? Do you think a square or rectangular room that’s ten feet across on one side will be ten feet across on the other side? Would you be surprised if a wall that went straight up actually was an inch further in near the top than it was at the bottom? If you think everything is straight, you are in for a surprise when you begin to install your new cabinets or lay your nice square tiles. Before you begin a remodeling project, take careful measurements and be sure you measure in more than one…

  • Thrifty Magazine Holder

    Kathy Zengolewicz
    20 Nov 2009 | 7:11 am
    I am an avid reader and that includes magazines. My problem is that I don’t like to store my unread magazines with those that I have already finished reading. It was becoming a problem until I found this project that I am going to share with you today.  It is a plain old magazine holder that I dressed up a little bit to make it look pretty. Kathy Zengolewicz Here is what you will need to start: A light blue, or any color of paint for use on wood (I used  black) Envirotex Spray Sealer A can of gloss spray, any brand A flat ¾ inch brush A foam plate <Painter's tape A 5/8 inch…

  • Should You Consider Alternative Energy Systems?

    Katelyn Thomas
    19 Nov 2009 | 4:49 pm
    One of the things I hope to do in the near future is to invest in solar energy or wind energy to take care of all or part of my current electricity usage. You’re thinking I’m hoping to save money on utilities, right? Nope! Unless the price of solar or wind energy equipment goes way down and the price of electricity in my area goes way up, it would take the rest of my life and then some to pay for an alternative energy system big enough to power the whole house! So why on earth do I want to use an alternative energy system then? Some good reasons for considering solar or wind…
 
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  • The Future of Intercity Passenger Transport

    The Antiplanner
    20 Nov 2009 | 12:00 am
    Early this week, the OECD’s International Transport Forum held a conference in Madrid on the Future of Interurban Passenger Transport. To a large degree, however, it was more a symposium on planners’ fantasy of intercity passenger transport. At least, that’s what appears from looking at the subjects of the symposium’s papers. Five of the papers dealt [...]

  • Short of Money? Call in Federal Regulators

    The Antiplanner
    19 Nov 2009 | 12:00 am
    In 2006, the National Transportation Safety Board found that 298 subway cars in the Washington Metrorail system are “vulnerable to catastrophic telescoping damage” and should be replaced or reinforced immediately. They weren’t, which was a major reason why nine people died in a rail collision last June. In 2007, supposedly failsafe circuits in Metrorail’s train detection [...]

  • The Compact City Myth

    The Antiplanner
    18 Nov 2009 | 12:00 am
    Can smart growth — compact development combined with alternatives to the automobile — play a significant role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions? Five recent studies — from the Urban Land Institute, Center for Clean Air Policy, Brookings Institution, Cambridge Systematics, and the Transportation Research Board (TRB) — argue that it can. Today, the Cato Institute releases [...]

  • The Antiplanner’s Library: Climate-Constrained Transportation

    The Antiplanner
    17 Nov 2009 | 12:00 am
    Smart-growth advocates say we must reduce the growth of driving to meet greenhouse-reduction targets, because otherwise driving growth will exceed the per-mile reductions in emissions that result from technological improvements. This argument is refuted by four MIT researchers in a new book on highway and air transportation. The flaw in the reasoning of the smart-growth advocates [...]

  • The Movement to Driverless Cars

    The Antiplanner
    16 Nov 2009 | 12:00 am
    The idea of driverless cars is beginning to catch on. An intermediate step, road trains, is being planned in various parts of Europe. Under this concept, one vehicle (identified in the news stories as being driven by a “professional driver”) leads the way, and others get in line. The drivers of the following vehicles can [...]
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    Architecture + Morality

  • The Architecture of Faith: A Sermon

    relieveddebtor
    18 Nov 2009 | 11:05 am
    The following is a sermon. I am not usually inclined to publish sermons on our blog, but because the jumping off point of the sermon was the architecture of the temple, I couldn't resist. Hopefully, it reads similarly to our essays. The text is Mark 13:1-8. Architecture has as much to do with religious buildings as any other sort of building. While we might think that architecture is the province of industry or residence, designing skyscrapers and houses, churches also see the need to consult with architects from time to time. They help provide insight on what kind of space engenders worship,…

  • A Park, not a Neighborhood: the problems and possibilities of the Dallas Arts District

    corbusier
    7 Nov 2009 | 5:00 pm
    There has been an air of celebration among Dallas civic boosters, local media and even among many of its citizens these past few weeks. The opening of the $350 million AT&T performing arts center marks the culmination of an ambitious vision set forth by city leaders over 30 years ago in the establishment of the country's largest Arts District. Along a once vacant six-block stretch in downtown just north of the city's gleaming commercial skyscrapers, the Dallas Arts District features museums and performance halls designed by the world's most renowned architects, four of which are Pritzker…

  • $200K Grants for Changes in Church Policy: Welcome to the New Way of Being Church

    relieveddebtor
    30 Oct 2009 | 1:56 pm
    A few weeks ago I lamented that everyone wanted to be a politician, even those who lead the Church. Simply preaching and defending the gospel has ceased to be enough of a calling; the so-called “social gospel”, enacted by achieving social justice now deserved top billing. This social gospel compelled those who should have been churchmen to become politicians, by lobbying politicians, preaching on the social ills of the world and the building of God’s Kingdom as a remedy, or using plays like The Vagina Monologues to make a “religious” point about the abuse of women. The examples are…

  • Podcast 8

    relieveddebtor
    8 Oct 2009 | 6:04 am
    In this podcast , Corbusier and Relieveddebtor discuss a recent trip to eastern Europe and what really defines vitality in the life of a city. Listen and subscribe here!

  • Beyond the Shell: Impressions of Post-Communist Germany and Romania

    corbusier
    12 Sep 2009 | 11:30 am
    Though it was far too short and hectic for my taste, I was grateful for the chance to recently travel to Europe. Part of the trip consisted of revisiting old haunts while the other entailed exploring a new place of which I had lots of curiosity for. My itinerary through the former East Germany and Romania offered a vivid glimpse of the changes that have occurred since the Communist control. In the case of reunified Germany (or more accurately the Western acquisition of the East) a massive transfer of wealth from the West was infused to rebuild an entire East to the point that it is has become…
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  • Why Architecture Matters

    12 Nov 2009 | 8:19 am
    Here's an interesting and infomative interview (by NPR's On Point host Tom Ashbrook) of New York Times architecture critic Paul Goldberger on his latest book - Why Architecture Matters. Great American Architect Richard Meier joins in as well.Goldberger talks about how architecture expresses our cultural identity and laments (as I do) the absence of beauty and artfulness in "ordinary buildings" constructed in America today. (Just look at utilitarian buildings constructed a hundred years ago like barns, modest homes, downtown storefronts, even power and waterworks facilities, and you'll notice…

  • American Roadways: Dangerous by Design

    10 Nov 2009 | 7:44 am
    In 2008 alone, over 70,000 pedestrians in the United States suffered injury in an accident involving motor vehicles. And over the past 15 years, 76,000 pedestrians have been killed on American roadways; that's the equivalent of twenty-five 911 terrorist attacks.Yet US spending on security-related issues dwarfs the funding of walkable infrastructure. According to Transportation for America's recent report - Dangerous by Design - federal funding for for walking and bicycling infrastructure last year in major metropolitan areas was a meager $1.39 per person. Conversely, appropriations for the…

  • No Man is an Island

    9 Nov 2009 | 4:53 am
    This week's newspaper column: Sustainability – essentially – is about connections. Take the human body for example.Life is sustained as the heart pumps blood through a connected system of veins and arteries distributed throughout the entirety of our bodies. This system works by degree in that the more those connections are disrupted, the more quality of life is degraded.Terminate the veins in the wrist and you lose a hand; block the main arteries close to the heart and you’re dead. Translate this metaphor to all physical and social connections and you’ve got a pretty good working…

  • Raold Gundersen's Organic Architecture

    5 Nov 2009 | 6:16 am
    Photo: Paul Kelly for the New York TimesRoald Gundersen is an architect I heard about a few years ago when I lived in Spring Green, WI. His home and studio - located a few miles east of the Mississippi River near La Crosse, Wisconsin - is a study in organic architecture.Gunderson utilizes natural unmilled forest trees in the structure and detailing of his designs. He skins the trees revealing a sensuous silky-smooth finish that invites the human touch. Nature has a way of offering ready-made beauty, and Gunderson's work is a wonderful case study in expressing that natural beauty.Beauty aside,…

  • Recycling the Recycling Business Model

    29 Oct 2009 | 1:12 pm
    Is recycling just a feel-good exercise in America? Wild swings over the past few years in the demand for recycled waste material has presented a challenge for communities attempting to promote universal recycling and a rational for communities who are hostile to the very idea of recycling. I hear stories all the time about recycled material "piling up" outside of town because of a weak buyer's market, and I've read about instances where excess recycled stock is periodically hauled off to the landfill. At the same time, manufacturers and contractors use far less recycled material than they…
 
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  • Sport @ Gare Centrale, Montreal

    David Thompson
    20 Nov 2009 | 1:16 am
    The Gare Centrale in Montreal was designed by J Campbell Merrett and opened in 1943.The ends of the ticket hall bear large blue and white murals by Charles Comfort depicting all aspects of Canadian life.Today I've picked out some sports that are included such as Ice Hockey (above).GolfLacrosseGridironSkiing and Ice SkatingSee my prints and t-shirts at www.redbubble.com/people/dct66 and tees and other giftware at www.zazzle.com/davidt66*.

  • Empress Theatre, Montreal

    David Thompson
    17 Nov 2009 | 8:08 pm
    The Empress Theatre was not part of any of the tours during the 10th World Congress on Art Deco in Montreal in May 2009 but it was mentioned during Dane Lanken's presentation on Montreal Movie Palaces. Despite the rain I was glad I was able to make my own way out to see it.The Empress was designed by Montreal architect Alcide Chaussé with decoration by Emmanuel Briffa. It opened in 1927. Briffa has created a facade made up of Egyptian motifs, reliefs and hierglyphics. Coming just 5 years after Howard Carter discovered the unplundered tomb of Tutankhamun Briffa has included a Pharoah's mask…

  • Namaqua House, Cape Town

    David Thompson
    16 Nov 2009 | 3:02 am
    Looking back at this picture of Namaqua House in Cape Town I am amazed at how the colourful the deco building is compared to the later buildings surrounding it.Even on this relatively dull day in 2003 the cream and coral colours stand out.Namaqua House was built in 1929 to a design by architects Roberts & Small. The top floor features a cantilevered balcony on each of the two face of the corner-sited building. The Cape Town Art Deco Architecture Map indicates his is an early use of such cantilevered balconies.The balconies and corresponding sheltering canopies are the most decorated parts of…

  • Town Hall Extension, Maryborough

    David Thompson
    15 Nov 2009 | 2:46 am
    In 1939 a new streamline moderne entrance and an additional small hall were added to the side of the 1888 Maryborough Town Hall in central Victoria. The extension was designed by Melbourne architect Harry J Little.See my prints and t-shirts at www.redbubble.com/people/dct66 and tees and other giftware at www.zazzle.com/davidt66*.

  • James T Foley Courthouse, Albany

    David Thompson
    13 Nov 2009 | 6:48 pm
    The James T Foley Courthouse in Albany, NY was built in 1933 and for over 60 years operated as both a courthouse and a post office. Today it just fulfills the function of courthouse.James Thomas Foley was appointed to the Federal Court by President Harry S Truman in 1949 and served as a judge until 1989 when he was 80 years old.The courthouse was renamed in his honour in 1989. He died in 1990.The postal service moved out of the building in 1995 but the frieze along the front shows various postal activities.See my prints and t-shirts at www.redbubble.com/people/dct66 and tees and other…
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  • Welcome Naples CSD!

    SEI Design Group
    18 Nov 2009 | 6:28 am
    We would like to welcome our newest client, Naples CSD.  SEI Design Group is the architect for their Phase II Capital Project which includes site construction, renovations and alterations at the Elementary and Secondary Schools.  A tentative referendum is planned for Spring 2010.

  • Congratulations to Bruston-Moira CSD!

    SEI Design Group
    17 Nov 2009 | 6:06 am
    Congratulations to Brushton-Moira Central School District for passing their EXCEL project which includes energy conservation measures such as alternative heating systems, and also building security. Now the fun begins as we start completing the design, and getting the plans and specifications ready for NYSED approval!

  • How Green is Your Tech?

    SEI Design Group
    19 Oct 2009 | 2:30 pm
    Ever wonder how green some technology companies are? Apple Have you purchased an Apple laptop and opened the box to see the computer suspended in “mid air”?  This is part of Apple’s plan to reduce packaging materials and help to save the environment.  Apple has also been promoting that since their products are thinner and lighter, there is less material use. Google Google uses photovoltaic cells for some of it’s electric consumption.  They also shuttle people to the Googleplex and reward those who come via self power (bike, walk, etc.).  You can read more here.

  • SEI at NYSCOSS

    SEI Design Group
    13 Oct 2009 | 2:45 pm
    We think our client, Michelle Kavanaugh, Superintendent at Honeoye Falls – Lima CSD, looks pretty official at our booth at the NYSCOSS conference.

  • Very Cool Interiors Blog

    SEI Design Group
    23 Sep 2009 | 1:40 pm
    The Fresh Home Interior Design site is great.  Their blog has many inspirational photos.  Most things are out of our budget (way out), but we can always dream!
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  • AD Round Up: Kindergardens Part II

    Sebastian J
    20 Nov 2009 | 2:30 pm
    Probably, the first place outside our homes where we spend a large time of the day. So to finish this week’s Round Up, we bring you our second part of previously featured Kindergardens. See the first part here. Arreletes Day Care Centre / Xavier Vilalta Studio Els Alamús, a small village of seven hundred inhabitants, is situated on a hill in the middle of the plain of Lleida, surrounded by a landscape where are predominant agricultural fields and fruit trees, a geometric landscape, planned and designed, result of the work of men’s hands and the engineering (read more…)…

  • SALA Phuket Restaurant / Department of Architecture

    Nico Saieh
    20 Nov 2009 | 10:00 am
    Architect: Department of ARCHITECTURE Co., Ltd. Location: Phuket, Thailand Owner: SALA Phuket, Co., Ltd. Principals in Charge: Twitee Vajrabhaya Teparkum and Amata Luphaiboon Collaborator: Penwisa Kietduriyakul Interior Designer: Department of ARCHITECTURE Co., Ltd. Lighting Designer: ACCENT Studio Structural Engineering: SPC Consulting Engineers Co., Ltd. M&E Engineering: A E Two O Co., Ltd Interior Contractor: New Muang Thong Furniture Co., Ltd. Project year: 2009 Photographer: Wison Tungthunya Sala Phuket Restaurant is a main restaurant for a resort in Phuket, Thailand. Because of its…

  • New administrative building for BSU

    Sebastian J
    20 Nov 2009 | 8:30 am
    © rasmussen | brunke | sauer German office rasmussen | brunke | sauer shared with us their design of the new administrative building for BSU in Hamburg, Germany. It was an invited competition and they won the first prize ex aequo with three other offices (Sauerbruch Hutton, Behnisch Architects and GAP). More images and architect’s description after the break. Situated in Hamburg Wilhelmsburg vis-à-vis the area of the IGS 2013 (International Garden Exhibition 2013) the new administrative building for the “Behörde für Stadtentwicklung und Ummwelt (BSU)” is one of the central…

  • Alviaes House 02 / Materia Modular

    Nico Saieh
    20 Nov 2009 | 3:30 am
    © Orlando Fonseca Architects: Matéria Modular Location: Alviães, Palmaz, concelho de Oliveira de Azeméis, Portugal Project team: Adelino Pinheiro, Marco Ferreira, Maria José Matos, Pedro Ribeiro, Zita Torres Client: ACS, Investimentos Imobiliários Lda. Project year: 2003 Construction period: 2007-2009 Constructed area: 938,44 sqm Photographs: Orlando Fonseca The houses that compose the complex Casas da Fonte (5 houses – lot 45 to lot 49) are integrated in the allotment developed in 1999 by Matéria Modular, Arquitectura Lda., for Lugar de Alviães, Freguesia de Palmaz, city of…

  • St. Falls / Elenberg Fraser Architecture

    Nico Saieh
    19 Nov 2009 | 8:00 pm
    Architects: Elenberg Fraser Architecture Location: Falls Creek, Victoria, Australia Client: Zacamoco Project team: Callum Fraser, Valerie Tan, Hazel Porter, Frank Olbrich, Lorenzo Nuti, Kathrin Wheib, Marcus Ieraci, Caroline King, Iva Foschia, Andrew Prodromou, Beth Solomon, Karl Engstrom Project Management: PDS Group Structural consultant: Bonacci Group Pty Ltd & VSL Australia Pty Ltd Builder: LU Simon Quantity Surveyor: Slattery Australia Building Surveyor: Gardner Group Budget: AU $24 millions Project year: 2007 Construction year: 2009 Photographs: Peter Bennetts, Tony Miller &…
 
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  • ‘Twilight: New Moon’ Film House for Sale

    Michael
    20 Nov 2009 | 4:12 pm
    Fans of the “Twilight” films and novels will know that Bella, the mortal girl who comes into very close contact with a covenant of “vegetarian” vampires, is utterly fascinated with the house they live in the moment she sets eyes on it. Now for all the Twilight fans I here are some interesting news. The home used in  “Twilight: New Moon” film opening today, as the residence for Edward and the rest of the Cullen family is up for sale for $3.3 million. This is not the Hoke home that was featured in the first movie ( also featured here on Freshome ). The 5,000 sq ft,…

  • Rewrite Desk : Designed to Take your Productivity to Another Level

    Michael
    20 Nov 2009 | 2:08 pm
    Sometimes I just want to want to work attentively without any disturbance, and the Rewrite Desk designed by GamFratesi is an awesome place to take your productivity to another level. This desk was awarded with Denmark’s Walk the Plank Award 2009 for excellence and craftsmanship in furniture. Showcased at GamFratesi’s solo show at The Danish Museum of Art and Design, the workstation features a cave-like shield that installs a big screen, upholstered and covered with textile to highlight its visual and acoustic aspects, so it can be used as a satellite desk wherever you like. The…

  • Coffee Table that Encourages Clean Surface Space

    Michael
    20 Nov 2009 | 1:22 pm
    The Cornered Coffee Table by Dylan Gold is a coffee table that encourages clean surface space by giving your magazines and table books a home. Here are a few words about this table from the website that sells this coffee table : “Take your average coffee table, construct one leg as a cross-section of a rotated cube and you get a table that values a clean surface area without losing a place to hold your favorite books and magazines. The Cornered coffee table embodies the inherent function of all coffee tables. ” Finally I think that this idea is pretty clever, but not at $1.900.

  • Luxury in True Sense : Eterne Bathtub by Pearl

    Michael
    20 Nov 2009 | 12:59 pm
    The Eterne drop-in bathtub by Pearl is an awesome idea that adds a lavish retreat to your master bathroom. The sleek and the finest beauty of the bathtub bestow you in comfort and is irresistibly inviting. As comfort is considered top priority at Pearl, Eterne features ingeniously integrated armrests that are perfectly positioned for extra ease and support. The striking amenities comprise Sleek Integrated Handles and Ozonator Whirlpool System. The handle serves as security when entering and exiting the bathtub and the ozonator purifies bath water, providing a safe and clean bathing…

  • Bed with an Unusual and Creative Headboard : Pixel Bed By Olivieri

    Michael
    20 Nov 2009 | 11:09 am
    What do you think about this creative bedroom design ? The new Pixel Bed by Olivieri main feature is an awesome pillowed headboard. The pillows are connected by clips and you could organize any composition you wish. They are made of high-quality cotton and available in different colors depending of bed finish. This bed could decorate any contemporary bedroom. For more informations about this white bed and other models from the same collection you can visit Olivieri site. This is a post from the
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  • IKEA Basket with Glade goodies – giveaway on my “other blog”

    admin
    18 Nov 2009 | 6:29 am
    Things have been intense and busy, but I wanted to make sure my mid-century friends knew about my give away on my “other blog”. My personal and crafty blog is “Frequently Wrong But Never In Doubt” and is where I post about the rest of my life – the non-midcentury, crazy quilt, embroidery party of my life! However, I would be remiss if I didn’t give all of my readers on this wonderful blog a chance to go over there, leave a comment and get a chance to win an IKEA basket full of nifty goodies. Go to my other blog to win this nifty basket! For more info (and…

  • I just had to say “eek” – anyone else

    admin
    8 Nov 2009 | 3:26 pm
    I read many many blogs and the Zillow blog is one of there. Where I ran across this: Ok, I realize it’s probably a TON more space, but YIKES! Am I the only one? 50’s cute to WHAT? Farmy? YUCK. Obviously I have given you my opinion already, but anyone? Go read the little story.

  • We have the best dinner guests ever!

    admin
    26 Oct 2009 | 5:55 pm
    We had friends for dinner on Saturday and they brought these: Can’t you just squeal with delight? So, they were worried they weren’t 50’s because they’re gold – I say absolutely 50’s – opinions?

  • Contest over at Modern Capital – Know your architects?

    admin
    18 Oct 2009 | 6:33 pm
    Mike over at “Modern Capital” is curious if you know 12 Architects who have appeared on the cover of Time Magazine. I have to say, I wouldn’t have a clue, but I’ll be watching and learning! And the prize: The first person who e-mails me with the names of the 12 architects who have appeared on the cover of Time will win a copy of the 1964 book, The People’s Architects. Published by Rice University, the book features an essay, “Architecture and Society,” by Charles Goodman, who, no, is not one of the architects to appear on the cover of Time.

  • Pictures of “Franks” bar and other insights into our home

    admin
    7 Oct 2009 | 5:21 pm
    My husband’s bar is named “Franks”….not oddly after Frank Sinatra (although there are pictures of him) but after Frank Zappa – I bought an expensive photo of him years ago and that’s what started the whole bar theme! So, here’s the new and improved “Franks”. Some of the “Franks” around the bar – it’s fun to see what people bring over. Oh, and here’s the rest of the room. Not really mid-century (we need different fabrics) but that’s our only Shag (a cheap print with Pink Panther – my son LOVES it!).
 
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  • A Social Philosophy of Buttresses

    20 Nov 2009 | 9:10 am
    [Image: The front and back covers of Support Structures].The last book launch I want to mention today—it seems like the only things going on these days are launches!—is for a fantastic-looking book called Support Structures by Céline Condorelli. The launch is coming up on December 3 at Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York (although Storefront's website currently has the wrong date listed—see a complete catalog of launch dates here). [Image: From Support Structures].The book "exposes an almost complete absence of literature or theory on what constitutes ‘support’,"…

  • The squalor, the possibilities, the madness

    20 Nov 2009 | 8:41 am
    It is clearly the season for book launch events! Tomorrow, Saturday, November 21, at the Columbus Circle Borders in Manhattan, Jeff VanderMeer will be reading from his new book Finch—and then engaging in a conversation about fiction and the city with Jeffrey Ford, Ron Hogan, and myself.[Image: The cover to Finch, designed by John Coulthart].From the event description:What do writers take from the real world when creating their fantastical creations? What does the real world take from fantasy? VanderMeer's new noir phantasmagoria, Finch, takes place in a once-prosperous failed city-state.

  • Landscapes of Energy

    20 Nov 2009 | 8:11 am
    Tonight in Cambridge, Massachusetts, New Geographies will be kicking off its second issue, "Landscapes of Energy," with a launch party and panel discussion. The new issue includes many contributors, ranging from Kazys Varnelis and Mirko Zardini to the Center for Land Use Interpretation and Carola Hein, and it was edited by Rania Ghosn.[Image: Some page spreads from the new issue, designed by Thumb].Things kick off at 5pm tonight—Friday, November 20—in Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Harvard. Be sure to stop in and say hello!

  • The Fall

    19 Nov 2009 | 10:18 am
    Photographer Richard Mosse, interviewed here on BLDGBLOG earlier this year, has a show opening up tonight in New York City: The Fall. [Image: Richard Mosse, "Grand Voyager Sunni Triangle" (2009), courtesy of the Jack Shainman Gallery].For the past year, Mosse has been traveling the world on a Leonore Annenberg Fellowship, documenting distant sites of aviation wreckage, war ruins, and more. From Iraqi battlefields and ruined palaces to bullet-riddled trucks and disaster-preparation test-landscapes, his new exhibition, The Fall, "is a photographic survey of our historic unconscious," the…

  • Refuge

    18 Nov 2009 | 9:42 am
    [Image: Photo by Bas Princen, from Five Cities Portfolio].Photographer Bas Princen has a new book out, Five Cities Portfolio: Amman, Beirut, Cairo, Dubai, Istanbul, coinciding with a conference to be held this Friday, November 20, at the Netherlands Architecture Institute. That event, called "Refuge: Architectural Propositions for Unbound Spaces," will feature—among many other things—a presentation by Philipp Misselwitz and Can Altay, whose research accompanies (and seems to have at least partially inspired) Princen's photos.[Images: Photos by Bas Princen, from Five Cities…
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  • "Amanda Baillieu has laid bare her utter contempt for environmentalism but failed to construct a solid argument"

    17 Nov 2009 | 9:15 pm
    ...this link via Archinect,"Amanda Baillieu has laid bare her utter contempt for environmentalism but failed to construct a solid argument"Says Guardian UK environment blog by Leo Hickman.

  • Bigger Images

    14 Nov 2009 | 3:08 am
    As screens become bigger and internet speeds get faster, we should all increase the size of our photos. ...to a bigger internet. Yallingup, Western Australia, Sunset, 2006

  • Bruce Mau thinks Orange

    14 Nov 2009 | 2:59 am
    Until we design a bus experience that is more attractive, more effective, and more elegant than the car, we will be selling a losing proposition. The same applies to the car itself. We must imagine and redesign the car as a product with positive impact, and not make our design objective a car that is less negative. We must design an ecology of movement options that are thrilling in every way, and that also fit together as an ecological, sustainable—but most importantly, sexy—system. Mau on "Yes is More" via Glimmersite 

  • Off to...

    10 Nov 2009 | 12:33 am
    I will be changing locations and providing commentary on new places over the next year. The first stop on the calendar is Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. Stay tuned for images and architectural banter on this super dense, thriving metropolis. For now though, a few images of a recent junket in Melbourne, Australia. A city that truly has moved in leaps and bounds since its near death experience in the 80's. All photos were taken in September. Old VW can near Richmond. Beautiful "?Free Classical??" building near Richmond Can't remember, but a common scene. Melbourne Docklands under construction.

  • The Sunday Morning Video Post

    7 Nov 2009 | 6:55 pm
    The video posts seems to be becoming a popular web spot here at Grain of Salt. Here are a couple of videos, via BMD Love Blog. Firstly, a 13 second video of a holographic 3-dimensional model. I recall the Paycheck, the Phillip K. Dick inspired flop (which I didn't mind) starring Ben Affleck and Uma Thurman. The second you need audio for, A melody generated by a car moving across grooves in a road in Lancaster, California. You should read this as well.
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  • Stairway Showcase

    Andy Marshall
    19 Nov 2009 | 8:21 am
    Stairways from heaven? Architectural photographer Andy Marshall shares some of his fave pics of staircases. continued at fotofacade.....

  • Priceless

    Andy Marshall
    6 Nov 2009 | 7:33 am
    A post card from France, a brief muted message, the horrors of war... continued at fotofacade.....

  • Photoshoot Favourite: Zaha’s Music Chamber

    Andy Marshall
    28 Oct 2009 | 7:04 am
    It seems that nothing can go wrong for Zaha Hadid. Her summer triumph was the music chamber installation at Manchester Art Gallery commissioned for the Manchester International Festival in July. Andy Marshall recall's his experiences during the photo shoot continued at fotofacade.....

  • Saint Werburgh’s – stripped of modernity?

    Andy Marshall
    25 Oct 2009 | 6:45 am
    "Walking through the arched doorway and up towards the chancel of Old Saint Werburgh's in Cheshire, it felt like I was slowly being stripped of every vestige of modernity." Architectural Photographer, Andy Marshall peels back the layers of time at a remarkable church with a hypnotic interior... continued at fotofacade.....

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    22 Oct 2009 | 12:00 am
    The Architectural iPhoneography of Andy Marshall Who say's that architecture and mobile phones don't mix?
 
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  • My University Project: Commercial Design Proposal, Sydney

    Linda
    20 Nov 2009 | 1:32 am
    “Brisbane is leading the pack when it comes to architecture; Melbourne is close behind… Sydney? Well, that’s another story” | Rosemary Neill July 04, 2009. Over the past 12 weeks i have been developing a commercial building for a site located in Sydney CBD. The building was developed as a university project which was driven by a primarily practical brief defined almost entirely by Sydney planning controls and commercial expectations. My conception of Sydney planning is that for too long the architectural problems and lack of character is defined by big property…

  • View from the top of the Burj Dubai: the world’s tallest building

    Linda
    17 Nov 2009 | 2:18 am
    Check out this video taken from the top of the Burj Dubai – hat tip to my fellow Ninjas from Architecture: My Ninja Please for finding this video! Share and Enjoy:

  • Interview with Bjarke Ingels

    Linda
    10 Nov 2009 | 2:04 am
    Bjarke Ingels is the founder of Copenhagen-based architectural group BIG. Bjarke’s approach to Architectural design is the experimentation of space, to create buildings that provide solutions to current problems. His “Yes is More” manifesto, is a comic book he created to express the importance of “thinking big”, treating problems as challenges and finding sources of genuine inspiration. The Architecture created by Bjarke Ingels emerges from his careful analysis of how life constantly evolves and changes. His Architecture is a combination of  exploring living,…

  • 7 Excellent Examples of Adaptive Reuse

    Linda
    27 Oct 2009 | 3:52 am
    It’s often hard to imagine that a building can be used for anything other than what it was intended, yet when they are left abandoned, having outlived their original purpose, many dilapidated structures cry out to be transformed rather than fall fowl to the demolition ball. Whether due to conservation issues, the limited availability of space for new ventures or because public campaigns are successful in saving beloved landmarks, adaptive reuse projects are on the increase. Old buildings breathe new life, albeit in an altered state, offering a chance to embrace past designs while looking to…

  • New Urban Economies: Architecture beyond buildings

    Jordan
    24 Oct 2009 | 11:40 pm
    flickr.com user JacobEnos For many decades entomologists studied insects in laboratories to understand everything about them. At some point over the course of the 20th Century, they reached a new level of understanding when they studied how individual species contributed towards a much larger eco system. Take ants for example. Ants not only grow and harvest their own food, they also safely handle material waste (including waste from other species), create their own medicines and disinfectants; in addition to constructing their own living environments from recycled material. They do all this,…
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  • Zonk’izizwe Town Center in South Africa

    ShavkatKarimov
    18 Nov 2009 | 5:29 pm
    Zonk’izizwe Town Center in South Africa chosen by Clinton Climate Initiative to exemplify “climate-positive” design and development Zonk’izizwe Town Center, an urban lifestyle destination in South Africa, has been selected by the Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI) and the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) as one of 16 real estate projects on six continents that will participate in the Climate Positive Development Program. The Climate Positive Development Program was launched by former U.S. President Clinton, founder of the William J. Clinton Foundation in May 2009. It has been…

  • UNStudio Wins 1st Prize For Beijing River Creative Zone

    manuel
    16 Nov 2009 | 8:37 am
    UNStudio has been awarded 1st prize in the recent competition for the masterplan of the Beijing River Creative Zone, located in Yanqing, 200km from Beijing. From the nine projects presented (Foster+Partners (UK), Zaha Hadid (UK), Atelier d’Architecture Christian de Portzamparc (FR), AS. Architecture-Studio (FR), Beijing Tsinghua Urban Planning &Design Institute (CN), Beijing Institute of Architectural Design (CN), NPS (US) and KCAP (NL)), UNStudio’s design was selected as the winning entry. ‘The design for the Beijing Creative Zone encompasses compression on a dual…

  • Work On 10 Hills Place By Amanda Levete Architects Is Now Complete

    manuel
    11 Nov 2009 | 8:50 am
    London practice Amanda Levete Architects have completed the facade of an office building off Oxford Street in London. Located at 10 Hills Place, the project consists of four glazed slashes in the aluminium surface, funneling light down into the offices. The architects drew on technology normally used to build ship hulls. Some more information from Amanda Levete Architects: ‘Amanda Levete Architects has harnessed high quality ship hull technology to create an ingenious sculptural facade for a new office building just off London’s Oxford Street. Lack of daylight in the narrow streets…

  • Lower East Side Hotel // New York // USA // ODA

    manuel
    6 Nov 2009 | 9:54 am
    Located in the Bowery, the Lower East Side Hotel (L.E.S.) designed by the Office for Design and Architecture (ODA) will feature over 220 rooms with minimalistic interiors to allow the ‘guests to use their personal aesthetic as an impromptu installation’. By designing tempered and laminated interior cylinders for the shower, toilet and closet, and using stark colors teamed with expansive city views, the small rooms seem larger than their dimensions. The relationship between the Owner and Architect was critical for accomplishing the common goal of accommodating an aggressive program…

  • Cultural Park Valparaiso // Chile // Emilio Marin

    manuel
    1 Nov 2009 | 8:54 am
    Chilean architect Emilio Marin of Oficina de Arquitectura has designed this entry for a competition to redesign ‘Cultural Park Valparaiso’ in Chile. The existing former prison will be converted into a modern cultural center. ‘The building is not an object is a constant succession of relationships. What matters is not man’s relationship with the object, but what happens between them.’ The program of Emilio Marin’s proposal, which won the 3rd prize, is planned as a series of geometric spaces. The relations between these are filtered through the space which…
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  • Technology FAIL and a Revit Sale

    Gregory Arkin
    20 Nov 2009 | 9:10 am
    Going on concurrently at our home is the following:Our 22 month old is fully mobile and loves playing outside in the garden.We don't have a fence on the side of our house to keep JR from running out into the street.Our neighbor bought the foreclosed house next door and has been spending a year trying to fix it up to sell it.Our ficus trees had a whitefly infestation that causes all of the leaves to drop.There are some ugly power lines connecting to our house.We've decided to split the cost of the fence with our neighbor.  They've removed the ficus trees and we now have a lovely view of…

  • REVIT - Placing Model Text on a Curved Wall

    Gregory Arkin
    20 Nov 2009 | 6:39 am
    Another great tip from Daryl Gregoire. It's funny to me because the other night before my e-SPECS demo, I didn't have a powerpoint slide with my info, so I was trying to quickly put model text on a wall from my Revit demonstration. I kept having issues selecting the plane to add the text and finally got it right. Adding a reference plane would have made it so much easier for me. http://revitrocks.blogspot.com/2009/11/revit-placing-model-text-on-curved-wall.htmlYou cannot place model text on a curved wall but you can place model text on reference planes so the work around is to create a series…

  • Autodesk / Windows 7 Officially supported product listing

    Gregory Arkin
    20 Nov 2009 | 6:32 am
    Revit still isn't on the list, but it definitely works on Windows 7. Hopefully, this list will be updated shortly (if Autodesk is listening!!!)Published date: 2009-Nov-19ID: TS14053691 Applies to:AutoCAD® 2010AutoCAD® Architecture 2010AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2010AutoCAD® Electrical 2010AutoCAD® Inventor LT™ Suite 2010AIP 2010 with Autodesk Inventor Tooling 2010 Add-InAutoCAD® Inventor® Professional Suite 2010AutoCAD® Inventor® Routed Systems Suite 2010AutoCAD® Inventor® Simulation Suite 2010AutoCAD® Inventor® Suite 2010AutoCAD® Inventor® Tooling Suite 2010AutoCAD LT®…

  • The amateur scientist (that's us) and why we make bad technology choices - BIM and an actual conversation about Revit

    Gregory Arkin
    20 Nov 2009 | 4:21 am
    So, I'm reading this blog post and it made me think of you. Yes, you, on the other side of the internet cable.  We're actually directly connected somehow.  I'm sitting here writing this and you're sitting there reading it.  It's pretty cool and oh, by the way, you have some food in your teeth.Anyway, we're irrational creatures. We're shaped by our parents, our surroundings, our peers and many more variables.  You've decided to not move into BIM because of something you've seen or read or heard.  Read the post below and rethink your future technology decisions and what…

  • Kohler Ronan Chooses IES For its Flexibility and Versatility [LEED]

    Gregory Arkin
    19 Nov 2009 | 8:29 pm
    Another LEED firm with a happy ending because they've invested in the technology necessary to be on the cutting edge.>Repost:http://www.iesve.com/NewsEventsUK/Display-Story/?newsid=6739 Comparative analysis at an early design stage provides ability to make strategic recommendations We announced today that Kohler Ronan selected our because of its versatility and flexibility. IES allows Kohler Ronan to interact with the architect during the early project design stages providing results for “what-if” scenarios that aid in the development of the building. Regardless of whether or not a…
 
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  • Soul Salvation: Sonoma’s Artefact Design

    desiree
    20 Nov 2009 | 9:23 am
    Bicycle Taxi Recently, I was in Northern California’s wine country. Sonoma is a beautiful and tranquil town.  Now, as much I enjoy drinking wine, especially the Petite Syrah varietal, I wasn’t there for the wine.  I had heard from a friend of a friend about an amazing interior design shop.  So, of course I traded cars with son number 2. He got the convertible with zero trunk space and I had the “old” but very trusty suburban.  You can’t be too careful when it comes to purchasing things for the home or garden. Who knows how large and bulky they might be? …

  • Vicki’s Vintage-inspired Holiday Party Favors

    julia@lookiloos
    17 Nov 2009 | 10:03 am
    When it comes to celebrating the seasons with holiday home decor, perhaps no one is more enthusiastic than Rose Garden resident Vicki Petulla. And autumn is one of her favorites as she decorates with the bounty of the season: orange and white pumpkins and wreaths of drying leaves in cast iron urns at her front door and swags of magnolia leaves and trays of persimmons in her living room. When Lookiloos asked Vicki what she had in mind for Thanksgiving, she not only set anbeautiful vignette for a holiday buffet using all natural foliage from friendly neighbors,  she also shared her tips for…

  • Review: Casa di Francesca Italian Home Diffusers

    sheila
    14 Nov 2009 | 10:34 pm
    Whether it is the scent of fresh flowers, vanilla bean or the smell of the ocean, comforting aromas immediately transport us to familiar places and set the mood.  Like many, I have experimented with wall plug ins,  spray air fresheners  to burning oils.  The smell was often nice, but the containers never seemed to match my decor or sense of style. Casa di Francesca’s  reed diffusers are a different case.  I was sent a sample by the company two months ago and put it to the test.  I have tried diffusers before and were typically let down because the scent was minimal and lasted…

  • Remodeled Kitchen and Bar, Plus Special Dining Room

    julia@lookiloos
    13 Nov 2009 | 10:23 am
    Sue Mezzetti has a ritual every time one of her grown children pulls out of the driveway. She walks into the beautiful formal dining room and up to the front window and watches them leave. She does it because that’s what the previous owner of the house, Eloise Martin,  did with her children — and Sue is so grateful that she and her husband, Rob, were able to purchase this house from her 10 years ago, that this is her way of paying homage to those that went before her. A Waterford chandelier once hung over the dining room table, but she moved it into her bedroom to be inspired…

  • Jose’s Tabletop Decor Inspired by Chinese Take-out

    julia@lookiloos
    10 Nov 2009 | 9:34 pm
    When floral designer Jose Ibarra stepped into Tina and David Sheffler’s Asian-inspired home, he knew just what he needed to set a smashing dining room table for her. The house was featured on the Rose Garden Homes Tour in October and needed a designer’s touch. As always, you can count on Jose to turn up the creativity a notch. For the Shefflers’ table, while he celebrated the Asian inspiration by using wooden Geisha statuettes and delicate orchids, he honed in on a  simple yet whimsical concept: Chinese take-out. “Just because you have a party doesn’t mean…
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  • Park: Milwaukee’s former planner embraces rail as key to urban development

    admin
    17 Nov 2009 | 12:31 pm
    Peter Park has certainly been on the vanguard of Planning Directors in the last decade or so, first in Milwaukee and now Denver. This article profiles his current thinking and what they are doing now in Denver in terms of planning and zoning. Park: Milwaukee’s former planner embraces rail as key to urban development 11/16/2009 By Marc Eisen For WisBusiness.com Peter Park, the star urban planner behind Milwaukee’s downtown revival, returned to Wisconsin Friday to discuss the lessons he’s learned in his new work as Denver’s planning chief. “We need to look at transportation and…

  • Eco design compliments green sustainability to the skylines

    admin
    30 Oct 2009 | 10:12 am
    Cities around the world are running into the same problems with their infrastructure: how can we create true eco-friendly living where cars, concrete and metal dominate? Its not simple. Problems of old infrastructure and traditional city planning curb significant efforts to recreate a city’s environment. New urban developments, like Blue Springs’ downtown revitalization, are much easier to reimagine with green living; the upper west side of Manhattan is another thing entirely. What is the answer? Instead of trying to take the cities back into the natural environment, architects,…

  • NRDC: Going car-free is the new chic in cities increasing sustainability in urban design

    admin
    27 Oct 2009 | 11:08 am
    This is an excellent post that reveals again how markets and market preferences are not stagnant – they respond to many variables. And, in this case, we see what might be a minor trend for now, but something to consider strongly for the future. Click the screenshot on the left to go to the post from the National Resources Defense Council’s Switchboard blog: “Never mind the Prius – the new chic is going car-free entirely” Related posts:A post from NRDC’s Switchboard: Orenco Station found to have more walking, community interactionA master plan behind covering…

  • A post from NRDC’s Switchboard: Orenco Station found to have more walking, community interaction

    admin
    19 Oct 2009 | 12:42 pm
    The following was written by Kaid Benfield and originally posted on the Switchboard, the NRDC blog: As many readers of this blog already know, Orenco Station was built as one of the country’s first new, suburban transit-oriented developments. It’s on Portland’s MAX light rail line in Hillsborough, Oregon, and comprises some 1,850 housing units and a town center that includes 68,000 square feet of neighborhood-serving, ground-floor commercial space (with lofts above) on a total of 190 acres. The now-iconic community was one of the first choices we made while researching…

  • A master plan behind covering the Path to Prosperity in shade: Incorporating “street trees” into the urban design of neighborhoods

    admin
    19 Oct 2009 | 11:03 am
    In his seminal book “Great Streets”, Allan Jacobs wrote “given a limited budget, the most effective expenditure of funds to improve a street would probably be on trees.” I couldn’t agree more. This is not simply an exercise in greenwashing or tree-hugging. In fact, when planning for cities one of the more damaging paths to go down is to think that green is always good. It’ll be interesting in fact when the current phase of green fancy dies down so we can start to have more rational discussions of what “green” is appropriate in a walkable environment and how…
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  • Teran/TBWA – Garduño Arquitectos

    Project: Teran/TBWA The Idea Factory Author: Garduño Arquitectos Juan Garduño Team: Ernesto Flores, Ricardo Guzmán, Daniel Banda, Isaac Romero, Athos Sajid Location: Mexico City, Mexico Client: Teran / TBWA Mexico Contractor: Alen Constructions Building Type: Office Size: 2,778 sq. mt. Design: 2005 Construction: 2006 Photography: Laura Cohen The first thing that attracted our attention when we contended for the interior architecture ...

  • Construction of MVRDV’s Market Hall started

    [caption id="attachment_5010" align="aligncenter" width="520" caption="© Provast"][/caption] (Rotterdam, 18 November 2009) The mayor of Rotterdam, Ahmed Aboutaleb and city councilor Hamit Karakus have officially started the construction of the new Rotterdam Market Hall. The arched building located in the centre of Rotterdam, developed by Provast and designed by MVRDV is a hybrid ...

  • COOP HIMMELB(L)AU presents design of ‘Pavilion 21 MINI Opera Space’ in Munich, Germany

    Wolf D. Prix, Design Principal and CEO of COOP HIMMELB(L)AU presented the design for ‘Pavilion 21 MINI Opera Space’ for the Bavarian State Opera during a press conference in Munich in attendance of Bavarian State Minister for Sciences, Research and the Arts, Dr. Wolfgang Heubisch, Director of the Bavarian State ...

  • Cocoon – Camenzind Evolution

    Architects: Camenzind Evolution Location: Zürich, Switzerland Project Team: Stefan Camenzind, Marco Noch, Susanne Zenker Client: Swiss Life Project Area: 1,900 sqm Budget: US $8,800,000 Project year: 2006-2007 Photographs: Camenzind Evolution Cocoon is located in Zurich’s Seefeld district on a beautiful hillside, which enjoys excellent lake and mountain views. The location’s distinctive flair stems from the exceptional ...

  • Bond Bryan to Design New Landmark Building for Sheffield Hallam University

    Sheffield Hallam University has announced plans to develop a new £25m building that will become a city center landmark thanks to its innovative design. The new 9,500 sqm building on Charles Street in Sheffield, England will enable the University’s Faculty of Development and Society - currently split between the City and ...
 
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  • What’s the cost of doing nothing?

    redcubemarketing
    18 Nov 2009 | 7:25 am
    There is a discussion topic repeated regularly in meeting rooms and offices around the UK right now: social media ROI. I’m often asked for examples of social media campaigns that have resulted in cold hard cash and in my search I stumbled upon this presentation. There are some great examples for both large and small companies, [...]

  • Social Media breakfast briefing at the DBA

    redcubemarketing
    10 Nov 2009 | 3:17 am
    Well what a great crowd at my Social Media breakfast briefing hosted by the DBA this morning. Around 50 engaged creative companies attended and they posed some great questions. For those that missed it, my presentation is here. It was more an introduction to social media than a ‘how to’, but the positive response afterwards [...]

  • 3 social media events, 2 cities, 1 big blog post

    redcubemarketing
    1 Nov 2009 | 1:35 pm
    Image courtesy of Britt Warg There have been a number of social media events recently and I wanted to attend as many as I could to a) connect with the best of the best in social media, b) validate what we’re doing at Red Cube and c) understand how social media is being used in other [...]

  • Cube Conversations: We chat to the DBA’s Deborah Dawton about their new event, The Edge

    redcubemarketing
    20 Oct 2009 | 4:43 am
    It’s been a while since the last Cube Conversation, but I was waiting for a goodun. And here it is. As some of you know, I’ve been working with the DBA on the launch of their fantastic new design event, The Edge. I thought I’d make the most of that by chatting to the DBA’s Chief [...]

  • Look before you leap – article on Reputation Online

    redcubemarketing
    12 Oct 2009 | 2:13 am
    As the world and his dog shepherds businesses into the digital space before they ‘miss out’ (on what exactly? it’s not going anywhere), it seems some have lost site of the fundamentals … read the full piece on Reputation Online
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  • Park: Milwaukee’s former planner embraces rail as key to urban development

    admin
    17 Nov 2009 | 12:31 pm
    Peter Park has certainly been on the vanguard of Planning Directors in the last decade or so, first in Milwaukee and now Denver. This article profiles his current thinking and what they are doing now in Denver in terms of planning and zoning. Park: Milwaukee’s former planner embraces rail as key to urban development 11/16/2009 By Marc Eisen For WisBusiness.com Peter Park, the star urban planner behind Milwaukee’s downtown revival, returned to Wisconsin Friday to discuss the lessons he’s learned in his new work as Denver’s planning chief. “We need to look at transportation and…

  • Eco design compliments green sustainability to the skylines

    admin
    30 Oct 2009 | 10:12 am
    Cities around the world are running into the same problems with their infrastructure: how can we create true eco-friendly living where cars, concrete and metal dominate? Its not simple. Problems of old infrastructure and traditional city planning curb significant efforts to recreate a city’s environment. New urban developments, like Blue Springs’ downtown revitalization, are much easier to reimagine with green living; the upper west side of Manhattan is another thing entirely. What is the answer? Instead of trying to take the cities back into the natural environment, architects,…

  • NRDC: Going car-free is the new chic in cities increasing sustainability in urban design

    admin
    27 Oct 2009 | 11:08 am
    This is an excellent post that reveals again how markets and market preferences are not stagnant – they respond to many variables. And, in this case, we see what might be a minor trend for now, but something to consider strongly for the future. Click the screenshot on the left to go to the post from the National Resources Defense Council’s Switchboard blog: “Never mind the Prius – the new chic is going car-free entirely” Related posts:A post from NRDC’s Switchboard: Orenco Station found to have more walking, community interactionA master plan behind covering…

  • A post from NRDC’s Switchboard: Orenco Station found to have more walking, community interaction

    admin
    19 Oct 2009 | 12:42 pm
    The following was written by Kaid Benfield and originally posted on the Switchboard, the NRDC blog: As many readers of this blog already know, Orenco Station was built as one of the country’s first new, suburban transit-oriented developments. It’s on Portland’s MAX light rail line in Hillsborough, Oregon, and comprises some 1,850 housing units and a town center that includes 68,000 square feet of neighborhood-serving, ground-floor commercial space (with lofts above) on a total of 190 acres. The now-iconic community was one of the first choices we made while researching…

  • A master plan behind covering the Path to Prosperity in shade: Incorporating “street trees” into the urban design of neighborhoods

    admin
    19 Oct 2009 | 11:03 am
    In his seminal book “Great Streets”, Allan Jacobs wrote “given a limited budget, the most effective expenditure of funds to improve a street would probably be on trees.” I couldn’t agree more. This is not simply an exercise in greenwashing or tree-hugging. In fact, when planning for cities one of the more damaging paths to go down is to think that green is always good. It’ll be interesting in fact when the current phase of green fancy dies down so we can start to have more rational discussions of what “green” is appropriate in a walkable environment and how…
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