sim city was a toy that had a major influence in my youth, maybe not as influential as legos but still quite important. i even had a course in grade school using the game (no FUND codes allowed).
Source: simcity.com
given my history with designing libraries, this is an interesting idea if even implemented on a smaller scale
Source: buster.net
i started following cosas cool because of this….
Ten posters about ten ideas.
The original design idea belongs to Anthony Neil Dart. This project is my own vision of his work. Vingelli Forever by Anthony Neil Dart. I saw a Vingelli poster series by Anthony Neil Dart and I very like his work. His project is an example of excellent design, copy it was a good experience for me. In this project I tried to refine and improve the original idea using the same techniques.
In this installation titled “Cause and Effect” the artist Ana Soler (Seville, 1972) to invade a space absolutely Gallery Mustang with only a small element that is repeated to cause a sensation of movement. A tennis ball appears multiplied in space in a sought parables generating optical illusion that purports to represent their movement. Time seems to be compressed by visual cuts that match the movement set by the effect of boat that has the same ball in the gallery space. Everything is fixed in one visual moment, as if we saw a movie in an instant, as if our lives happen in a time even stopped
Source: collabcubed.com
Architecture for Humanity 2012 Midwest Tornadoes Recovery
Early yesterday, February 29, storms through the Midwest spawned tornadoes killing twelve and destroying more than 200 homes and businesses. If you are an architect in the area and are interested in getting involved, please let us know. If you’d like to make a donation to help support families rebuild, we invite you to make a donation below.
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more follow up from NYC… bldgblog has a very interesting post showcasing a thesis project from the Bartlett.
Source: http
i have a new website dedicated to my design collaborative. its still a little bit of a work in progress, but the basics work. over the next few weeks ill be finalizing everything.
Acclaimed architect and designer Joshua Prince-Ramus, whose projects include the Seattle Central Library and the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre in Dallas, will deliver a lecture March 2 to New School of Architecture and Design (NSAD) students and faculty on the topic of “Slow Architecture” at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront. NSAD will also provide a live video stream of the 7:30 p.m. lecture for the general public.
100 Mile House Open Ideas Competition
The Architecture Foundation of BC promotes BIG IDEAS that recognize sustainable design, architectural merit and innovation in order to advance the knowledge and practice of the design of sustainable buildings in British Columbia.
The AFBC invites the participants of this competition to explore, rethink, question and experiment with new ideas that will challenge the concept of the regional house and the way we live.
100 mile house competition website
Historically, most houses were constructed as ’100 mile’ houses from caves, sod houses, log cabins and stone houses to the First Nations’ indigenous cedar houses, tepees and igloos. People worldwide used whatever available materials were at hand to build shelters for themselves and their families. But is this possible in a modern 21st Century city like Vancouver? This competition will challenge all participants to rethink the way we live and select materials, systems and technology that reflect this reality in the world of computers, the internet, Facebook, etc… Participants are encouraged to challenge the logic of the present, formulate new questions, and explore variations that will allow new potentials for living.
Geographically, we have selected the City of Vancouver to be the focus of the competition for the ’100 Mile House’. Participants are challenged to design a house to accommodate 4 people with a maximum area of 1200 square feet (111M2) using only materials and systems made/ manufactured / recycled within 100 miles of the City of Vancouver. A hypothetical flat, corner site of 33′ X 120′ (10.0 M X 36.6 M) will be used for the context (See Site Plan Here). All city services (water, sewer, storm drain, natural gas and electricity) are available to the property line should the entrant choose to use them.
Similarly, zoning and building bylaws of the City of Vancouver are important criteria in reality but again are NOT the focus of the competition. Competitors are not expected to know the bylaws and building codes of a specific area but general construction practice should be demonstrated. The applicability of the solutions to other jurisdictions will be important regardless of minor variances in building codes. It is hoped that necessity, as the mother of invention, will foster/ create prototypes that could be modified and the ideas exported to any geographic area. All submissions should demonstrate the integration of local social, technological, economic and aesthetic sustainability into the final solutions.
This is a global competition. Architects, designers, artists, students and other environmentally conscious creators from around the world are encouraged to submit their ideas.
this might be a little bit old and the video is not as informative as it could be. what is most interesting to me is the use of the poli-brick product to create a fairly cheap, thermally sound, and sustainable curtain-wall using simple construction methods.
from ecococos, its spanish but google does a great job of translating.
polli-brick product page
another image of architecture from my trip to NYC
another event to see when im in NYC next week…
Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream is an exploration of new architectural possibilities for cities and suburbs in the aftermath of the recent foreclosure crisis. During summer 2011, five interdisciplinary teams of architects, urban planners, ecologists, engineers, and landscape designers worked in public workshops at MoMA PS1 to envision new housing and transportation infrastructures that could catalyze urban transformation, particularly in the country’s suburbs. Responding to The Buell Hypothesis, a research report prepared by the Buell Center at Columbia University, teams—lead by MOS, Visible Weather, Studio Gang, WORKac, and Zago Architecture—focused on a specific location within one of five “megaregions” across the country to come up with inventive solutions for the future of American suburbs. This installation presents the proposals developed during the architects-in-residence program, including a wide array of models, renderings, animations, and analytical materials.
The 2011 Research Through Making Faculty research grant recipients were announced by Dean Monica Ponce de Leon and awarded to Taubman College architecture faculty on April 1, 2011. Five grants were competitively awarded for the production of a research or creative project that is predicated on MAKING.
