In construction “City of Music” in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil by Christian de Portzamparc,
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Cafe in Eilat, Israel
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The farm in Haute-Saone, dated XVII “century. Square plan, she now divides into thirds of equal importance: some habitat, but transformed old, a long central span welcoming a new framework of movement and convenience, then a barn. Solids-bearing walls of this building Franche-Comte, re-lay posts strong as trunks, punches and a beautiful scale outages. The objective was to try Pottgiesser Christian architecture.
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The always great blog Euphues…
Posted this which reads: “Since the airplace has become a factor in commerce, the question of suitable landing within city areas has grown in importance. One plan calls for an immense stage to be erected on top of four skyscraper towers, to span 1,400 square feet. The entire platform can handle 80,000 passangers and 30,000 tons of freight yearly.”
Seems like its fairly well considered for one of those odd-ball schemes common in the early 20th century. Also is quite familiar to this project and is of a certain type of thinking I often relate to Corb’s larger schemes.
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Mecanoo Architects’ new design for the Kaohsiung Public Library in Taiwan
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gardens in the Neemrana Fort Palace, Rajasthan, India
from soouravdas
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Dentsu London, Making Future Magic: iPad light painting, 2010 (by Berg) This film explores playful uses for the increasingly ubiquitous ‘glowing rectangles’ that inhabit the world.
We use photographic and animation techniques that were developed to draw moving 3-dimensional typography and objects with an iPad. In dark environments, we play movies on the surface of the iPad that extrude 3-d light forms as they move through the exposure. Multiple exposures with slightly different movies make up the stop-frame animation.
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I feel like my building has already been developed…well here is to something new
CITY BREATHS: Smart cities should be open-source, says Saskia Sassen /
The urbanization of intelligent technologies
PlanIT Valley, Portugal
McKinsey & Company recently published an article by Saskia Sassen, in which she writes about the current hype around smart cities. She reminds planners and scientists what it is all about: “It is the need to…
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Jorn Utzon’s Sydney Opera House. Initial concept drawings. I’m inspired to draw looking at this set of drawings.