19Jul2010 |
Arup's Bug Hotel |
The Voronoi Diagram appears again in this bug hotel from Arup. Designed for the Beyond the Hive Competition, sponsored by the City of London. The hotel encourages occupancy by all kinds of creepy crawlies, including stag beetles, solitary bees, butterflies, moths, spiders, lacewings and ladybirds. A variety of recycled waste materials and deadfall are loosely inserted into the cells for the insects to make their homes. See the other entrants on the competition web site. See also Voronoi Diagram As Chair. |
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10May2010 |
Bamboo German-Chinese House At Shanghai Expo |
For the Shanghai Expo Markus Heinsdorff designed a bamboo structure that is used as an exhibition and event space. It is the only two-storey building at the Expo whose load-bearing structures are made of bamboo. The structure marks the end of the German-Chinese project 'Germany and China, moving ahead together' which was initiated by the Goethe Institute in Beijing. The building is an artistic encounter with the theme of sustainable urbanisation, which was the focus of the German-Chinese project. The German-Chinese architecture practice MUDI in Shanghai was responsible for the planning and approval process. More pics at arch daily. |
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07Apr2010 |
Fallingwater |
Fallingwater (Wikipedia) is a house designed for Edgar J. Kaufmann by architect Frank Lloyd Wright. It is one of the most famous buildings in the World and a true architectural masterpiece. Matija Grguric, an architecture student in Zagreb, has built a stunning Lego model of Fallingwater. It took him seven months to build, using over 15,000 bricks. Ken Burns (Wikipedia) made a documentary about Frank Lloyd Wright for PBS which includes the clip below of Edgar Tafel, one of FLW's apprentices, talking about the process of how the original drawings were made. Once FLW had got the commission from Kaufmann he visited the site and asked his apprentices to make detailed drawings… |
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11Jan2010 |
Night Lights Interactive Building Projection |
Night Lights was an interactive building projection from YesYesNo on to the Auckland Ferry Building. Three different types of interaction were available: body interaction, hand interaction above a light table and phone interaction by waving phones. Very cool project - see video below. They've also released the source code and you'll need the openFrameworks to compile it. Vimeo video embedded below. night lights from thesystemis on Vimeo. |
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14Dec2009 |
Milan's International Festival Of Lights |
Milan's international festival of lights includes this building project by Mario Nanni called 'la luce della musica' projected on to La Scalla. For more building projections see: Sydney's Luminious Festival and Architectural Projections. |
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13Oct2009 |
Architectural Projections |
Amazing architectural projection from SP Projects and The Darkroom. Embedded below is the video from YouTube. |
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14Aug2009 |
Soho III in Chaoyangmen Beijing By Zaha Hadid |
Zaha Hadid has done a stunning design for SOHO III in Beijing. Read more about it here. More about SOHO. |
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