April 2010
1 post
March 2010
4 posts
To Tweet or Not to Tweet?
Increasingly, architects are tapping into social media to connect with peers and promote their work.
It seems like everyone these days is constantly plugged into their technological devices, tweeting their whereabouts, Facebooking their statuses, and publicizing anything and everything about themselves. Companies are even engaged in the phenomenon, using social media tools to market their...
Control Freaks - Living Lights
Pervasive sensing and interactive building controls stand to radically reshape the human response to architecture, the city, and even the air we breathe. Call them the new controls.
As the books by MIT’s Mitchell suggest, buildings are Web sites, and vice versa. A compelling vision for new buildings, perhaps, but most existing buildings are often saddled with undermaintained proprietary systems.
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Control Freaks - Motion Sensored Water Wall
Pervasive sensing and interactive building controls stand to radically reshape the human response to architecture, the city, and even the air we breathe. Call them the new controls.
When you approach the pavilion, known as the DWP, a motion sensor in the roof detects your body and signals a processor in a digital control system to alter the solenoid valves at the individual jets of water that...
February 2010
8 posts
Canadian architect and industrial designer designs...
Trained as an architect, Arbel divides his time equally between designing buildings and objects since founding his own firm, Omer Arbel Office, in 2005. Arbel’s design is a first for the Olympics since each medal is unique. The medal’s undulating surface evokes the iconic sea and mountains of the Vancouver-Whistler landscape. Each medal is laser-etched with a cropped section of a larger artwork...
Interwoven public zone that tries to mitigate...
WORKac: Hua Qiang Bei Road su·per·ja·cent (sōō’pər-jā’sənt) adj. Resting or lying immediately above or on something else
WORKac’s proposal creates a continuous series of buildings and bridges that coalesce over, under, and alongside the street. A widely varied program of a public library, restaurant facilities, an electronics museum, and a fashion museum create a new,...
21st Century Tech Meets 15th Century Architecture
Can you imagine the Eiffel Tower with wind turbines? The Taj Mahal with rooftop solar panels? No matter how much you support renewable energy, it’s jarring to think about retrofitting such famous and historic structures, but one Turkish architect suggests it can — and should — be done.
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Internal Digital Network Within A Barcelona Bar
Name: BAR: DOW JONES, BARCELONA - The Alcohol Stock Market
Network: Internal digital network within bar. Network is constantly fluctuating with real time updates.
Description: Cool bar where the prices of drinks fluctuate like in the stock market. Every half hour or so theres a market crash, orange lights on the ceiling flash and all drinks drop down to their minimum price, theres a mad...