2010-01-25 Building Information Modeling (BIM), a design and building method applying a digital 3-D model and database to develop the building or construction, is still comparably seldom in use among architects. According to many architects in France and the Netherlands, this is to change soon.
Water Drop for Living 2009-12-23 MercuryHouseOne is an advanced concept for a mobile living pod designed by Architecture and Vision and is on exhibition during the 53rd Art Exhibition, Biennale of Venice, on the island of San Servolo. Its shape recalls the beauty and efficiency of a water drop.
2009-12-01 As part of the Burnham Plan Centennial celebrations, the Burnham Pavilion by Zaha Hadid Architects triggers the visitors' curiosity and encourages them to consider the future of Chicago. The design of the temporary pavilion merges new formal concepts with the memory of Burnham's bold, historic urban planning.
Café and Exhibition Spaces in Bragança. Architects: abda – botticini de appolonia & associati, Giulia de Appolonia, Brescia
The roof of this pavilion serves first and foremost as public footpath. A series of ramps links the river level to the historic centre of this northern Portuguese city and invites pedestrians to stop and enjoy the stunning view of the surroundings.
Louis Vuitton Flagship Store in Guam. Architects:Barthélémy & Griño Architectes +Louis Vuitton Dept. of Architecture, Paris
Guam is the largest and southernmost of the Mariana Islands in the western PacificOcean. It is administered as an unincorporated territory of the US, and in view of its important strategic position, it has been a naval and air-force base since 1949.
The transformation of the urban landscape within the last decades has increasingly been dominated by the demands of capitalist utilization. Due to the current crisis, however, which goes far beyond a mere crisis of the real estate and financial market, these neoliberal politics and attendant forms of production of space have been subject to a loss of legitimation.
An exhibition of David Chipperfield Architects' work, spanning the last 25 years, will be presented by the Design Museum, London from 21 October 2009 - 31 January 2010. more
Radical Nature draws on ideas that have emerged out of Land Art, environmental activism, experimental architecture and utopianism. Work by pioneering figures such as the architectural collective Ant Farm, visionary arcchitect Richard Buckminster Fuller, and artist Joseph Beuys and Robert Smithson are shown alongside pieces by a younger generation of practitioners.
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BEYOND MEDIA 2009. VISIONS
9. International Festival for Architecture and Media
Florence, Italy - July 9-17, 2009
Stazione Leopolda, viale Fratelli Rosselli
The Congress has been ushering in new thinking since the 1960s, and is considered by most to be a once in a lifetime experience - the highlight of an education.
The second Consense congress of the German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB = Deutschn Gesellschaft für Nachhaltiges Bauen) takes place in Stuttgart on the 23rd and 24th of June. Among other things, the DGNB will be presenting innovations in its certification system.
The GPD is the world's largest conference on architectural, solar and automotive glass. Organised jointly every two years by some 200 business partners and coordinated by the Glaston Group, it has become the meeting point of the international glass industry's decision makers
The 9th International Vacuum Insulation Symposium will be held at the Royal Institution, London in cooperation with the Oxford Brookes University and Cambridge University. Vacuum insulation avoids thick construction with fibrous and foam insulation.
The exhibition in the moma in New York draws from the rich collection of The Museum of Modern Art to examine the diverse attitudes toward landscape over the last hundred years. April 8, 2009 - September 14, 2009
Turmalin är ett formpressat taktegel i modern design. Blandningen av högkvalitetstegel och de unika ytskikten ger ett extra tåligt, lättarbetat och ett tätare taktegel.
Det nya lykthuvudet är designat för att passa på 5-9 meters stolpar, och tillsammans med Nyx 330 täcker den hela spektrumet från parkvägar, torg och villavägar till vägkorsningar och större trafikvägar.
Finja har vidareutvecklat sitt miljövänliga lättklinkerblock Ergotherm med inbyggd isolering. Nu i samband med ROT-avdraget lanserar Finja ytterligare ett block till Ergothermfamiljen - nämligen Ergotherm Plus.