Daimler envisions the future of car technology – car-maker Daimler recently sponsored a Future Talk event to imagine the “evolving role of vehicles in the future.” All of the ideas for using vehicles to make our lives safer and easier reuse some already-existing aspect of cars (GPS, waste heat) and apply them …
A Building Not Just Green, but Practically Self-Sustaining – the about-to-open Bullitt Center in Seattle hopes to be “the world’s greenest” office building. It’s aiming for certification with the Living Building Challenge, “the built environment’s most rigorous performance standard” and which requires 12 months of continuous occupancy to qualify. The article …
A trio of Dutch design magazines from Frame Publishers – Frame (interiors), Mark (architecture), Elephant (art/visual culture) – are all definitely worth a look. Online you get a sense of content and layout, but to see the issues entire you have to either purchase or subscribe yourself or, my choice, be near a library …
Keetwonen (Amsterdam student housing) – called “the biggest container city in the world” Keetwonen provides popular housing for students in Amsterdam, 1000 units. Each has its own kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, study room, and balcony. The initial fears of some people that the container homes would be too small, too noisy, too …
Adaptation: Architecture, Technology and the City – great digital magazine from the analysis-based architectural practice of Jeffrey Inaba on how cities and technology are adapting to each other. There’s a lot of thoughtful content here. A brief selection: (p. 43) Measuring the City: The infrastructure of data …
If you need to understand U.S. government spending, take a look at USAspending.gov. The first thing you see after a search is a map that lets you know at a glance which states have the most funding for whatever it is you’re looking up. For instance, here’s a search for …
Silicon Valley Tech Giants Plan Super-Green Campuses – a number of high tech companies (Apple, Google, Facebook, Samsung, Nvidia) are planning corporate campuses in California that, in addition to being designed by big name architects, go beyond the standard requirements for sustainability in new buildings. Apple’s campus, designed by …
In pictures: eVolo’s madcap skyscraper competition winners – post on gizmag has 27 images of the winners and runners up of eVolo Magazine’s annual design competition. Novelty, be it technical or aesthetic, is the order of the day, and while one shouldn’t expect to see any of these …
The Sistine Chapel is much in the news these days. Even though you can’t get in to see it because of the papal election process taking place right now inside the Chapel, there are ways to explore the space and its famous frescoes virtually. Try, for instance, this 360 degree …
And The Oscar Goes To: Top 10 Contemporary Buildings In Movies – with the Oscars coming up architizer had the good idea to post this top 10 list of buildings you may have seen in movies over the last decade or so. Thanks to AIA St. Louis (home of a great …
Quick, how many engineers or engineering firms can you name? If you’re having a little trouble, now’s your chance to become more aware of the huge contribution these inventive thinkers make to our built environment. Here are a couple of links with practical information on what engineers do and what …
Circular bicycle bridge hovers over busy highway – walkers and bicyclists in the Dutch city of Eindhoven have a great way to cross a major intersection, via this wonderful floating bridge designed by ipv Delft. You get a taste of it in the 1-min clip accompanying the post and also …
Sci-Fi Stylings From A Legend Of Architectural Fantasy – upcoming exhibition (Feb 16-June 2, 2013) at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Lebbeus Woods, Architect, will feature the visionary architect’s work since the mid-1990s (he died late last year as the exhibition was being planned). There aren’t many built projects by …
SHoP Breaks Ground on Africa’s Silicon Valley – “state-of-the-art business and technology hub” just outside Nairobi, Konza Techno City is expected to be complete in 20 years. It will include a university campus (with many universities and affiliated research labs), a technology and life sciences district, and a government …
Here’s another good architecture magazine that requires a non-subscriber to visit a library, though it looks like they’ve got a pretty nice iPad app. Arquine 61 | Public space, space enabled – quarterly magazine focuses on the architecture of Mexico and Latin America, but includes projects from around the world. …
Earthen Architecture: A Technique of the Past Helping Us Toward a Greener Future – UNESCO and Building Green Futures are working together to build a women’s center in Palestine made out of earth, or mudbrick, an ancient tradition that’s excellent at conserving energy. … over one third of the world’s population lives …
Instructional Video of the Day: How to Build Skyscrapers Over Moving Trains – 2:46 min video shows method of construction to be used by ‘mega-developer’ Brookfield in Manhattan West. The company intends to develop two 60-story towers without interrupting train traffic, though a dozen tracks connecting Penn Station to …
Building Research Information Knowledgebase (BRIK) – a great free resource for both finding and sharing research on the built environment. A collaborative effort of the American Institute of Architects and the National Institute of Building Sciences, the Building Research Information Knowledgebase (BRIK) is an interactive portal offering online access to peer-reviewed …