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Sketchup Vray
2007-11-12 03:08:00
Take a look at Sketchup Vray . It is not a difficult software as long as you do some studies on the Vray settings.Image from http://asgvis.com/index.php?option=com_ga llery2&Itemid=58&g2_itemId=5536&a mp;g2_GALLERYSID=2c6ae3445961ef7f1e79be17 00c8aa91
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Theatre of the water
2007-11-12 02:58:00
My friends told me the eye of Malaysia is closing year end, just before it closes, I dropped by for a look at night and discovered something more interesting~! The theatre of the water. Despite the dancing water, the stunning visual effect of the laser beam on water screen is the most fasinating attraction there~! Take look if you are in Malaysia, 8pm/9pm 15mins water screen show. "Rising mystically from the placid lake surface, the many engaging facets and wondrous delights of Malaysia materialize each evening in a kaleidoscope of amazing images and colourful lighting effects. The world?s largest and most powerful screens of water come to Malaysia to create Thea tre of The Water s ? a visually stunning, living tapestry around Lake Titiwangsa?s shoreline, presenting the people, places and achievements of Malaysia. Each of the four screens of water is a massive 40 metres wide and 15 metres high, artistically enhanced with colour laser beams and high-lux projectors. Theatre of The Water...

Fuzzy Logic thinking
2007-11-05 07:16:00
"According to Christopher Alexander, compartmentalization and the dissociation of internal elements are potential signs of anarchy and schizophrenia. Fuzzy logic thinking is another step of helping human thought to recognize our environment less as a world of crisp boundaries and disconnections and more as a field of swarming agents with blurred borders.EMERGED is investigating the potential of fuzzy logic as a loose-fit organizational technique for developing intelligent, flexible and adaptive environments. Seeing the project as a testing ground for its computational tools and design techniques, the team expands its research territory from focusing and systemizing the dynamic hair tool as generative design machine to a larger scale, involving therefore levels of social, cultural and global organizations. The aim set by the team is to demonstrate a wide range of formal, spatial and programmatic organizations, exploring the ideas of form finding and self organization." to find out mo...
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Autocad2008 tips & tricks
2007-10-31 03:25:00
A link to autocad2008 tips & tricks you can't afford to miss.It is improvement everyday~!"Getting to BIM ? an implementation outlineThis featured article by Scott Hammond, technical marketing manager for structural engineering solutions at Autodesk, looks at the process of implementing BIM into a firm. The article provides an implementation plan outline, including beginning with a pilot project and a core BIM team at the onset of implementation. Tips and Techniques Tip 1: BIM Do's and Dont's ? essential steps for successful implementation and common pitfalls to avoidThis quick checklist is put together by Beau Turner and Joe Eichenseer, 2 BIM professionals from the Avatech Building Solutions Group and regular contributors to Cadalyst.Tip 2: More effective rendering using better lighting effectsThis handy tip was provided by Justin Taylor, a South African contributor to the AUGI User Forums and Revitup site.Tip 3: Lynn Allen?s AutoCAD 2008 Tips & Tricks Experience more spee...
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Atelier Bow-Wow
2007-10-30 03:00:00
Find interesting work from Atelier Bow-Wow. The firm is established in the year 1992 by Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kaijima in Tokyo. Interesting article from archidose.Image from http://www.bow-wow.jp/profile_e/works.htm l/ Mado building

Design Revolutionaries
2007-10-27 09:40:00
"This week, New York magazine and nymag.com take a look at some of the city?s greatest designers. From Martha Stewart to renowned magazine creative director (and cK One bottle designer) Fabien Baron to graphic design team Massimo and Lella Vignelli (of subway signs and map fame), the feature covers the men and women who have changed the face of design. Read more at http://nymag.com/homedesign/articles/fall 2007/Also, don?t miss New York?s list of 25 other key names to know in the design world, which can be found at http://nymag.com/homedesign/fall2007/3960 7/"Passage from Jill Weiskopf New York magazineImage from http://nymag.com/homedesign/articles/fall 2007/
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Company39
2007-10-27 09:16:00
Visual communication is important in architectural design. One picture speaks a million words. It is sometimes more convincing then what you say. take a look at company 39 and you might be wondering another career path after gaining your degree in architecture. to find out more...Image from http://www.company39.com/

Greensource
2007-10-25 05:24:00
"The planning and design of sustainable buildings demands the adoption of an extremely collaborative model work model. To get it right, the owner, architects, engineers, and consultants must gather around the table earlier and more often than they might ordinarily. Debate about decisions is typical. Maybe not everyone gets what they want every time. It?s a matter of trust and making the most of everyone?s talent.""GreenSource wins FOLIO: magazine?s 2007 Ozzie Awards for ?Best Design, New Magazine,? and ?Best Overall Design? in the business-to-business category." to find out more...

Muji + infill
2007-10-24 04:52:00
"Ryohin Keikaku Co.,Ltd. (????????, Kabushiki-gaisha Ry?hin Keikaku?) (TYO: 7453), or MUJI (????, Mujirushi Ry?hin?) is a Japanese retail company which sells a wide variety of household goods. MUJI is distinguished by its design minimalism, emphasis on recycling, avoidance of waste in production and packaging, and no-logo policy. Products range from pens, notebooks, and clothing for men and women to food items and major kitchen appliances. Its primary business includes Café MUJI, Meal MUJI, MUJI Campsite, florist and home furnishing; the company has recently taken steps into housing construction."[1] to find out more...MUJI House is a modular dwelling concept established in Japan. The layout in a MUJI House is adaptable to the change and requirement of a family growth. Some information from alatown treehugger , mocoloco and translation site from MUJIImage from http://mocoloco.com/tokyo/archives/000730 .php

Top 100 Architecture Blogs
2007-10-20 06:52:00
"If Modernism was the twentieth-century architectural trend that developed a new way of thinking, then Urbanism appears to be the twenty-first century architectural mindset. This trend is breeding urban explorers (urbex), the greening of major metropolitan areas, and a focus on merging habitats and commercial structures with politics, culture, history and the arts. Public discourse and scholarly research have found meeting grounds in this global landscape, and the results are evolving. But, this evolution has affected how individuals and partnerships present their materials on Weblogs and Photoblogs.To that end, we?re treating you to the top 100 bloggers who focus on everything from architectural news to urbanism and from the junction of design and technology to the landscape. While you won?t find blogs here that illustrate how to design a home or a business, you?ll discover plenty of dialogue, images, and ideas no matter if you?re an architect or a person who admires architecture. ...
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World's first toilet house to be built in Korea
2007-10-19 04:34:00
"Guests will be able to rent the pan-shaped house to raise money for the Kore a Toilet Assocation Feeling flush? For only $50,000 (£24,000) you could spend a night in this toilet-shaped house in South Korea. Sanitation activist Sim Jae Duck will unveil his $1.8m (£880,000) new home in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province next month as part of his campaign for cleaner loos worldwide. Billed as ?the world?s one and only toilet house?, the steel and concrete building features three deluxe bathrooms plus a showcase loo that produces a mist to protect users? modesty." to find out more...Passage & Images from http://www.building.co.uk/story.asp?story code=3097839
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IAAC
2007-10-18 06:23:00
"The IAAC is an international centre of education and research that focuses on architecture understood as a discipline that encompasses different scales, ranging from territorial analysis, urban development, architectural projects and digital fabrications to informational environments.Located in Barcelona, one of the international capitals of Urbanism, the institution develops a multidisciplinary program that explores urban and international territorial phenomena, placing especial emphasis on the opportunities that emerges from developing countries and the cultural, economic and social values that architecture may contribute to society.The IAAC offers a three-term Master programme in Architecture and Urbanism jointly organized with the Fundació Politécnica de Catalunya and directed by Vicente Guallart, Willy Müller and Marta Malé-Alemany. The programme proposes an innovative format that allows the students to create their own academic agenda in an open structure of studios and semin...

Kisho Kurokawa Died
2007-10-16 11:06:00
One of my very admired architect past away."TOKYO (AP) ? Kisho Kurokawa, the Japanese architect who led the so-called "Metabolism Movement" and based his designs on themes including ecology and recycling, died Friday, a Tokyo hospital spokeswoman said. He was 73.Kurokawa died of heart failure Friday morning, said Keiko Yamazaki, spokeswoman at the Tokyo Women's Medical University Hospital, where he was hospitalized Tuesday with an intestinal ailment.Kurokawa, who made his world debut in 1960 at age 26, led a style known as the Metabolism Movement, advocating a shift from "machine principle" to "life principle" in his literally work and architectural designs based on themes including ecology, recycling and intermediate space.His major works include the National Ethnological Museum in Tokyo, the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia that encompasses palm trees and rain forest, the National Art Center in Tokyo's posh Roppongi that looks like a wavy curtain, as well as the Va...
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Arch Maaik
2007-10-16 08:17:00
Remember Maaik? He now had established a portal, a community for architects and people working in the building industry. to find out more...Image from http://www.archmaaik.be/

40 Mercer Soho
2007-10-16 06:52:00
After 40Bond with Herzog & de Meuron there is 40Mercer by Jean Nouvel. Is 40 a good number in the West or a marketing strategy after 40bond? I would prefer 38/48/68/88/108, as anything comes with 8 is good number. to find out more...Image from http://www.40mercersoho.com/
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Starchitect Branding and the Cost of "Effortless Living"
2007-10-16 06:28:00
"...Highly refined, with elegant shadow boxes and a dynamic play of solid and void between glass and thick whitened concrete floor plates, the Perry Street complex, in its aestheitc purity, suffers when the dwellings are actually occupied. ....""...The painful question is: are these social constructs in any way compatible with modern architecture's essentially utopian foundations, and are these starchitects ? at least those truly capable of imaging new modes of living for all classes ? creating and contributing to a lifestyle that they themselves admire? ..." to find out more...Passage from http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/research/publi cations/hdm//current/26_Fein.html
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e² energy
2007-10-14 03:56:00
" 'e² energy' narrated by Morgan Freeman features: Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of Grameen Bank; Amory Lovins, founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute; Dr. José Goldemberg, Brazil?s former secretary for the environment; Tim Pawlenty, governor of Minnesota; Brian Schweitzer, governor of Montana; Samuel Bodman, the U.S. secretary of energy; and Jeffery Sachs, economist and Columbia University professor.?e² design? narrated by Brad Pitt features: Thom Mayne, architect of the new San Francisco Federal Building; Enrique Peñalosa, the former mayor of Bogotá, Colombia; Jonathan Rose, a New York-based affordable housing developer; Adriaan Geuze, the lead architect of the Borneo Sporenburg development in Amsterdam; Ed Mazria, architect and founder of the Architecture 2030 organization; and His Holiness the Twelfth Gyalwang Drukpa, the Buddhist spiritual leader who commissioned the architecture firm Arup to build a sustainable school in Ladakh, India." to find out more....
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Feng Shui Wall Paper
2007-10-12 05:12:00
I had created a desktop wall paper beside. Just right click to save, if you like it. Feng Shui is a knowledge of ancient Chinese's practice of environment studies and psychological approach towards architectural and interior design. It emphasises on balances. Some basic facts from feng shui~ staircase is actually an element that breaks the air flow coming from the entrance. Staircase should be hidden in feng shui's point of view. If you can see the staircase from the entrance, you will tends to have a busy live. Believe it or not? From my own analysis~ when the airflow are in a chaotic form, the environment affects your emotions. Never let your waste pipes and soil pipe cross undernearth your cooking area to avoid cancer. Never let sharp corners faces your house. Never buy houses situated at junctions facing directly at a coming road. Now, I understand why Honeycomb houses are in conflict with feng shui. It is because of its odd shape configuration. Chinese would always prefer a r...
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Mapping Malaysia
2007-10-11 04:07:00
"Mala ysia covers an area of about 329,758 square kilometers, consisting of 11 states and a federal territory in Peninsular Malays ia and 2 states and a federal territory in the north-western area of the Borneo Island. The two regions are separated by about 540 km. by the South China Sea. Peninsular Malaysia, covering 131,598 sq. km. has its frontiers with Thailand and Singapore while the states in Borneo Island covering 198,160 sq. km., borders the territory of Indonesia's Kalimantan to the South and The Philippines to the North.Malaysia lies close to the equator between latitudes of 1° and 7°N and longitudes of 100° and 119°E and consists of the following states: Perlis, Kedah, Pulau Pinang (Penang), Perak, Selangor, Negeri Sembilan, Melaka (Malacca), Johor (Johore), Kelantan, Terengganu, Pahang, and Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur (Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur) in Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak in Borneo Island and the Wilayah Persekutuan Labuan (Federal Territory of...
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E-daden Feng Shui
2007-10-09 07:38:00
"In ancient times as well as today, Feng shui, Literally means 'Air and Water' and is pronounced in English as [f??'?we?] ("fung shway"), was known as "Kan-Yu" which means 'The Law of Heaven and Earth.? [1] Today's Feng Shui schools teach that it is the ancient Chinese practice of placement and arrangement of space to achieve harmony with the environment. Feng shui literally translates as "wind-water." This is a cultural shorthand taken from the following passage of the Zhangshu (Book of Burial) by Guo Pu of the Jin Dynasty:[2]The qi that rides the wind stops at the boundary of water.[3]Feng shui is a discipline with guidelines that are compatible with many techniques of architectural planning as well as internal furniture arrangements. Space, weather, astronomy, and geomagnetism are basic components of feng shui. Proponents claim that feng shui has an effect on health, wealth, and personal relationships " to find out more...One of my relative had introduce feng shui to me. to ...

Warren and Mahoney
2007-10-04 05:06:00
"Warren and Mahoney believes enduring quality requires cross-pollination between design disciplines. We integrate the disciplines of architecture, interior design and urban design to create enduring and sustainable New Zealand environments." to find out more...Passage & Image from http://www.warrenandmahoney.com/

Steven Holl Architects? completes interior project for NYU Department of Ph
2007-10-03 07:47:00
"New York City, October 2nd 2007 ? With the opening of the new academic year, Steven Holl Architects has completed renovation of the interiors of an 1890 building at 3-5 Washington Place for the Department of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts & Science at New York University (NYU). Originally located in the Silver building, a mixed use facility for classrooms and academic departments, the Department of Philosophy is now consolidated new presence in both the city and on campus." to find out more...Passage from Frank LentiniImages by Any Ryan
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Web Design Inspiration
2007-10-01 04:42:00
"Most web designers look to the usual resources for inspiration: web design portfolios, social media sites and CSS galleries. But what happens when you do that? You get a site that looks just like everyone else?s.Check out these resources that inspire you to build a website that separates itself from the pack."to find out more...Passage & Image from http://www.designvitality.com/blog/2007/0 9/web-design-inspiration/
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Contemporary Architecture Flickr
2007-09-28 05:02:00
I was trying to locate some european architecture images when I bump into this contemporary architecture flickr slide show! I bet you can spend whole day just watching these. Over 7,140 images of contemporary architecture. This is a great share.to find out more...We found 2,993 results for photos tagged with european and architecture. to find out more...We found 11,504 results for photos tagged with asia and architecture. to find out more...and more...
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Tokujin Yoshioka Design
2007-09-26 03:57:00
"My idea of a structure in the future is against common beliefs, not to secure strength using hard materials, but to systematically organize small and light fibers so as to gain miraculous strength in the structure of the architecture.It is similar to the principle of a Japanese art of "Aikido", in which the defender gains the resistance and strength by diverting the force through this graceful and circular movement.This is my dream and a new proposal of architecture for the future." to find out more...Passage & Image by Tokujin Yoshi oka from http://www.tokujin.com/architecture
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Norbert Wangen
2007-09-25 03:59:00
In places where space is limited, the cooking area might to have to merge with the living, the new concept evolves."The kitchen of the future is, more than ever, the nucleus of the home - a communal area for social activities, a place for friends and family to gather. The concept of the hearth being the heart of the home, is still valid today, and is enhanced by advanced technology that defines the kitchen in an essential and logical form." to find out more...Passage & Image from http://www.norbert-wangen.com/catalogue.h tml pg 2
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TJEP
2007-09-24 10:10:00
"Frank Tjepkema is a designer but actually always wanted to become an astronaut. Not surprisingly, at a very young age, while other children were making their first drawings of flowers and bees Frank would be conceiving his first rocket designs. At first these were naive interpretations of archetypical rockets, resembling the one used by Tin Tin, but soon adults were quite astonished by the level of engineering and sophistication this young child was demonstrating. Frank was designing fully equipped machines neglecting no details. He went as far as to resolve problems like: how one would go to the loo when floating in outer space. His solution for this problem obtained him his first international patent with the RTD (retroactive toilet device). This resulted in a second place at the International Little Genius Trophy in '74. Frank had just turned four. When reading his first 'real' book at the age of six, The Little Prince from Saint Exupery, it wasn't without utter astonishment...

PGCC
2007-09-13 04:31:00
"The RM25bil Penang Global City Centre (PGCC) will feature architectural themes that synthesise local symbolism and historic forms with contemporary-style designs.Asymptote Architecture principal Hani Rashid said he spent over a year researching Penang?s culture, history, social patterns and way of life before designing the project.?We design the buildings to blend with the surrounding hills and greenery,? he told a media briefing yesterday.Rashid and his team ? comprising about 60 architects, engineers, and technicians from London, New York and Hong Kong ? spent four years designing PGCC, which is being developed by Abad Naluri Sdn Bhd on the present 260-acre Penang Turf Club site."[1] to find out more..."PGCC, envisioned to be one of the world?s first zero-carbon city, will be modelled along the lines of the Kuala Lumpur City Centre.To be developed by Equine Capital (indirect shareholding), the PGCC will be one of five high-impact projects for Penang State under the NCER."[2] to f...

Suyama peterson Deguchi
2007-09-11 05:15:00
"George Suyama, FAIA, founded our Seattle-based practice in 1971 and quickly became known for innovative designs that draw from the rich traditions of Japanese and Northwest Contemporary architecture. The hallmark of our internationally published work is its mastery of scale and proportion, sophisticated detailing and restrained material palette. Our pursuit of timeless and elegant design is recognized by numerous awards and established our reputation as one of the leading architecture firms in the Pacific Northwest.Renamed Suyama Peterson Degu chi in 2003, the firm has a professional staff of 16 located in a Belltown studio that houses our offices as well as the SuyamaSpace gallery and our new retail venture, 3 X 10. Our firm offers a comprehensive range of services from architecture to interiors and furniture design. Our award winning projects range from prized private residences to experimental retail boutiques." to find out more...Passage & Image from http://www.suyamapeterso...

Design problems and solutions
2007-09-06 11:53:00
Today is a great day~!Got an email from my lecturer and email from Ghazali and design development on the service apartment.Lots of solutions on design issues raised by the experience developer. 1. Glass internal wall replacing brickwalls that results tight corridor space. 2. Stacked air-conditioning units at upper duplex level, serving the living, the room below and the room above3. Reducing unnecessary space at staircase at liftcore4. Building facade enhancement with design thoughts collaborated with fins element for fire fighting requirements.5. Most important of all~ thinking out of the box, resolve issues with design thoughts~! Sometimes we need some brain twisting before answering simple questions. Problems will turn into solutions and problem is solutions.
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