Interesting artcle about organics and evolutionary architecture

by admin on July 2nd, 2007

There is some great article about new forms in architecture:
A couple of days ago I added a new text to the ‘sources‘ section of my site: “Organics“, a short but very utopic text published by William Katavolos in 1961, including a few drawings of the world to come. He had a vision of a new […]

Herzog’s Radical Transformations

by admin on May 22nd, 2007

Herzog says of 40 Bond Street:
“We like radical positions and we try to offer them. The idea of gates came to us first. It gave us a signature, a scale and an individuality. The gates introduce the scale of the townhouses. The question was what kind of structure or grid or image would they have […]

eDrawings Professional for Google SketchUp

by admin on May 2nd, 2007

eDrawings for Google SketchUp provides an innovative way to share your designs. You can publish your SketchUp models to eDrawings files that can be packed into a self-executable (.exe). The self-executable file contains the viewer as well as the design data.This ensures that the recipients of such a files do not need to purchase or […]

Richard Rogers

by admin on March 28th, 2007

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by rsswriter@landliving.com on Mar 28, 2007

London based architect Richard Rogers has been announced as the winner
of the 2007 Pritzker Prize winner. The 73-year old architect is the
fourth Pritzker laureate to be chosen from the United Kingdom.
In announcing the jury’s choice, Thomas J. Pritzker, president of The Hyatt Foundation, said:
Born in Florence, Italy, […]

VRay ambient occlusion 2.0

by admin on March 13th, 2007

- This script renders an ambient occlusion pass with VRay from any scene, without changing anything. There is no need to prepare the scene in any way either. The Script offers two method to render ambient occlusion. 1) Dirtmap - Every surface is illuminated and contributes to the lighting solution. It is even possible to […]