resources
3D Tin
3D tin ventures where no 3D program has been before (maybe). This site lets you make and play with blocks inside a standard browser window, then save them. It’s like a really basic Sketch Up, not bad considering it’s made by a guy (Jayesh Salvi) working alone on it, part time, since April.
Frei Otto - Conversations
Juan Maria Songel (Editor)
Princeton University Press 2010, 96 pages, paperback.
$US15.56 at Amazon.
Ecological Urbanism vs. New Urbanism
An intelligent review of a 2010 debate at Harvard GSD, at Urban Omnibus.
Urban Design Alliance Queensland
An industry blog by UDAL with events and conference reviews.
Parsons The New School for Design
[66 Fifth Avenue]
New York, NY 10011
Ph: 212.229.8900
Manning Clark House
Dymphna Clark discusses the Manning Clark house by Robin Boyd with the ABC in 1994. A fine interview in which we learn that Dympha first heard of Boyd reading The Age in isolated Croydon…
Hearst Tower
[300 West 57th Street]
New York, New York
Seagram Building
Grand mountain of brown steel by Ludwig, setting off many copycats. As Joe Public can’t get very far into the building, and the plaza is not designed for hanging out in, people congregate at the edge by the reflecting pool to eat their hot dogs – on a very popular onyx seat. Maybe it’s called the Barcelona corner.
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Lever House
[390 Park Ave]
New York, 10022, United States
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TWA Terminal
[Terminal 5, JFK]
Jamaica, NY 11430
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Austerica
Robin Boyd’s Austerica essay, as it first appeared in The Age in September 1957.
HOME New Zealand
This blog supplements the print magazine with extra photos and news. You can also find their well-stocked Youtube channel here.
Mercat Santa Caterina
Enric Miralles and Benedetta Tagliabue. Completed in 2005.
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Charles de Gaullle Terminal 2E
Terminal 2E was designed by Paul Andreu with an elliptical skeleton, and inaugurated in 2003. This terminal partially collapsed in 2004, killing four people.
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2010 AA Prize for Unbuilt Work
2010 entries are now open and will close on 8 October 2010.
2010 marks a change in process whereby most of the entry submission will take place online, with entrants only sending hard copies of 2 x A2 sheets and drawings.
The annual program is open to architects, graduates, students and other built environment professionals. A prize pool of $3000 is offered.
The AA Prize for Unbuilt Work is an Architecture Australia inititaive. The 2010 Prize is presented in partnership with ISIS.
Cleantech Corridor & Green District Competition
Registration deadline: August 30
Submission deadline: September
Strelka. Institute for Media, Architecture and Design
“ Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design is an international educational initiative founded in 2009.
PALS - Practice of Architecture Learning Series
PALS is the Australian Institute of Architects’ Practice of Architecture Learning Series.