The links below are the hand-selected links that we especially want you all to know about. They are mainly from the Netherlands, but at times span the international design scene.
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Our Friends
- Comparative urban planning workshop. Run by Ekim, Website Design by me.
- architectural historians
- Dutch architectural photographer
- Movie making fof
- graphic design
- felix' and arman's office
- A little piece of Berlin in Rotterdam
- Clau's architecure office.
- Amazing Architecture Photography.
- Young office based in Amsterdam
- Movies @ the Urban Espresso Bar
- nina's office
- young rotterdam graphics
- award-winning JW's movie site.
- Emerging architectural and urbanism office
Architecture
- Discussion of the controversial planned reconstruction of the Berliner Schloss. Interesting Lineup.
- sharing architecture knowledge
- Blog about the Québec Architecture scene - en français
- architectural historians
- yatzer is a blog to locate, collect and share nice things
- The Urban Age, a two-year sequence of international conferences held in cities across Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe in 2005 and 2006.
- UK-Based ICON Magazine
- Beautiful Engineering
- Write a message with letter-shaped buildings pulled from google earth.
- spanish architecture news.
- architecture firm based in New York. Led by Joshua Prince-Ramus and Erez Ella.
- by Patrick Blanc. The frontman of vertical and stacked greenery.
Urbanism
- F.A.S.T. the Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory
- Urbanism Practice in Amsterdam
- Italian Urbanist (Milano & Venice), Researcher.
- The Urban Age, a two-year sequence of international conferences held in cities across Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe in 2005 and 2006.
- Rates neughbourhoods acc. to service offers. Google map mash-up.
- Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction
- biennial competition for 'young' architects
Landscape
- Young French Landscaper
- New York based Landscape office.
- by Patrick Blanc. The frontman of vertical and stacked greenery.
- young rotterdam landscaping + urbanism
- Dutch landscape office
- Young Dutch landscape architecture office
- Dutch Landscape Architecture office
- landscape, textile, landscape and exhibition design.
Art
- VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks
- artist development in Amsterdam
- yatzer is a blog to locate, collect and share nice things
- Young swedish designers with strong association to animals
- great line art.
- Live database for Dutch street art
- Excellent contemporary gallery for visual + spatial art
- Berlin studio of multidisciplinary Danish artist
- Contemporary German visual artist
- Bansky's Site - including hi-res downloads of his art.
Photography
- Dutch architectural photographer
- Architecture Photographer.
- Architecture Photos
- Group pool on Dutch Architecture Photography
- sober, tranquil, pure photograpy
- CR's large format pictures of waves, horizons, and more.
- Universal image database. Flickr with a map.
- Free Flickr loader
- Foto & Graphic Design library. Good Resource. By spiegel.
- Search Flickr by sketching / color schemes
Design
- Textile Wall/Curtain System
- New York Based Architecture magazine
- fantastic furniture design.
- Improving living standards through collaborative design.
- design furniture from the young & fresh.
- yatzer is a blog to locate, collect and share nice things
- Young swedish designers with strong association to animals
- Designer Stefan Gandl and Co indulge in patterns, vectors and typography.
- UK-Based ICON Magazine
- Diagram loving Arhem based Design Shop
- spanish architecture news.
- My favourite graphic designer.
- Rotterdam based experimental web designer
- Fresh German graphic designers
Data Sources
- VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks
- The database of the UN. Resource.
- Community driven Architecture Project Database.
- World data. Art and Statistics.
- World Data Collection.
- Data Source on Country developments.
- Skyscraper Illustration Resource. Filterable Database.
- Architecture and Building database. Good pictures, useful descriptions
- re-sized maps according to the subject of interest
- The European Union's Statistics portal. Great resource - look at urban audit.
- Statistics comparing nations in about everything.
Inspiration Sources
- Designer Stefan Gandl and Co indulge in patterns, vectors and typography.
- Former boss of KDlabs. Great, inspiring 3d work and direction.
- resource that monitors color trends.
Magazines and Blogs we read
- New York Based Architecture magazine
- Romanian Architecture Blog
- UK-Based ICON Magazine
- spanish architecture news.
- is a blog about livable Rotterdam.
- A project by ARCHIS & AMO & C-LAB & others. Architecture discussion platform
- Industrial design magazine
- Rotterdam based architecture blog
- Design + Architecture blog by the former editor of icon magazine, Marcus Fairs
- Madrid based architecture blog. spanish
- intense architecture, urbanism, landscape blog
- Blog of the Bartlett School of Architecture
- Landscape + Architecture blog with a spot spot for geology.
Super Dutch
- Comparative urban planning workshop. Run by Ekim, Website Design by me.
- Dutch Steering Committee for Experiments in Public Housing - supporting innovation
- Urbanism Practice in Amsterdam
- Dutch Graphic Designers.
- Diagram loving Arhem based Design Shop
- Dutch Architecture Platform
- Rotterdam Hoogvliet new town. By Wouter van Stiphout with others.
- City of Architecture
- Interiour Design Shop in Rotterdam.
- List of Dutch Architecture Organizations in R'dam
- Rotterdam also has a Biennale.
- center for art and media technology in Rotterdam.
- Amsterdam Centre for Architecture
- funding body for projects in the fields of architecture et alii.
- Master institute of Urbanism + Architecture in Rotterdam, NL
Practices we like
- platform for Architecture, Design and Urbanism
- Rome based Architects
- Urbanism Practice in Amsterdam
- Promising young practice in Valencia, Spain.
Software we use
- Google Earth real time sharing of screen view.
- Rendering tips by a mental images employee.
- The architect's 3d software package.
- Associative CAD software for parametric design.
- Java-Based data analyzer for iTunes Library
- Killer programming language for visual and media artists from Ben Fry & Casey Reas
- Excellent fast and robust Nurbs modeller for windows
- Information space containing a vast collection of media-objects
- Free Flickr loader
- Professional NURBS modeler. Mac and PC.
- promising 3d modeler (subdivision surfaces and Polygons).
- 3d generation of plants and vegetation.
- Maxwell Render - unbiased Renderer. Promising.
- The Mental Ray Render engine.
Also worth a look
- Architecture Competitions
- choreographer, photographer, researcher, philosopher, traveller, adventure capitalist.
- Exhibition of young offices of architecture in Madrid. Links, Blog.
- Sharing site for Autocad blocks. Resource.
- The avantgarde restaurant of Ferran Adria. Familiar concepts in the domain of cooking.
- Starting point to find architecture competitions.
- Architecture visualization agency.
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