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
– Young office based in Amsterdam
– Patrick Mc Cabe, landscape & urbanism. Amsterdam.
– Madrid, Spain
– Barcelona based Architecture Office. Pupil of Miralles.
– arjan scheer's architecture practice
– 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.
– Movies @ the Urban Espresso Bar
Architecture
– CG Animation of Kahn/Mies/Calatrava buildings. Outstanding.
– The model maker in NL.
– Amsterdam-Lisboa Architecture & Design Exhibition
– Finn Geipel Julia Andel urbansim & architecture practice in Berlin. Ali.
– Madrid, Spain
– A visual exploration on mapping complex networks.
– overview of the 60ies movement
– Prof. Ludger Hovestadt's (ETH in Zürich) parametric urbanism software. Recent project-partners were the architects Herzog&deMeuron in Basel, Sauerbruch&Hutton in Berlin and KCAP in Rotterdam.
– Architecture Competitions, Events & News
– Reference Collection of Stairs. Fantastic.
– Online architecture community with a focus on Muslim culture.
– Discussion of the controversial planned reconstruction of the Berliner Schloss. Interesting Lineup.
– sharing architecture knowledge
– Blog about the Québec Architecture scene – en français
Urbanism
– 3D Modeling Software for Urban Environments – parametric city design
– London based Urbanism Think Tank
– Spanish Urbanism Blog
– public space concepts
– Sustainability Rating System, UK.
– Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Green Building Rating System – US Sustainability Checklist
– UK sustainability checklist.
– Prof. Ludger Hovestadt's (ETH in Zürich) parametric urbanism software. Recent project-partners were the architects Herzog&deMeuron in Basel, Sauerbruch&Hutton in Berlin and KCAP in Rotterdam.
– Urban Design Principles for download
– Amsterdam based architecture & urbanism office. Ambitious.
– International Network for Urban Research
– Urbanism and Public Space Blog
– F.A.S.T. the Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory
– Urbanism Practice in Amsterdam
Landscape
– Landscape Architects
– Latinamerican Landscape Practice. Promising.
– 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
– A Club for Computers. Digital Beauty
– public space concepts
– Bi-monthly art web magazine.
– 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
– Inspirational collection of visual art and citations. Sunday afternoon stuff.
– great image resource
– Japanese Site Architecture Photo Site.
– 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
– See, understand, and share numbers
– Inspirational collection of visual art and citations. Sunday afternoon stuff.
– 3D Modeling Software for Urban Environments – parametric city design
– A Club for Computers. Digital Beauty
– Amsterdam-Lisboa Architecture & Design Exhibition
– very digital architecture, very biomikry
– Barcelona based Architecture Office. Pupil of Miralles.
– Aachen based Render Service
– overview of the 60ies movement
– 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
Data Sources
– See, understand, and share numbers
– Another crowdsourced map project.
– Rotterdam City Database. maps. Demographics
– Comparative Data on selected cities.
– Data Source on Country developments.
– Google crowdsources creation of maps to the community, especially in developing countries. Compare with Open Street Map project.
– Raumbeobachtungssystem des Bundesinstitut für Bau-, Stadt- und Raumforschung (BBSR) im Bundesamt für Bauwesen und Raumordnung (BBR) mit seinen einzelnen Komponenten und Themen ergebnisorientiert im Überblick vor. Ein interaktives Kartenmodul ermöglicht für rund 60 Indikatoren auf Kreisebene eine komfortable Kartengenerierung online.
– A visual exploration on mapping complex networks.
– Share and create geo-data (GIS data), but without the difficulties (and power) of full GIS appliances.
– 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.
– Skyscraper Illustration Resource. Filterable Database.
Inspiration Sources
– CG Animation of Kahn/Mies/Calatrava buildings. Outstanding.
– Inspirational collection of visual art and citations. Sunday afternoon stuff.
– A Club for Computers. Digital Beauty
– A visual exploration on mapping complex networks.
– Latinamerican Landscape Practice. Promising.
– Reference Collection of Stairs. Fantastic.
– 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
– Young Architects Network.
– great image resource
– Bi-monthly art web magazine.
– 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
Super Dutch
– Rotterdam City Database. maps. Demographics
– Dutch Architecture News Site
– Patrick Mc Cabe, landscape & urbanism. Amsterdam.
– Architecture Project Grants Programme of the Dutch Culture Stimulation Fund.
– Amsterdam based architecture & urbanism office. Ambitious.
– Amsterdam's architecture academy.
– This Year's Design Event in Amsterdam. Topic: Space and Place | 18 September – 2 November
– Rotterdam's fancy road celebrates itself.
– 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.
Practices we like
– Finn Geipel Julia Andel urbansim & architecture practice in Berlin. Ali.
– Barcelona based Architecture Office. Pupil of Miralles.
– Amsterdam based architecture & urbanism office. Ambitious.
– platform for Architecture, Design and Urbanism
– Rome based Architects
– Urbanism Practice in Amsterdam
– Promising young practice in Valencia, Spain.
Software we use
– See, understand, and share numbers
– Processing is a simple programming environment that was created to make it easier to develop visually oriented applications with an emphasis on animation and providing users with instant feedback through interaction. The developers wanted a means to “sketch” ideas in code.
– Modernised FormZ Successor. Hope?
– Prof. Ludger Hovestadt's (ETH in Zürich) parametric urbanism software. Recent project-partners were the architects Herzog&deMeuron in Basel, Sauerbruch&Hutton in Berlin and KCAP in Rotterdam.
– 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
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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