wireBundler script in action.
The soulburn scripts by Neil Blevins have been updated. They are a useful and free collection of commands to be used with 3ds max or maya.
Archive for February, 2008
Model of the DRL TEN pavilion to be built in Bedford Square (All photos: Léa-Catherine Szacka).
From 22nd February to 18th March 2008, The Architectural Association in London present DRL TEN.
DRL actually stands for Design Research Lab, a research unit started at the AA in 1997. To celebrate the tenth anniversary of DRL, the AA have decide to organise an exhibition, build a temporary pavilion in Bedford Square, and publish DRL TEN: A Design Research Compendium. Continue reading ‘DRL Ten _ AA School London’
Source: CG Textures - Splatter Set
If you busy creating 3D digital models and don’t know about the Netherlands-based CG Textures database, it is worth the look. Run by a friend, Marcel Vijfwinkel, he generously has an open source attitude to the content. You can read the license here. A lot of the material comes from Marcel himself from his work in the gaming industry, and the site now has many content contributors. If you or your office are able to pay for a year-long membership, it will support the site and give you multiple perks.
© Blue Eye Productions
I had to laugh when I found this video linked from the OMA website. After OMA won the BNA Cube award in the Netherlands, this video was produced by Blue Eye Productions to portray the working atmosphere within the office. I really hope you guys (that work there) respond to this. I can tell that some things are true, but others are misleading, like the fact that the teams in the office “are not competitive.” Also linked from the Blue Eye Productions website are other videos and topics concerning architecture.
And if you get the urge to work for OMA, and haven’t applied all ready, they’re (always) looking for people.
A little follow-up to the 010 publications: some Archinect editors share their favorite book titles of year of the pig: see their selection here.
For the last 25 years, Rotterdam’s 010 Publishers (Uitgeverij 010) has contributed to the larger debate about design both within and without the Netherlands. There are three books that stand out from the mix of forthcoming titles, to be published this spring and summer:
If you were thinking of applying to the Berlage Institute for the 2008-2009 school year (PDF), well, hopefully you’ve done it already. The deadline is for applications is the 29th February, 2008. The prospectus is as good as usual, and if you’re new to Berlage-Institute, it is the best place for post-graduate study in the Netherlands.
ACAD Options Interface - Notice the Shortcuts folder is at the top.
As we always try to make the world a better place, we bring you the ultimate Autocad shortcuts. Maxwan a+u (the office where Thomas and I work at) are notorious in the Dutch architecture scene for efficiency. The shortcut scripts have been developed since 1992 and have spread around dutch offices using Autocad. Started for Autocad 10 (when you still had to type ‘LINE’ to start drawing one) by Paul Hogendijk and Rients Dijkstra at OMA the shortcuts are at the moment developed by Harm te Velde over the past years.
Continue reading ‘Postcardware: The Ultimate AutoCad Shortcuts’
We’ve been busy, and we’ve been hacked by medication spammers - which resulted in a broken site for a few days. But we kicked them out and the site is 95% up again. But now back to the architecture: expect a reinvigorated stream of posts!
Photo: Reuters
The Beijing Opera House, the first of the Fantastic Four new “Grands Projets” of the 21st Century China, completed last September and open to the public last December, is under a lot of controversy.
Differently than the other three projects (National Swimming Center, by PTW, Bird’s Nest, by H&M and CCTV Tower by OMA), the Opera was built at the southwestern area of the Forbidden City, few steps to the west of the Tiananmen Square. The project by the airport-design specialist Paul Andreu is still the center of all attentions in Chinese news. Continue reading ‘The Egg’