January 2012
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PRE-FAB: 200 Chinese Workers Erect a 30 Storey...
If we hadn’t seen a video of the T30 Hotel going up in China, we might not have believed that anyone, anywhere could erect a prefabricated 30 storey tower in just over 2 weeks. But it’s true – Broad Sustainable Building, a subsidiary of the BroadGroup construction company, has broken their previous record of constructing a 15 storey building in one week with their latest project in Hunan...
(C)ODE-(C)OLLECTIVE: FAB: 3-D–Print Yourself With... →
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“Fabricate Yourself” is like a 3-D photo booth. Using a Microsoft Kinect, anyone can hit a button and have a 3-D model of themselves printed right then. The project, headed by Karl Willis, removes the arcane intricacies of CAD software and replaces them with something anybody can pick up and play with.
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December 2011
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I.D.: target bookshelf by mebrure oral
‘target books’ shelf by mebrure oral the ‘target books’ shelf by turkish designer mebrure oral is designed to keep books organized by separating them into sections of ‘already read’ and ‘yet to read’. each segment is demarcated by its own bookend, a line of text that is built into the shelf that states either ‘has been read’ or...
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I.D: Herman Miller Presents An Inside Look into...
In conjunction with the release of the documentary, Eames: The Architect and the Painter, Herman Miller launched a companion website that invites the audience to get an inside look at the connection between the Eames’ legacy and Herman Miller’s design heritage. Eames enthusiasts can explore images, videos and quotes exclusively collected from the Herman Miller archives, with additional...
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3D Printing: Three Cubes Colliding
Three Cubes Colliding from Jimandtonic on Vimeo.
Here is the latest experimental kite designed by Sash Reading with Ivan Morison, fabricated and engineered by Queen and Crawford. The kite features 1700 3d printed connectors, carbon fibre rods and cubenfibre aerospace fabric. This video shows the whole team at the kite’s test flight in Jersey. To see Sash’s other work, including Meteor Kite...
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TENTS: Whitepod - a nomad camp in the Swiss Alps
“Whitepod resort” Les Cerniers, in the Swiss Alps | All photos © Vincent Hofer | Jean-Marc Palisse
Of course, they are there – the fancy hotels in the mountains. But today we want to show you a really different hotel: “Whitepod Resort” in the Swiss Alps, above Monthey, in the canton of Wallis. The hotel is built according to a bungalow concept: there are numerous little...
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3D TOOLING: Drzach&Suchy use rapid-prototyping
Look at Conversation, a new installation by Swiss artists Drzach&Suchy, and you’ll see a huge pixely portrait of Albert Einstein. But look again a few seconds later, and you’ll see—as plain as the mole on her face—a portrait of Marilyn Monroe.
Your eyes aren’t playing tricks on you. Conversation is a 3-D printed “shadow casting panel” that uses subtle shifts of light to uncover...
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MATERIAL: Berkeley Researchers Develop Cheap,...
by Timon Singh, 12/16/11
We’ve seen lots of amazing concepts for flexible gadgets in recent years – from Samsung’s bendy smartphone to e-newspapers that you can roll up. However researchers at Berkeley Lab are taking the technology to the next level by imprinting electronic circuitry on backplanes that are both flexible and stretchable – essentially creating a new type of electronic skin.
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INSTALLATION: amid.cero9 - the golden dome
‘the golden dome’ by amid.cero9 image © designboom the ‘architectural environments for tomorrow - new spatial practices in architecture and art’, an exhibition at the MOT museum of contemporary art tokyo, explores the modern interconnectivity between technology, urbanism and the way designers respond and influence our changing global culture. the show is a collaboration...
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3D MEDIA: scribbled line digital portraits
‘cinema-flash showdown’ scribbled line digital portraits by ayaka ito and randall church blending programming, design, and photography the ‘cinema-flash showdown’ is a series of digital photographic works created by american designers ayaka ito and randall church while students at the college of imaging arts and sciences at rochester institute of technology (RIT). to...
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PAVILION: akihisa hirata architecture office -...
‘bloomberg pavilion’ by akihisa hirata architecture office, tokyo, japan photo © takumi ota images courtesy of akihisa hirata architecture office + museum of contemporary art tokyo currently on display, the ‘bloomberg pavilion’, an outdoor installation designed by japanese practice akihisa hirata architecture office will become a stage for changing exhibitions for the...
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NEWS: Cognitive Computing - When Computers Become...
The gnomes at IBM’s research labs were not content to make merely a genius computer that could beat any human at the game of jeopardy. They had to go and create a new kind of machine intelligence that mimics the actual human brain.
Watson, the reigning jeopardy champ, is smart, but it’s still recognizably a computer. This new stuff is something completely different. IBM is setting out to build an...
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“Beauty without intelligence is a Masterpiece painted on a napkin.”
– Unknown
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GEOMETRY: Duality Principle - Geometric Duality
All the propositions in projective geometry occur in dual pairs which have the property that, starting from either proposition of a pair, the other can be immediately inferred by interchanging the parts played by the words “point” and “line.” The principle was enunciated by Gergonne (1825-1826; Cremona 1960, p. x). A similar duality exists for reciprocation as first...
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SCIENCE: Teenager Wins Siemens Award for Her...
by Lori Zimmer, 12/09/11
Angela Zhang is a real life Doogie Howser – while other high school kids were busy texting and updating their Facebook pages, Zhang has been hard at work doing research to fight cancer. And her efforts have proven successful – the 17-year-old was just awarded the Grand Prize in the Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology for her cancer cell-killing...
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SCULPTURE: Sol LeWitt, Sentences on Conceptual Art
Sol LeWitt (Hartford, 1928 – New York, 2007), Costruzione cubica, 1971
Conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.
Rational judgements repeat rational judgements.
Irrational judgements lead to new experience.
Formal art is essentially rational.
Irrational thoughts should be followed absolutely and logically.
If the artist...
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ARCHITECTURE: The Cloud - MVRDV’s Luxury Twin...
by Bridgette Meinhold, 12/08/11
MVRDV recently unveiled their plans for a new luxury residential complex in Seoul, Korea, which features two twin skyscrapers joined in the middle by a pixelated cluster. Named The Cloud, the luxury high rises would be located within the Yongsan Dreamhub project. The cluster of blocks in the center provides space for public and private gardens, green roofs, and...
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ARCHITECTURE : SFMOMA Funds New Firehouse In...
by Lori Zimmer, 12/08/11
The city of San Francisco and the SFMOMA have just struck up a deal that leaves everyone happy. The new SFMOMA expansion, to be designed by Norwegian starchitects Snøhetta, will be built on city land in exchange for a new firehouse. The new firehouse will be funded by SFMOMA, and built to be bigger, more modern and earthquake safe.
The SFMOMA was looking at an...
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INSTALLATION: Audi and BIG Show introduce Urban...
Audi and BIG showed up at Art Basel Miami last week with what could be mistaken as the latest dance floor design, a huge LED surface which illuminates and tracks humans. The floor act as a large scale demonstration of “Urban Future,” . The concept is based on integrating driveless electric cars into advanced roadways that guide the vehicles, eliminating curbs, traffic lights and other types of...
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ROBOTS: Flight Assembled Architecture by Gramazio... →
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Flight Assembled Architecture by Gramazio & Kohler
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Flying robots will assemble a six metre-high tower at the FRAC Centre in Orléans, France, next month.
Flying robots will assemble a six metre-high tower at the FRAC Centre in Orléans, France, next month.
Created by Swiss architects Gramazio & Kohler and Raffaello D’Andrea, the mobile machines...
November 2011
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TOY: True-to-life Model Dollhouse By Brinca Dada
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In 1924, the Dutch architect Gerrit Rietveld received an unusual commission: He was asked to create a house without walls. The design he came up with, the Rietveld Shröder House in Utrecht, is now considered a masterpiece of the De Stijl movement. The form-shattering Shröder House is the inspiration for this modernist dollhouse from Brinca Dada, which knocks the accepted...
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INSTALLATION: Glow – Henriëtte van ’t Hoog
Henriëtte: Well, I have been poking around for a while hoping to make people aware of color and shape, and of non-existing space. In Joint I transformed a little area into something new and unexpected, joking around with color and shape while not knowing where it would lead – just having fun, and working through ways that would perhaps mislead the audience.
I always trust myself to find the next...
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INSTALLATION: Hundreds of Recycled Books by...
by Helen Morgan, 11/21/11
Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller created this incredible literary construction made from hundreds of recycled books turned into impromptu bricks. The spines of the books face out to form a solid shell, while the pages face into the structure to create a “library turned in on itself”. The house doesn’t feature any windows, so it’s completely shut off from any...
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INSTALLATION: chanan de lange - ex libris
‘ex libris’ by chanan de lange on show at the tel aviv art museum image © designboom
designboom has just returned from israel, where we were taken on a ‘design tour’, organized by kinetis, of the creative initiatives that are occurring in the cities of jerusalem and tel aviv. one our stops was the new wing of the tel aviv art museum designed by cambridge-based...
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PAVILION: Pavilion for JNBY&COTTON USA
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MATERIAL RESEARCH: Making Cement The Way Coral...
By Earthsky.org
The creation of cement is an incredibly polluting process, but Stanford scientist Bret Constanz has found a way to mimic the way coral works, by creating cement from CO2 and water.
Biomineralization expert Brent Constantz of Stanford University got inspiration from the way corals build reefs to make a new type of cement for buildings. The process of making this cement...
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READ: Bridging the Generational Tech Gap - David...
By David D. Perlmutter
Over the last two years, our department of journalism and mass communication has hired five new tenure-track faculty members. In reviewing the current job market, I pointed out to our doctoral students that despite our new colleagues’ varied interests, research methods, and pedigrees, they have the following in common: an already burgeoning publication record,...
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INSTALLTION: expandable surface pavilion by pablo...
‘expandable surface pavilion’ by pablo zamorano, nacho martí, and jacob bek london-based architect pablo zamorano and interior designer nacho martí, in collaboration with germany-based designer jacob bek, have designed the ‘expandable surface pavilion’, a meeting room installed for the SPOGA furniture design exhibition in cologne, germany. the structure involves a...
DESIGN: A Weed Shop So Classy, You Could Take Your...
Hi/Lo bills itself as a “high-end” (heh) alternative to all the seedy Dutch coffeeshops out there.
Dutch coffeeshops are world famous for offering up endless varieties of pot on which to get spectacularly stoned. They aren’t illegal in the Netherlands—at least, not for some people—but most of them are so seedy that when you patronize them you feel like you’re doing something...
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EXHIBITION: UHGBC Exhibition - Parametric Systems...
Invitation: UHGBC Exhibition Opening Night – 17 November 2011 Date: 17 November 2011 – 12 February 2012 Exhibition: Parametric Systems: Theory + Practice Prototypes Hosted By: Materials Research Collaborative (MRC) / UHGBC Location: Gerald D Hines College of Architecture - University of Houston 2011 Fall : Parametric Systems - Theory + Practice Professor: Wendy W Fok Students: Jose...
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SOUND + VISUAL: super nature design + won wei -...
‘prism1666’ by super nature design and wonwei ‘prism1666’ is an interactive installation developed by shanghai-based super nature design and hong kong-based wonwei (harald haraldsson). the work is based on sir isaac newton’s famous experimental study conducted in 1666, in which he used a glass prism to deconstruct a white beam of sunlight into a full spectrum of...
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URBAN: Tetris-Shaped Trash-Filled Street Furniture...
by Ana Lisa Alperovich, 11/07/11
Argentine studio Designo Patagonia created this awesome series of Tetris-shaped street furniture that showcases recyclable materials like plastic bottles, cans, and paper. Located within a city park in Córdoba, Argentina, these unique seats and tables were designed for recreation and to teach passerby about sustainability issues. The Tetris-shaped containers are...
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EXHIBITION: Migrating Landscapes - MOV (Museum of...
Thursday, November 3, 2011 - Sunday, November 27, 2011
Architectural design competition display of models from emerging architects.
TETRA (modular design prototype) on display at MOV (Museum of Vancouver) until 27 Nov, 2011 - as part of the Migrating Landscapes Tour. — WE-DESIGNS.ORG, LLC
Take in the creativity of emerging architects as the MOV plays host to an exhibit of the Migrating...
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INSTALLATION: seiko mikami - desire of codes...
‘desire of codes’ installation by seiko mikami the installation ‘desire of codes’ by seiko mikami is designed to mimic the workings of human memory in our modern information society, as robotic sensors respond to the presence of visitors and mix together visual recordings from both the present and past. the piece is on exhibition at the inter communication center in tokyo,...
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SOUND: marcelo ertorteguy + sara valente +...
‘cargoguitar’ by marcelo ertorteguy, sara valente and takahiro fukuda all images courtesy of marcelo ertorteguy, sara valente and takahiro fukuda
architect marcelo ertorteguy and sara valente collaborated with takahiro fukuda to create ‘cargoguitar’, a room sized electric guitar. eight strings start from a vertical media column stretching eight meters to another ...
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VIDEO: Béatrice Coron - Stories cut from paper
With scissors and paper, artist Béatrice Coron creates intricate worlds, cities and countries, heavens and hells. Striding onstage in a glorious cape cut from Tyvek, she describes her creative process and the way her stories develop from snips and slices.
October 2011
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Lens: When the City Was a House of Horrors →
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In the late 1970s and early 1980s New York as a whole resembled a haunted house. The photographer John Conn spent those years documenting the subway system — which is to say, the dungeon in the haunted house’s basement.
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PRODUCT DESIGN: maezm - hanji-plastic chair
‘hanji-plastic chair’ by maezm design group all images courtesy of maezm korean design group maezm has conducted an experiment which explores the possibilities of hanji, a traditional paper substance, in a modern setting. based off their research and development, they have created an alternative material that has the qualities of plastic without being toxic.
the handmade porous...
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VIDEO: TED Talk - Iain McGilchrist - The Divided...
Iain McGilchrist: RSA Animate - The Divided Brain
Psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist describes the real differences between the left and right halves of the human brain. It’s not simply “emotion on the right, reason on the left,” but something far more complex and interesting. A Best of the Web talk from RSA Animate.
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BOOK: NEW ART/SCIENCE AFFINITIES
Wendy W Fok | WE-DESIGNS.ORG, LLC, a recent commentary written for NEW ART/SCIENCE AFFINITIES Book was published by The STUDIO for Creative Inquiry and The Miller Gallery is Carnegie Mellon University’s contemporary art gallery :
NEW ART/SCIENCE AFFINITIES
Contributors: Andrea Grover, Régine Debatty, Claire Evans, Pablo Garcia, Thumb Projects Published by: Miller Gallery at Carnegie...
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VISIONARY: Tiago Barros Designs a Passing Cloud...
by Molly Cotter, 10/18/11
Who hasn’t dreamt of floating on a cloud? Whether we are looking up at the sky or gazing out of an airplane window, those giant beds of fluff are irresistible. New York designer Tiago Barros is on the same wavelength and created an incredible, cloud-like balloon that takes travelers for a floating ride around the country. While the project, called Passing Cloud,...
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MATERIAL: Scandinavian Scientists Develop Textile...
by Lori Zimmer, 10/17/11
No need to throw away an old raincoat because a tiny rip or hole. Scandinavian researchers are fabricating a textile coating that automatically seals tears on the surface of waterproof workwear. Developed for EU project Safe@Sea, which is conceiving a new generation of “intelligent” clothing to protect professional fishermen, the technology shows promise even in its...
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ART: David Mach Creates Enormous Sculptures from...
by Helen Morgan, 10/16/11
Artist David Mach has found an alternative use for all those coat hangers hanging in our closets, by turning them into enormous life-like sculptures like this giant gorilla seen above. Dubbed King Silver, the silver-back stood frozen in time beating his chest while towering over viewers at the entrance of last month’s V&A exhibition ‘Power of Making‘. A...
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R&D: Bosco Verticale in Milan Will Be the World’s...
by Diane Pham, 10/15/11
We’ve reported extensively on green vertical towers that integrate plant life into their facade, but unlike many of those designs, here’s one that goes beyond being a mere concept. Designed by Stefano Boeri - architect, academic and former editor of design and architecture magazine Domus - his Bosco Verticale is a towering 27-story structure, currently under...
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ARCHITECTURE: Gehry’s Louis Vuitton Foundation...
A 1:100 scale model of the building (Fondation Louis Vuitton pour la Création/Mazen Saggar)
Ductal concrete technology used for the architect’s shapely “icebergs” in Paris
Frank Gehry has referred to his design for the Louis Vuitton Foundation for Creation, a new home for the contemporary art collection of LVMH mogul Bernard Arnaud, as “a veritable ship amongst trees.” The project, located at...
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WORKSHOP: RhinoFabLab - Gerald D Hines CoA -... →
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RhinoFabLab Grasshopper Collaborative Workshop (10-12 October):
This workshop will give students a functional understanding of Grasshopper and Parametric design. This will allow them to build on this understanding into more advanced projects of their own including design optimization, and creating models on the Laser and CNC machines, respectively.
NOTE: Rhino Level 1...
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EXHIBITION: ARA Gallery - Raising the Stereotype...
ARA Gallery - Raising The Stereotype Exhibition (4 - 29 October 2011) Exhibition Piece: Stereotypical Cultures Artists: Mona F Al Gurg | Wendy W Fok
September 2011
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PROTOTYPING: Trek Bicycles Chooses Objet for Rapid...
Why wait 28 days for a CNC part when you can get it in 2 hours?
This is the sort of question that every designer, engineer and manufacturing company should be asking themselves – particularly in today’s economic climate where competition is stiff and markets are tough. Manufacturing is expensive enough without the addition of extra delays and tooling costs associated with milling...
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NEWS: Are Online and Traditional Learning...
19 September 2011
By Sandy Baum and Michael McPherson
Discussions of “online” vs. traditional learning often go in either/or terms. Which is better? Will online learning wipe out the traditional classroom, or will it fail? This way of thinking risks missing the point in two ways.
First, the terms in question are far from clear. Online learning can mean everything from showing a movie of someone...