Posts Tagged ‘architecture’
Originality (and the Lack Thereof) in Evil Lair Videogame Design
May 29th, 2009 by agenda21
It's wonderful when your disparate pasttimes come together and create something individual, unpredictable, and all kinds of interesting. Case in point: On the Architecture of the Enemy in Videogame Worlds, a wonderful post from Jim Rossignol a big gaming blogger guest posting on a big architecture blog. Rossignol writes first about how gothic construction is the first point of call for a home of a nemesis, but now "the connection with the inhumanity that makes the enemy so thrilling has started to fade via over-familiarity".
So he moves on, taking us on a whistle stop tour through some of the greatest...
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Augmented Sculpture
March 3rd, 2009 by Raj
Pablo Valbuena is a Spanish artist who has been working with augmented reality since 2007, altering our perception of real-world space through his light animations.
About his Augmented Sculpture project, the artist says:
This project is focused on the temporary quality of space, investigating space-time not only as a three dimensional environment, but as space in transformation.
For this purpose two layers are produced that explore different aspects of the space-time reality.
On the one hand the physical layer, which controls the real space and shapes the volumetric base that serves as support for the next level.
The second level is a virtual projected layer...
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A brief hello
December 22nd, 2008 by Raj
Hi everyone,
As you may know, Chris will shortly be moving on from this blog. We’ll miss him dearly and I’m sure you will too. I’ll be taking over his duties and, to keep things easy for everyone, my name is Chris as well. I’ll be working alongside Helen to maintain normal service.
Like the other two, I’m pretty fascinated by innovation in design, the arts and music and so, besides the inside-track on new stuff from LG, I’ll be bringing you those things that catch my eye while I wander the internet.
I’ve always loved the use of water in sculpture...
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50 Strange Buildings of the World
December 4th, 2008 by LucyH
- by Village of Joy
I've only seen 3 of these buildings in person (the 2 in London and the Lotus temple in India) all of which are at the less-extreme end of the scope of strange on display. Some of the others are .. deformed, bizarre or mind(and material!)-bending!
It actually hurts my eyes to look at some of these buildings! Not because they are ugly or garish, but because they play with dimensions so much, they make me slightly queasy. It's very unsettling!
Having said that I find it hard to pick a favourite - my opinion shifts every time I...
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Sheffield’s new ‘Music Box’ – bigger than most and covered in Rubber!
October 17th, 2008 by LucyH
Have you heard about the new music studio in Sheffield? It's a state of the art building in the Sheffield University campus and it's big talking point is it's completely enveloped in black rubber.
It's called the 'Soundhouse' & was constructed by Kier... I can't decide if I like it or not - every time I look at it I change my mind! According to World Architecture News it's the UK's first rubber-clad venue and 'the rubber membrane was placed under tension similar to the skin on a drum, fixed and then decorated with 100mm diameter stainless steel studs.' I like...
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Head for the beach!
July 23rd, 2008 by LucyH
Apparently we're having another 'mini-heatwave' today and tomorrow before the traditional British summer returns with the rain on Friday so make way to the beach to enjoy it now, if you can. While you're there, try being a bit more ambitious than the usual sand castle or sunbathing with a book - take these guys as your inspiration:
It's the world's first ever sand hotel, down in Dorset and is accepting its first guests for £10 a night.
It took 1,000 tonnes of sand, a JCB and a team of four sculptors working 14 hours a day for a week to build...
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In defense of our architects
July 17th, 2008 by LucyH
Yesterday Jonathan Glancey defended Zaha Hadid and the team working on the 2012 Olympics Aquatic Centre. I'm sure the free papers would describe it as him hitting back or lashing out at the accusations that rising costs on the beautiful Centre. Personally I think he's just talking sense - although regular readers will know I'm a fan of Ms Hadid so I could always be biased!
It is the architectural high note of the Olympic build in my mind and I think it would be a tragedy if the costs and controversies surrounding the larger project overshadowed the building. Hadid seems...
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“Come dressed like a trifle and ready to party”
July 4th, 2008 by LucyH
Not your typical Friday night invite is it? - Or is it?!
I heard on the breakfast news this morning that the London Festival of Architecture is hosting an 'Architectural Jelly Banquet' tonight, where jelly creations submitted to the Architectural Jelly Design Competition will be on display (and the title suggests eaten but I'm not entirely sure on that point..) Having seen a couple I'm torn, the lovely St Paul's replica by Greta Ilieva for example:
It almost seems a shame to eat it, but then it is made of jelly and jelly is made to be eaten... If it's art...
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Dubai do it again!
June 26th, 2008 by LucyH
Yesterday Dubai's plans for a 'moving' skyscraper became the talk to the 'net (unfortunately I was locked in an excel report and Chris was very excited about toast so we kinda missed the boat but we're catching up now!)
The "Dynamic Tower", dreamt up by Italian architect David Fisher (who has never built a sky-scraper before), will be the world's first moving building - Dubai do like their firsts don't they?
The Dynamic Tower will house 80 apartments that will all spin completely independently of one another.
"It's the first building that rotates, moves, and changes shape," Fisher said, at a New...
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Congratulations!
March 31st, 2008 by LucyH
Congratulations to French architect Jean Nouvel, who has just been announced as the winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize for 2008.
This proves a bit of a boon for our friends over at Dezeen, who only last month gave Jean the honour of being their Featured Architect. Proof, were it needed, of their good taste.
Also, it's probably quite nice for Mr Nouvel, whose eye-catching design for the Philharmonic Hall in Paris, below, is currently a work in progress. He was chosen for Pritzker Laureate because of his 'creative experimentation and buildings that speak to their surroundings' the jury said.
Thomas J. Pritzker,...
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