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• Comments on Video: life-altering 3D projection gets splashed on German building

  Video: life-altering 3D projection gets splashed on German building – An amazing video projection on the surface of a building that challenges one’s perception of the building’s form and architectural intention. The projection entitled “How it would be, if a house was dreaming” dissolves the very architecture that it is projected on, creating new architectures that shift and change as the video progresses.

  07.27.09 | no comments | Filed Under: Commentary | Arthur McGoey

• Comments on Estação Ciência Cafe / Una Arquitetos | ArchDaily

  Estação Ciência Cafe / Una Arquitetos | ArchDaily – This cafe on the Sao Paulo University campus abuts a veranda of a former textile plant that now serves as an exhibition space.

  The simple, rectangular steel and glass structures floats above the ground and seems almost parked next to the veranda rather grounded like most buildings. This strong relationship activates the space of the veranda by creating a destination and way station for the

  07.05.09 | no comments | Filed Under: Commentary | Arthur McGoey

• Comments on Invisibility cloak could hide buildings from quakes – New Scientist

  Invisibility cloak could hide buildings from quakes – New Scientist – The physics behind optical invisibility cloaks that have been gaining so much attention have other possibilities. Scientists at the Fresnel Institute have worked out a potential technology for cloaking buildings from surface waves caused by Earthquakes and Tsunami. The technology uses tuned rings that might end up being installed in the foundations of a building to propagate a wave around the

  06.27.09 | no comments | Filed Under: Commentary | Arthur McGoey

• Comments on JAPAN – MY TRIP TO BATTLESHIP ISLAND | Vice Magazine

  JAPAN – MY TRIP TO BATTLESHIP ISLAND | Vice Magazine – The story of two friends exploring an old coal mining facility on Hashima Island, which is close to the port of Nagaski. The facility was abandoned in the 1970’s and the crumbling buildings are an incredible site. Unlike many other modern ruins, Battleship Island wasn’t devastated by war but only by neglect. The island was once the most densely populated

  05.05.09 | no comments | Filed Under: Commentary | Arthur McGoey

• Comments on Pachacamac House / Longhi Architects | Arch Daily

  Pachacamac House / Longhi Architects | Arch Daily – Architecture of the Earth is such a rare thing in our contemporary times. Too often building try to float free of the constraints of gravity in an attempt to challenge our perceptions. However the Pachacamac House in Peru by Longhi Architects, which is intimately tied to the Earth seems more foreign and challenging to our modern eyes. To be from and of

  05.05.09 | no comments | Filed Under: Commentary | Arthur McGoey

• Comments on Sand/Stone | BLDGBLOG

  Sand/Stone | BLDGBLOG – A student, Magnus Larsson, at the Architectural Association, has proposed a landscape project that will solidify desert sand into sandstone, thus creating a new material for habitation within a harsh desert. The idea is to use injection piles to 3D print sandstone out of sand by injecting a microbial solution that will solidify the sand into sandstone. These structures can create internal micro-climates more favorable to habitation and

  05.05.09 | no comments | Filed Under: Commentary | Arthur McGoey

• Comments on Frances Anderton: “Excess” Versus “Relevance” Is an Irrelevant Debate

  Frances Anderton: “Excess” Versus “Relevance” Is an Irrelevant Debate – I can not agree with Frances Anderton more when she says that by framing a dichotomy of excess versus relevance in architecture, those mourning the loss of grand projects and those cheering that loss due to the current economic circumstances, are failing to appreciate the full scope of architecture. Certainly, architectural journalism favors the spectacular projects of excess but even still most

  05.05.09 | no comments | Filed Under: Commentary | Arthur McGoey

• Comments on ART TO ARCHITECTURE « LEBBEUS WOODS

  ART TO ARCHITECTURE « LEBBEUS WOODS – Lebbeus Woods asks the question about the relationship of Art to Architecture.  He points out that as the arts like painting and sculpture became less integrated with Architecture, they actually gained a more direct influence on architecture.  Suddenly Art could be used as a direct inspiration for Architecture.  It is certainly an interesting observation.

  For my part, I hold with Deleuze and Guttari’s opinion that Art is

  05.05.09 | no comments | Filed Under: Commentary | Arthur McGoey

• Comments on Inapal Metal / Menos é mais | Arch Daily

  Inapal Metal / Menos é mais | Arch Daily – Inapal Metal is manufacturer of automotive parts.  The designed by Menos e Mais architects is a simple study in corrugated metal.  Rather than a banal metal building though, the Inapal Metal building has a subtle refinement that makes it something so much more.  The curving radius of the corners and the change in direction between the two main masses of the building break

  05.05.09 | no comments | Filed Under: Commentary | Arthur McGoey

• Comments on Santo Stefano Cemetery in Italy / Amoretti + Calvi + Ranalli | Arch Daily

  Santo Stefano Cemetery in Italy / Amoretti + Calvi + Ranalli | Arch Daily – The expansion of the Santo Stefano Cemetery in Italy is set between the old cemetery and a waterfront way.  It consists of a series of cubic crypts each freestanding and set in two rows along a curving line with a path set between.  The project’s success comes from its use of such a simple object as the cubic

  05.05.09 | no comments | Filed Under: Commentary | Arthur McGoey