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• Comments on Hsiangshan Visitor Center / Norihiko Dan | ArchDaily

  Hsiangshan Visitor Center / Norihiko Dan | ArchDaily – The Hsiangshan Visitor Center is spectacular in the way it engages and separates with the earth around it. Like a rock face, pushing up out of the ground, the Hsiangshan Visitor Center has a certain inevitability to it, without falling into banality. With long sweeps of concrete, that twist into openings or sweep out to form vistas to the landscape, the building has

  11.21.10 | no comments | Filed Under: Commentary | Webmaster

• Comments on Queensland Courtyard House / Plazibat & Jemmott Architects | ArchDaily

  Queensland Courtyard House / Plazibat & Jemmott Architects | ArchDaily – The Queensland Courtyard Houses are row houses with a thoughtful twist. The spatial organization of the house is based around an open alley way that climbs the grade of the site. This opens onto an exterior courtyard near the rear of the building that then becomes the entrance to the interior of the house. This spatial arrangement gives the house

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• Comments on New look at relativity: Electrons can’t exceed the speed of light — thanks to light itself, says biologist

  New look at relativity: Electrons can’t exceed the speed of light — thanks to light itself, says biologist – A Cornell Biologist has suggested that it is the viscous nature of ever present protons that act as the limit for why Electrons can't exceed the speed of light.

  As suggested in the paper, space is rarely, truly empty, but always contains some intensive structure that determines the capacities of the objects that inhabit

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• Comments on TITUS IN PRINCIPLE « LEBBEUS WOODS

  TITUS IN PRINCIPLE « LEBBEUS WOODS – In his discussion of Anthony Titus’s recent work, Lebbeus Woods argues that an architecture of expression stemming from a “personal creative ethos” is what is needed in contemporary architecture. It certainly isn’t a surprise that Wood’s values such an enterprise as his own career can be seen as a manifesto for exactly that theory of practice.

  Titus’s work itself are constructive pieces of canvas, wood and paint. Something

  10.24.10 | no comments | Filed Under: Commentary | Webmaster

• Comments on TN House / Miyahara Architect Office | ArchDaily

  TN House / Miyahara Architect Office | ArchDaily -

  A house designed for two sisters and their families with busy thoroughfare in the front and overlooking the Tama River. The house is built as two separate dwelling units in the single building, yet a few spaces between can be jointed when the occasion fits. The exterior matches the mostly industrial nature of the surrounding area by using zinc siding and perforated steel sheets.

  The

  05.10.10 | no comments | Filed Under: Commentary | Webmaster

• Comments on Footbridge in Maribor / Ja Studio + Tadj-Farzin Studio | ArchDaily

  Footbridge in Maribor / Ja Studio + Tadj-Farzin Studio | ArchDaily -

  This bridge finally convinces me that variation can actually produce an interesting variation of program. This project works because of the context in which it is put. Too often projects like this are too isolated from the context, giving them a superficial feeling despite the convoluted plastic form.

  Saved By: Synthetic Architecture | 05.10.10 | no comments | Filed Under: Commentary | Webmaster

• 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 | Webmaster

• 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 | Webmaster

• 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 | Webmaster

• 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

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