Type the Sky fonts by Lisa Rienermann

Sported at Designboom and Deezeen, here is a font created Lisa Rienermann while studying at the University of Duisburg-Essen, the alphabet is formed of the shapes of buildings against the sky when photographed.
This unique font is specially created for those that eat and breath architecture, it is highly recommended that all students should use it [...]

Mammoth Museum by Leeser Architecture for Yakutsk

image source : Lesser Architecture

image source : Lesser Architecture
A mammoth was discovered by a reindeer herder in May this year, it was believed that the mammoth died 18,000 years ago. The frozen mammoth trunk and eyes are still intact and some of its fur remains on the body. For your information, mammoths are an extinct [...]

Europe Greenest City, possibly Greenest in the World!

image source: Urbanlegend
Växjö, a small city in Sweden is taking the world by storm as the greenest city in the world, recently the city was awarded for the city with the best sustainable development program.
What is their secret? A single power plant for the city and it rely on woodchips and other biomass waste, not [...]

Google SketchUp for Dummies and Autodesk Revit

“Google SketchUp for Dummies”, I might check it out in my nearest local bookstore soon, according to Amazon, the book has a total of 432 pages with something like 260 illustrations and a 16-page color insert. Price at $17.00, the book contain some really comprehensive guide on modeling a 3D in SketchUp, the best part [...]

Japan Micro-Homes in the Big City

Houses in Japan are getting smaller and smaller every year, it appears to be a trend in every first world Asian country for example Hong Kong and Singapore, but not for the Americans dream house.
The land of the rising sun, famously known for its miniaturized love affair with almost everything, from bonsai to gadgets and [...]

Dear Architects, I am sick of your shit.

PartIV has this really really interesting post - Dear Architects, I am sick of your shit, basically it is an open letter by Annie Choi as published in PIDGIN. It is a really long letter, personally I couldn’t agree more on the author - especially on the sleeping part.
I hate it when some architecture student [...]

Burj Dubai tower is now world’s tallest

Its official now, the Burj Dubai is currently the world tallest building at 1,680 foot (512 meters) and it is still under construction, it is expected to be finished by the end of 2008 and its planned final height has been kept secret, I doubt any country has the money to construct something as high [...]

Podium - Photo Realistic Rendering for SketchUp

I was searching for some free SketchUp Plugins and stumble upon this rendering plugin for SketchUp - Podium, according to them, Podium works entirely inside SketchUp and uses SketchUp’s surfaces, textures, views, background color and shadows, it employs Global Illumination (GI) and Ray tracing to create photo-realistic images.
I’ve yet to give it a try, [...]