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↓ Sponsored LinksJuxtaposition of Living Architecture and Abandoned Buildings
No Comments | March 29th, 2009
A photo essay by Camilo Jose Vergaga in Camden, New Jersey, explores the stark juxtaposition of living architecture and deserted buildings. Read How the Other Half (of the Paired Townhouse) Lives.
If I lived in the other good half, I’ did create a small opening and use the other half if nobody is occupying it. 3 years down the road, I’ll claim ownership to the house under the adverse possession laws!
Frank Gehry’s Design Keeps Buildings Off Budget
1 Comment | March 22nd, 2009
Image Copyright: Fox Broadcasting Company
The title says ‘Frank Gehry’s Software Keeps Buildings on Budget’; somehow I think the title should be ‘Frank Gehry’s design keeps buildings off budget’. First he proposed a problem (off budget), and now he is selling a solution to his own problem? Am I missing something?
Mr. Gehry developed the software, now called Digital Project, to produce a sculpture of a diaphanous fish for a Barcelona exposition in 1992 and refined it to specify the titanium panels cloaking his celebrated Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, which opened in 1997. He based it on the three-dimensional software that aerospace companies use. “If they can build airplanes paperless, I think buildings can be built paperless,” Mr. Gehry said.
In 2002, he spun off the software business into a company called Gehry Technologies, which sells Digital Project to other developers and architects and trains project teams to use it.
Digital Project works by modeling, in three dimensions, every odd shape an architect envisions and then letting engineers and architects reconcile the shape with a building’s site, ductwork and other features. It shows how one change to a building’s ingredients changes all the others. Source: NYTimes
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Currently studying Architecture in Curtin University, Western Australia. Calvin loves web designing and photography, occasionally he blogs about his thoughts and opinions.Every morning he refill himself with weird energy-inducing substances known as coffee and tea and then off saving the world, I mean studying and blogging of course.
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