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Tactile Tech: 15 Beautifully Textured Websites

On August 9, 2010 By

[ By Steph in Gad­gets & Geek Art , Tech­nol­ogy & Futur­ism , Urban­ism . ] When the world wide web first came into pop­u­lar use in the ’90s, it wasn’t pretty

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DesignChat Guest — Erik Spiekermann

On August 9, 2010 By

This Wednes­day, August 11th, at 8PM CST, Design­Chat wel­comes the universally-respected cre­ative direc­tor, typog­ra­pher and design advo­cate, Erik Spiek­er­mann to the con­ver­sa­tion. Orig­i­nal designer of type­faces like ITC Offic­ina , Unit , and even Meta — called one of the most suc­cess­ful human­ist sans serif type­faces of the pre­vi­ous decade

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Self-Sufficient Underwater Architecture — HO2 Scraper Harvests Renewable Energy to Grow Food (GALLERY)

On August 8, 2010 By

(TrendHunter.com) Sarly Adre Bin Sarkum of Malaysia has designed the HO2 scraper, a self-sufficient under­wa­ter wave­scraper that har­vests renew­able energy from the sea, then uses it to grow food. Under­wa­ter architecture…

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The Structure of Light: Richard Kelly and the Illumination of Modern Architecture

On August 8, 2010 By

Dis­play­ing a selec­tion of draw­ings and pho­tographs, largely from the Kelly Papers held at Yale’s Man­u­scripts & Archives col­lec­tion, The Struc­ture of Light: Richard Kelly and the Illu­mi­na­tion of Mod­ern Archi­tec­ture is a cel­e­bra­tion of the 100th birth­day of one the most suc­cess­ful and influ­en­tial light­ing design­ers in the his­tory of mod­ern architecture.

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Architecture of the Sun: Los Angeles Modernism 1900–1970

On August 8, 2010 By

An author­i­ta­tive sur­vey of the mas­ters of twentieth-century mod­ernist archi­tec­ture in Los Angeles.

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Editor’s Picks #171

On August 8, 2010 By

News Don’t miss the lat­est con­tri­bu­tions in the Archinect Sum­mer ’10 Travel Blogs. Poland’s Katow­ice Rail­way Sta­tion, built in 1972 and designed by notable Pol­ish archi­tects Wacław Kłyszewski, Jerzy Mokrzyński and Euge­niusz Wierzbicki, is fac­ing demo­li­tion. There is an appeal under­way, spear­headed by Irma Koz­ina, art his­to­rian and the Uni­ver­sity of Sile­sia, Katowice-Poland.

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Editor’s Picks #171

On August 8, 2010 By

News Don’t miss the lat­est con­tri­bu­tions in the Archinect Sum­mer ’10 Travel Blogs. Poland’s Katow­ice Rail­way Sta­tion, built in 1972 and designed by notable Pol­ish archi­tects Wacław Kłyszewski, Jerzy Mokrzyński and Euge­niusz Wierzbicki, is fac­ing demolition.

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Blobitecture: 11 Cool Ways Architecture Gets A Round

On August 8, 2010 By

[ By Steve in Archi­tec­ture & Design , Tech­nol­ogy & Futur­ism , Urban Images . ] Blob Archi­tec­ture – some­times referred to as Blo­bi­tec­ture, Blo­bism or even Blo­bis­mus is a exceed­ingly organic type of archi­tec­ture that exhibits pro­foundly soft, rounded and curved dimen­sions. Orig­i­nat­ing in inflat­able build­ings, pre-fab plas­tic struc­tures and computer-assisted design exer­cises, Blob Archi­tec­ture has given the world some of its most dis­tinc­tive and mem­o­rable buildings

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Blobitecture: 11 Cool Ways Architecture Gets A Round

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[ By Steve in Archi­tec­ture & Design , Tech­nol­ogy & Futur­ism , Urban Images . ] Blob Archi­tec­ture – some­times referred to as Blo­bi­tec­ture, Blo­bism or even Blo­bis­mus is a exceed­ingly organic type of archi­tec­ture that exhibits pro­foundly soft, rounded and curved dimen­sions. Orig­i­nat­ing in inflat­able build­ings, pre-fab plas­tic struc­tures and computer-assisted design exer­cises, Blob Archi­tec­ture has given the world some of its most dis­tinc­tive and mem­o­rable buildings

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Helping Local People Choose Good Design: Design Review Network Annual Report 2009/10

On August 7, 2010 By

Almost every local plan­ning offi­cer (96 per cent) says that there are ben­e­fits from includ­ing design review in the plan­ning system.

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