[CONCEPT] 3D laser scanning opens up new possibilities to architecture. This powerful tool can provide a highly accurate representations of existing buildings.
The Fubiz Awards are back! The competition launched last year by the inspirational website rewards the best creative works in 8 different categories.
[CONCEPT] This photographic journey takes us amid the concrete jungle that is Hong Kong. There is probably no better place than the city with the most skyscrapers to create this ode to verticality.
[GAME-INSPIRED] When asked to build a sports facility in Port Hedland, a small town in Western Australia, ARM Architecture drew inspiration from its climate. The intense weather patterns of the town, such as to tropical cyclones and intense heat, were translated into the architecture of the building.
[CONCEPT] The old London power station that appears on the Pink Floyd album, Animals gets an amazing makeover in this amazing project . This project is the winner of a competition organized by ArchTrimph which goal was to rehabilitate the crumbling building.
[CONCEPT] The race for the first 3D printed home has started! One of the contenders is the Protohouse 2.0 imagined by Softkill Design. This plastic structure is the second version of a prototype unveiled at the end of 2012.
[CONCEPT] Foster + Partners propose to use the ressources on hand and 3D printing technology to build a Moon base capable of hosting 4 people.
[WATCH&LISTEN] One building morphs into another in this visual guide created by Andrea Stinga and Federico Gonzalez.
[DIGITALLY-INSPIRED] Black and white sublimes the geometry of these close ups of contemporary constructions. We lose our bearings to the point that the imposing architecture becomes an abstract landscape.
[CONCEPT] The english translation of the pavilion's name would be "room maker", and this voluminous container created by DUS architects can indeed 3D-print a room almost as big as itself.
[DIGITALLY-INSPIRED] Presented during the London Design Week, "Walk The Light" is an interactive work by Cinimod Studio exhibited at the V&A. As the visitor walks in a colorful corridor, he is being followed by a band of white light.
[CONCEPT] An "open source, universal, construction set in the commons" which wants to make architecture accessible to everyone.
[CONCEPT] To counter balance the effects of the natural phenomenons happening in coastal Japan, Xiaofeng Mei imagined an organic architecture which could easily adapt to this somewhat hostile environnement.
[CONCEPT] The Urbasee tool offers a new way of presenting architectural projects. Using augmented reality, one can visualize a building in 3D on his tablet or smartphone (iOS & Android) through a special app.
[CONCEPT] A solution to Heathrow congestion problems could be to create a new airport on the Thames estuary. Foster + Partners already presented a project last year, and this time Gensler unveils its own take on the idea.
[CONCEPT] The Russian pavilion at the Venice Biennale of architecture features a cathedral of QR codes giving access to informations on Skolkovo, the future innovation center near Moscow.
[CONCEPT] This construction technology uses 3D printing to build houses in less than 20 hours.
[DIGITALLY-INSPIRED] First carbon neutral office building in Australia, the Pixel Building got his name from the various colorful louvers that decorate its facade.
[DIGITALLY INSPIRED] Sang Un Jeon's keyboard becomes the representation of the most popular websites frequentation.
[PICTURES] Using digital retouching, Spanish photographer Victor Enrich injects some abstract poetry into his architectural landscapes.
