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February 03, 2009
February 18, 2008
NEKTON - Finalists in Vatnsmyri Masterplan Competition. Reykjavik, Iceland
NEKTON's project for Vatnsmyri, Reykjavik, Iceland. ' Turf City ' is a
2nd place group prize winning finalist out of 136 entries.
Our vision for Vatnsmyri sets out to develop a clear local/global
identity for a site that stands in strong relation with the existing
region and future city of
Reykjavik. We call this new urban region Turf City.
Turf City has been conceived from the traditional Icelandic turf houses
and the relationship with the landscape/ground, the space it produces
and how
these instances blur between each other. Our aim is to use these
conditions as an architectural rule for generating a new urban condition
that offers the
desired spatiality of evolved European cities and the functionality of
designed cities of the 20th century, with a strong spatial and formal
ambiance we see as Icelandic.
October 10, 2007
The Ultimate Conglomerate Building!
Kowloon Walled City!!! check it out there is a great essay in MVRDV's book FARMAX.
March 22, 2007
BP gets triangulated!
BP's 'new' green gas station in Los Angeles. Read more here
and here
January 27, 2007
Dip 9 @ London Met.
I was invited to a jury with Diploma Unit 9 at London Met Saturday, some very good work being produced up there. Take a look at some of the pics below. Maybe we will have a joint LMU vs UEL Unit 9fest in the near future.
January 18, 2007
Frei Otto selected for Serpentine Pavilion
This is super cool! Frei Otto is selected to do this summers Serpentine Pavilion.
Lets hope it will be better thet last summers hemeroid in the park.
January 12, 2007
Or Desk Top RP!
Desk Top CNC!
Check out these sites for desktop CNC Milliers.......
http://www.stonehook.net/cnchome.htm
http://www.imwsrv.com/
http://www.tabletopmachineshop.com/store/index.php?shop=1&cart=233010&cat=2&
May 20, 2006
Real and Hyperreal
No I'm not going to bore you with my thesis again. This is quite literal. The real first.
MS Deutschland of Peter Deilmann Ocean Cruises is visiting London on Sunday 28 May. During its stay they are conducting tours aboard the ship, followed by champagne receptions! Marketing it as a 5 star luxury grand hotel on voyage, this is no Pride of Bilbao with Embassy puffing arthritic pensioners. MS Deutschland is a regular visitor to London, and is typical of the types of cruise ships that calls at London, both in terms of lifestyle onboard and ship tonnage. Perhaps it'll give all of us a, albeit much belated, reality check of what our designs are engaging with.
If you're interested you can email Desri Omer at desri.omer@peterdeilmanncruises.co.uk
http://www.deilmann-cruises.com/
And on a lighter note, the hyperreal - CGed cruise ship. I stumbled across this movie, Poseidon. From the trailer it looks like a bad cheesy Irwin Allen's The Poseidon Adventure remake meets Titanic meets tsunami. A perfect brainless exercise after our final hand-ins.
Anyway good luck with your work everyone.
http://wwws.warnerbros.co.uk/poseidon/?lid=UK
http://www.theposeidonadventure.com/
April 29, 2006
How not to do a model
I found this while doing some research for my porf studies, don't ask what I was searching for I promise you it was legitimate.
April 07, 2006
Back to 2003, when we were Dip - 6
Here is a link to the work of Joseph Lee. He received Distinction in his final year with us and this is the selection of work that he put together for the RIBA silver medal in 2003. He received a mention from the judging panel.
March 07, 2006
Fake Model Photography
Tutorial on cheap (well, free - its Photoshop) way to make your pics look like a tidy scale models like Olivo Barbieri's work which was shown at the Universal experience exhibition at the hayward, mines the one on the left...enjoy
February 23, 2006
Free Form Construction @ Loughborough University
Here is the brochure for the freeform conference next Wednesday. If you didn't know it all ready Tom Modeen who teaches in Unit D is a researcher at Loughborough University and is involved with this event. Check it out!!!
February 21, 2006
Click ‘print' for your building Part II - "freeform" construction
Loughborough University's research into "freeform" construction abd rapid proto-typing here:
also
Click ‘print' for your building
January 05, 2006
Emergence Design Group News Letter!
Dear Unit 9
The PDF above is the first Emergence and Design Network Newsletter, through which they would like to share there work and research with you.
The Emergence and Design Group is:
Michael Hensel, Achim Menges, Nikolaos Stathopoulos and Michael Weinstock.
Have a look and get collaborating!!!!!
Jeff.
November 01, 2005
Maps for your Ipod!
This may be usfull so you know the quickest way to the school or to you site and along the way you can listen to some tunes! Subway maps for ypur Ipod! Isubwaymaps!