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A tour denoting a resurgence of Modern-style homes in Dallas includes a residence designed by Bentley Tibbs, who earned his graduate and undergraduate degrees from the Department of Architecture at Texas A&M.

Tibbs told the Dallas Morning News that he refers to his work as Southern modernism and described the home he designed as a “very, very casual house with a formal shape. It still reads modern in its sensibilities, but it’s not necessarily using the modern vocabulary.”

story via archone.update

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Dallas morning news article here

Design professionals who have created highly sustainable building projects have been asked to submit examples of their work, and the editors of GreenSource have selected some of these for display.

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Where does the public space end and the building begin?

In a city with few green spaces, Namba Parks is a welcome swath of green for the inhabitants of Osaka. Check out this full size photo of this amazing piece of architecture. The complex stands where Osaka’s baseball stadium used to be until 2003, and consists of a 30-floor skyscraper, Parks Tower, and a shopping mall with eight floors of terraced gardens. The sloping park connects to the street, welcoming passers-by to enjoy its groves of trees, clusters of rocks, cliffs, lawn, streams, waterfalls, ponds and outdoor terraces.

via earth first

Maybe this will be available for all kinds of things in the future … like famous architectural sites ? ( cough … google … ) maybe some huge internet monster of a company can do this for all kinds of places all over the whole that have some significance … 

When geologists wanted a better look at a Yosemite rock face in years past, they only had one option: climb the cliff.

But now, thanks to super-high resolution gigapixel images created by a team of 70 photographers using GigaPan robotic imagers and a laser-mapping airplane, park geologist Greg Stock now has unprecedented access to the geological features of one of the world’s most famous parks. And all from the comfort of his laptop.

“When you’re climbing, your primary purpose is just surviving,” Stock said. “You can make some observations, but it’s a lot harder.”

The Yosemite Extreme Panoramic Imaging Project is a Microsoft-sponsored collaboration between Los Angeles-based photography studio, xRez, and the National Park Service, intended to help Stock catalog and understand dangerous rock slides in Yosemite. Printed out at magazine-quality 300 dpi resolution, the photos stretch uninterrupted for 40 feet.

“People have been documenting rock fall in Yosemite for 150 years but we’re doing it now with a precision that other people couldn’t have dreamed of,” Stock said. “Every rock-fall event begins with the basic documentation: Where was it, how big was it, and why did it happen? And sometimes these photos are the only way of ascertaining those things.”

via wired

Play: Duoc Antonio Varas 
Location: Antonio Varas 666, Providencia, Santiago, Chile 
Architects: Architects Sabbagh - John P. Sabbagh, Mariana P. Sabbagh, Juan Pedro B. Sabbagh, Philip B. Sabbagh, Marcial B. Olivares 
Contributors: Mario Zamorano V. 
Surface of the Land: 9954 m2 
Surface intervene: 6.256m2 
Surface Cover: 12.000m2

Faced with the commissioning of a building as the headquarters of the Duoc presents four themes which were annexed to the program crucial to the resolution of the project. The first, its location in the courtyard of the headquarters Antonio Varas, a former college German typical building and founding of the neighborhood. The second, the coexistence of a program of functions and activities with specific requirements of surfaces and relationships with the corporate image of a building for an educational institution of the Catholic University of Chile. Thirdly, the permanent change of use of the space, itself an institution in permanent renewal and change. Finally, the need for public space for recreation and expansion for the students.

via plataformaarquitectura

Monday, November 10th, 5:00 p.m. Geren Auditorium

Hernan Diaz Alonso is the principal and founder of Xefirotarch, a Los Angeles-based design firm working in architecture, products, and digital motion. For the last several years he has been a thesis coordinator and professor in studio design and visual studies at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles. He is also a design studio professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. He worked for several years as a senior designer at Eisenman Architects in New York and has lectured around the world.

Hernan Diaz Alonso is hailed as an architect who pushes boundaries and breaks the rules. His recent winning design for the Lexington Courthouse Plaza (though not the design being built)is a close-to-home example of the tension between cutting-edge design and the inertia of the expected.

Alonso, who has also worked with both Enric Miralles and Peter Eisenman, is uniquely primed to contribute to our current cultural discourse. He continues to challenge with each project, such as the Aqua Center in Denmark and the Queens Museum of Art in New York. The PSI competition. etc.

Alonso received his professional degree in architecture in Argentina, his M.Arch at Columbia University.

The building is located in the southern sector of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland and seeks to be a new standard on campus. The main idea of the project is to become a meeting point between students and teachers in all schools, making a lively public space. Due to its proximity to the main entrance of the Institute, the new building will play an important role in the image of the university. 

As I remember, I’ve never seen a curved concrete slabs of these dimensions, without pillars. Impressive images, which are very close to that abstraction that SANAA typically used to display their projects. 

via plataformaarquitectura

So I may have been on a surrealist/conceptual/somewhat-gravity-defying architecture kick lately … but it never fails to amaze the mind and question our most rooted notions of what architecture is, what space is, and how time and society are effect each. 

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Seattle-based concept artist Daniel Dociu is Chief Art Director for ArenaNet, the North American wing of NCSoft, an online game developer with headquarters in Seoul. Most notably, Dociu heads up the production of game environments forGuild Wars – to which GameSpot gave 9.2 out of 10, specifically citing the game’s “gorgeous graphics” and its “richly detailed and shockingly gigantic” world. 
Dociu has previously worked with Electronic Arts; he has an M.A. in industrial design; and he won both Gold and Silver medals for Concept Art at this year’sSpectrum awards. 

To date, BLDGBLOG has spoken with novelists, film editors, musicians, architects, photographers, historians, and urban theorists, among others, to see how architecture and the built environment have been used, understood, or completely reimagined from within those disciplines – but coverage of game design is something in which this site has fallen woefully short. (go to bldgblog to read the complete article)

via wired
 

Wired Science heads to the California Academy of Sciences to check out the living roof, which features 1.2 million native California plant species and a natural ventiltion system.