Shanghai Expo 2010: Here’s a movie of British designer Thomas Heatherwick’s UK Pavilion for the Shanghai Expo 2010, which opens next month. The movie explores the interior and exterior surface of the Seed Cathedral, which features seeds encased at the tips of 60,000 fibre-optic rods. from dezeen
Design Against the Elements is a global architectural design competition meant to find a solution to the problems presented by climate change. Spurred by the devastation wreaked in the Philippines by tropical storm Ondoy (Ketsana) and driven by a powerhouse multidisciplinary group of organizations from the private, institutional, and government sectors, the project aims to draw together the most..
An existing building block from the communist era in Budapest gets extruded and converted into the tallest building on Earth, short by Aron Lorincz. from archdaily
Metropolis is a quirky and very abridged narrative history of the city of Charlotte, North Carolina. It uses stop motion video animation to physically manipulate aerial still images of the city (both real and fictional), creating a landscape in constant motion. Starting around 1755 on a Native American trading path, the viewer is presented with the building of the first house in Charlotte. From ..
“Stone On Stone” is a stop-motion video animation that uses the architectural language of High Gothic and Modernism to invent a contradictory history of their evolvement. The theme starts and finishes with the vast and unfinished Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, NYC. It is contrasted with Le Corbusier’s La Tourette monastery in France, competed in 1960. The video uses this anomalous bu..
A few months ago we featured an amazing skyscraper by Herzog & de Meuron, that will have a great impact in the skyline of New York. I’m very intrigued by the final result of this project, as it develops a pixelated unit composition that many have propossed, but no one has built. Now, a friend sent me this amazing video to market the building, done by Tronic Studios. The video reveals some portio..
from dysturb
A tilt-shift video documenting a day around Zaha Hadid’s CMA CGM Tower in Marseilles, France. The project is expected to be completed during the second half of 2010. from archdaily
Ball State University’s i.M.A.D.E. Throughout the Spring semester of 2009 as well as this summer, CASE had the opportunity to collaborate with the students from Ball State University’s i.M.A.D.E (Center for digital fabrication) on their Inconvenient Studio. One of the more impressive parts about this program, and this group, is the breadth of work that they have been able to produce and to what ..
