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Adrive: Storage

 

 

 

Ok so i not trying to be a rep for this company or anything, but i definately thought  this was pretty sweet. The name

of the site is www.adrive.com and you can get 50 gigs of storage on line for free. I like it a lot and its pretty helpful, 

so i figured i would spread the word. enjoy.

 

 

Lego Architecture: Villa Savoy

 
 
Pretty cool rendition (i always wanted to use lego's on one of my architecture projects) althought it has some notable differences from the actual Villa.



 

Floating Weekend Retreat

 
 
Another cool concept from Sweeden.  VIA COOLBOOM
 

Augment Reality; Sketch-up

 

So i know we have a few sketch-up fans out there on CR, and i found this which seems like it could be cool, but i haven tried it. This plugin allows you to place the 3D Model over live video from your webcam, and move it around as you can see on the above video. The plugin calculates the planes on the live footage thanks to a sheet you need to print out, which allows the software to calculate the distance and inclination. i not the biggest sketch up user, but give it a shot and see if its worth a damn or not. you can get a free trial at

http://www.inglobetechnologies.com/en/products/arplugin_su/info.php

 

Slussen Project; by BIG and NOD

 

So this was a pretty cool video, it seems simple enough but is very effective, just try to ignore the  music. i hate that damn song!

 

Anyways, enjoy

 

ORDOS 100 UpDate

 

In a previous article, I touched on ORDOS 100 briefly. Here is the main concept behind the project:

"The scope of the project is to Develop 100 hundred villas in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China, for the Client, Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Ltd. FAKE Design, Ai Wei Wei studio in Beijing, has developed the masterplan for the 100 parcels of land and will curate the project, while Herzog and de Meuron have selected the 100 architects to participate. The collection of 100 Architects hail from 27 countries around the globe. The project has been divided into 2 phases. The first phase is the development of 28 parcels while the second phase will develop the remaining 72. Each architect is responsible for a 1000 square meter Villa."

I went for a hunt, trying to find as many released projects as possible.Unfortunately, you will have to search for the individual architect or firm since the ORDOS website isn't up to date with the projects being released.

Here are some of the projects I was able to find, along with a link to its respective architect.

 

Luca Selva Architects                                                           nArchitects

    

Rafi Segal                                                                          Alejandro Arevena

  

Coll-Leclerc                                                              OBRA Architects

Tham & Videgård Architects                                         Jan de Vylder

   Estudio Barozzi Veiga

 

 

Evolo Arch Competition:Tingxing Tao Proposal

 

Thanks JT for sending this link to the Evolo Arch competition.  See more

 

MORPHOSIS in China

 

American Architecture firm, Morphosis, led by Tom Mayne is making their debut in China this upcoming year. The project
includes a 24,000 sq meters pharmaceutical Campus in Shangai. It includes offices, a hotel boutique, an exhibition hall, 
auditorium, library, a gym, and an Olympic sized pool.

It maintains the aesthetics which we have all gotten accustomed by Mayne and the renderings look amazing.

Check it.

 

OMA nyc

 
So this is an old video, but I've been looking for it forever.  I remember seeing it a couple years ago.