Snow R. Shai a choisi ce magnifique lieu pour réaliser une vidéo très impressionnante de base-jumping.
Marina Bay Sands Skypark BASE Jump. Singapore 2012. from Snow R. Shai on Vimeo.
from Zeutch http://www.zeutch.com/movie/marina-bay-base-jump-32119
The remarkably detailed map [columbia.edu] developed by the Modi Research Group of the Earth Institute at Columbia University reveals the total annual building energy consumption of New York, at both the block and ‘taxlot’ level (which is nearly at building level).
The map was built using MapBox. The total energy consumption is expressed in kilowatt hours (kWh) per square meter of land area. The data actually was not retrieved from utility companies, but calculated via an elaborate statistical model that is based on current large-scale estimates (e.g. the average energy use by ZIP code) in addition to lower-scale, estimated parameters (like the type and size of the building). Hovering over individual blocks or lots shows more detailed information, such as the type of energy being used, for which purpose (e.g. heating and cooling, electricity or hot water) and in what quantity.
More detailed information is available here. Via NYTimes Green, WSJ Blog and Co.Exist. Thnkx Adam!
from information aesthetics http://infosthetics.com/archives/2012/02/revealing_the_energy_consumption_of_each_building_in_new_york.html
In the current age, we tend to think in time rather than absolute distance when estimating our itineraries. Accordingly, the beautiful Timemaps [timemaps.nl] by Vincent Meertens of Graph[s]ic shows the required travel times within The Netherlands by public transportation through morphing its silhouette along a colorful, circular time measure.
Users are able to select any train station location (by clicking inside the map), and time of day (via a slider). As a result, the map will expand at night, and shrink in the morning due to the availability of trains. The color coding corresponds to the number of hours (see legend below the map). If all goes well, the map should even be made available on iOS and Android.
See also Travel Time Tube Map and Worldmapper.
Via @ajdant.
from information aesthetics http://infosthetics.com/archives/2012/01/time_maps_morphing_a_country_according_to_its_travel_time.html
Great cutaway of boiler room C from John Robert’s “TheBattleship Dreadnought,”
Via Daryl Carpenter.
See here to look at the original with the annotations.
from Golden Sections http://goldensections.blogspot.com/2012/01/hms-dreadnought.html
Well, not people in the human sense. ChronicleNYC took three human-shaped RC planes, flew them through New York City, and freaked some people out….
Visit Devour to watch this video.
from Devour http://devour.com/video/flying-people-in-nyc/
Une petite sélection d’escaliers, juste pour l’inspiration du vendredi. Plus de photos ici
from Zeutch http://www.zeutch.com/design/amazing-stairs-design-31773
Voici le projet Yosemite de Sheldon Neill et Colin Delehanty sur la bande son de M83.
Yosemite HD from Project Yosemite on Vimeo.
from Zeutch http://www.zeutch.com/movie/yosemite-hd-31761
La peinture à l’aquarelle vue par Agnes Cécile.
from Zeutch http://www.zeutch.com/graphik/agnes-cecile-31783
The winning proposal for the science centre in Copenhagen was designed by CEBRA, in cooperation with Wilkinson Eyre Architects, Orbicon, Die Asta and Kollision. The aim of the competition was to expand the existing premises and achieve a stronger presence within the urban space of the city. Limited by the layout of the existing building and additional urbanistic constrains, the Fremtidens Experimentarium was to be expanded inwards and upwards.
The project deals with three main concepts: “Multi-Space”, “Special Features” and “Learning Environment”. It implies, among other things, that the building should be architecturally incorporated into the new Tuborg town that has grown up around Experimentarium the last 15 years. The building volume was expanded by 6.000 square meters. An outdoor exhibition including a café was introduced, along with a garden and renewable energy installations. Two entire floors were added, containing atriums which divide the science center into three zones: private areas for the staff, exhibition spaces for paying visitors and an open public front where people can go without tickets. The extension includes a new Exhibition Area, a new Education and Innovation Center, public workshops, a Multimedia Workshop, a new Café, a new Shop and a new Entrance Area. The building will also function as a cultural house for the Tuborg Quarter in Hellerup, and will, amongst other things, be fitted out with a new Flexible Stage that can accommodate 400 guests. The project will make a strong architectural statement while remaining highly contextual. The inauguration of the Future Experimentarium is predicted to take place in January 2014.
from eVolo | Architecture Magazine http://www.evolo.us/architecture/experimentarium-cebra/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Evolo+%28eVolo%29
A home for two plus a dog. The house itself is comprised of three shells of progressive size nested inside one another. The outermost shell covers the entire premises, creating a covered, semi-indoor garden. Second shell encloses a limited space inside the covered outdoor space. Third shell creates a smaller interior space. Residents build their life inside this gradation of domain.
I have always had doubts about streets and houses being separated by a single wall, and wondered that a gradation of rich domain accompanied by various senses of distance between streets and houses might be a possibility, such as: a place inside the house that is fairly near the street; a place that is a bit far from the street, and a place far off the street, in secure privacy.
Three nested shells eventually mean infinite nesting because the whole world is made up of infinite nesting. And here are only three of them that are given barely visible shape. I imagined that the city and the house are no different from one another in the essence, but are just different approaches to a continuum of a single subject, or different expressions of the same thing- an undulation of a primordial space where humans dwell. This is a presentation of an ultimate house in which everything from the origins of the world to a specific house is conceived together under a single method.
from eVolo | Architecture Magazine http://www.evolo.us/architecture/house-n-sou-fujimoto-architects/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Evolo+%28eVolo%29
