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Shanghai – 2016
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June 2010
USAFA Cadet Chapel by Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill
“Designed by SOM as part of the Master Plan and design of the entire U.S. Air Force Academy campus, the Cadet Chapel was created as a single symbolic religious structure that accommodates the individuality of three major American faiths, thus requiring three distinct chapels.” In creating a monumental religious building, the design incorporated a monumental structure system. Seventeen rows of spires rise 150 feet high coming to seventeen points shooting [...]
May 2010
Colorific – Dream comes true: Pantone makes a hotel
I'm a designer and I love Pantone colors. My favorite color (pictured below) is Pantone's solid coated 376c. It's out-of-control green. Pantone has opened a hotel in Brussels - see images below: Pantone Hotel: http://www.pantonehotel.com
April 2010
Hong Kong Appartment – 24 rooms in 344 square feet = Awesome
Hong Kong architect Gary Chang is Awesome - check out his appartment in the video below: [youtube width="590" height="400"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-iFJ3ncIDo&feature=player_embedded#![/youtube]
January 2010
Mississippi Blues
Mississippi Blues / Stanley Saitowitz | Natomoa Architects Brass pipes and a table that looks like a river. Architects: Stanley Saitowitz / Natoma Architects Architects: Stanley Saitowitz / Natoma Architects Location: San Francisco, California, USA Project Team: Stanley Saitowitz, Alan Tse, John Winder Construction: Lyon Construction Project Area: 167 sqm Project Year: 2008 Photograph: Rien van Rijthoven via: ArchDaily
November 2009
100 year old color photos from Russia = awesome
Between 1907 and 1915 a guy named Sergei Mikhailovich Prokundin-Gorski (the royal photographer for Tsar Nicholas II) took the following photographs - in color. He came up with a concept of taking three photos - he took three consecutive photographs of his subjects with three separate filters: red, green, and blue. He then combined them into full-color projections. Read more on wikipedia.
July 2009
New Acropolis Museum, Athens
This 8 minute video is worth watching... [youtube width="600" height="400"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaGdJrbOKes[/youtube]
May 2009
Ummm – this is so awesome I’m not sure what to say…
From the press release: FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES NEW LICENSEE The LEGO Group and Brickstructures, Inc. to produce and distribute Frank Lloyd Wright Collection® LEGO® Architecture Building Sets The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation announced today that The LEGO Group is now the exclusive licensed manufacturer of Frank Lloyd Wright Collection® LEGO Architecture sets. The LEGO Group and Adam Reed Tucker of Brickstructures, Inc. officially introduced the LEGO Architecture [...]