BIG Time film documents Bjarke Ingels’ gruelling rise to stardom

May 9, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

Bjarke Ingels reveals the demands of being one of the world’s most successful architects, and its impact on his personal life and health, in the new documentary BIG Time. Film-maker Kaspar Astrup Schröder – who met Ingels through his wife – captures an intimate portrait of the architect as he decamps from Copenhagen to New York to set up

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An Off-fur You Can’t Refuse: Free Cut-Out Dogs and Cats

May 9, 2017 AD Editorial Team 0

It’s a well-known fact that everything is better with puppies. Your renders are no different. Fortunately, the website Viz-people is here to help, offering a free set of 6 cut-out cat and dog .PNGs. Pets aren’t the only cut-outs on offer (just the cutest—sorry, cut-out kids); in addition, Viz-people has a whole raft of free stuff for 3D modeling and rendering, including 2D cutouts of people, textures, and skies, and 3D models of cars, trees, chairs and more.

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Spotlight: Gordon Bunshaft

May 9, 2017 Patrick Lynch 0

As lead designer of the Lever House and many of America’s most historically prominent buildings, Pritzker Prize-winning architect Gordon Bunshaft (9 May 1909 – 6 August 1990) is credited with ushering in a new era of Modernist skyscraper design and corporate architecture. A stern figure and a loyal advocate of the International Style, Bunshaft spent the majority of his career as partner and lead designer for SOM, who have referred to him as “a titan of industry, a decisive army general, an architectural John Wayne.”

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House in Molco / Mutar Estudio

May 9, 2017 Rayen Sagredo 0

Build at southern Chile implies to design from up to down (like do it engineers). Therefore, all ambition and effort put into this house was to build a roof, as large as possible. 

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Citymapper, World-Renowned Urban Mobility App, Launches London’s First Pop-Up Bus Route

May 9, 2017 AD Editorial Team 0

Citymapper, which is just over five years old, has become the go-to mobility app for the majority of the world’s major cities. It’s strength lies in its accuracy and integration: the app parses local data and always seems to deliver the fastest route, even in comparison to its leviathan, data-rich competitors – Google Maps and Apple Maps. Having always focused their attention on public transport, as opposed to cars and taxis, Citymapper has become embedded into the way large amounts of urbanites navigate cities both familiar and foreign. As of today, they are building buses—and bus routes—of their own.

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Trends in Architectural Representation: Understanding The Techniques

May 9, 2017 Romullo Baratto 0

The representation of architecture is important in the absence of tangible space. Throughout a lifetime, even the most devoted, well-travelled design enthusiast will experience only a small percentage of architectural works with their own eyes. Consider that we exist in only one era of architectural history, and the percentage reduces even further. Many architectural works go unbuilt, and the buildings we experience in person amount to a grain of sand in a vast desert.