Nikolas Weinstein Studios is a glass sculpture studio in San Francisco with worldwide installations and a penchant for combining art and technology into site-specific glass installations.
found via Rhino Blog
We strongly envourage you to visit nikolas.net to discover their amazing works.
You can also follow them via their blog.
Pubblichiamo oggi alcuni disegni tecnici che mostrano il progresso del progetto Pylons of the future – Dancing with Nature – risultato vincitore del premio Terna per i piloni elettrici del futuro. A breve pubblicheremo informazioni dettagliato su questo progetto di architettura parametrica che rappresenta, per HDA, una grande sfida di architettura e ingegneria.
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For the atrium of an office building in Hong Kong, HDA were commissioned by Swire Properties to make a study for a sculptural staircase which would give an identity to the iconic building. These images refer to one of the proposals we have developed.
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Surfing on the Internet this week I found Daniel Davis blog Digital Morphogenesis. I bumped into his last post HTML5 & WebGL where he introduces us to WebGL and its importance for CAD modeling. I am not an expert on these topics and Daniel’s article really helped me to understand what’s going on so I am going to share it with you.
Using a browser that supports WebGL means that “users don’t need to download or install any additional plugins to view 3d content”. 3d models are now viewable on the Internet and we are able to generate a model, modify it and design it on the cloud. Have a look at shapesmith, 3dtin or tinkercad.
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Nous avons souvent parlé dans notre blog de culture libre, communication transparente et de technologie Open Source, et depuis quelques années nous essayons d’appliquer au maximum ces réflexions à notre travail, en partageant des contenus par le biais de notre blog, notre flickr, le compte twitter et d’autres médias.
Aujourd’hui, nous avons le plaisir d’annoncer la publication du premier projet d’architecture entièrement Creative Commons par l’agence espagnole Ecosistema Urbano: il s’agit de l’Air Tree (Arbre d’Air) dessiné pour le pavillon de la ville de Madrid à l’Expo Shanghai 2010.
Cela signifie que désormais n’importe quel architecte, agence d’architecture, mairie ou institution, pourra librement télécharger tout les dessins d’exécutions de l’Arbre d’Air et ensuite modifier le projet, le construire et, bien sur, le revendre.
Voici les liens de téléchargement des dessins d’exécution du projet (en anglais):
Ecosistema Urbano – Air Tree Commons | Index
Ecosistema Urbano – Air Tree Commons | Architecture
Ecosistema Urbano – Air Tree Commons | Facilities
Ecosistema Urbano – Air Tree Commons | Structure
Si vous avez des problèmes avec les liens ci-dessus, vous pouvez aussi utilisez le lien suivant:
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photo above: architectural-review.com
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PROJECT | Lanternen Sandnes
LOCATION | Sandnes, Ragna Stakland, Norway
CLIENT | Sandnes kommune and Norwegian Wood Group of Reference
DESIGN | AWP Architects and Atelier Oslo
YEAR | 2009
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The Skylon was a futuristic-looking, slender, vertical, cigar-shaped steel tensegrity structure located by the Thames in London, that apparently floated above the ground, built in 1951 for the Festival of Britain.
A popular joke of the period was that, like the British economy of 1951, “It had no visible means of support”.
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TAIKOO HUI Skylight . Architect: Arquitectonica . Specialist Designer: HDA | Hugh Dutton Associés
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REAL+VIRTUAL: use your red eye to see design drawings and your blue eye to see the construction site
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Image inspired by ecosistemaurbano.org/daz
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We have recently published some photos of the construction progress of Jiang Tai Winter Garden and talk about the feeling to see something one has designed becoming real.
Today we share with you some drawings and photos of the construction site taken last week at Taikoo Hui Glass Box and Skylight.
Louvre inverted pyramid, Arch: Ming Pei, Structural Design: RFR (with Hugh Dutton), photo: twiga269 on flickr.
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As HDA often works with glass and light steel structures, transparency has always been a central point of interest in our design process.
We share today the paper and its related presentation given by Hugh Dutton on 30th September 2010 in Dusseldorf, at Engineered Transparency international conference.
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UPDATED ON 25.01.2011
NEW DATES FOR TAC 1st EDITION >
from 4th April 2011 until 9 july 2011 / Deadline for admissions: 14th March 2011
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We are happy to present the project TAC: Technically Advanced Construction, an exciting postgraduate education program at Politecnico di Milano. Some contacts of our network are participating in the project, such as Andrea Graziano, Lan Live Architecture Network and Luca Dal Cerro (Decode)
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