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Building Product Marketing 2009-11-17 19:00:00
I saw this idea at GreenBuild. A large, flat screen TV in the Hycrete booth, showing a company video, had a sign saying, "Win this TV." But instead of the usual "deposit your card here" type of drawing, applicants had to answer questions based on information displayed in the booth.Here is …


Contemporist 2009-11-21 19:56:39
We haven’t featured many contemporary bathrooms recently, so here are some inspirational photos from the Swiss bathroom products manufacturer Laufen. Visit the Laufen website – here. .


ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2009-11-21 06:59:00
Great storytelling - not a second wasted - coupled to beautifully detailed animation, Pigeon Impossible, from Lucas Martell:


Plataforma Arquitectura (in Spanish) 2009-11-22 22:34:50
Autor: Jakub Szcz?sny Colaboradores: Kaja Pawe?ek, Artur Kolanowski, Witek Komarczewski, Marek Tkaczyk Producción: B?c Zmiana Fundation El otro día me encontré con esta interesante instalación de arte desarrollada para la segunda edición de Synchronicity, un festival de arte/arquitectura que se realiza en Varsovia, Polonia. Jakub Szcz?sny, miembro del colectivo Centrala, respondió al encargo hecho …


Lloyd’s Blog 2009-11-22 21:45:00
This from environmentalgraffiti.com, which is a great website. This photo, by Gerry Thomasen, caught my eye because it's almost identical with a photo of mine of a cob/driftwood house in British Columbia that appeared in our Builders of the Pacific Coast. Two photographers with the same eye. A lot of eclectic …


anArchitecture 2009-11-16 22:04:00
Pieter Bruegel?s Tower of Babel, image by Kunsthistorisches MuseumThe Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna presents its masterpieces in public. In Vienna, on about 29 busy locations ? subway stations, railway stations, house walls ? the museum is showing treasures from the collection: Pieter Bruegel?s Tower of Babel, Raffael, Lucas Cranach and much …


A Daily Dose of Architecture 2009-11-22 00:45:00
THE BURJ, originally uploaded by WOWHYD. The Burj Dubai in Dubai, United Arab Emerites by SOM, 2009.To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just::: Join and add photos to the archidose pool, and/or:: Tag your photos archidose


Lloyd’s Blog 2009-11-16 22:08:00
Our booth was mobbed for a couple of hours on Saturday and then Sunday.I took this shot during a lull. We sold tons of books, and probably more importantly, gave out 400 Builders of the Pacific Coastt posters as well as about 1200 of our (small, 4-color) catalogs. Personal word-of-mouth publicity …


Plataforma Arquitectura (in Spanish) 2009-11-17 01:12:03
Este Miércoles 18 de Noviembre se realizará la novena y última sesión del ?Ciclo de Conferencias de Cultura Arquitectónica: Arquitectura y contexto? llevado a cabo por la Escuela de Arquitectura de la Universidad San Sebastian. Esta sesión se realizará en el Teatro Sidarte, en Ernesto Pinto Lagarrigue 131, Recoleta a las …


Green Workplace 2009-11-17 00:51:00
Last week at Greenbuild, my company decided to host a booth as we always do. Usually at our booth we talk about how great our green buildings are, what fabulous books we've written, etc. But not this year. This year we decided to capture on video those many inspirational people we …


Climate Feedback 2009-11-20 18:33:46
Everyone's talking about the CRU data hack. Quirin Schiermeier reports on Nature News: One of Britain's leading climate-research centres has had more than 1,000 files stolen from its computers and republished on the Internet. The cyber-attack is apparently aimed at damaging the reputations of prominent climate scientists. The full story is here: …


Lloyd’s Blog 2009-11-22 19:37:00
I've owned maybe 3 pair of Uggs Australian sheepskin boots, all of them the soft ones favored by surfers. Each pair lasted me through maybe 3 winters. (Our office has very little heat, so we dress warmly, and warm feet are half the equation.) One problem was that in walking through …


BLDG BLOG 2009-11-16 20:01:00
[Image: Barry Underwood, courtesy of Johansson Projects]. The Johansson Projects gallery over in Oakland is hosting an exhibition of photographs by Barry Underwood, called Earth Engines; the show also includes a series of sound installations by artist Oliver diCicco. [Image: Barry Underwood, courtesy of Johansson Projects].On the one hand, Underwood's photos …


Green Inc. 2009-11-16 22:22:08
Brazil sets emissions targets and other energy and environment news from around the Web.


Green Inc. 2009-11-16 22:00:21
Federal regulators have accused four people and two companies of using bogus claims about "green initiatives" to entice more than 300 investors into what was really a $30 million Ponzi scheme.


Climate Progress 2009-11-17 02:27:07
Question of the day:  Will GM ultimately pay back all of the taxpayers’ loans? The NY Times story has one of the true glass-is-half-full headlines of our times: G.M., Citing Progress, Reports Loss of $1.15 Billion But these days, you take good news where you can find it, and the rest of the story …


AECbytes Blog 2009-11-19 22:25:20
This review explores the improvements in the new V8i version of Bentley Architecture, including its new conceptual design and space planning capabilities, dynamic views that ensure better drawing coordination, new display styles that allow high-quality presentation graphics to be easily created, native support of Rhino and SketchUp files with live links, …


Contemporist 2009-11-20 19:36:26
The Turkish design studio Autoban have sent us photos of a recently completed apartment interior they have refurbished and filled with their own furniture designs. Project description from Autoban: Lying between one of the chiquest streets in Beyo?lu and the lively heart of Tünel, the Ojeni flats boast stunning views over the whole …


A Daily Dose of Architecture 2009-11-20 22:03:00
The idea of a Louvre branch on Abu Dhabi's Saadiyat Island is just mind-boggling. When completed in 2013, the museum will present "works drawn from the Louvre and other French museums and from its own permanent collection." But if the numbers in Adran Hornsby's article on the end of "starchitecture" in …


Dot Earth 2009-11-21 01:32:32


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