Interactive and responsive architecture I feel is really about to take off, because the technology is at a point where it will start to seep into the mainstream. Have a look at these projects above. Loop.ph (via inhabitant). Or this one called bitfall (via interactivearchitecture.org) which is really beautiful.Also Electronic Plaid (not shown) [...]
Andrew MacMillan is giving a lecture on the Scottish Architect Charles Rennie Macintosh at the Ateneum-sali Kaivokatu 2, Helsinki on 26.04.2006. Anyone who is interested in Finnish Jugendstil and Finnish art at the turn of the century should definitely think about attending. Macintosh was a great illustrator and interior designer as well as an Architect [...]
After attending a lecture by Max Underwood of Arizona state university about Charles and Ray Eames I became a great fan of their work. I hadn’t realised had produced some of the first multimedia presentations, worked with IBM, and at World Fairs. Their films too have at their core a design sensibility taken to a [...]
Jason Mill of pivnice emailed me about his new project ZNO. He creates 3d models to plug into Google Earth. A couple I tried of the Burj al arab and world projects in Dubai are really fantastic work, so go have a look. If he wants an idea for a Finnish building to model how [...]
How do we consume the city? The city street is a place of action and interaction and hidden meanings and signs. Part of the beauty of the street is the history and art there is to read like a book but which is mostly ignored by the passer by. Anyone who has read Baudelaire or [...]
Espoo may be getting a spa,hotel, movie centre, multipurpose arena, and 270m long indoor ski-centre in one if Evata can get the backing for this scheme. Another mega-commercial project around the outskirts of Helsinki. See the helsingin sanomat article .
The Villa Carrë by Alvar Aalto has been bought by the Finnish Cultural Foundation. Not only did Aalto design the building but also the interior of the house, including lamps and furniture which have never been put into production as well as items from the Artek range. See the Helsingin Sanomat article here. One thing [...]
It had to happen eventually but Domus should be applauded for being the first major architecture magazine to put their building profiles from their latest edition into Google Earth. I would agree with Dan that while its a bit of a gimmick at the moment there is lots of potential here for the future for [...]
