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 about Stephen Holl’s Kiasma in Helsinki? A couple of other things for thought, Sketch up was just bought by Google, and I wonder how Jason’s projects might integrate with projects like fab lab. I mean the ability to make site models for buildings and institutions to order around the world. The computer model could be fed to fablab to build a scale model in whatever material with a commission for the model visualiser. There may not be a huge need for this but certainly a specialised one.
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If someone can get us some plans/elevations for Stephen Holl’s Kiasma we’ll throw something together.
The possibility of combining Sketchup and Googlemaps is very attractive. Perhaps Google will release it as an open source beta as they usually do? That would be great!