Posted on 06 July 2010 by Dan
The streets of London appear as a stop animation film, giving the viewer a taste of what the city looks like from above to a catchy soundtrack with great effect!
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This short film was filmed and produced start to finish in 12 hours by Matt Gosden and Rob Rackstraw.Shot on an Olympus E-PL1.
Music by Matt GosdenLondon cityscapes shot with kind permission of The Paramount Restaurant, Centerpoint Tower, London ( http://www.paramount.uk.net )
Posted on 05 April 2010 by Dan
On Sunday March 8th 2010 Jeremy Dean made New york City history by taking his converted Hummer entitled Futurama out for a spin. Entering Central park in New York at 69th St. and Central Park West (at the old Tavern on the Green location) Dean had his hand crafted vehicle pulled by two white horse aptly named Duke and Diesel.
Dean has taken a gas guzzling 8 mile-per-gallon HUMMER H2, a symbol of extravagance, and converted it into a working horse drawn cart. Dean has pimped it out with silver chrome, working LED lights and a booming audio and video system. He calls this piece the CEO Stagecoach.
Location View: Jeremy Dean, CEO Stagecoach, Central Park, New York, NY. 2010
videographer Gareth Paul Cox, editor Diego del Sol
video courtesy of {CTS} creative thriftshop, New York.to view more on this project please visit: http://www.creativethriftshop.com
Posted on 24 March 2010 by Dan
3d virtual reconstruction of the roman insula in the roman city of Conimbriga (Portugal). Más información: http://italicaromana.blogspot.com
Posted on 19 February 2010 by Dan
Lumitectura from barno on Vimeo.
A music video about the relation of light, music and architecture.
Music by Saltillo
“The Opening” from the album Ganglion.
Posted on 23 January 2010 by Dan
“Camera, action, parkour. Wild cats, artists or athletes, the intentions to move and train are varied. A film by Julie Angel featuring 17 members of Parkour Generations on the streets of London.”
Posted on 15 January 2010 by Dan
The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo.
A FULL-CG animated piece that tries to illustrate architecture art across a photographic point of view where main subjects are already-built spaces. Sometimes in an abstract way. Sometimes surreal.
Dear Alex, your movie is amazing!
Posted on 10 January 2010 by Dan
An excerpt from the 1958 Disneyland TV Show episode entitled Magic Highway USA. In this last part of the show, an exploration into possible future Transportation technologies is made. It’s hard to believe how little we’ve accomplished on this front since 1958, and how limited the scope for imagining such future technologies has become. Witness an artifact from a time where the future was greeted with optimism. Note the striking animation style here, achieved with fairly limited animation and spectacular layouts.
It makes it easier to understand why people decided that the highways were such a great thing, I mean come on it was the 50s and this looks and sounds so great!
Posted on 06 January 2010 by Dan
The public debate about architecture quite often just stays on contemplating the final result, sort of the architectural object. Is the latest tower in London a gherkin or a sausage or a sex tool?
Danish architect Bjarke Ingels rockets through photo/video-mingled stories of his eco-flashy designs. His buildings not only look like nature — they act like nature: blocking the wind, collecting solar energy — and creating stunning views. It is also quite an entertaining presentation.
Posted on 22 December 2009 by Dan
“The goal was to create the greenest building we possibly could, so people are watching carefully, gee how did the Bank of America decide to spend the money to do a seriously green building?”
Posted on 05 July 2009 by Dan
* GENERICLIFE.COM * 2 Graffiti artists in Hong Kong’s Walled City emerge from one another’s paintings. The final scene suggests these paintings are not the memories of the characters, but perhaps the city itself. The concept was inspired by the former Walled City of Hong Kong, Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, and punk DIY (Do It Yourself) attitude.
Posted on 28 June 2009 by Dan
From http://www.ImprovEverywhere.com, 16 agents create a spontaneous musical in a food court in a Los Angeles mall. Using wireless microphones and the mall’s PA system, both their voices and the music was amplified throughout the food court. All cameras were hidden behind two-way mirrors and other concealed structures.
This is one of over 70 different missions Improv Everywhere has executed over the past six years in New York City. Others include Frozen Grand Central, the Best Buy uniform prank, and the famous U2 Rooftop Hoax, to name a few. Visit the website to see tons of photos and video of all of our work, including behind the scenes information on how this video was made.
Song by Scott Brown and Anthony King.
Arranged by Jamie Laboz
Posted on 21 June 2009 by Dan
Rubleovo-Arkhangelskoe represents a new town, which will be built 2 km away from the northwestern part of Moscow. This project is the largest both in Russia and Europe. It envisages construction of the residential units for more than 100.000 people, occupying the territory with the total area of 430 ha.
http://www.cmi-development.ru/en/pub/proekti/ryblevo-arhangelskoe.html
Posted on 14 June 2009 by Dan
This animated cartoon film shows how to set about replanning a town. Post war period. New Towns, overcrowded inner cities, building out of town.
British Government Public Information Films
Director: Halas & Batchelor 1948
Posted on 07 June 2009 by Dan
World Builder from BranitVFX on Vimeo.
“A strange man builds a world using holographic tools for the woman he loves.This award winning short was created by filmmaker Bruce Branit, widely known as the co-creator of ’405′. World Builder was shot in a single day followed by about 2 years of post production. Branit is the owner of Branit VFX based in Kansas City.
“If you could build your own world what would it look like?
Posted on 02 May 2009 by Dan
This Is Where We Live from 4th Estate on Vimeo.
A short film by the 4thEstate to celebrate 25 years in publishing. Filmed in stop motion animation, take a stroll with us through a very literary city.
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Namba Parks was the result of a visionary design, in a city that wanted something great and didn’t have real estate to waste on parking spaces. The resulting commercial mall and mixed use residential complex is what a mall should be.
Canal City is a mixed use development with a primarily commercial focus and a number of cultural and entertainment functions as well. The project was designed by Jerde and covers 9 acres with a total building area of 240,000 square meters.
Southdale Centre. Southdale center opened in Edina, Minnesota in 1956. The complex was the first climate controlled shopping complex, fully enclosed and featuring rival department stores. Minneapolis has an interesting relationship with the mall being the first city to house one, and the home to the largest mall in America, the aptly named Mall of America, which is just four miles away from its progenitor.
Blue Vertical Studio
Real Estate $$$ The Real Estalker
The Millau bridge in France currently holds the record for the worlds tallest road bridge. At a towering 343m (1,125ft) at its highest point, it is definitely not for anyone afraid of heights. The bridge crosses the River Tarn and the valley of the same name and has been termed by some as "one of the most breathtaking ever built."
In Redhill Surry Robert fiddler created a massive pile of hay bales in his yard and his neighbours didn’t really think anything of it, he is a farmer after all. Then about six years later the bales came down and voila a Mock Tudor Castle. The fiddlers built the house in secret over the course of two years and then lived in it while it was hidden within the hay bales for four years in a bit to avoid needing to get planning permission for the structure. The town council wants it down but Robert fiddler is arguing that he followed the letter of the law. A law which states that if a structure has been built/erected for four years and there are no objections to it then planning permission is automatically granted.
Times Square is an iconic location in the City of New York. In planner speak a place like this is often called a magnet, attactions like these generate activity and draw in people. They call them attractions for a reason. One of Times Square's more notable citizens is Robert John Burck, more popularly known as the Naked Cowboy, an American Busker with a signature style of wearing only his hat, cowboy boots, a pair of tighty whiteys and a strategically placed guitar.....until recently Times Square, while known as an attraction for people, was predominantly a space for cars. However with the induction of New York's Fearless new Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, and the changes that have come with her, Times Square is now a different place.
The infamous 105-storey Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang has awoken from its slumber and is once again seeing construction work. It has been reported that Egypt’s Orascom group has been contracted to refurbish the top floors of what has been termed by some as the ‘Hotel of Doom.’ Construction originally started in 1987 and it was thought that the tower was a jealous response to the South’s Olympic construction boom. The structure is 105 stories high and, if it were fully finished, it would contain 3.9 million square feet of floor space. Kim Ill Sung started construction to show off the state's burgeoning economic power.
In the not so distant future, it is predicted that as much as 80% of the world's population will live in urban areas and, by 2050, the population of the world will increase by as many as 3 billion people. Three billion people require a fair bit of food and current farming practices are unlikely to be able to provide the needed supply. Dr Dickson Despommier suggests Vertical Farms.
In the last few years, every town, village and post office box has announced it's plans to build the tallest building in the neighbourhood, town, province, or galaxy. It's gotten rather confusing, but I'm going to try and sort through the hype and look at some of the future giants that will make the skylines of Korea more unique. People might try to point out the lack of super tall buildings currently in Korea, but one must remember that the Burj Dubai is being built by none other than Samsung construction.
Regulations will require green roofs on new residential buildings in the city starting January 31st 2010 that are more then 2,000 square meters and 20 meters or higher. Industrial construction will have an extra 12 months to prepare for the requirements. For industrial buildings they will have to reserve either 10% of the roof area or 2,000 square meters, and have the option to choose the lesser amount for sod and other greenery.
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