accessible spaces that are architecturally comfortable, curatorially comprehensible and technologically equipped to meet the needs of both the current and future elderly.
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London Olympics and beyond: weighing the costs of temporary architecture - latimes.com - 1 views
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The sort of expedient architecture on view at the London Olympics reflects economic reality, but cities must ponder the long-term effects of a pop-up aesthetic.
FUTURE CITIES LAB - Home - 0 views
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Future of architecture and design
BluEntCAD Partners with Top Interior Design Firms for Outsourcing Millwork Drafting Ser... - 0 views
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BluEntCAD, a Texas-based architectural drafting firm partners with reputed interior design firms to outsource their millwork drafting services.
Acoustic cloaking device hides objects from sound - 0 views
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The new device reroutes sound waves to create the impression that both the cloak and anything beneath it are not there...holds potential for architectural acoustics. -- I would love to see a way for museums to create cones of silence so that viewing objects can be shielded from the sound bleed of videos, noisy interactives, and maybe even people!
Vectorworks Drafting and Modeling - 0 views
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BluEntCAD uses Vectorworks software to develop architectural drafting, construction documents and 3D model for architects, designers and residential homebuilders.
Chief Architect Drafting and Modeling Services - 0 views
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Chief Architect software is without a doubt one of the most impressive architectural software to create 3D renderings, construction documents and material lists.
Homebuilders Enter Strategic Partnership with BluEntCAD to Outsource 3D Rendering Services - 0 views
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BluEntCAD, a leading provider of 3D rendering services collaborates with top homebuilders in United States and Canada to outsource 3D rendering services.
Pratt Institute to Offer Master's With a Focus on Public Space - NYTimes.com - 1 views
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Pratt Institute's Architecture School this fall plans to start a master's program in "Urban Placemaking and Management"...to be focused on creating successful public spaces based on community planning
How Community Design Advocates Can Be a Force for Design Justice - 0 views
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Currently, Colloqate is working with community design advocates on Midland Library in Portland and restorative justice space in Dallas.
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The project in Dallas, which deals with a former jail, allows us to think about restorative justice through the lens of those who have been most harmed by that space. We were able to hire CDAs that were formerly incarcerated and hire others who were part of the broader network of the city and they were working together to ask questions of their own specific communities,
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Design as Protest (DAP) began as a yearlong organizing effort, involving 250 design professionals and design advocates across the United States and Canada. They examined how injustice can be challenged through the built environment. Issues such as ending the prison industrial complex, defunding and reallocating the police, and advocating against architecture projects that are hostile to communities of color.
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Community Design Associates are not only asked to talk about design, but also about their own experiences and the nuances that get missed in public consultations where the project is set and residents can only ask questions or give opinions.
Birth of the Third space - 3 views
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Interesting use of "third space"...enter the self-contained worlds and invented spaces that suggest new forms of the city, as they rise from the rubble of the old
Report describes the future of buildings in 2050 - 0 views
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Arup's Foresight + Innovation team, foresees that structures will be fully integrated into the fabric of the city, responsive to changes in the external environment, and designed for continuous adaptability, according to real-time needs and demands of its users.
"Stacked" by Michael Harris | The Walrus | April 2012 - 1 views
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Building a new library building gave designers and librarians a new way to think about what a library can be to a community. Digital and physical coexist and people are a primary focus. Could a museum do as well? How can you achieve this level of integration and community involvement without building a new building?
Video: The Printable House / 1:1 Arkitektur | ArchDaily - 0 views
LowLine: An Underground Park on NYC's Lower East Side by Dan Barasch - Kickstarter - 0 views
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I know Dan B. - who is co-leading this effort... I think the big story might be the architecture of the light tubes--- If they figure it out--we might see other applications that transform less valuable real estate into something more comfortable...
How the 'creative class' is re-making the world | SmartPlanet - 1 views
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$100/month membership-based workshops filled with otherwise inaccessible and often hugely expensive machinery, such as CNC mills, 3D printers and laser cutters. populated by people whose skills in computed-aided design and access to new materials is changing the world of manufacturing Perhaps, as has been suggested, the greatest opportunity for small scale manufacturing is in the developing world. But can Tech Shop be replicated in regions that aren't flush with people who have sizable disposable incomes?
Big changes are coming to conventional office buildings - 0 views
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What might the office building of today look like, or be used for, tomorrow? -
Acres of unused space in conventional office buildings may be transformed into hotel rooms, classrooms, theaters or retail uses, architects and urban planners say. And museums? Exhibition spaces? Pop-up?
PlaNYC 2030 - The Plan - Parks and Public Space - 0 views
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PlaNYC 2030 - a cool future plan for NYC. Of note for my interest is the chapter on Parks and Public Space, but others may find other chapters of interest, especially in terms of how they envision the city 15 years into the future.