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Exhibición: Alvar Aalto según Shigeru Ban Imágenes de la exhibición "Alvar Aalto Through the Eyes of Shigeru Ban" que se está desarrollando hasta el 13 de mayo de 2007 en la Barbican Art Gallery de Londres [designboom] Ler artigo...

ZAHA HADID - Performing Arts Centre in Abu Dhabi We’re gaga over these renderings of Zaha Hadid’s proposed Performing Arts Centre in Abu Dhabi. We haven’t heard much about how green the building will be, but we’re excited to see more and more star architects inspired by natural and organic forms (check out the leaf-like windows!). The Performing Arts Center will be part of a multi-billion dollar cultural district with other buildings by Frank Gehry, Jean Nouvel, and Tadao Ando. In her own words, Ms. Hadid describes the structure as a “biological analogy” whose primary components (branches, stems, fruits, and leaves) are then “transformed from these abstract diagrams into architectonic design.” We can only hope that such poetic biomimicry will be translated into function as well as aesthetics. Ler artigo...

Contraption Structure Bridge - Wed, 07 Mar 2007 18:11:00 +0000 '> [image: Thomas Heatherwick's Sitooterie II, a "small outdoor retreat" made from "square, hollow tubes... Each tube points to the exact center of the structure, so a single light source can illuminate them all. They also serve a structural purpose, supporting the whole building like a bed of nails." Photographed by Donald Milne for Wired]. "When he was 6," we read in the new issue of Wired, British artist-engineer Thomas Heatherwick "would sketch plans in notebooks while sprawled on the living room floor":He would come up with designs for remote-controlled drawbridges and toboggans with pneumatic suspension – and then try to piece them together from scavenged junk and hand-me-down parts from the mechanic near his London home. In those early days, he was inspired by the work of cartoonist W. Heath Robinson, who depicted absurd contraptions for simple tasks, like a massive machine driven by pulleys and a foot pedal that would peel a potato.31 years later, Heatherwick has become "a modern da Vinci." Scattered throughout Heatherwick's King's Cross studio, Wired reports, "are the remains of his creative process: Miniature models of canal crossings and other structures take up nearly every available surface; sample pieces of buildings lean against walls." A 2004 profile in the Observer describes this same studio as "an unconventional set-up that includes experts in landscape architecture, architecture, product design, theatre design, civil and structural engineering and metal working." Wired goes on to relate how, one "cold winter morning," Heatherwick showed the visiting reporter a photograph of "a prototype bridge built at London’s science-focused Imperial College." The bridge was made of glass:In the snapshot, one of his designers is standing atop a long row of glass panels that seem to hover in midair. There’s no support underneath; the 1,000-plus pieces of glass will stay in place because they’re jammed together by 800 tons of pressure supplied by an enormous underground mechanical vice that squeezes the assembly from both sides.The three photographs below, then, each taken by Donald Milne for Wired, show another of Heatherwick's bridge projects: the deservedly famous "hydraulic bridge across a canal feeding the River Thames that can curl itself into a ball to make way for passing boats." Of course, that's the bridge that can "curl itself into a ball" – not the canal. Or the Thames. Though I would like to see that. Ler artigo...

Towers of Silence - Tue, 06 Mar 2007 22:31:00 +0000 [image: A Zoroastrian "tower of silence," on top of which corpses would be left, arranged in rings, exposed to sun, weather, and vultures]. Ler artigo...

O Arquitectura.pt esteve offline por algumas horas de madrugada até às 9:58. Ao actualizar o servidor para as novas versões, alguns dos ficheiros não foram correctamente actualizados pelo software pelo que se teve de reverter as instalações manualmente. Nada foi perdido e está tudo de novo online. Aos que nos visitam de manhã com o pãozinho quente e pequeno-almoço as nossas desculpas. Vamos retomar a actividade normal para eles já amanhã :)

Zaha en Budapest Otro proyecto de Zaha Hadid, esta vez en el centro histórico de Budapest con un edificio de oficinas, locales comerciales, restaurantes, etc.... [dezeen] Ler artigo...

Infections of the Earth vs. Statue City - Fri, 02 Mar 2007 05:48:00 +0000 [image: Mt. Nemrut stone statue heads]. Naturally occuring soil bacteria, called Bacillus pasteurii, could someday "be used to help steady buildings against earthquakes." These microbes "can literally convert loose, sandy soil into rock." Through a kind of geological infection, they cause "calcite (calcium carbonate) to be deposited around sand grains, cementing them together," transforming "loose, liquefiable sand into a solid cylinder." This alone could help buildings survive an earthquake. Interestingly, "similar techniques have been used on a smaller scale, for example, to repair cracks in statues, but not to reinforce soil." But hearing this reminds me of an article published last year in New Scientist, about "a disease which gradually turns people into living statues." Officially known as sporadic fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, it's "a disease in which muscle gradually turns into bone." According to Wikipedia, this "mutation of the body's repair mechanism causes fibrous tissue (including muscle, tendon, and ligament) to be ossified (turned to bone) when damaged. In many cases they can cause joints to become permanently frozen in place. The growths cannot be removed with surgery because such removal causes the body to 'repair' the area of surgery with more bone." So the idea here would be to give "statue disease" to the Earth itself: wherever the planet is wounded, it turns itself to rock – or bone, as the case may be –*saving us from earthquakes. But what amazing architectural structures might result if the world was swept by statue disease! The crowds of Paris, frozen hard as rock in an epidemic of Gothic statuary, webbed together in one vast church of bone. All of Rome becomes a sculpture gallery. Discovering that you, too, are infected, you deliberately seek out a crowd of others, wearing hospital gowns, and you join together in a group to form huge gymnastic shapes – knowing that your joints will soon fuse, becoming an artwork that will outlast Manhattan. Future archaeologists will burst into tears as they scrape away layers of the Gobi Desert, revealing ten million human statues in an abandoned Beijing... (Thanks, Alex and Bryan!) Ler artigo...

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Aqui está um pouco do processo de criação do logótipo do Arquitectura.pt: http://www.arquitectura.pt/forum/showthread.php?t=1801 O trabalho ainda demorou por volta de 6 semanas, e muita discussão. Embora a Connecty também faça todo o tipo de design de comunicação, foi pedido a outra empresa que o fizesse, no final apenas foram dados alguns retoques e o que se vê no topo da página é o final. Se vais entregar o trabalho a alguém então penso que isso basta. A equipa ou o profissional saberá o que te perguntar e fazer para criar um bom brainstorming e assim ficares com mais tempo para as questões mais importantes na criação do teu negócio. Assim que ficar pronto mostra o trabalho aqui!

Talvez para isso possas contactar um profissional. Embora a imaginação conte para o design de um logótipo, não basta por si só. Criar um logótipo dá mais trabalho do que se possa imaginar, e mais tarde o site ainda mais.

:)

Claro que podes. A exposição de projectos é para todos.

By indirections, find elevators out - Mon, 05 Mar 2007 06:12:00 +0000 You wake up in a New York hotel room, your vision cloudy. You have hazy memories of guests arriving, all grins and champagne glasses, coming in the night before to snort coke as you watched the Weather Channel – only you don't remember inviting anyone over, and you can't seem to figure out who they were. Nevermind, you think: you like champagne. Sometimes a bit too much. It's only after rising with a headache like iron clamps strapped to your temples, squinting at the morning light, that you remember the syringe, and the struggle, and the fact that someone must have drugged you. But why you? That's when you see that: 1) you are still dressed; 2) your suitcase is gone; and 3) there is a small note taped to your bedside table, next to a free copy of International Salesman. The note says:Shakespeare's Hamlet is being performed in an elevator somewhere in Manhattan. You have ten hours to find it.This is terrible news. Ler artigo...

Madrid: Inauguración del monumento homenaje a las víctimas del 11-M España: El próximo domingo (11/03/07) será inaugurado el monumento homenaje a las víctimas del atentado terrorista del 11-M en Madrid, del que se cumplen tres años... El monumento fue diseñado por Pedro Colón de Carvajal, Esaú Acosta, Mauro Gil-Fournier, Miguel Jaenicke, y Raquel Buj, todos ellos miembros del ESTUDIO FAM [terra.es] Más información > edgargonzalez.com Ler artigo...

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Architectural Film Fest: Call For Entries - Sat, 03 Mar 2007 19:13:00 +0000 I'm super-excited to announce that Materials & Applications and BLDGBLOG have teamed up to curate an architectural film fest, as part of this year's Silver Lake Film Festival in Los Angeles. In fact, we're putting together a ton of interesting stuff; I'll be making more announcements here on BLDGBLOG soon. Part of our little sub-festival, then, will be an entire evening full of short architectural films – and so we thought we'd put out a general call for anyone with a film of their own that they might want to see screened for the adoring, semi-famous, and well-tanned crowds of southern California. The obvious caveat is that your film has to be about architecture, landscape, and/or the built environment – or, at least, it has to involve architecture, landscape, and/or the built environment, and in a way that isn't just backdrop. Even more specifically, we'd love to show a whole bunch of architectural machinima, site animations, project fly-throughs, or other cinematic spaces, such as those generated annually at the the Bartlett School of Architecture's Unit 15. (International submissions are a-ok with me). Need more ideas? Then check out cinematic urbanism; stop by the glass avenues of Paris 2054; or watch one of these two films. If that's not enough, consider reading this article by Jonathan Glancey, in which he claims:What is fascinating, and very much an area for further research, is the close relationship between radical architectural design and the cinema. Much of the best of modern architecture, combining digital and three-dimensional design processes, is cinematic in scope and feeling.And, of course, though Glancey doesn't explicitly state this, many of the most exhilirating films to watch are architecural in both structure and reference. [image: From Christian Volckman's Renaissance]. Less abstractly, perhaps you've just recorded a video interview with an architect or urban planner – and it's actually interesting – or you've just driven around Manhattan fifty times, filming each circuit, speeding the whole thing up till it's less than three minutes... Or whatever: we just want films about architecture, landscape, and/or the built environment. There's a whole lot of leeway there. Your film has to be at least a minute long – though it can consist of multiple, smaller films, edited together – and no longer than ten minutes. It also has to be good. Finally, to be included, your film has to be submitted either to BLDGBLOG or to Materials & Applications before Friday, April 6th, 2007. Include your name; your affiliation, if you have one; the title of your film; its running length; and a short description of the actual film. We'll then go through all the submissions and choose the ones that will be featured at the festival (specific date, time, and location to be announced shortly – though it will probably be the evening of May 9th). Pending further developments, eligible formats for submission include Region 1 DVDs (email me for my address, or just ship it to Materials & Applications) or files sent via services like YouSendIt and MegaUpload. So get cracking! Who knows who will see your film. This time next year, you could be directing X-Men 4 and flipping the bird at all the kids you went to architecture school with... Ler artigo...

Nueva Biblioteca Nacional de la República Checa, Future Systems Información del proyecto, del estudio inglés Future Systems, ganador del concurso internacional para el Nuevo Edificio de la Biblioteca Nacional de la República Checa en Praga [archiweb.cz] Imágenes de los proyectos premiados >>> Ler artigo...

The Guatemala City Abyss - Fri, 02 Mar 2007 23:32:00 +0000 [image: The abyss, courtesy of National Geographic News]. "After rumbling for weeks," we read, "part of a poor Guatemala City neighborhood plummeted some 30 stories into the Earth on Friday." The gigantic sinkhole into which those homes plummeted is then referred to as "the Guatemala City abyss." (Via gravestmor. But don't miss The town at risk from cave-ins, earlier on BLDGBLOG). Ler artigo...

Eslovenia: Viviendas para estudiantes en Ljubljana, bevk perovi? arhitekti Eslovenia > Viviendas para estudiantes en Ljubljana, obra de bevk perovi? arhitekti [bevkperovic.com] Más imágenes > Archinect Ler artigo...