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Meet Dbox, AKA The Best Rendering Instructors Ever
Today we’re launching our second Skillshare class with Michael Golden. Michael, an expert at rendering and visual technologies, has won won the Arthur Spayd Brooke Memorial Prize for distinguished work in architectural design (among other accolades) and works as a visualist at the Emmy-award winning creative and branding agency Dbox. When Dbox was founded, in the early 1990s, the architectural landscape was almost unrecognizable: Most firms still used watercolor proposals, and rendering wasn’t quite yet rendering. Dbox, which stands for dialog box, attempted to use CGI’s enormous potential to create narratives and build immersive environments for architectural visualization. Today, DBox is a premiere design agency, with three international locations and an expansive network of cutting-edge professionals. They’ve realized projects by Richard Meier, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, and Sir Norman Foster. In many ways, the innovations of Dbox are responsible for the most awe-inspiring architecture of the last 15 years. While architects have built these projects, Dbox have enticed buyers to invest in them, wooed developers, and convinced the critics. Need proof? Here are just two of our favorite projects from Dbox. Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero In 2012 Dbox won an Emmy for “Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Graphic Design …
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Ufogel
A strange object has landed next to an old farmhouse in the East Tyrolian village Nussdorf. Floating on stilts over the hill the exceptional holiday house looks like a blend of a UFO and a bird. Therefore its name Ufogel (a combination of the words UFO and Vogel which means bird in German). Inside the wooden body – that is covered with traditional shingles – feels like a cosy nest and offers both security and a sense of openness. The scent of wood flows through the room and the panoramic window makes you feel being outside. The building with a floor area of 45 sqm proves to be a real space saver: On the ground floor is the kitchen with large dining area for up to 8 people. In the half-floor you find a lounging area overlooking the East Tyrolean mountains. A few steps higher under the domed roof is the sleeping area that can accommodate up to four people and a bathroom where you can shower with views of the mountains. architect: Peter Jungmann, Lienz more: www.urlaubsarchitektur.de/en/ufogel/
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Cliff Hanger / Björn Gross & Josef Wideström
Architects: Arctic Studio
Location: Lerum, Sweden
Architects: Björn Gross, Josef Wideström
Area: 300 sqm
Year: 2010
Photographs: Krister Engström
From the architect. This house is situated on a steep slope by the lake Aspen near Gothenburg. The direction of the volume is adapted to the topography, while the diagonal ridge opens up the interior living space and the terrace towards the evening sun. This diagonal cut creates a dynamic shape in three dimensions, emphasized by the dramatic cantilever – the cliff hanger.
The 19×12 meter wooden box, covered with Siberian larch, is cut open in order to create exterior spaces inside the box and let light into the building. This wooden volume is then placed on a solid concrete foundation that solves the height difference and works as an extension of the cliff.
• Cantilever box
• Diagonal ridge
• Concrete/wood
Cliff Hanger / Björn Gross & Josef Wideström originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 18 Nov 2013.
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Zaha Hadid’s Miniature House Draws a Large Price Tag for Charity Auction
Twenty of the world’s biggest architects were asked to design on quite a small scale last month. Cathedral Group commissioned architect-designed dollhouses for a charity auction to benefit KIDS, a United Kingdom-based organization supporting disabled children. A Dolls’ House sold the interesting toys a few days ago at Bonhams in London and Zaha Hadid’s 30-inch-by-30-inch, […]
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Susan Morris Surveys the 4th Edition of New York’s Documentary Film Festival, DOC NYC
DOC NYC New York City November 14-21 IFC Center and SVA Theater This year the 4th DOC NYC documentary film festival boasts 132 films and events: 73 feature-length, 39 shorts, and 20 panels. Tucked into the schedule are films about architecture, design, and the arts amongst a wide array of subjectmatter. Only one, If You Build […]
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Gensler, LOT-EK Design Google’s San Francisco Barge With Sails, Shipping Containers
The rumors are true: Google is building that barge docked at Treasure Island on the San Francisco Bay. Last week, the San Francisco Chronicle uncovered documents submitted to the city by By and Large, a company connected to Google, that revealed plans for a “studio and tech exhibit space.” The 250-foot-long and 50-foot-tall structure is being built […]
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Proposals Unveiled For Nobel Prize Headquarters in Stockholm
The Nobel Foundation, the body that administers all activities involved in the delivery of the prestigious Nobel Prize, has shortlisted 12 architecture firms to partake in an international design competition for the new headquarters in Blasieholmen, Stockholm. In addition to providing a global headquarters, the establishment will also include a visitors center where the public […]
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Los Angeles Celebrates Aqueduct Centennial with Interactive Garden
The Los Angeles Aqueduct turned 100 on November 5, and the city has been partying hard. In a performance-art piece designed by Lauren Bon and Metabolic Studios, 100 mules plus their handlers walked along the 240 miles of the aqueduct from the Eastern Sierras to its terminus at The Cascades. The Natural History Museum of […]
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Heydar Aliyev Center by Zaha Hadid Architects
Zaha Hadid Architects have designed the Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Description
The Heydar Aliyev Center hosts a variety of cultural programs, its design is a departure from the rigid and often monumental architecture of the former Soviet Union that is so prevalent in Baku, aspiring instead to express the sensibilities and diversity of Azeri culture.
The Center’s design establishes a continuous, fluid relationship between its surrounding plaza and the building’s interior. The plaza, as the ground surface, accessible to all, rises to envelop an equally public interior and define a sequence of event spaces within. Undulations, folds, and inflections modify this surface to create an architectural landscape that performs a multitude of functions: welcoming, embracing, and directing visitors throughout the center; blurring the conventional differentiation between architecture and landscape, interior and exterior.
Fluidity in architecture is not new to the region. The continuous calligraphic scripts and patterning of historical Islamic architecture flow from carpets to walls, walls to ceilings, ceilings to domes; establishing seamless relationships and blurring distinctions between architectural elements and the ground they inhabit. The Center’s design relates to this historical understanding of architecture, not through the use of mimicry or a limiting adherence to the iconography of the past, but with a firmly contemporary interpretation.
Architect: Zaha Hadid Architects
Photography: Helene Binet, Luke Hayes, Iwan Baan, Hufton and Crow
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