Posts Tagged ‘Architecture’
1001 Wonders
Friday, December 4th, 2009Virtual Stonehenge
Monday, November 16th, 2009
Care of the BBC comes this fantastic 360 degree panorama of the famous megalithic site Stonehenge. Well worth a quick look!
International Architecture Awards
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
Just a quick hit today to point out the the International Architecture Awards for the Best New Global Design 2009 have been unveiled by the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design. Always an interesting look at what’s current in the world of architecture, this year the winners range from well known folks like Sean Godsell and Zaha Hadid to lesser renowned firms such as Brazil’s Studio MK27, China’s wsp architects or Vietnam’s Vo Trong Nghia Company. Well worth a look if you want to see the sort of thing that’s garnering attention these days in international building design.
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World Digital Library
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
UNESCO has recently unveiled a new project called the World Digital Library that “will make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and other significant cultural materials”. They have launched with a fair amount of content already (on the order of ~1000 items or so), and as an interview at Nature magazine with director John Van Oudenaren they plan on ambitiously adding things as time goes on. What’s also interesting is that they’ve built their interface to allow the sharing of content through a host of international social bookmarking sites like Facebook, Delicious, Slashdot, Mister Wong, Segnalo and the like, obviously hoping to promote international use of the materials that they’re providing. Certainly one to watch in the future.
Smithsonian Institutions Digital Collections
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
Since your tax dollars are at work funding the continued existence of national treasures at the Smithsonian Institution, you may as well take advantage of the digital collections that are there available for your use. One way is to peruse the Galaxy of Images, a collection of material taken from a cross section of the 1.5 million books held by the institution. You can also explore the Archives of American Art digital collections which are constantly adding new material taken from the holdings. There are also other collections scattered across the 19 museums, 9 research centers and the National Zoo that make up the Smithsonian, which in the main are freely available for educational use provided attribution is given to the Institution as to where the materials have come from.
You pay for it; why not use it?
Virtual Tour of Azuma House
Monday, March 30th, 2009
Via the always interesting Japanese architecture blog What We Do Is Secret comes an amazing virtual tour of Tadao Ando’s famous Azuma House in Osaka. By virtually modeling the building, the German “One Day at Azuma House” website gives a sense of architectural volume and a feel for the way sunlight moves through the space over the course of a day even for those who can’t make their way to Osaka and convince the house’s residents to allow inside access. A fascinating use of the Internet to allow insight into a space that might otherwise go unknown to many.
BibliOdyssey
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
Japanese architecture in Flickr
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
A quick pointer today to a Creative Commons licensed batch of photos in Flickr that center on Japanese architecture. All this year user “..colb..” has been uploading fantastic black and white shots to his photostream of various buildings from the island nation of Japan, and all of them can be used in various ways provided the proper attribution is given. Well worth a look.
Structurae
Friday, February 13th, 2009
Immensely valuable as a source of detailed information on over 40,000 built structures, the Germany based Structurae also provides a wealth of images of bridges, tunnels, skyscrapers, stadiums and all sorts of engineered built works from around the globe. Photographs from Stucturae tend to be freely useable for both private and academic purposes provided proper credit is given. To that end, the picture above is an image of the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge in Kobe by Niels Jakob Darger.
Modern Art and Architecture on Google Maps
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Via greg.org’s posting on a Richard Serra sculpture that can be seen via Google Maps comes word of an incredible page at Virtual Globetrotting where a user named pmoore66 has built over 1700 maps which locate seminal works of sculpture, land art and architecture and can be viewed in Google, Live or Yahoo maps.
