Sketches of Frank Gehry

Some sketches from Frank Gehry, directed by Sydney Pollack, shows a trailer. to find out more...

Architectureupdate

There are topics and reseaches on Frank Gehry, IMPEI, Micheal Graves, Richard Meier in architectureupdate. to find out more...

Architectural Jobs

There are opportunities offered by archinect for various architectural jobs for your reference. to find out more...

Jubilee Church by Richard Meier & Partners

"This is Meier’s third ecclesiastical building, after the Crystal Cathedral’s International Center for Possibility Thinking in Garden Grove, California (2003), and the Hartford Seminary in Hartford, Connecticut (1981). The project began in 1995 as an invited competition that included Tadao Ando, Günter Behnisch, Santiago Calatrava, Peter Eisenman, and Frank Gehry. Meier was awarded the commission in 1996, and construction began in 1998. It is the 50th new church and community center built throughout the suburbs of Rome, with 15 more planned for completion."
"The church sits on a flat, triangular site in Tor Tre Teste (named for a bas relief of three heads carved in a medieval guard tower dating back to the 4th Century) about six miles east of central Rome. It is adjacent to a lower/middle-income housing complex built in the 1970s on the boundary of a public park." to find out more...

Passage from http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature123.htm

Chinese Architects

Some Chinese Architectural work for your pleasure. to find out more...

More sketchup Tutorials

"Sketchup is a tool that can be used for design exploration, allowing you to develop and communicate your ideas in 3D. There are a number of video tutorials that you will find particularly useful. These are available on the sketchup web site and on CD from Mike Knight - it is highly recommended that you look at these." to find out more...
Read a photo realistic rendering tutorial here. to find out more...
And a free forum here for discussion and participation.
And for more Sketchup Tutorials...
Sketchup3d.org is another good one.
A useful sketchup Users Guide by Grant marshall's Tips for New Users

Passage from http://www.liv.ac.uk/abe/students/sketchup/index.shtml
Image from http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3064&page=3

Milan Design Week 2006

"Although Italy is enduring economical difficulties at present and most companies in the design sectorare in the process of restructuring themselves in a more competitive way, if you visited the fairgroundsand off-site events, there was the feeling of prosperity and optimism.reality or hypocrisy? who will purchase all of the thousands of designs on show? it seems that now there are more designers than consumers in this sector." to find out more...
Design Boom presents 1575 photos from the Milan Design Week 2006.
Passage from http://www.designboom.com/snapshots/milan06.html

Andrew Maynard Architects

Some interesting reading from miragestudio7 of the mobile home, leading me to Andrew Maynard Architects, which consisting many interesting ideas you would want to take a look. to find out more...

Image from http://blog.miragestudio7.com/2006/05/andrew-maynard-architects-mobile-home/






Another interesting project by Andrew Maynard is Bill House. The sketches shows the idea, the 3d presents the idea. The thing I like about this is the wall, roof and floor are all formed by a plane, deconstructing all the elements into a unity. It is very neat, isn't it? I think the difficulty is the scale of this building and the communication with the existing environment. Wondering how the environment looks like.

Images from http://www.andrewmaynard.com.au/bill01.html & http://www.andrewmaynard.com.au/bill02.html

Architecture and the Mail

"A project in collaboration between Jeannie Kim and Hunter Tura, The Architectural League of New York and 1000 designers and 1000 thinkers.

A Simple Proposal

We will produce a series of 1000 unique postcards, each depicting a single unpublished image from a relatively unknown designer, and we will send them to a selected group of 1000 influential architects, urbanists, academics, curators, journalists, and critics, who will have the opportunity to respond.

A Global Call for Images

Our hope is that we will receive images from all over the world and our plan is to randomly disseminate these images back out into a global context, making unlikely connections, and creating unforeseen acquaintanceships. While this is admittedly a utopian proposal, our aim is to connect fresh ideas with those individuals who contribute to the development of independent careers in architecture.
At the conclusion of the mailing, we will collect all 1000 images for a catalogue and an exhibition with comments from selected recipients." to find out more...

Passage from http://www.1000postcards.org/main.html

A10 Magazine

"A10 provides a concise and up-to-date survey of the latest developments in European architecture, from the Arctic Circle to the Mediterranean Sea.
Rather than reporting on the latest doings of the all-too-familiar big names that crop up in all the architecture journals, A10 casts its net more widely to take in the many other interesting things that are happening in the old continent, devoting equal attention to the architectural production in Western, Central and Eastern Europe.
With clear and informative reporting, A10 presents new buildings and projects by tomorrow’s stars, forgotten masters and as yet unknown talents." to find out more...


Image from http://www.a10magazine.com/contents9.html
Passage from http://www.a10magazine.com/about.html

Cararchitecture

"An auto elevator lifts a Volkswagen to its appointed parking space in the VW Autostadt "car tower" in Wolfsburg, Germany." to find out more...
Image from http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/gate/archive/2005/10/19/dip.DTL&o=10

Butterpaper

Australia and new zealand architecture and design resources and links introduction can be found here. to find out more...

Image from http://www.butterpaper.com/resource/zines.htm

Architettura

Some great architectural works from Architettura you might want to explore~!

American Architecture Awards

"The Chicago Athenaeum is an International Museum of Architecture and Design, appropriately based in the world's first city of modern architecture and design - Chicago.
Founded in 1988, the Museum is dedicated to the Art of Design in all areas of the discipline: architecture, industrial, and product design, graphics, and urban planning.
The Museum's mission is the advancement of public education about the value of Good Design - from the "spoon to the city" - and how design can positively impact the human environment. " to find out more...

Passage from http://www.chi-athenaeum.org/about.htm

VivoCity

"VivoCity is a vibrant, multi-experiential retail and leisure destination. It flows with energy. It immerses you in its blend of activities , new retail concepts, multi-anchor tenants and an evolving retail environment. And it stimulates your senses, allowing you to craft your own "Vivo" experiences.
The name "VivoCity", which is derived from the word "vivacity", evokes a lifestyle experience that is modern, stimulating and accessible to everyone, a place bubbling with energy and flowing with vitality. It feels alive.
The VivoCity identity is inspired by a sense of natural energy and flow. Its organic and dynamic nature expresses the stimulating experience, reflects the energy in the name and complements the architectural vision." to find out more...

Passage from http://www.vivocity.com.sg/page.php?id=22
Image from http://www.vivocity.com.sg/