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The Best Apps for Architects. The results are in!

The Best Apps for Architects

After publishing our 10 Best Apps For Architects, getting your comments, and then polling your votes on Facebook, we are finally ready to introduce our new (and improved) list: The 4 Apps every architect should download now! And we mean now. Trust us. Find out the 4 contenders who stood out from the pack (and a full list of other awesome Apps) – after the break… #4 iRhino 3D Coming in at the #4 spot, iRhino 3D lets you view your 3D Models any way you want – with a tap or drag of the finger you can easily zoom in, pan out, and even rotate your models. . #3 Sketchbook Jumping up from the #6 spot, Sketchbook Mobile, one of many of Autodesk’s Sketchbook offerings, lets you draw, paint, and sketch – and it works in layers so you can edit easily as you go. $1.99 for ios / $0.25 for Android #2 Morpholio. Architectural Beauty: Chenequa Residence, Wisconsin. Posted on September 6th, 2012 This curvaceous Wisconsin home was custom built by architect Robert Harvey Oshatz.

Architectural Beauty: Chenequa Residence, Wisconsin

The inside features a gorgeous spiraling hem-lock roof that “sweeps over the entry and lifts the upper floor before disappearing from plain view”. The Chenequa Residence is almost completely constructed from natural materials that Mr Oshatz sourced himself and with it’s beautiful outdoor landscape, each area of this home celebrates the resounding beauty of nature. all images sourced from archdaily.

The Sensational House of the Week N°25 ! A découvrir chaque semaine dans cette section, une sélection des maisons les plus originales et les plus design… House BM par Architecten De Vylder Vinck Taillieu : Purple Hill House par Iroje KHM Architects : House in Mathi par MARC : Countryhouse in Val Tidone par Park Associati : Elliott Ripper House par Christopher Polly Architect : Cousin-Homes par dKO Architecture : Villa G par Saunders Architecture :

The Sensational House of the Week N°25 !

How to Architect. Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide. 15-render-FG.jpg (1000×750) Lofted Forest Home: Organic Curves & Natural Materials. Good things come to those who wait – particularly in a work of uniquely detailed and highly curved architecture.

Lofted Forest Home: Organic Curves & Natural Materials

Nearly a decade in the making, this structure by Robert Harvey Oshatz is much like a tree house – lofted toward the top of the canopy around it – only bigger, grander, more complex and curved than most any tree house in the world. The perimeter of the structure is pushed out into the forest around it, curving in and out to create views as well as a sense of intimacy with the coniferous and deciduous tree cover. The wood and metal detailing is incredible in its variety and customization – each piece designed to fit a particular form and function. Wood and stone carry naturalistic themes from the outside in and even the metal looks naturally rusted. Winners of the eVolo Skyscraper Competition 2012. eVolo Magazine has unveiled the winners of its 2012 Skyscraper Competition.

Winners of the eVolo Skyscraper Competition 2012

The first place was awarded to Zhi Zheng, Hongchuan Zhao and Dongbai Song from China for their project "Himalaya Water Tower. " The proposal is a skyscraper located high in the Himalayan mountain range that stores water and helps regulate its dispersal to the land below as the mountains' natural supplies dry up. The skyscraper, which can be replicated en masse, will collect water in the rainy season, purify it, freeze it into ice and store it for future use.

Welcome to the World of Archidose! HERZOG & DE MEURON. Vitra Unveils Its Stunning New Museum [UPDATED WITH 3-D TOUR] The Vitra campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany, is already a mecca for contemporary architecture, featuring a design museum by Frank Gehry, a conference center by Tadao Ando, and another building on the way by SANAA. And they've just finished what might be the greatest of them of them all: a new building, designed by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, to showcase the company's home-furniture collection. UPDATE: Vitra has now thrown up an amazing series of 3-D images of the museum, offering you the next-best thing to actually visiting the building. A couple screen-caps: Herzog & de Meuron--who made a global splash in 2008 with their "Bird's Nest" stadium for the Beijing Olympics--conceived of the building as an "ur-house. " Amazing Places To Experience Around The Globe (Part 1) - StumbleUpon.

Preachers Rock, Preikestolen, Norway Blue Caves - Zakynthos Island, Greece Skaftafeli - Iceland Plitvice Lakes – Croatia.

Amazing Places To Experience Around The Globe (Part 1) - StumbleUpon

20 Cool Home Library Design Ideas. Great Buildings Online - Master Architects List 2011.0204. - StumbleUpon. ZAHA HADID: THE FIRST GREAT FEMALE ARCHITECT. This weekend Tokyo won the bid for the 2020 Olympics—more good news for Zaha Hadid, who is designing the new national stadium.

ZAHA HADID: THE FIRST GREAT FEMALE ARCHITECT

Five years ago, we published a profile by Jonathan Meades saying, "The world is waking up to her" From INTELLIGENT LIFE magazine, Summer 2008 ZAHA HADID'S PRACTICE occupies a former school in Clerkenwell, an area of London that still bears the scent of Dickens. It's an 1870s building designed by the London School Board architect E.R. Robson, who, typically of his profession, was unquestionably formulaic. "What is exciting," says Zaha, "is the link between computing and fabrication. "The computer is a tool," I agree. "No. What then? The workers on the factory floor--my way of putting it, not hers--are, she says "connected by digital knowledge...They have very different interests from 20 years ago. " Sure. TEN MINUTES' WALK from the practice is Hadid's apartment—austerely elegant, a sort of gallery of her painting and spectacularly lissom furniture.

"How large? "No. The Worlds 18 Strangest Bridges: Gallery. Hundertwasser.