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Architecture Design Architectural Images History Models and More - ArchitectureWeek Great Buildings
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Vintage Soviet Posters & Propaganda Moor, Dimitri.1st of May - A Festival of Labor, 1920 Moor, Dimitri. Cossack - Who are you with, them or us?, 1920 Zvorykin, B. The Struggle of the Red Knight with the Dark Force, 1919 No. 582 - 2013.0821 Brooklyn is a hub of innovative architecture and design, with dozens of young professionals commissioning or undertaking their own eco-sensitive renovations to existing brownstones and low-rise attached buildings throughout the borough. Tighthouse, a Passive House brownstone retrofit, sits at the end of a string of two-story buildings constructed in 1899 that share a tree-lined block with larger brownstones built around the same time, centrally located off Fifth Avenue in the neighborhood of Park Slope. It is the first certified Passive House in New York City and meets the standards for new construction, surpassing the EnerPHit certification. Remodeling Approach The unique retrofit of a 110-year-old house by the Brooklyn-based firm Fabrica 718 could serve as an important model for the many urban and suburban residences that need energy-saving renovations.

No. 570 - 2012.1024 Trees are fundamental to urban landscapes and natural ecosystems. Wood from trees is a fundamental material for architecture. The tension between wood in living trees, and wood in buildings and other products, is arguably at an all-time-high on planet Earth. This is especially true in North America, where primary harvest of irreplaceable primeval forest, having swept across the continent during the last 300 years, is still underway. In the Pacific Northwest of the United States and Canada, even as fierce political battles rage over the logging or conservation of the last few percent of older forests on public lands, vast acreages of once-vibrant forest in private industrial ownership is being stripped and scoured rapidly.

Historic New England American manufacturers were proud of their domestically produced goods. The billhead of Appleton Prentiss boasts an image of the American eagle and the words “AMERICAN MANUFACTURE” above rolls of different patterns he made. Many of these patterns can be identified in Historic New England’s collection. Wallpapers by several other New England paper strainers are also included in Historic New England’s collection. Ebenezer Clough established his paper staining business in Boston in 1795. An advertisement dated the next year lists patterns “of every description both large and small” in addition to many colors of “plain papers,” solid-colored rolls to be used with borders.

ikeduende.com Tamayo on Ikebana Ikebana is not just about flower arranging. Through the act of ikebana, you become involved in the process of terminating the life of a botanical creature, of discovering the beauty, mystery and power of plants, and the variety of possible outcomes is simply enormous! The Best Architectural Websites The Top Architectural Websites in the World That sounds pretty important doesn’t it? At the very least it sounds comprehensive … it suggests an extensive and exhaustive collection of the best architecturally themed websites in the world. I’m not sure if that is this list but it is my go-to list of websites. Compiling a list of the top architectural websites is far more difficult than it sounds, particularly if there isn’t any particular manner of evaluation employed other than these are the sites that I go to the most often. I don’t have a blog roll on my site, something that I struggle with continually for excluding.

Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access Skip to Content Font Size Home Main Menu What's New innovative solutions for Universal Design We are all homeless: The "WE ARE ALL HOMELESS" Project - an introduction This project began in 1993 when I started buying and collecting signs from the homeless. (More on that in the description of the art show HOME?) Over the past few years I have developed art work using the signs, which became focused while I was pursuing an MFA in Arts & Technology at UTDallas. Autodesk 123D Design: 3D Modeling for the Masses Autodesk123D Design is a new free 3D modeling tool that allows users to create a digital model and then 3D print or fabricate their idea whether on the iPad, Mac, PC or via their web browser. Autodesk 123D Design helps users get their projects started by providing base shapes and example models that help move past a blank screen and into the design quickly. Using natural interactions to add objects to the canvas and assemble parts together, users can enjoy the design process and create amazing 3D-printable designs. "For the first time ever, users can create sophisticated, precise 3D models of real objects on their iPad, Mac, PC or via their web browser.

Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture Image and Text Collections SEE THE NEWEST ADDITION TO OUR ONLINE TEXTS with underlying transcript to allow searching within the book:Handwritten Notebook of American Colonial craftsman John Widdifield (1673-1720) The Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture collects and creates electronic resources for study and research of the decorative arts, with a particular focus on Early America. Included are electronic texts and journals, image databases, and information on organizations, museums and research facilities.

Cybernetic Serendipity: A Documentation Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2016 23 Nov 2016 – 22 Jan 2017 Previously at the ICA - Exhibitions Cybernetic Serendipity Exhibition poster, Institute of Contemporary Art, 2 August – 20 October, 1968 © Cybernetic Serendipity Cybernetic Serendipity: A Documentation 14 Oct 2014 – 30 Nov 2014 Fox Reading Room Jobs - NEWH GLAVE & HOLMES ARCHITECTURE – Richmond, VA General: Glavé & Holmes Architecture, an expanding and award-winning multi-disciplinary architecture, interior design and planning firm, seeks a dynamic, experienced leader for the… MARRIOTT INTERNATIONAL – Bethesda, MD Director, Interior Design (Full Service – 17001DWF) POSITION SUMMARY Design is a life love, not just a job. It is in fact a physical manifestation…

david hockney: me draw on iPad oct 11, 2011 david hockney: me draw on iPad copenhagen’s louisiana museum exhibited david hockney’s digital paintings in ‘me draw on iPad’ presented at the louisiana museum of modern art in copenhagen, ‘me draw on iPad‘ is an exhibition of the digital paintings created by british artist david hockney using the iPhone and iPad with the ‘brushes’ app. the installation includes 20 touch iPods and 20 iPads mounted along the walls, on each of which several paintings are exhibited on a sequential loop. a large-format triptych slide show directed by hockney displays additional works, while several projections showcase footage of hockney’s process and a start-to-finish animation playback of several pieces. over the course of the exhibition, hockney occasionally sent new iPad drawings via e-mail to be added to the show, illustrating an interesting potential that the digital medium offers for museum exhibition. installation view of the iPads image © designboom closer viewimage © designboom

Snow Drawings, Rabbit Ears Pass, CO, Sunday Jan. 29, 2012 This large-scale Snow Drawing piece was created with the generous assistance of 5 volunteers from Steambaot Springs and Hayden, Colorado. The photos were taken during a flyover in local pilot Jack Dysart’s Cessna aircraft. All images on this blog © Sonja Hinrichsen – reproduction of images only with permission contact: sonja[at]s-hinrichsen.net Additional photos and video were taken by Cedar Beauregard during the creation of this piece with a camera mounted on a remote-controlled helicopter. All photos are available as editioned fine art prints.

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