03.Aug.2010 Weekly Fuel – Efficiency Edition
by Jay Cox-Chapman, Design Build Assistant
From Studio Bellecour, a green office building in Toulouse, France
Things being destroyed, very slowly. The sound effects are a bit much, but still, awesome.
Flickr user theclosedloop, via the Industrial Designers’ Society of America, reminds us that “there is no away”
Google has added real-time weather monitoring to Google Earth. Representing environmental [...]
20.Jul.2010 Weekly Fuel – Gyre Edition
by Jay Cox-Chapman, Design Build Assistant
Art student Sam Starr built a small velodrome in a disused library at Pomona College. The project riffs off the idea of circulation — of bicycles, of books, of bloodflow in exercise — and simultaneously touches on the relationship between old and new media. Regardless, its a beautiful structure.
Workers restoring [...]
03.Jun.2010 Weekly Fuel – Bottomless Pit Edition
by Jay Cox-Chapman, Design Build Assistant
From Guatemala, news that a terrifyingly enormous sinkhole swallowed an entire factory, which was fortunately closed. The thing is reportedly 60 feet across and 300 feet deep — about as deep as the Statue of Liberty is tall.
The sinkholes — which occur regularly in Central America and Florida, among other [...]
01.Apr.2010 Weekly Fuel – 3D Printed Ark Edition
by Jay Cox-Chapman, Design Build Assistant
There’s more below the fold….
28.Jan.2010 Weekly Fuel – 1/28/10
by Jay Cox-Chapman, Design-Build Assistant
At Stack, we’re all about construction, but every once in a while it’s nice to check out the other side of the coin: choreographed destruction, set to opera. (Virginia DOT)
Another “best architecture of the decade” list, with intriguing choices like the Large Hadron Collider and the Svalbard Global Seed Vault (mammoth.us)
GOOD [...]
20.Jan.2010 Containers To Clinics Canopy
by Jay Cox-Chapman, Design Build Assistant
Check out these photos of the Containers to Clinics prototype canopy:
18.Jan.2010 C2C Featured in the Providence Journal
Peter Lord, the ProJo’s environmental reporter, featured Stack and Containers 2 Clinics in Sunday’s Environmental Journal.
Environmental Journal – Container-Turned-Clinic Set for Haiti
14.Jan.2010 Weekly Fuel – Computer Generated Edition
by Jay Cox-Chapman, Design Build Assistant
The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo.
Above: The Third & The Seventh, an astonishing, entirely computer-generated film by Alex Roman. The detail is incredible, and more so when you find out it was created by one person. Watch it fullscreen.
From the beautiful-architectural-drawings file: Original blueprints for the [...]
13.Jan.2010 Stackdb.com Website Updates
by Jay Cox-Chapman, Design Build Assistant
We’ve just updated our website, stackdb.com! Take a look through for construction videos, photos, and news updates.
04.Jan.2010 Weekly Fuel – On to 2010
by Jay Cox-Chapman, Design Build Assistant
Building reuse is often difficult to pull off, especially when old buildings are neglected or contaminated. Here are five projects that managed it, often in surprising ways.
Joe Duffy, an interior architect in New York, has an interesting model for a “visual brief,” as well as choice advice for design presentations.
James [...]
