02.Sep.2010 Weekly Fuel – Labor Day Edition
by Jay Cox-Chapman, Design Build Assistant
The name might sound like a boxer from the ’50s, but Hurricane Earl is churning its way up the Atlantic seaboard. Winds are gusting up to 165 mph in the Category 4 storm, which reminds us why architects and builders take the long view when doing their work. The effects [...]
30.Jun.2010 Weekly Fuel – Spatial Edition
by Jay Cox-Chapman, Design Build Assistant
Spatially and artistically, the above photo of skydivers watching the space shuttle launch is extraordinary.
Stack design intern (and Box Office welder) Geoff Hawley threw together a mockup of our “cube” logo out of recycled steel.
There’s more below the fold…
29.May.2010 Weekly Fuel – Architectural Prank Edition
by Jay Cox-Chapman, Design-Build Assistant
BLDG Blog points out this architectural prank/sculpture from artists Julien Berthier and Simon Boudvin: a fake door installed against a wall in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris. It’s almost touching that the door is faithfully cleaned of graffiti by the city.
Stack continues to follow the Deepwater Horizon disaster closely. It’s events [...]
11.May.2010 Weekly Fuel — Laser Mapping Edition
by Jay Cox-Chapman, Design-Build Assistant
Early in the morning in NYC, an intrepid flight crew has been using LIDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) to produce a highly accurate map of New York City. The information will be used in disaster preparedness and sustainability efforts; comprehensively understanding a place helps in managing it. The effort reminds [...]
29.Apr.2010 Weekly Fuel — Good News, Bad News Edition
by Jay Cox-Chapman, Design-Build Assistant
First, the good news: after nine years of regulatory wrangling, the Cape Wind offshore wind turbine project got the go-ahead from Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. Roadblocks remain, but there’s no question that the approval is good news for the wind industry in general. Developers favor offshore sites because of steadier winds [...]
22.Apr.2010 Weekly Fuel – Earth Day Edition
by Jay Cox-Chapman, Design-Build Assistant
BLDG BLOG explores the architectural implications of the killer volcano cloud (click on the photo above). The Infrastructurist has a great infographic explaining the overall impact.
Cognitive scientist blogger Jonah Lehrer takes on commuting, and characteristically leaves us with insight into buying cars.
15.Apr.2010 Weekly Fuel – Tax Day Edition
by Jay Cox-Chapman, Design Build Assistant
This week I had the pleasant duty of attending a workshop hosted by the Boston Society of Architects entitled “Toward Net-Zero Energy Houses in New England,” with presentations by Albert, Righter, and Tittman, Transformations, Inc., and Byggmeister Associates. While many of the concepts were familiar from our Box Office project, [...]
12.Apr.2010 Department of You Heard It Here First
The Wall Street Journal is featuring an article on collapsible shipping containers, including those by Cargoshell, which Stack featured here a few months ago.
08.Apr.2010 Weekly Fuel — BOB Edition
by Jay Cox-Chapman, Design-Build Assistant
As always, click through the photo for the source article.
Jarrett Walker of Human Transit, writing about a simplified Google Maps transit layer, provides some fundamental design insight:
Running Google Transit must be a lot like, well, running a big transit system: Your customer experiences your product at a level of detail [...]
23.Mar.2010 Weekly Fuel – Architectural Weather Edition
by Jay Cox-Chapman, Design Build Assistant
The photos link to the source article.
UN Studio installed an artificial tornado in the Mercedes museum in Stuttgart, Germany:
LEED gets an overhaul with the release of v. 3.0. Business Week does the roundup.
Slate does an excellent series on signage and wayfinding. As always with good design, elegance, simplicity, and user-friendliness [...]
