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 [...]
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, [...]
01.Mar.2010 Weekly Fuel – February 25, 2010
by Jay Cox-Chapman, Design Build Assistant A stop-motion time lapse of an infamous housing project in Chicago coming down. Not only is it heartening to see terrible housing like this demolished, it also gives a neat insight into the structural reality of that building, as they chip away at the core before finally bringing the [...]
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by Jay Cox-Chapman, Design Build Assistant Click through the images for the source article. [vimeo http://vimeo.com/4360666] The history of Charlotte, NC, animated by paper.
11.Feb.2010 Weekly Fuel – Next Generation Edition
by Jay Cox-Chapman, Design Build Assistant Always go for the gusto. Time lapse of the week: Washington and its teddy bears, buried by snow.
04.Feb.2010 Weekly Fuel – Zen Edition
by Jay Cox-Chapman, Design Build Assistant Click the images for the source article.
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 [...]
22.Jan.2010 Weekly Fuel – 1/22/10
by Jay Cox-Chapman, Design Build Assistant First and foremost, two links on the architectural and building science implications of the earthquake in Haiti: The Infrastructurist on why so many buildings collapsed, when the destructive-but-not-catastrophic 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake in CA was the same magnitude. Next, Architecture for Humanity lays out a plan for how to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
