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WHERE GOOD IDEAS COME FROM by Steven Johnson (by RiverheadBooks)
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I’ve gotten a few requests for Akira, but I’m like “Guy’s do you really think I’d leave out Akira? C’maaaaan.” :) Anyway the first round from the movie that probably got you into anime in the first place.
Akira. Directed by Katsuhiro Otomo. Created by Tatsunoko Production, TMS Entertainment.
So many good Akira posts today on my dash ~
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“Page’s system takes a series of photographs and patches them together based on how light bounces off each surface. Rather than taking weeks to survey an old building, architects can now generate precise dimensions in just a few hours.”
Precise Images of Buildings That 3D Scanning Enables by Scott Page Design
3D scanning—though it’s been around since the 1960s—has been in the news of late, with Harvard using the technology to recreate ancient statues and MakerBot announcing a desktop scanner last month. But cheaper, faster, and more accessible 3D scanners aren’t just revolutionizing how we print terrifying models of our own faces. They’re also changing how we understand the city.
A fascinating story about urban-scale 3D scanning published on the Atlantic Cities this week explores how a Bay Area architect named Scott Page is using a 3D scanner to generate super-accurate models of historic and dilapidated buildings.
Page’s system takes a series of photographs and patches them together based on how light bounces off each surface. Rather than taking weeks to survey an old building, architects can now generate precise dimensions in just a few hours. Because the scanner uses color photographs, the models are also incredibly beautiful, expressive documents—Page compares them to the first photographs ever made. “There is a magical quality to point cloud imagery, similar to the earliest photos that froze time onto small metallic plates,” he writes on his website.
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What a beautiful world.
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An earlier version of this article misattributed the origin of the phrase “less is more” to the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. He did not coin the phrase, but adopted and popularized it as an aesthetic maxim. (via When Less Was More - NYTimes.com)
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RIP. Moji.
In Memoriam: Mojdeh Baratloo, architect and Untapped Cities inspiration http://bit.ly/15Ya8Oo
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Love this anarchy!
(via Mapping the Horrors of Hong Kong’s ‘Lawless’ Walled City - Cool Graphic Thing - Curbed National)
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L’Oeuf Pompidou - André Bruyère’s design for the Pompidou Centre
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“The ring helps to create a suitable environment, it is as respectful as possible towards the place and avoids visual and physical barriers while integrating into surroundings of high environmental and landscape value as neutrally as possible. The visual differentiation between ring and terrain is produced by a line of shadow below the building, which varies in the course of the day.”
Sports Innovation Centre by José María Sánchez García.
The Technification Centre houses a programme for research, training and sports practice connected with nature. Its privileged location, on a peninsula and next to the edge of the Gabriel y Galán reservoir, determines its shape, a great ring raised above the ground, with a seven-metre centreline and two hundred metres in diameter and a steel structure, while a steel façade reflects the colours and the light of the different seasons and times of the day, integrating it into its surroundings.
The project is structured on the basis of a ring-shaped geometry formed from two concentric circles, between which the entire programme diversity of the centre and its facilities is connected. This ring adapts to the limits marked by the non-floodable level of -387 metres. This perfect geometric shape preserves the interior from the whole landscape that needs to be conserved in the peninsula: it is a magic circle that arranges all the action, activities and movement on the exterior; the interior is for rest, observation and reflection.
The ring helps to create a suitable environment, it is as respectful as possible towards the place and avoids visual and physical barriers while integrating into surroundings of high environmental and landscape value as neutrally as possible. The visual differentiation between ring and terrain is produced by a line of shadow below the building, which varies in the course of the day.
The façade is continuous in its entire perimeter. It is a ventilated façade made from prefab steel elements. The finishing sheet metal is a pleated fifty-centimetre piece with a stainless steel finish. The roof is flat and fully accessible, built as an additional forging based on metallic girders and forging in collaborating sheet metal. It operates as a ring-shaped promenade at a level of 396.65 metres that provides a full view of everything that occurs on the peninsula and its surroundings.
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Ghost city: Kangbashi was meant to be the urban centre for wealthy coal-mining community Ordos and home to its one million workers, but its roads are eerily empty and the houses stand vacant (via Ghost towns of China: Satellite images show cities lying completely deserted | Mail Online)
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