Shangri-la Botanical Gardens and Nature Center, Orange, Texas, Photo Courtesy of Hester + Hardaway Photography
The American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment (COTE) invites electronic submission of built projects and chose ten that represent the most innovative examples of green building. The website consists of a search-able database with detailed information about each building’s design process, cost, land use, water conservation, energy use, materials, and LEED ratings.
Tags: green, green architecture, LEED, sustainability, sustainable design
Posted by Joan Winter on November 20, 2009 in architecture | No Comments »
The American Society of Civil Engineers Database provides access to over 100,000 bibliographic and abstracted records from 1970 to the present. The associated Research Library can search 73,000 full-text articles from ASCE journals and conference proceedings and will be adding over 4,000 new articles each year. Though a subscription is required, these resources offer unprecedented access to research materials in the various fields of civil engineering.
Tags: abstracts, American Society of Civil Engineers, articles, ASCE, bibliographies, civil engineering, database, development, planning, research library, transportation
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on November 19, 2009 in architecture, words | No Comments »
The App Garden on Flickr brings together all the “home grown” applications created with the Flickr API. API’s allow developers to write programs using public data – photos, video, tags, profiles or groups – that allow you to explore Flickr’s content in new and different ways.
Tags: API, Flickr, web 2.0
Posted by Joan Winter on November 18, 2009 in image presentation, images, photography | No Comments »
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur consists of around 2 million images of art and architecture located in Germany and throughout Europe. While Bildindex is a German-language site, it is navigable for the English speaker through interactive features that provide information about the current location and history of the image object. The product of over 30 years of collection development, Bildindex hosts a wide range of image types (drawings, photographs, paintings, prints, plans) as well as special collections and continues to grow by sponsoring further digitization projects.
Tags: architectural history, architecture, art, art history, Bildarchiv Foto Marburg, Bildindex, drawings, Europe, European architecture, German architecture, Germany, Italian architecture, manuscripts, modernism, painting, photographs, plans, Renaissance, search tool
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on November 17, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, images, landscape, photography | No Comments »
The George Eastman House has created a wiki-style resource, Notes on Photographs, for students, historian, collectors, curators, conservators and archivists to facilitate deeper understanding of photographic techniques. With the rise in market value, lack of reference resources, and closing of chemical imagining plants, there is a greater need than ever before to study and observe traditional photographs.
Tags: analog photography, conservation, museum, technique
Posted by Joan Winter on November 16, 2009 in images, photography | No Comments »
Inmagine is the world’s largest royalty-free stock photography site with over 3.5 million images from over 100 best-selling collections. With images organized into galleries and categories, they are easy to search even without using Inmagines innovative search tools including Insight keyword search and Universal Search, a mechanism using geography and language detection to locate images. In addition, Inmagine offers a number of services including image enlargement and retouching.
Tags: architectural history, architecture, clip art, culture, design, illustrations, images, Inmagine, landscape, landscape architecture, photography, stock images, stock photography, urban design, visual resource collection
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on November 15, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, images, landscape, photography | No Comments »
The University of Chicago Center for the Art of East Asia is creating a database of Chinese handscroll paintings in a scrolling digital format. The Digital Scrolling Paintings Project aims to create a database that at once provides access to these rarely displayed artifacts while enabling a full investigation of the images and ideograms rendered.
Tags: Art Institute Chicago, digital images, Digital Scrolling Paintings Project, interactive, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, St. Louis Art Museum, University of Chicago, University of Chicago Center for the Art of East Asia
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on November 14, 2009 in art, image presentation, images, landscape | No Comments »
Yesterday, the roof substructure of London’s 2012 Olympic aquatic center was revealed. The framework of Zaha Hadid’s undulating design took over seven months to construct and lift into place. In addition to holding two 50-metre pools, a 25-metre diving pool and 17,500 spectators, this £244m building is expected to function as a gateway to the games inspiring visitors as they enter Olympic Park. Click here to view more photographs of the site.
For more information about the aquatic center read this Gaurdian article.
Tags: acquatic center, architecture, contemporary architecture, London, London Olympics 2012, Olympics 2012, Zaha Hadid
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on November 13, 2009 in architecture | No Comments »
While many use iPhones to navigate cities or find a good restaurant, a new app has attempted to use the same technology to enrich the urban experience and uncover unrealized layers of the landscape. Museum of the Phantom City is a public art project designed by Cheng+Snyder, a multidisciplinary design studio based in New York City and Philadelphia. The Phantom City transforms NYC into a living museum and maps 50 unrealized projects onto the current urban grid. The beta version of the app is available for free and you can also view the entire tour on their website.
Read more about the project on BldgBlog
Tags: Apps, futures, iphone, New York, unrealized projects
Posted by Joan Winter on November 12, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, maps | No Comments »
Smallen House, 1957
The Philip Johnson Glass House and the State of Connecticut announced Phase III in their efforts to move modern preservation forward with the launch of the new documentary film Living Modern in Connecticut. Living Modern examines modern architecture in Connecticut including the work of Saarinan and Breuer asking if this architecture is danger of disappearing. The film premiers on CPTV Thursday, November 12th.
In addition, The Philip Johnson Glass House is teaming with the State and number of other local and regional civic and preservation organizations to create a the Multiple Property Documentation Form. The Multiple Property Documentation Form will further the work of the 2008 Modern Homes Survey by facilitating the effort to identify and preserve modern homes in Connecticut in addition to providing registry with the National Register of Historic Places.
Tags: architectural history, architecture, Connecticut, Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism, Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation, CPTV, historic preservation, Living Modern in Connecticut, Modern Homes Survey, Multiple Property Documentation Form, National Register of Historic Places, New Canaan, New Canaan Historical Society, New Canaan Preservation Alliance, Northeast Office of the National Trust, Phase III, Philip Johnson Glass House, preservation
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on November 11, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, images, landscape, photography | No Comments »
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