The preeminent software licensing company, Adobe, whose products include industry-standard programs like Photoshop and Illustrator, is being sued by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for surprising customers with hidden termination fees and an overly complicated cancellation process. The action is a non-criminal suit against Adobe and two of its executives that will result in civil
Scientists at NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley are experimenting with fungal mycelium to help support life on the Moon and Mars. Last week, NASA rolled out a concept it calls “mycotecture”—architecture made of mycelium. Continue reading on The Architect’s Newspaper The post NASA is prototyping fungal mycelium bricks to “grow homes” on the
A Purple Architecture: Design in the Age of the Physical-Virtual Continuum by James F. Kerestes, Ebrahim Poustinchi, and Vahid Vahdat | ETC Press | $65 Continue reading on The Architect’s Newspaper The post A new AR-guided collection of essays defines “Purpleness” in architecture appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.
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Twelve years ago, a reservoir called Folsom Lake, about 30 miles northeast of Sacramento, dried up. On the drought-cracked bottom lay a clay pipe, submerged since 1955, when the reservoir was built. That pipe, like most that run below cities like Sacramento, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, was made by Gladding, McBean, a terra-cotta manufacturer
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office recently released a PowerPoint that gives a glimpse into what the Likud Party has in mind for Gaza’s future, and the Levant region at large. On May 3, Netanyahu unveiled Gaza 2035: A three-step master plan to build what he calls the “Gaza-Arish-Sderot Free Trade Zone.” The plan was
Well before Herman Melville penned Moby Dick, seaside towns along the Massachusetts shoreline from Gloucester to New Bedford have provided kitchens with lobster, salmon, pike, bass, and other produce. Just south of Gloucester is Manchester-by-the-Sea, an old blue-collar town whose economy lives and dies by the fishing industry. Continue reading on The Architect’s Newspaper The
It seems to be out of a movie to have a window looking out into distant locations to greet foreign social circles and cultures. The Portal, a public technology sculpture arriving in New York City and Dublin this spring, is set to make this cinematic fantasy into a reality. Serving as a visual bridge, the
Fallingwater is one of his most notable buildings, but there’s a good chance you don’t know the other half of Frank Lloyd Wright’s oeuvre. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Southwestern Pennsylvania, hosted at the Westmoreland Museum of Art, explores both realized works and paper architecture, including a residential highrise, a parking garage, and the white elephant of
Perforating any metal object adds both visual interest and texture. A new offering from A. Zahner Company allows architects and designers to detail metal panels for facades, walls, signage, and other building applications with a perforation style that renders a painting-like appearance. Continue reading on The Architect’s Newspaper The post Zahner’s ImageLines produces painting-like perforations
It’s hard to pinpoint the Las Vegas Sphere’s main attraction. Is it the headline performances in its 17,600-seat auditorium, its glowing exoskeleton, or its recently unveiled, almost supernatural interiors? In addition to its outdoor surface totaling 580,00 square feet of glowing illumination, 300,000 square feet of interior space was outfitted to match suit. ICRAVE, a
Habits of the Anthropocene ACADIA 2023 University of Colorado Denver October 21–28 Continue reading on The Architect’s Newspaper The post ACADIA’s <em>Habits of the Anthropocene</em> offered imaginative presentations on bioengineering, craft, and information appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.
You get a sphere! You may get a sphere! You don’t get a sphere… A ruling yesterday from London mayor Sadiq Khan may have confirmed the fate of London’s version of a Populous-designed Sphere: Decision refused. Continue reading on The Architect’s Newspaper The post London Mayor Sadiq Khan rejects planning application for Populous-designed Sphere in Stratford
“Bill-ding Boards”—a term coined by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown in their 1984 book A View from the Campidoglio—are very in these days. A Bill-ding Board is what it sounds like: a building whose facade effectively functions as a billboard (building + billboard=Bill-ding Board), typically sited on a major thoroughfare or prominent public space. The Sphere
Buckminster Fuller debuted his geodesic dome concept at the 1954 Milan Triennale as a large cardboard model. The showcase turned into a career-long examination of spherical housing prototypes and energy efficient building methods. Fuller eventually resided in one of his realized designs for several years. Today, the nonprofit that runs “Bucky Dome,” Fuller’s residence from
An early episode of SpongeBob SquarePants contained a particularly moving scene. Upon seeing Patrick Star approached by the dangerous Man Ray, a villain who had kidnapped Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy, our hero calls out, “Not so fast, archvillain. We still have the Orb of Confusion!” The Orb of Confusion was a simple blue glass
In Issue 8 of their published manifestos, Archigram noted that over time they had become increasingly concerned with matters relating to the human experience: “comfort, facility, satisfaction, enquiry, and above all the effect of all kinds of phenomena upon each other.” Upon entering Peter Cook’s recent show at the Richard Saltoun Gallery, this fascination with
Gone are the days when architects needed to rely on tape measures, or even laser scanning devices, to take measurements of a space and create a digital 3D model. A leapfrog came in June 2022 when Apple unveiled RoomPlan, an expansion to its ARKit 2.0 augmented reality feature for iPhones and iPads that uses the
This past June, TECH+ returned to Los Angeles in-person for the first time since early 2020. The world has changed significantly since 2020, yet nonetheless, AEC technologies continue to evolve, becoming more established in the practices of firms big and small and offering new solutions to age-old problems. Continue reading on The Architect’s Newspaper The
Since 2016, Boston Valley Terra Cotta has partnered with the University of Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning and Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Architecture to host the annual Architectural Ceramics Assemblies Workshop (ACAW). During the weeklong event, eight teams, composed of paired design and engineering firms, collaborate to create facade prototypes using architectural terra-cotta. Continue
Elon Musk is still busy. Since he began his takeover of Twitter (now X Corp.) last year, Musk has shown little satisfaction for how the deal went down, the alleged presence of bots, going rounds in Delaware’s Chancery Court, and now, its branding. Continue reading on The Architect’s Newspaper The post Elon Musk rolls out
3D printing company ICON opened its first model home for the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)–designed single family development as part of Wolf Ranch in Georgetown, Texas this past weekend. Located north of Austin, the development, built by Lennar, has a layout familiar to suburbanites across the U.S. The catch is that all 100 homes are 3D-printed
Look for a red cube. Do you see it? Continue reading on The Architect’s Newspaper The post <em>KAGAMI</em>, on view at The Shed, fuses dimensional art with classical music appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.
For the first time in the event’s seven-year history, TECH+, presented by AN and aec+tech, will come to Los Angeles. Featuring the latest in AEC technology, the conference includes a full-day symposium and an exhibition of cutting-edge technology products. The event will be held at the LINE LA and will be co-chaired by Niknaz Aftahi, founder
Moshe Safdie’s Habitat 67, a project the architect designed for his master’s thesis at McGill University that was later spun into the 1967 world’s fair in Montreal, has been fully realized as a digital model through software from Unreal Engine and Reality Capture. Creative agency Neoscape was approached by Epic Games—the developer behind the game
Like a lab rat who can’t shake his cocaine addiction, I mercilessly bashed my Power-Up Wristband™ against a golden question mark block to hear that familiar Mario coin sound. Joined by photographer Iwan Baan, who looked on in curious but loving horror, I bathed in the dopamine fountain of nostalgic immersion. Super Nintendo World™ at
Medusa Pioneer Works 159 Pioneer Street Brooklyn, New York Through April 16 High in the rafters of Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, a digital display too kinetic and dynamic to exist in the real world swims through space. As Medusa ebbs and flows, seafoam-green square slats shoot from the 40-foot-tall ceiling all the way to ground
Conferences appear to be back to nearly full swing based on attendance numbers and foot traffic at Geo Week 2023, held last February 11–13 at the Colorado Convention Center in downtown Denver. Billing itself as “the Intersection of Geospatial and the Built World,” Geo Week 2023 saw its attendance rise 44 percent over last year,
In March 2015, Jamie Diamond, a photo-based artist, received an email from one Richard “Dick” Stanley. Mistaking Diamond for Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co., Stanley stated that he had been a Chase customer in Columbus, Ohio, since 1996, but had recently moved to Albuquerque, where he had to bank long-distance. He
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