by Jon Brouchoud | Jul 14, 2008 | Uncategorized
Martin Purnell and Associates, a real life development firm located in Chicago, Illinois, opens virtual office on the Etopia sim in Second Life. The construction is nearly complete on the virtual model of the Future Green Chatham homes. They hope to begin building the...
by Jon Brouchoud | Jul 14, 2008 | Uncategorized
[youtube = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHWMapSAHSU] This just in from Hidenori Watanave (including video above): “Yesterday I invited “Atelier Ten Architects” for my laboratory of Tokyo Metropolitan University, and they made a special lecture of...
by Jon Brouchoud | Jul 12, 2008 | Uncategorized
This just in from Bennet Dynamo, who created an incredible gallery for this exhibit (see more screenshots below): “I am honored to host the first show at the foundation gallery on depo park 4 presenting a selection of Lucien Herve’s fine photography of...
by Jon Brouchoud | Jul 11, 2008 | Uncategorized
We really, really need your help on this one! I am confident that if the readers of this blog collectively vote as a unified voice to push 3D Model Interoperability as a priority item for Linden Lab, we will be heard. You all know that Importing and exporting models...
by Jon Brouchoud | Jul 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
WOW. If you couldn’t join us today, I strongly urge you to make some time to check this project out. To truly comprehend the depth and history of this project, you have to spend some time there. It takes some time to develop… it came to me in layers. ...
by Jon Brouchoud | Jul 7, 2008 | Uncategorized
Real life Social Scientist and Historian Lotja Loon continues this excellent thread of presentations with the upcoming ‘Frank Lloyd – What on earth is “organic architecture”? ‘ lecture. Check out Lotja’s blog for more information, and...
by Jon Brouchoud | Jul 2, 2008 | Uncategorized
I was absolutely blown away by the projects presented on this panel, and am relieved there seems to be consensus that we need to have more discussions like this soon. Just when I think I’ve got my finger on the pulse of professional architecture and design work...
by Jon Brouchoud | Jun 30, 2008 | Uncategorized
If you are even remotely interested in the use of virtual worlds to augment the professional practice of architecture, you won’t want to miss this! On July 9th, at 2:00pm SL-time (PDT), Bernd Bötzel (Vision Planer in SL), architect, project developer and...
by Jon Brouchoud | Jun 26, 2008 | Uncategorized
In a nice little twist of serendipity, a comment on this post led me to this site, where I found this: “the main reason SGG (Saint Gobain Glass) is now in Second Life is to share ideas and invent their next generation of products with a great focus on...
by Jon Brouchoud | Jun 25, 2008 | Uncategorized
I’ve known Pam Broviak, a city engineer/director of public works in real life, and founder of the Public Works group in Second Life for quite a while now, and never cease to be amazed by the amount of energy and creative ideas she brings to Second Life. If you...
