I can’t express how refreshing it is to see Scope Cleaver’s work recognized for the masterpiece it is. Scrolling through arcspace.com, you’ll find IM Pei, Norman Foster, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Zaha Hadid, and now… Scope Cleaver. “The...
Fascinating news via Idea City – read the full story HERE. “they [IBM and Kingfisher] have designed DIY Shopper to integrate with Second Life so that a shopper’s avatar is able to view materials available in store on his/her virtual house. Let me write...
Find the transcript of today’s meeting HERE. Much better turnout, excellent conversation. As usual, we were meandering, but always inspiring and interesting. We started with scale, and ended with scale – and arrived at some interesting conclusions. The...
Join us on Architecture Island (slurl) this Thursday at 2PM SL-time (PDT) this week, as we address the troublesome concepts of scale, perception and relativity we all face in Second Life. What does scale really mean in SL anyway? Is the meter arbitrary? Is it all...
Quite a few quality entries in the Meltori Editore architecture competition, recently organized by Mario Gerosa (Frank Koolhaas in SL). [youtube= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7Glm-iaTDg&eurl=] Via Virtual Architecture...
This week, we’ll be trying out a meeting at 2:00 PM SL-time (PDT) on Architecture Island (last week’s 6:00pm time wasn’t very popular). I’m in the process of verifying a guest presentation, and will provide more details as soon as I know more....
What? Spatially interesting and aesthetically independent pieces of architecture are sought from the inhabitants of the digital parallel world that has almost five million participants. The competition is open for all. Why? The aim of the competition is to explore new...
Within 10 minutes, I had my adobo customized to be ‘Oh So Fresh and Clean’. When I started, it was an ‘Enemy of the Planet’. Whew! What a great way to end the week, saving the planet in...
Interesting article on Coldwell Banker’s Second Life presence, including the replication of this $3 million dollar home, on ABC News – check out the story HERE.
[youtube = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy90VxgWTP0] Taking the idea of reflexive architecture a step further, perhaps virtual architecture could not only be sensitive and dynamic to the movement of its occupants, but capable of incorporating real time data streams,...
