i dream in CAD....

Wine can stain you;
Taurine causes cramp;
Beer can drain you;
And bars can be damp.
Drugs aren’t lawful;
Caffeine makes you twitch;
Cigarettes smell awful;
Clearly, sugar is the best way to scratch the 4pm itch

Running May 5 to 9, 2011, at the Gene Siskel Film Center, the spring program will screen feature films, documentaries, and shorts spotlighting the creative spirit of architecture and design…

Designed by Joel Sanders Architect, this central city residence is focused up and out. Plants are arrayed around the slim stairs leading to the rooftop area above, creating a bridge between the modern interior and organic exterior. The bulkhead housing this connection (along with generous skylights) also brings natural light down into the main apartment.

Going to give this a try for my thesis presentatation - pretty cool stuff!

Hypercosm provides software and services to create and deploy interactive web-based 3D simulations for training, courseware, manuals, websites and product visualizations.

An interesting space saving concept :)

Design for America (DfA) is a network of student-led studios creating local and social impact through interdisciplinary design. DfA equips our generation with the mind-set and skill-set to create social impact. We are a network of student-led design studios that Look Locally, Create Fervently, and Act Fearlessly.

The New Museum in NYC has become the catalyst for an area-wide transformation of the once-benighted neighborhood into a new mecca for art and culture in downtown Manhattan. Now teaming up with a grab bag of nearby institutions, the museum is toasting the local renaissance with a street fair to end all street fairs: the Festival of Ideas for the New City will take over the sidewalks May 4-8…

I just read an article in the new Metropolis Magazine (April 2011) talking about how this design by Diller + Scofiio of the Brasserie in NYC was one of the first to incorporate “social media” before it was known as such.  Pretty interesting article!

The design emphasizes the social aspects of dining.

Entrance from the street is transformed into the ritual of “making an entrance”. Initially, a sensor in the revolving entry door triggers a video snapshot that is added to a continuously changing display on over the bar, announcing every new patron.

Along the “video beam” composed of 15 side by side LCD monitors, the most recent portrait takes the first position and racks the previous 15 to the right, dropping away the oldest.

Some gorgeous vignettes!