Media Architecture constantly provide exciting inspirations, that combine the worlds of Architecture, Digital Media and Communications. Worth a look!
"Dealing with the implications of new display technology on architecture and cityplanning. It collects outstanding mediafacade projects and tracks new technological developments especially in the field of LED."
Image: Recent coverage of Jason Bruges LED Pixel Cloud.
Link: Media Architecture
Designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, The Blur Building really caught my eye today.
Built for the Swiss Expo 2002 on Lake Neuchatel, it is an architecture of atmosphere. The primary building material is indigenous to the site, water. Water is pumped from the lake, filtered, and shot as a fine mist through 31,500 high-pressure mist nozzles.
"Upon entering the fog mass, visual and acoustic references are erased, leaving only an optical "white-out" and the "white-noise" of pulsing nozzles. Blur is an anti-spectacle. Contrary to immersive environments that strive for high-definition visual fidelity with ever-greater technical virtuosity, Blur is decidedly low-definition: there is nothing to see but our dependence on vision itself."
Via. Blueprint Magazine's Blog.
Think is an exhibition and conference about sustainability in the built environment. It tackles the issue at a strategic level across the value chain in the public, private and third sectors. Think 2008 will take place from 7-8 May 2008 at ExCeL, London.
Think is produced in partnership with the market-leading publications and debate and networking happens year-round through the i-think community and networking forum Think 100.
The built environment accounts for about 50% of the UK’s carbon dioxide emissions and it’s increasingly clear that we have to change the way we design, construct and use buildings – and do so fast. This means rethinking the whole process and taking a fresh look at what we mean by, and how we achieve, a sustainable built environment – from specifying low energy lighting to creating places where people really want to live and work.
Watch the Video here.
Link: Think 2008
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