Ghostly Developments Also Haunt Spain’s Banks - NYTimes.com

Ghostly Developments Also Haunt Spain’s Banks - NYTimes.com

Some (small) part of me wants to include this as a tourist destination... on some future visit to Spain

Buildings and Death Rays

Curved mirrors and the sun. As one newspaper noted, the old saw about what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas seems not true in this case. Love to know more detail however as stories of melted plastic bags and singed hair are quite extreme, even given the intensity of the Vegas sun.

Thanks Terri for pointing this out...

Apart from this spoof what is remarkable about this story is the lack of evidence. Youtube has a bunch of links all of which are people talking about the

issue. The melted plastic bag is the only proof offered. Not to doubt the local heating effect of the concave mirror, but singed hair and no burnt skin?

It seems the original story broke in the Las Vegas Review. Illustrated thus:

What I want to see is the video showing what happens. Not the cheap, sun glinting off the facade pic.

form beats function to a pulp: Architectural Record

Antoine Predock�s CLA Building in California May Be Demolished | News | Architectural Record

Emergent Design-Air Flow Analysis 1

I fully expected something with a title of 'Emergent design' to be at the very least Digital. It is after all spawned by studies of the digital and lead to "a theoretical framework... for investigating how choice of design methodology contributes to the success or failure of education reforms."

Instead it appears to be the use of a very large model and a cooling fan to study the potential for natural ventilation / wind driven air flow.

And so it begins?

I see on blueprint a reference to 'The World's First Printed Building'.

I'm not sure what to make of it. It seems like it is possibly just another of those 'because I can' exercises where the 'freedom' to create wildly free-form architecture is sufficient justification for the achievement that is documented.



It is - of course - a 'pavilion' so one does not have to deal with windows and other awkward questions like keeping out the rain. Still it is a major step forward from the machines that extrude concrete or that are outsize robots or that modularise everything that I have seen in past exercises of this type.

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Sound the Trumpet: Music Museum Opening in Phoenix

http://archrecord.construction.com/news/daily/archives/091230musical_instrument_museum.asp




Possibly another modelling exercise?

Could well be a basis for an acoustic model as well..

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