Whatever happened to heisenberg?

Fascinating First-Ever Images of an Electron In Orbit [Science] - http://pulse.me/s/1ougM

Can a Sustainable City Rise in... (scientificamerican.com)

Scientific American writing an opinion piece... Annoying. Easy to understand how if this is popular science, science gets a bad name. It's just an opinion piece 'backed' by some collected opinions....

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Can a Sustainable City Rise in the Middle Eastern Desert?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=masdar-sustainable-city-in-desert

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Editorial, Editorial, world ar... (worldarchitecturenews.com)

An editorial worthy if the title: raises the age-old question about quality in architecture: does it have merely to do with appearance in carefully staged (sans people) photographs? Or is there more? Quality work environments.

Moves from this position to question the role of the architect in re-thinking quality work environments...

So reminiscent of the good old days when we ran Post Occupancy Evaluation exercises in design studio as part of the briefing process for improving the design output. Famously I recall involving not only the School Board, the admin Teaching and cleaning staff, but also the primary students in a school prior to designing a new addition

Editorial, Editorial, world architecture news, architecture jobs
http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?upload_id=17285&fuseaction=wanappln.projectview

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Genius 13-Year-Old Has a Solar... (gizmodo.com)

Don't know which to find more interesting at this point. The apparent improvement in solar energy collection. A vertical wall seems like an easy thing to do better than.  And the Notion that  nature understands Fibonacci...

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Genius 13-Year-Old Has a Solar Power Breakthrough
http://gizmodo.com/5832557/

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Museum of Liverpool by 3XN (dezeen.com)

Wonder if we'll ever go back to modelling museums...

Museum of Liverpool by 3XN
http://www.dezeen.com/2011/08/15/museum-of-liverpool-by-3xn/

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New Zealand Snow: Biggest Snow... (huffingtonpost.com)

Gotta love the idea that snow is so special!

New Zealand Snow: Biggest Snowfall In Last 30 Years Delights People In The Street
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/16/new-zealand-snow_n_928293.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

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Learning from Germany: Spatial... (architizer.com)

Love the mind twisting imagery ...

Learning from Germany: Spatial Advertisements
http://www.architizer.com/en_us/blog/dyn/27636/learning-from-germany-spatial-advertisements/

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A comic about the real scienti... (boingboing.net)

Now this is fun. 

A comic about the real scientific process
http://boingboing.net/2011/08/03/a-comic-about-the-real-scientific-process.html?dlvrit=36761

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MAKE | Ready-to-Wear Android Wearable Platform

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/08/ready-to-wear-android-wearable-platform.html
Around 3cm square. 32Gb data. WiFi. GPS.
A gadget looking for an application..
Something that with its tiny display has not enough I/O to make it useful... So the question they ask in suggesting on this site it is available is really unimaginative.

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Debunking the Myths About BIM in the “Cloud”: AECbytes Viewpoint #61

Debunking the Myths About BIM in the "Cloud": AECbytes Viewpoint #61
Another interesting paper from Graphisoft...
Seems to miss a fifth dimension in the cloud computing world: in addition to the 4 cloud approaches listed in the paper I believe there is a fifth. It is the web as service option. Running background analyses of air flow (CFD) or light (Radiance / 3DS Max Design) or energy (ESP-r or EnergyPlus) for example...


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Coop Himmelblau School 9 LA: a POE?

This Is Fascinating. Metropolis Magazine has conducted a POE on this 'out there' Coop Himmelblau school design.

They surveyed 200 students. Then the journalist / architecture critic produced this piece. It's truly interesting to compare the journalist's views with the snippets of the students' views provided by the example surveys ...

The side bar quotes are standard journalistic 'illustration'. The article itself is an interpretation of the 200 surveys. The standard Research evidence for the illustrative piece is nowhere to be seen. Personally I want to believe the journalist's conclusion: that the students like the quirkiness of the building and as arts students somehow see it as expressive of them. It's such a neat match. But then I read the survey examples. I am hard pressed to see in these how the conclusions could be drawn from the answers to these. Certainly the journalism keeps well away from any statement that might smack of statistically representing the views of the 200.

What's most disturbing about this article Is that this is a good read. It sounds convincing. It makes a convincing case - unless you think about all those students' opinions in the survey forms. For example: who is not intrigued to see the full range of opinions expressed in answer to the question complete this sentence: If I was the architect I would...

This is not a beat up about the trivialisation of information by the media. The question quoted above illustrates the problem I am sure faced the Journalist or the analyst-advisor. How on earth can anyone reasonably summarize open ended questions like that? And if there are several? It does not seem to be a well-designed survey form... It reads more like an inexperienced research student's first draft of a survey - full of interesting questions to ask, but with little clear concept of how to analyze.

Egypt’s Solar SLIDES House Has... (inhabitat.com)

Egypt's Solar SLIDES House Has a Transforming Perforated Facade
http://inhabitat.com/slides-perforated-skin-slides-in-and-out-to-control-solar-gain/

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Critics Take Jabs at Zaha's Olympic Stingray (archrecord.construction.com)

Hmm

Sure looks ugly at present.

But according to the Guardian ... link here
"Then, once spectators have negotiated the crowd management arrangements, which the building accommodates somewhat clumsily, they will enter a space that can only be described as stonking, "
Qq

Critics Take Jabs at Zaha's Olympic Stingray
http://archrecord.construction.com/news/2011/07/1107298-Zaha-Hadid-Olympic-Aquatics-Centre.asp?WT.mc_id=rss_archrecord

Render:


Render:


actuality:
Dezeen has best photos...




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Tips For Improve Your Renders (aleso3d.com)

Now they are saying use real settings. Not that long ago pretty render advice was all about faking it (   http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=170065 ) 

And keeping well away from setting for real light:
http://www.amazon.com/3DS-Max-Lighting-Nicholas-Boughen/dp/155622401X

Tips For Improve Your Renders
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A Belgian Idea of a Sustainable kit house

I was on the http://www.designbuildsource.com.au website and thought this made interesting reading...

A cube. Lots of insulation. Smallish windows. Pallet manufacture. But cheap? Like to see proof.

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Teaching Kids About the Enviro... (carbonpig.com)

Hate the "granny" tone. Ranting on about 'in our day'. Still the real question for the New Right is, since it was 'clearly' more 'efficient' for the economy to stop doing all this recycling, to whom did these efficiency measures transfer the cost of the production, re-use, and manufacture of the packaging?

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Teaching Kids About the Environment and Sustainability
http://carbonpig.com/article/teaching-kids-about-environment-and-sustainability

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Green energy: California poll ... (latimesblogs.latimes.com)

So, what would we find in New Zealand? 

Political gain trumps science? (check out this New Zealand political view of the science: http://www.act.org.nz/climate-change-policy - it will interest people not from New Zealand to discover the party that published this document sits at the cabinet table ...!)

Or perhaps 'New Zealanders are just gullible followers of the left wing press'? http://mediamatters.org/studios/video/201107200010. 

In checking out references to see if I could find two viewpoints on this issue I came across the main reason I thought Fox news was a brilliant satire when I first encountered it:

Headline from Fox website:

Pirates Swashbuckle Global Warming Alarmists

Original from the ABC website said this...:

Pirates disrupting climate change research

Green energy: California poll finds overwhelming support
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2011/07/global-warming-green-energy-california-poll.html?dlvrit=142898

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Another Website Ranking

Another Website Ranking
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Archidose publishes some interesting stuff. Most interesting of recent times has been their considered examination of what constitutes an interesting / useful blog / web page related to architecture, This is one.

The other is the top sites as calculated by Alexa in terms of actual links to the sites.

66 Most Popular Architecture Websites

66 Most Popular Architecture Websites
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As it says, the Alexa report of the architetcure web sites linked to most often - as reported by 'Archidose'.

Takasugi-an | OpenBuildings

Takasugi-an | OpenBuildings

Anyone fancy a truly sick treehouse...?