Nail Houses are becoming a common sighting in the news about new construction in China. The term was coined in reference to the fact that these houses are like a “stubborn nail” which is difficult to remove; a nuisance essentially. In Beijing in 2004, when confronted with plans for a shopping mall, which would displace […]
http://www.dezeen.com/2011/10/17/passing-cloud-by-tiago-barros/ If you’re not worried about where you go or how fast you get there, this enormous inflatable cloud is the mode of transport for you. Predominant winds would determine the routes and speed of the hovering cloud, which would move from place to place without any fixed destinations. Passengers would board the cloud […]
The film by Leni Riefenstahl documents the 1936 Berlin Olympics. It was split into two parts: “Festival of Nations” and “Festival of Beauty”. It was the first documentary film on the Olympics and introduced new techniques of how to film sports. Unusual camera angles, extreme close-ups and camera tracks in the stadium to view the […]
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This is a great website that shows you were many of the summer Olympic sites are and has images that relate to that site in many cases. Look to the left hand margin for the different Olympic host cities. http://www.stadiumatlas.com/
“Talking back to your intelligent City” PlanIT Valley, Portugal
This diagram needs labels…. the red circles are the Olympic venues, scaled in proportion to their seating capacities. The red arcs are all coming from the Olympic Village (which is green, but barely visible) and they are weighted in proportion to the % of athletes traveling to the different venues. Barcelona is said to […]
Most newsworthy events fall into two general catagories; News and Media Events. News events are those events which can be represented as a set of information (the score was 5 to 4 in the Soccer game last night). These events can be represented as points in time. A media event is the coverage and […]
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