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"This is my very basic set of shapes for making wireframes (low-fidelity web page schematics) in OmniGraffle (Mac OS X)."
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Artists Dan Havel and Dean Ruck turn a house into an odd work of art.
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Who really said it?
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Why your bosses want to turn your new office into Greenwich Village.
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"If a critic can get people to realize that the everyday architectural world of garages and malls and bad haunted house novels is worthy of architectural analysis . . . then maybe the trade journals can get some of their subscribers back."
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10 seeeeeriously cool workplaces
Photos from ten really cool looking spaces created to inspire creativity.
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At the New JetBlue Terminal, Passengers May Pirouette to Gate 3
"The architect David Rockwell and the choreographer Jerry Mitchell collaborate to streamline the airport experience."
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The dance of people in public spaces
"Looking for a new angle on movement vs. environment, Rockwell [hired to design the “interior experience� . . . of the new JetBlue terminal . . . at JFK Airport] took a strange turn: He hired choreographer Jerry Mitchell to help him."
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Design. Architecture. Football.
"And it's this tension which is reminiscent of adaptive design ideas discussed here previously; that design isn't the end of the process, but the beginning; that interpretation and improvisation will define the end-product, not the original design."
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Architecture and interaction design, via adaptation and hackability
Dan Hill talks about hackability and architecture.
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"What's an engineer's worst nightmare? To realize that the supports he designed for a skyscraper like Citicorp Center are flawed---and hurricane season is approaching."
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When Design is a Matter of Life or Death
How do you address a problem you created?
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Everything Counts (in large amounts)
In this essay we will look at some of the ways that ideas about architecture are affected by electronic communication and the culture that surrounds it.
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Rather than trying to hide or work around the ubiquitous grey air conditioners, these architects designed an exterior that embraces the grey rectangles.
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Adaptive Path: "Every large corporation has a marketing strategy that outlines what it wants to say to customers, but many of them still aren’t using their homepages effectively to highlight that message."
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An Icon interview with architect Rem Koolhaas
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In a new interview series, NEWSWEEK talks to a leading ecological architect whose goal is nothing less than eliminating waste and pollution.
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Folksonomies: A User-Driven Approach to Organizing Content
"One of the most promising features of folksonomies is that there is no disconnect between the user’s words and the words on the site: the users words are the words on the site!"
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It now looks like a city street.
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Buying a house? Pick up a flatpack at Ikea
Ikea is going to start selling flatpack houses in England
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