Wednesday, April 13, 2011

New Grasshopper System for Generating Apartment Building Form

Initial System


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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

3 Influential Architectures


Mosler Lofts

Architect: Mithun
Location: Seattle, Washington, USA




The City of Arts and Sciences

Architect: Santiago Calatrava
Location: Valencia, Spain




Beijing National Aquatics Center (Water Cube)

Architect: PTW Architects, CSCEC, CCDI, and Arup.
Location: Beijing, China

Wednesday, March 30, 2011