Using Virtual Reality to Create a New Corporate Headquarters
In the heart of Silicon Valley, you can slip on a virtual reality headset and fly through a photo-realistic three-dimensional building that will soon be the new corporate home for the chip makerNvidia.
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Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association 2017 National Conference
View Article'The graveyard of the Earth': inside City 40, Russia's deadly nuclear secret
Ozersk, codenamed City 40, was the birthplace of the Soviet nuclear weapons programme.
View ArticleHow real estate speculation, ugly architecture, and gentrification shape...
The show’s hyperbole isn’t far off: It’s hard to find a good, affordable place to live in this town.
View ArticleAn X-Ray View of Tokyo's Complex Architecture
Tomoyuki Tanaka renders the intricacies of some of the world’s busiest train stations by hand.
View ArticleWhat’s Going On: Tensions, and Solutions, in a Changing Oakland
Oakland is changing, and many who have lived here for a while are nervous about that. They’re nervous that when wealthier people move in, their neighborhoods will change and they might not be so...
View ArticleGrimshaw wins contest to design Heathrow's ‘terminal of the future’
Heathrow Airport has chosen Grimshaw to draw up concepts for a ’hub airport of the future’ as part of its ambitious £16 billion growth plans.
View ArticleThe Mystery of Urban Psychosis
Why are paranoia and schizophrenia more common in cities?
View ArticleThe Politics of Environments: Architectures, Natures and Data
Two themes stand out prominently in discussions, projects and strategies that are at the forefront of contemporary urbanisation. It is, on one hand, the question of ecology, where the city and...
View ArticleSuds and the city: the abandoned bathtubs of Gurgaon – in pictures
As the north Indian city’s real estate market has developed over the years, so has its residents’ dislike of bathing, apparently. ...
View ArticleEnemies of Empire: Combating and Constructing Opponents of the British Empire
An edited volume concerning how resistance leaders were perceived, constructed and/or combated by the British.
View ArticleRethinking Medium Specificity: Metamediums, Automatisms, Aesthetics
SCMS Annual Conference
View ArticleThe Schematization of Time
52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 11-14, 2017, Kalamazoo, MI
View ArticleAn Italian Architect's Wild American Dream
Renzo Picasso wanted to build seven-layer "superstreets" through American cities.
View ArticleWhy Austrians Are Taking Their Wackiest Architect Seriously After His Death
Behind the almost child-like designs, Friedensreich Hundertwasser wanted to recover the “dignity of man” ...
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