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California Changing: 50 Site of Climate Change in Augmented Reality

Rene Submissions — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 09:30:00 +0000

The state of California has emerged as a pioneering force in designing for climate change, yet it has also faced the devastating impacts of numerous climate-related disasters, including droughts, wildfires, and rising sea levels. This book offers a unique climate change tour, delving into architectural scale sites across the state. From innovative houses using sustainable techniques to historical locations ravaged by the combined forces of drought and wildfire, the book explores a range of poignant examples. The main visual contents are a set of architectural site illustrations that are each enhanced by an augmented reality component showcasing the interplay between

Tideland Studio Applies Architectural Technologies to Create a Sensorial Understanding of Environmental Changes

Maria-Cristina Florian — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 07:30:00 +0000

While it is undeniable that the surrounding environment is changing due to human activity, the effects can be difficult to perceive directly, as they are often illustrated with unrelatable pictures of far-away places or overused graphics and statistics. Danish office Tideland Studio aims to change this. Through their work, they aim to bring forth a new type of sensible understanding of the changes happening around us. They work across disciplines, melding research, art, and architecture while employing the newest survey and fabrication technologies to give presence to the abstract phenomena that shape our planet. Because of their practical approach to research and the new perspectives that they open toward extreme environments affected by climate change, ArchDaily has selected Tideland Studio as one of the 2023 New Practices. The annual survey highlights emerging offices that use innovation and forward-looking processes to rethink the ways in which we practice architecture.

Is AI Really the Next Big Thing in Architecture?

Geethanjali Raman & Mohik Acharya — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 03:30:00 +0000

This article was originally published on Common Edge.

Transformation Generated by the Intersection of Virtual and Reality

Xiaohang Hou — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 04:00:00 +0000

As Antoine Picon describes in Architecture and the Virtual Towards a new Materiality? : "An architectural project is indeed a virtual object. It is all the more virtual that it anticipates not a single built realization but an entire range of them. …Whereas the architect used to manipulate static forms, he can now play with geometric flows. Surface and volumes topological deformations acquire a kind of evidence that traditional means of representation did not allow.”

The Architecture of Museums: The Evolution of Curatorial Spaces

Matthew Maganga — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 04:00:00 +0000

Across the globe, museums function as cultural landmarks – spaces of significance that quite often become defining symbols of a city’s architectural landscape. Historical examples such as the Museum de Fundatie in the Netherlands and The Louvre Museum in France continue to attract millions of visitors, with contemporary architectural interventions to them redefining their spatial contribution to their local context.

Exploring Your Project in Virtual Reality: 7 Tips from the Experts Who Make It

Katherine Allen — Mon, 14 Jan 2019 05:00:00 +0000

Virtual reality offers benefits that, just years ago, were hardly even imaginable. Projects can be walked through before being built; the interiors fully visualized before all the details are decided. It allows architects and clients the ability to work as true collaborators in the design of a project.

Projection Mapping Light Show Tells the Story of the Guggenheim Bilbao on Its 20th Anniversary

Patrick Lynch — Sat, 14 Oct 2017 12:00:00 +0000

In celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, creative production studio 59 Productions has put on a 4-day projection mapping light show, transforming the museum’s iconic shimmering surfaces into a canvas for a dazzling light display.

A New Generation of Tools: The 3D Visualization Multiplex

Rene Submissions — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 01:00:00 +0000

A 3D visualization multiplex is a system to instantly visualize 3D models on multiple devices: desktop computers, smartphones, tablets, augmented reality gear, and virtual reality glasses.

It's an everyday tool to streamline conversations between architects, engineers, contractors, their clients, and the rest of the world.

With the formidable combination of CAD software programs - e.g. SketchUp or Revit - and a multiplex, 3D storytelling has never been simpler.

It works on both high-end immersive headsets and on smartphones with - or without - very capable $10+ glasses. Using augmented reality, a model can be directly integrated into the real world.

The Real Star of The Apple Keynote? ARKit Augmented Reality Technology

AD Editorial Team — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 13:30:00 +0000

Apple’s fall 2017 Keynote, which at the time of publication is already underway, is the first ever event held at the new Steve Jobs Theater right at the center of the Apple Headquarters in Cupertino. Every year at its fall keynotes, the company makes it major product announcements—last year, they announced the iPhone 7, Apple Watch series 2, and Airpods. This year, most of the hype surrounded the expected announcement of the iPhone 8 (and iPhone X!).

The World's First Hologram Table is Here, and Could Be Yours for $47,000

Patrick Lynch — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 14:10:00 +0000

After years of movie magic made hologram tables the objects of our futuristic affections, the technology to create our own Star Wars- or Minority Report-esque setup is finally here.

Call for Entries: Vimania Architecture Competition

Rene Submissions — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 19:30:00 +0000

Augmented reality provides us with new research field of architecture. Now you do not need architectural models. We can see the building as it is with all the details as a virtual model. These properties of augmented reality give us new opportunities. For example, we can compare the buildings from different regions of the world, from different eras in the same scale. We can make collections of buildings, unimaginable compositions.

Updated Displays and Graphics Processors Improve iMacs’ Capabilities for Architectural Software

AD Editorial Team — Mon, 05 Jun 2017 15:10:00 +0000

At Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) today, the US-based tech giant announced the latest slate of performance updates to their software and hardware products. Targeting software developers and other high-end users, the event was highlighted by the announcement of significant upgrades to their computer’s graphics and processing capabilities—or in architect’s terms—the components required to work on projects like creating content within a VR experience or real-time 3D rendering.

WaPo's New Augmented Reality Series Begins With a Virtual Look at the Ceiling of Herzog & de Meuron's Elbphilharmonie

Patrick Lynch — Tue, 16 May 2017 14:20:00 +0000

The Washington Post (WaPo) has launched a new architectural augmented reality series that will provide readers with an in-depth look at the details behind some of the world’s most innovative new buildings. For its first edition, architecture critic Philip Kennicott narrates an AR projection of the unique ceiling of the main concert hall at Herzog & de Meuron’s recently completed Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Germany.