Greg La Vardera uses Google sketchup as a base to these New England illustrations. I always find it amazing how the free acess to google sketchup opens the world of 3D modeling to all disciplens…

this short film starts with a nice feature about the future application of design-architecture-modeling-construction before it gets into the cheesy dream of a french homesick time-traveler…
so now I am curious what ‘contemporary’ buildings can be constructed in a future like that.

these nice maps from telegeography, both in terms of of content as well as the graphical representation, say a lot about internet use, availability and demandas well as the dangerous situation of leaving entire regions unconnected behind.

this niemeyeresque concrete bowl’s beauty actually serves to cover the explosion crater form the nuclear test on the bikini atoll. doe you also see people walking on there?

I don’t have too much info on that but I found it inspiring…

questions?