Beijing National Theater

Beijing National Theater designed by Paul Andreu. Located beside the largest square, Tiananmen Square. west corner of Changan avenue and west Renmindahuitan road.

Construction workers are still working during the evening.

What's going on there? Why so quiet?


We are all on stage.

Eggs in Egg.

Parliament hall is standing in background.

The stage curtain is closing.

Seldom people interested in concert?

oh that crack.

Which concert is coming?

AIA/UK Design Awards 2007

by ArchitectureWeek

The United Kingdom chapter of the American Institute of Architects has announced the recipients of its annual awards for design excellence. This awards program honors exemplary buildings by UK architects anywhere in the world and by architects of any nationality working within the United Kingdom.

One of the three projects to receive top honors is The Collection in the medieval English town of Lincoln. The museum by Panter Hudspith Architects was lauded as a "beautiful sculptural piece, different and really beautifully detailed... almost baronial."

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Future City Competition

There is a Future City Competition held on National Engineer Week at futurecity.

The mission of the National Engineers Week Future City Competition is to provide a fun and exciting educational engineering program for seventh- and eighth-grade students that combines a stimulating engineering challenge with a "hands-on" application to present their vision of a city of the future.

This will be accomplished by:

• Fostering engineering skills, such as teamwork, communication and problem solving skills;
• Providing interaction among students, teachers, and engineer mentors;
• Informing the community about the multi-disciplines within the engineering profession;
• Inspiring students to explore futuristic concepts and careers in engineering.

The National Engineers Week Future City Competition requires:

• Problem-solving
• Team work
• Research and presentation skills
• Practical math and science applications
• Computer skills

The competition employs a team-based approach. All members of the team have an important role that is necessary for the completion of the project.

Expo 67 Montreal

The 1967 International and Universal Exposition, or simply Expo 67 was the World's Fair held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from April 27 to October 29, 1967. It coincided with the Canadian Centennial that year. Expo 67 was originally going to be held in Moscow, to help the Soviet Union celebrate the 50th anniversary of its revolution.

Logo designed by Julien Hébert

Aerial View

Most of the 62 participating countries in Expo 67 had their own national pavilions; however, a number of them were grouped together, such as the Scandinavian countries and some African countries. A few Canadian provinces and American states also had their own pavilions. Other pavilions represented particular industries or explored the relationships between human beings and universal themes such as health, the environment, and work. A commissioner headed each pavilion, and a number of hostesses acted as ambassadors.

United States' pavillion - Biosphere

Canadian Pavillion

Federal Republic of Germany pavilion

UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS (USSR) Pavillion

The Pavillion of the Republic of China

The Pavillion of France

Habitat 67 - created by architect Moshe Safdie based on his master's thesis at McGill University and built as part of Expo 67.

Graphisoft announces bidirectional connectivity between ArchiCAD 11, Google Earth and the Google 3D Warehouse

This capability moves users past the Virtual Building to the virtual world. Users can not only download 3D models from building product manufacturers for use in their projects, they can also publish their designs for the world to experience via Google Earth.

Budapest, May 2, 2007 - Graphisoft announced today that its Google connectivity plug-in for ArchiCAD® 11 will be available for download from its official website at the same time ArchiCAD 11 starts shipping.

“Readily available content that complements a great design is of high value to our users. Google is the perfect place to turn to get a large library of content and, of course, to contribute models for the rest of the ArchiCAD community”, said Miklos Szovenyi-Lux, Director of ArchiCAD Product Management. “Coordination with Google Earth adds another positive dimension to design decisions.”
The bidirectional Google connection enables ArchiCAD 11 users to:

Import terrain and coordinate information from Google Earth – In the early stage of design, even a rough terrain model can significantly help the visualization of the model in context. With the help of Google Earth Connections, users can take a snapshot of terrain and imagery data from Google Earth.

Import 3D buildings and building manufacturer parts from the Google 3D Warehouse – The Google 3D Warehouse site contains thousands of real-world buildings and manufacturer-specific building products for use in your designs. If the architect needs a special car or household appliance for a design project, they can simply search for it on the Warehouse and download it to ArchiCAD with just a few clicks.

Evaluate ArchiCAD designs in Google Earth – With the help of the Google Earth Connections tool, users can easily export textured 3D models to Google Earth to create compelling client presentations.

Publish ArchiCAD designs to the Google 3D Warehouse – Since the 3D Warehouse is the source for 3D building models for Google Earth, if the architect wants to share his/her real-world 3D building model with others, publishing the model will allow for it to be viewed by hundreds of millions of Google Earth users around the world.

Availability

The English and German versions for the Windows platform will be available at the same time ArchiCAD 11 starts shipping. Further versions will be available according to the localization schedule of ArchiCAD 11.
About Graphisoft:

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it!" Alan Kay.1

Graphisoft is the pioneer and leader in developing Virtual Building™ solutions. It is widely acknowledged as the world's #1 supplier of model-based software and services for the building industry. Our clients are at the forefront of the industry - delivering projects that are better designed, more predictable to construct and less expensive to operate. Further media requests for information can be made to Akos Pfemeter at: press@graphisoft.com

1 Alan Kay. Inventor of Smalltalk - the inspiration behind windowing-based computer systems.

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