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- Autodesk University starts tomorrow
AUTODESK UNIVERSITY — More than 9,000 design professionals from 74 countries will again descend on Las Vegas this week for what has become a yearly pilgrimage of all things Autodesk . Attendees at Autodesk University (AU) 2008 will experience design innovation through the voices of customers in industries such as manufacturing, architecture and building, media [...]
- Digital Cities: London´s Future
Date: 20 November - 24 January 2009
Digital Cities looks at how digital technology helps us understand and improve the planning and experience of our city.
Curated byThe Building Centre and Sir Terry Farrell
The Building CentreStore StreetLondonWC1E 7BTT: +44 (0) 207 692 4000www.buildingcentre.co.uk[SOURCE: Building Centre – Events.
- SketchUP 7 released
Google have released the latest version of SketchUP (v7) the modelling program we all love to design and play with and has change the way many people design and model.
Visit SketchUP Website and click on the big, blue “Download” button in the upper-right corner. Then install it, fire it up, and eat lunch at your [...]
- Light-rail stations reflect neighborhoods - azcentral.com
Each of Metro light rail’s 28 starter line stations has a unique design, with special efforts taken to reflect the neighborhoods where stations are located.
read more @ the SOURCE: azcentral.com – Light-rail stations reflect neighborhoods.
- A DIY Guide To Building A Green Roof Hits The Virtual Shelves.
London, England. Two of the UK’s leading proponents of green roofs have teamed up to produce ‘THE DIY GUIDE TO GREEN & LIVING ROOFS’ - a guide aimed at individuals with a Do-It-Yourself inclination along with those having trouble persuading local contractors to take up the challenge of installing a green roof on their behalf.
‘The [...]
- $400m windfarm approved
Otago Daily has reported that a $400m NZD ($295m USD) Mahinerangi windfarm proposed by Trustpower has been approved by the Environment Court.
Read more @ the SOURCE: Otago Daily
- Solar-powered cars begin race to Calgary
CBC.ca reports that 15 solar-powered cars, including four managed by teams from Canadian schools, rolled out of a suburb of Dallas, Texas, on Sunday en route to Calgary in the 2008 North American Solar Challenge.The race should end on July 22 at the University of Calgary
CBC.ca – Solar-powered cars begin race to Calgary.
- Going up - Vertical gardens catch on - Vancouver Sun
Vancouver is in the middle of a green wall revolution. A record number of these environmentally friendly sustainable “living” walls - also called vertical gardens - are being built here at the moment.
One of the first ones went up a couple of years ago at the aquarium’s Aquawest Learning Centre. Measuring 3 metre by 15.2 [...]
- Singapore’s First Water Week Sees Deals Worth Over $270M U.S.
Governments, utilities providers and water companies signed 27 agreements totalling more than SGD367 million (USD270 million) during the first Singapore International Water Week, which drew to a close last Friday. In addition, a water fund was launched to attract SGD435 million (USD320 million) in investments in Asian water projects.
SOURCE: Water Online – Singapore’s First Water Week [...]
- Landscape Architects to get new Design Hub building at RMIT
The Age newspaper has reported that
Architect and RMIT alumnus Sean Godsell unveiled his plan for the Design Hub to BusinessDay yesterday, an innovative, landmark building for the city that has a “second skin” enveloping an eight-level tower.
The building will be on the corner of Swanston and Victoria streets, at the former CUB site. Mr [...]
- RhinoTerrain 1.0 for Rhinoceros 4.0 Released
RhinoTerrain SARL today announced the release of RhinoTerrain 1.0 for Rhinoceros 4.0, a plugin for generation and analysis of accurate 3D terrain models for use in Architecture, Survey, Civil Engineering and Landscaping practices plus support for output to 3d printers.
Features include Fast Terrain Creation, True terrain visualisation, Contour Curve Generation and Terrain Importer.
Value The [...]
- Centre for Cities - New Centre for Cities Report: Big UK lessons for US cities
A new report from the Centre for Cities and Washington’s Brookings Institution has found that the USA has a lot to learn from Britain’s urban renaissance. But while British politicians and officials have always been keen to go on the hunt for policy ideas from the States, US politicians don’t always follow suit. US mayors [...]
- City celebrates new environmentally friendly parking lot - NWAnews.com
The team behind an environmentally sensitive parking lot at Gulley Park hopes it example for developers and builders, encouraging them to use stormwater management practices that protect water quality rather than harm it.
The city of Fayetteville partnered with the Uni- will be an versity of Arkansas Department of Landscape Architecture and the Arkansas Forestry Commission [...]
- Architect cross-examined over turbines’ impact on heritage route - The Southland Times
Landscape architect Peter Rough spent a second day being cross-examined by individual appellants, who have strong concerns about the effects of wind turbines on the heritage landscape.
Otago Goldfields Heritage Trust immediate-past president Dr Mike Floate asked Mr Rough how it would be for someone that had read about the goldfields trail along Old Dunstan Rd, [...]
- Thinking outside - and inside - the box - The Boston Globe
On a recent evening, architect J. Meejin Yoon sat in her Leather District loft sewing mats of turf together. “I just have one more stitch,” she said.more stories like this
Several squares of grass, each about the size of an album cover, had arrived in a cooler a few days earlier. Yoon had dutifully sewn them [...]
- ASLA provide education tools for students
The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) announced the availability of The Roof is Growing!, an educational resource for middle-school students and teachers about green roofs and their environmental benefits. The resource includes a lesson plan, workbook, and online interactive program designed to engage students on how green roofs cool cities, clean the air, create [...]
- South Bank to reduce carbon footprint
A new project to help the South Bank reduce its carbon footprint has been unveiled by the London Development Agency (LDA), the South Bank Employers’ Group (SBEG) and London South Bank University (LSBU).
The project is the first of its kind to focus on a whole area in central London. It will build an understanding of [...]
- Asuni CAD Releases ARQ Landscape 3 for AutoCAD
Asuni CAD presents its latest application: ARQ Landscape 3, the most complete tool for landscape design aimed at landscaping, urban planning, and gardening professionals, urbanism and environmental councils for local entities, etc.
ARQ Landscape 3 is a specific tool to design and project green areas. It constitutes an evolved application which incorporates the features required to [...]
- China: Going Green, Going It Alone
Clean-tech investors, like those that swarmed the U.N. headquarters last week, have been drooling over investment prospects in suddenly-green China. Maybe it’s time to curb the enthusiasm.
“China expects local capital to fund 90 percent of the infrastructure and other investment needed to meet its goal to get 15 percent of its energy from renewable sources [...]
- Environmentalism Sheds Brighter Light on Low-Energy Lighting(The Korea Times)
Last November, a southern Italian village of Torraca proclaimed itself as the world’s first “LED city.” The town installed 700 LED street lamps that are powered by photovoltaic panels, making it a self-sustainable system.
South Korean towns and regional governments are fast catching up. Along with many other towns, Bucheon city has replaced its old halogen [...]
