Category: website
Website: Architecture Insights
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Architecture Insight is a new website from the NSW Architects Registration Board. The goal of the website is to “… promote a better understanding of architectural issues in the community by connecting the public, students, architects and others with information [...]
The Death of Flash?
As I am sure you will now know (it was almost impossible to avoid, after all) last week Apple announced a new product – the iPad. There has been lots of talk about how it is going to revolutionize computing and, on the flipside, how it is a lemon of a product. There is one [...]
Cartagen
Cartagen is an interesting new Open Source framework for mapping in the web browser. Cartagen utilises the new “canvas” element of html 5 (an upcoming spec for the language predominantly used to code websites). This allows it to render mapping data without the aid of flash or any other plugins.
Architizer
Architizer is a new website for architects, with a big social networking angle. It is described as” a new way for architects to interact, show their work, and find clients…an open community created by architects for architects”.
Architizer allows Projects, People and Firms to be placed on a map in relation to one another. Links can [...]
Two [nice] new sites
Two new sites were brought to my attention today – The Canadian Centre for Architecture and The Architectural League of New York. They both take quite different approaches, but manage to implement them quite impressively. Let’s take a quick look.
Website: Up To 35
Up To 35 is an international design competition for students up to the age of 35, specifically for student housing. Their site is an all Flash affair (which I could rail against, but will restrain myself), but has an interesting navigation concept, and works relatively well for a site keeping all the content within one page. Let’s take a look.
Website: San Francisco Design Week
San Francisco Design week (sponsored by the San Francisco AIGA, AIASF, IDSASF and IXDA) was on recently, and in my travels I came across their quite eye-catching site.
Website: By George!
By George! is a project being run by the City of Sydney as an attempt to “to enliven the City’s laneways and forgotten spaces”. The plan is to create installations in a number of Sydney’s small laneways by interdisciplinary teams later on in the year. This website is currently an introduction to the project, and a call for submissions by teams with their ideas for what can be done
Website: 56 Leonard
The main reason behind Design+Build is to feature reviews/critiques of design work related to the built environment and look at how they effect the presentation of the brand//building/environment.
56 Leonard was brought to my attention by the Ministry of Type, who noted it for its wonderful use of type to give the illusion of the building’s [...]
