Network Hydrology
History Channel’s recent “City of the Future” competition winner by San Francisco architects IwamotoScott.
More details at bldgblog.
[C]Space Pavilion at the AA
“Architects Alan Dempsey and Alvin Huang have won a competition to design a temporary, freestanding pavilion that will be built in front of the Architectural Association school in London early next year.
The competition celebrates the 10th anniversary of the AA’s Design Research Laboratory. It was open to all students and graduates of the DRL and called for designs that made innovative use of Fibre C, a glass fibre-reinforced concrete panelling material produced by Rieder.
Dempsey and Huang have set up a blog to chart their progress as they prepare to build their [C]Space pavilion.”
Wind Dam
via Pruned-a proposed wind dam in Russia
“The dam, which would be located over a gorge at Lake [Ladoga] in north-west Russia, includes a cup-shaped spinnaker sail, believed to be the first of its kind, which will generate renewable energy by funnelling the wind through an attached turbine.
The spinnaker shape is similar to the mainsail of a yacht, and is thought to be particularly effective in capturing wind.”