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A Tool for Easy Architectural Sketching With the Power of BIM

ArchDaily

Courtesy of Snaptrude Sketching has always been an essential part of the architect’s creative process. Pei drafted his preliminary design for the East Wing of the National Gallery of Art on a cocktail napkin. Modern architectural sketches combine design intent with data and constraints. Case in point, architect I.M.

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Frank Gehry creates architecture-informed handbags for Louis Vuitton

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Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry has unveiled 11 limited-edition handbags for fashion brand Louis Vuitton at Art Basel Miami Beach during Miami art week. Named Louis Vuitton x Frank Gehry, the collection contains bags informed by the Canadian-American architect's buildings and by animals.

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Sketching the Housing Crisis

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Daniel Winterbottom, FASLA, sketching outdoors. He calls urban sketching a public act, one of vulnerability and frustration balanced with unique opportunities for dialogue, discovery, and fulfillment. Observation and contemplation of the phenomena and nuances of a scene are critical skills honed specifically through field sketching.

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Yinka Shonibare and India Mahdavi bring "a warm feel of Africa" to London restaurant Sketch

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British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare and architect India Mahdavi have redesigned the Gallery dining room at London venue Sketch , adding site-specific artworks, warm golden colours and textured materials to its interior. The Gallery at Sketch is now covered in warm yellow hues. Warmth is the new colour at Sketch.".

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Luca Lettieri bridges design, art and making

Habitus Living

Luca Lettieri is the perfect example of a Design Hunter, exploring and practising design and art in the truest sense. Our home is full of art and furniture that my partner and I have made, traded for and been gifted from friends. The post Luca Lettieri bridges design, art and making appeared first on Habitusliving.com.

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Architectural Sketching [or How to Sketch like Bob] | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

Home / Graphics / Architectural Sketching or How to Sketch like Me Architectural Sketching or How to Sketch like Me Bob Borson — April 7, 2014 — 70 Comments Architectural sketching is becoming a thing of the past – at least that’s how it seems to me most days.

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Tutto Bene balances steel and mirrors with wood and leather in Nightingale restaurant

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Nightingale's interior draws on Vienna's coffee houses Nightingale's "stage-like" dining room was also informed by "the sombre elegance of theatre and museum lobby cafes", Kohnen said. Tutto Bene recently created a Streamline Moderne-informed New York store for eyewear brand Cubitts. The photography is by Ludovic Balay.

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