#architecture (83 links)
- LVMF - 2009 - London Sight Line Map hayesdavidson.com
Map of primary areas where height is constrained through the definition of the Viewing Corridors, Lateral or Background assessment areas of protected vistas.
"Over the past 2 months the city government, in cooperation with business groups and non-profits, has turned a corner of one of the busiest intersections in San Francisco into a public plaza. The 17th Street Plaza project took 72-hours to implement, and is carefully called a “reversible trial.” Like the phrase “reversible pilot”.
- Skeuomorph - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org
a term used in the history of architecture, design, and archaeology. It refers to a derivative object which retains ornamental design cues to structure that was necessary in the original. Skeuomorphs may be deliberately employed to make the new look comfortably old and familiar, such as copper cladding on zinc pennies or computer printed postage with circular town name and cancellation lines."
- Stephen Bayley's opinion on the battle for Chelsea Barracks | Art and design | The Observer guardian.co.uk
"The fabulous absurdity of the media "debate" between Prince Charles and Richard Rogers is that each is a historical relic. The prince is a throwback to the 18th century and beyond, the architect is a suntanned survivor of the 20th. We are now in the 21st, a century with priorities of its own. Charles's unreflective and ludicrous enthusiasm for anachronism in architecture has its equivalent in Rogers' dogmatic and doctrinaire insistence on aesthetic conflict with metal and glass."
"You’d think that with the futuristic and gravity defying creations they spawn, architects would be leading the vanguard of efficient working practices. It turns out they’re still stuck in the 90s, where sharing files and collaborating with partners and clients is done via CD and bike messenger, or – shock! horror! – even printouts sent by post." I don't find that surprising in the least. Woobius looks interesting, though.
- Rossignol » Thrilling Wonder Stories rossignol.cream.org
- The dark side of Dubai - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent independent.co.uk
Once the manic burst of building has stopped and the whirlwind has slowed, the secrets of Dubai are slowly seeping out. This is a city built from nothing in just a few wild decades on credit and ecocide, suppression and slavery. Dubai is a living metal metaphor for the neo-liberal globalised world that may be crashing – at last – into history.
#dubai #environment #culture #architecture #economics #poverty #via:tomtaylor #capitalism#slavery#middleeast - Stubbornella » Blog Archive » Object Oriented CSS, Grids on Github stubbornella.org
Object Oriented CSS allows you to write fast, maintainable, standards-based front end code. It adds much needed predictability to CSS so that even beginners can participate in writing beautiful websites.
- BBC - Radio Labs - How we make websites bbc.co.uk
For the past few months I've been touting a presentation around the BBC entitled 'How we make websites'. It's a compendium of everything our team has learned from long years developing /programmes, the recent work on /music and the currently in development /events.
- Model View Presenter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org
A software pattern considered a derivative of the Model-view-controller
- An ABC of R2 | Help | guardian.co.uk guardian.co.uk
"A series looking at different aspects of guardian.co.uk's rebuild and redesign project, which ran from October 2005 to September 2008." Must read.
A global firm of designers, engineers, planners and business consultants.
- Jumpchart » Home jumpchart.com
Great idea, massively overpriced.
- Optimize for now! - (37signals) 37signals.com
"The best way to get to the point of needing more is by optimizing for today. Use the strengths of your current situation instead of being so eager to adopt the hassles of tomorrow." Half agree, half disagree.
"My attempt to disentangle and examine the topic of "Internet platform" in detail. I will go at it by identifying three distinct approaches to providing an Internet platform, and project forward on where I think each of the three approaches will go."
This page collects all my published work related to information architecture and user experience.
- Particletree » Subdomains + Development = Sucks particletree.com
If we could do it all over again, we would have definitely handled our urls and account settings using a Flickr style setup using folders.
- The Landmark Trust | Homepage landmarktrust.org.uk
The Landmark Trust is a charity founded in 1965 that rescues and restores historic buildings at risk and gives them a new life by offering them for holidays
- Why you should be using disambiguated URLs simonwillison.net
There’s one aspect of URL design that is often ignored. Good URLs should be unambiguous. By that, I mean that any logical piece of content should have one and only one definitive URL, with any alternatives acting as a permanent redirect.
- Building the Gherkin buildingthegherkin.com
- Jonathan Meades jonathanmeades.com
- Italo Calvino sparks obsessions | MetaFilter metafilter.com
"Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities is so called because it asserts that what makes up a city is not so much its physical structure but the impression it imparts upon its visitors, the way its inhabitants move within, something unseen that hums between the
- Content with Style: Modular CSS contentwithstyle.co.uk
"A poncy name for the very simple idea of grouping related styles into separate stylesheets. The same set of tasks turn up on project after project and a little careful thought can save hours of foundation work, allowing you to get on with the serious bus
Information architecture and Web design are often considered mutually exclusive.
- Functional Spec Tutorial :: What and Why mojofat.com
- Derelict London derelictlondon.com
The pubs section is worth a gander