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Autodesk has issued a press release confirming that AutoCAD will be available in Mac OS X system in October at a MSRP of $3,995. Autodesk also announced AutoCAD WS a mobile application for iPad and Iphone which will let you view, edit and whare DWG files on your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch.

Autodesk is bringing its AutoCAD architecture, design, and engineering software back to the Mac OS after an 18-year absence, the company announced this evening. But the company plans to do more than offer a Mac OS X version of AutoCAD: It says it will release a free version of the software, dubbed AutoCAD WS, for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch that lets users review, edit, and share AutoCAD files on those popular mobile devices.

The company says AutoCAD for Mac OS X is a fully native application, using Mac OS X libraries and native UI features. AutoCAD for Mac takes full advantage of Mac OS X, including graphical browsing of design files with Cover Flow and use of multitouch gestures on Mac notebooks, the Magic Mouse, and the Magic Trackpad for intuitive pan and zoom features, a spokesman said. User-experience design patterns, such as the visual approach to drawing and layout management, have also been incorporated into AutoCAD for Mac.

Last thursday, August 26, NYC studio SOFTlab opened and installation at the bridegallery in New York City. The installation was made with over 4,600 panels each one with a unique color. The project was crowd-financed via kickstarter and for everyone who pledged for the projet their name was laser atached in one of the panels, which will be sent to the donator once the installation comes down. [More images after the break]

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Project: The Galilée Office Building
Author: STUDIO BELLECOUR, SAS d’architecture
Architect: Wilfrid Bellecour
Location: Blagnac, Toulouse, France
Client: Altarea COGEDIM
Owner: Crédit Suisse
Surface area: 11,102 sq.m.
Estimated Cost: M€ 20
Construction work: April 2008
Delivery: 2010
Photography: Christophe Pici
             Nicolas Borel
             Quentin Jeandel
             Denis Gliksman
             Studio Bellecour

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Project: Flag
Architect: propeller z
Location: Fahndorf, Austria
Budget: 70,000 Euros
Photography: © hertha hurnaus

           
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Project: TED Building
Architect: BIG
           Bjarke Ingels, Jakob Lange
Project leader: Cat Huang
Team: Gaetan Brunet, Xu Li, Alysen Hiller, Xi Chen, Espen Vik, James Schrader, Kuba Snopek, Riccardo Mariano, Johan Cool, Takuya Hosokai, Daniel Sundlin.          
Collaborators: Realities United, Arup
Location: Taiwan
Type: Competition
Client: TLDC
Size: 43,000 sq. mt.

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As Venice Biennale fever heats up (literally, with the sweltering new start date of 26 August for the vernissage), we bring glad tidings of an App that will guide you around the labyrinthine alleys and canals of Venice to find exactly what you are looking for at the world’s greatest architecture event. [more info after the break]

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Project: Home 06
Architect: 129 | interior architects
Location: Singel, Amsterdam
Client: Private
Constructor: M.J.Rasch
Interior build: H2B interiors
Materials: aluminium, burl walnut wood, epoxy, glass, plantwall
Sanitary: Vola, Easydrain, HiMacs
m2: 140 m2
Photography: i29 l interior architects

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Project: Oakland House
Architect: Kanner Architects
Location: Oakland, U.S.A.
Photography: Tim Griffith

           
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Project: The Library Koh Samui
Author: Tirawan Songsawat
Location: Chaweng Beach, Koh Samui, Thailand
Managing Director: Kasemtham Sornsong
General Manager: Jirapa Akkaraj

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Project: Gemayze Building
Architect: Paul Kaloustian Architect
Location: Gemayze, Beirut, Lebanon
Developer: chekerdjian
Built area: 9700 m2
Floors above ground: 17
Underground parking floors: 3
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Sucker Punch and the Museum of Comic and Cartoon are organizing an open international ideas competition for a new home for the Museum of Cartoon and Comic Art, MoCCA. The MoCCA was established in 2001 and is based in the soho area of manhattan in New York City. [More info after the break.]

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Project: The Dangle-Byrd House
Architect: Koko Architecture + Design
Location: Downingtown, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Photography: Nikolas Koenig and Patrick Casey

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LOS ANGELES – Global architectural design firm HOK has launched a new business: HOK Product Design, LLC. Through this venture, HOK designers from across the firm will design products for use in and around the firm’s core business of architecture and interior design. HOK Product Design will license its designs to manufacturers for fabrication and sale. 

“HOK has a history of harnessing our entrepreneurial culture as a way to advance our practice and profession. This is especially relevant in difficult economic times such as these,” says Riccardo Mascia, AIA, a member of HOK’s Executive Committee and head of HOK’s Idea Board. The Idea Board is a group of firm leaders and external business advisers charged with collecting, vetting and funding proposals for new business pursuits from HOK’s people. [More info after the break.]

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Project: Modular Architecture
Architect: A-cero
Location: Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, España
Design Date: 2008
Built surface: 110 m2
Budget: 75.000 euros

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Project: The Yas Island Yacht Club
Architect: Omiros One Architecture
                         Omiros Emmanouilides
Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE
Architecture type: Hospitality

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