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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.

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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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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2010 Carbuncle Cup winner. BFLS’s 43-storey Strata tower
It was hailed a breakthrough in urban wind power: a 42-storey tower with built-in turbines to deliver 8% of its electricity needs. But today the Strata tower in south London found itself becalmed when it was named Britain’s ugliest new building, pipping a rival that the judges said resembled a giant pair of buttocks and a bus station that looked like a jelly mould.

More info:
http://www.bdonline.co.uk/news/strata-tower-wins-2010-carbuncle-cup/5004110.article

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On 25.06.200 Henning Larsen Architects won first prize in the invited competition for a new aquarium in the Georgian seaport of Batumi. The 2,000 m2 aquarium will replace the previous aquarium of the port and will be situated on the beach side of Rustaveli Str. adjacent to Batumi 6 May Park featuring a Dolphinarium and Zoo. [More info and images after the break]

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The sports park which includes a 30,000 seat stadium, an 8,000 seat arena, a 1500 seat natatorium and a multiuse training hall, is part of a larger plan by the Datong Mayor to regenerate the historic old city and create a new city centre with other development including a city hall, museum, convention centre.

The win for Populous, which has its Asian base in Queensland, comes as its first sports park in Nanjing celebrates five years of successful operation. Populous won an IOC/IAKS Gold Award for the design of Nanjing, built for the 2005 China National Games, and the catalyst for a major city centre development. [More info after the break.]

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New York, NY, August 5, 2010 – Margaret Russell has been named Editor-in-Chief of Architectural Digest, it was announced today by Thomas J. Wallace, Editorial Director of Condé Nast.  Her appointment is effective September 7, 2010.  The editorial headquarters of Architectural Digest, currently in California, will move to New York City. More info after the break.

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Norwegian architects Snøhetta has won the Times Square Reconstruction Project to create a series of pedestrian plazas along Broadway, including Times Square. The winning team led by Snøhetta also comprises WXY Architecture and Design, Weidlinger Associates (engineers), Matthew Nielsen (landscape), Billings Jackson Design (industrial) and Bexel (audio-visual).

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The RIBA is pleased to announce the RIBA Stirling Shortlist 2010

Neues Museum by David Chipperfield Architects with Julian Harrap Archtitects

MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts by Zaha Hadid Architects

Christ’s College School by DSDHA

Ashmolean Museum by Rick Mather Architects

Clapham Manor Primary School by dRMM

Bateman’s Row by Theis and Khan

The RIBA Stirling Prize is given for the RIBA Building of the Year. It is run in association with The Architects’ Journal and Benchmark and is presented to the architects of the building which has been the most significant for the evolution of architecture in the past year.

The winning architect receives a cash prize of £20,000. The prize is named after the great British architect Sir James Stirling (1926-1992). 

The RIBA Stirling Prize Winner 2009 was Maggie’s Centre London by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners.

Images:
Neues Museum: Audringje
http://www.flickr.com/photos/audringje/

MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts: ZioPaolino
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ziopaopao/

Christ’s College School: Planning Resource
http://www.flickr.com/photos/33232053@N03/

Ashmolean Museum: Martin Beek
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oxfordshire_church_photos/

The Fab Lab House, developed by the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), is a self-sufficient building that marks a new paradigm of energetic efficiency through its innovative hability to generate energy, food and utensils. The house produces three times more energy than it consumes, and thanks to its elevated structure –which naturally creates a patio/orchard/kitchen space underneath to provide for food. Also, it incorporates state-of-the-art machinery which can build tools and everyday objects by using the very same parametrical designs used in the general design of the space. More info and pictures after the break.

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eVolo – to study, to develop, to evolve, to fly away…

eVolo Magazine is pleased to invite students, architects, engineers, and designers from around the globe to take part in the 2011 Skyscraper Competition.

The annual eVolo Skyscraper Competition is a forum for the discussion, development, and promotion of innovative concepts for vertical density. It examines the relationship between the skyscraper and the natural world, the skyscraper and the community, and the skyscraper and the city. Info about registration, schedule, jury and awards after the break.

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Back in April, 16 architectural firms including Zaha Hadid, Mecanoo and O.M.A. submitted their designs for a new dance and music center on the puiplein in The Hague, The Netherlands. A selection committee led by politician and royal adviser Herman Tjeenk Willink has evaluated the 16 designs and has now selected three Round 2 Finalists. The new building on the Spui Square will become the hot spot in The Hague for dance, opera, musicals, family shows, theater, concerts, classical music and jazz.

The finalists are RAU, Neutelings Riedijk Architecten / Kirkegaard Associates, and Zaha Hadid Architects. After the breaks images of the finalist projects.

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ICADE Promotion and MVRDV present the design for the Pushed Slab office building at ZAC Gare de Rungis in the 13th arrondissement of Paris. The 19.000 m2 building will be one of the first low energy buildings realised in France; with low energy consumption and an energy production of appr. 200.000kWh per year. Construction of the 35 million Euro building commissioned by French project developer ICADE Promotion is expected to start 2011. More info after the break.

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Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas has been awarded with the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at La Biennale di Venezia 12th International Architecture Exhibition. Press release after the break.

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