Arch Tracker

Win one of three iPads and other great prizes, valued at over $2600!. T-Splines, Inc.’s Model your organic designs in CAD Contest (the “Contest”) is designed to promote the creation of new and innovative 3D content using T-Splines, or using T-Splines in combination with other software. Prizes will be awarded to those individuals or teams who submit the best entries, as determined by the contest judges. More info after the break.

Leer el resto de esta entrada »

If you are a practicing architect in the United States (or trained as one), you can enter this remarkable contest. All you need is a white cocktail napkin and a pen to demonstrate that the art of the sketch is still alive.

The winning submission will be published in the August 2010 issue of Architectural Record and online. Download the official entry form (pdf) clicking here.

Project: Guadalajara Library
Architect: LOT-EK
Location: Guadalajara, Jalisco, México
Size: 460,000 sq. ft.
Status: Competition

In 2005 the University of Guadalajara and the Municipality of Zapopan Jalisco, through the University of Guadalajara’s Cultural Center Trust announced the “International ideas and Conceptual Architectural Project for a Library Competition, a public library for 3,600 users and 2’000,000 volumes. LOT-EK have shared with us their proporsal for this contest.

Over 200 Boeing 727 and 737 fuselages are stacked in a north-south slant in relation to sun exposure for energy efficiency. Two shifts in the direction of the main axis of the fuselages generate two large open spaces within the stack.

Leer el resto de esta entrada »