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Archinect Senior Editors Bryan Boyer and Quilian Riano make an appearance. Read

We're happy to announce that we've re-stocked all of our t-shirts, including the popular CAD Hatch Pattern designs, Architecture Sucks, and Assembly Robots. We're also excited to unveil our latest line of shirts "The Love Movements". What's your favorite? Minimalism? Metabolism? Brutalism? PoMo? We now have 24 different designs to choose from! (HINT: they make perfect Christmas gifts ;)
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Google unleashes Goggles, a new mobile app for the Android platform. Goggles can recognize and retrieve information about objects (buildings?) using the phone's camera.

First from a recent Features/Showcase, I enjoy how the facade paneling on Leong Leong Architecture's recent project for 3.1 Phillip Lim progressively flattens towards the sky.

For example

News
Malcom Well dies.
I concur with superinteresting!, a sad day for nature and architecture.

Is the Modernist glass box still the default corporate architecture of today?

From javierest
plenty of evidence now too that Jonathan Glancey w/ @AmandaBaillieu http://is.gd/5aXWr has gone off the rails re: global "climate change orthodoxy"...

As there are only 4 minaret's currently, so I suppose the Swiss Ban was a ban against future architecture? We discuss here.
Columbia University and NY state's development corporation get called out for mere sophistry.

Bryan Boyer points us to a possible Practice innovation, Flickr site visits? Archinect discusses Bootcamp, Flickr, secure FTP sites, the usefullnes of Flickr's note feature and liability issues.

Discussion Threads
Now that is a discussion topic.
oe starts Gripe Central a thread where we can rant and bitch about things! Eh?

Archinect discussed this news post about DWR.
Holz asks a good question about architectural atrophy.

Via puddles poor people in kentucky get fleeced! Are Middlesbro and Clinton are a glimpse into the future of post-privatized America?
Also via Barry here some awesome images of work by Contemporary Japanese Sculptors...

School Blogs
Faysal at AA shares a recent line from Mark Cousins
something along the lines of "if you hear a discussion start by the words architecture is... just leave"

Nick Sowers catches us up with his thesis status post travels and shares some advice from one of his professors who said [ithink of your thesis less as a project to do[/i] and Nick suggests that it is more of something that is continuous with your other work, a set of strategies.

Michael at AA updates us on the Phase 1 and 2 students work which includes agents flocking, aggregating, negotiating superbodies.

Adam Greenfield and Nurri Kim have launched their books and ideas boutique label with Tokyo Blues. Only 500 copies! Previously.

BIG / Bjarke Ingels has partnered up with Kilo Design / Lars Holme Larsen and Skibsted Ideation / Jens Martin Skibsted to form KiBiSi, a Copenhagen-based industrial design outfit. One of the latest projects in their portfolio is the seating system for the BIG-designed Danish EXPO Pavilion, currently under construction in preparation for Shanghai 2010.

This question was the core of the international ideas competition "Laurentian Architecture" for a school of architecture in Northern Ontario which just announced its winning entries. Bustler

Had a blast reviewing over 400 submissions in Dallas as Archinect's representative on the KRob 09 jury. Check out the category winners and selected finalists at Bustler

Norwegian firm A-Lab has shared with us a couple new projects. First up is the Statoil Regional Office in Oslo...

And next up from A-Lab is the IT-Fornebu Portal building...

Off-line model reconstruction relies on an image collection phase and a slow reconstruction phase, requiring a long time to verify a model obtained from an image sequence is acceptable. We propose a new model acquisition system, called ProFORMA, which generates a 3D model on-line as the input sequence is being collected. As the user rotates the object in front of a stationary camera, a partial model is reconstructed and displayed to the user to assist view planning.

Or, as described in the discussion forum, Web Cam becomes 3D scanner.

There have been so many amazing Archinect School Blogs, but I must say that Nick Sowers' Branner-supported world tour has been especially fascinating to follow. Check out his latest report from a MOUT (Military Operations on Urban Terrain) in Guam.

MOUT is interesting as a mode of architectural simulation like a model of a war-zone. The geographer in me wants to attack the important issues of neo-colonialism and the consequences of building mock-cities of countries we are at war or might be at war with in the near future. But the architect, in the spirit of Bunker Recycling Services, is just fascinated by the potential uses of former military bases.