Luxury Real Estate Market Sees No Downturn - The Bay Citizen

Luxury Real Estate Market Sees No Downturn - The Bay Citizen

Flight Assembled Architecture

From ETH in Switzerland
More information on the ongoing project here:

Wood - Nature's Stroke of Genius

A great video about wood from our friends in Denmark. I wish I could find (and promote) a similar video promoting the use of wood in North America. Odd that one doesn't exist given how large of a role wood has played in the economies of Oregon, Washington and British Columbia.



The team over at Go Wood is promoting this video on their website

Go Wood: "The World's Most Environmentally-Friendly Raw Material"

And here is Michael Green speaking about using wood in tall buildings at TEDx in Vancouver.

Alchemy Architects Video on Prefab's Potential

I have always liked the work of Alchemy Architects and just discovered this video which is very popular on youtube with over 280,000 views.

Manufacturing Growth - The Future of the American Economy

A great new report has been released by The Breakthrough Institute. The full report is available here and very much worth reading as a guide for how we can achieve smart, green growth by integrating advanced manufacturing technologies with software to create scalable green building systems.

David Celento and Dwellings for the Digital Nomad - Jump Box

Interesting indeed. More info here.

Robots - The Future of Building?

The Fabricate 2011 Conference, hosted by the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture, showcased the installation 'Stratifications' by Gramazio & Kohler, Architecture and Digital Fabrication, ETH Zurich. 'Stratifications' uses a multiple-axis robot on a caterpillar base to perform real-time construction, combining digital design and methods in fabrication that are not possible with traditional manual building methods. This is the first time that this approach to building has been seen in the UK. Designed and realised by Gramazio & Kohler, Architecture and Digital Fabrication, ETH Zurich (in cooperation with Bachmann Engineering AG, Zofingen) Further information: UCL Bartlett: http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/ Gramazio & Kohler: http://www.dfab.arch.ethz.ch Ruairi Glynn: http://www.aac.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/people/ruairi/ Bob Sheil: http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/research/architecture/profiles/Sheil.htm