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The High Speed Constructor from Skynet Research: Real time urban planning is now a reality thanks to this fast moving fabrication assembly robot. At building sites multiple Constructors can be inputted with structural specifications and then sent into autonomous mode to quickly climb girders, I-beams, and rebar to tackle tedious assembly processes. With Skynet’s “TruSight”™…

Prior to this life, in a previous life, I worked at BVN. Much of the time spent there, I worked on this apartment building an Milsons Point overlooking the harbour. A couple of weeks ago, Andrew Cortese took me around the site on Friday and following are some photos of the visit. The structure is…

Boutwell Draper Gallery has a show &#8212 Architecture 09 &#8212 on at the moment with work from, funnily enough, nine architecture practices. Super Colossal was asked to contribute, which we happily did. There was a competition for a tower by LAVA, Peter Stutchbury and Thiery Lacoste got their sketchbooks on, Smart Design showed recent projects,…

We are not accustomed to seeing buildings on fire. Landscape yes. Buildings not so much. Last night, in case you missed it, the Marigold Hotel component of OMA’s CCTV complex was burning brightly in Beijing, following a fireworks display marking the end of the Chinese New Year celebrations. The building had been completed but was…

Flower Bench by Mansilla + Tuñón “These concrete flowers spring from the same research lines that inspire the architectural production of Mansilla + Tuñón; the pursue of equality and diversity. The two pieces, when together, display a subtle game of differences and similarities. The radial and biomorphic design of the benches allows flexible use by…

I can’t resist posting a few images from a recent blog post by Lebbeus Woods on his short stint as conceptual artist on Alien3 when it was to be directed by Vincent Ward prior to David Fincher taking over. “The story of the Ward movie was radically different, though it deployed the same basic characters,…