How architecture shapes video game play: When players enter the virtual worlds of video games, they are greeted by complex architectural environments. These virtual spaces do more than serve as mere backdrops for gameplay. The design of buildings, streets and entire cities guides player emotions, behaviours and even advances the narrative. As an architect specialising …
Mystérieuse architecture rupestre de Teniky à Madagascar : une étude suggère un lien avec la Perse antique: Au cœur du parc national de l’Isalo, dans le centre-sud de Madagascar, à au moins 200 km de la mer dans toutes les directions, se trouve une vallée isolée au passé mystérieux. Ce lieu, Teniky, n’est accessible qu’à …
Alien invasions, a lesbian road movie and tropical architecture – the best things to watch and do this week: This article was first published in our email newsletter Something Good, which every fortnight brings you a summary of the best things to watch, visit and read, as recommended and analysed by academic experts. Click here …
‘Beauty’ in architecture can’t be enforced — but design competitions could help architects strive for it: New Islington Marina in Manchester. Matt Newton|Unsplash In 2021, the UK government made beauty an explicit objective of the English planning system. The Levelling Up and Regeneration Act, which received royal assent on October 26 2023, now requires local …
Billions of birds collide with glass buildings – but architecture has solutions: Bird stickers are used to deter collisions with a glass wall in Korea. Ki Young/Shutterstock At least 1,000 birds were killed in one day in early October, when they collided with a single Chicago building, McCormick Place – the largest convention centre in …
Morocco earthquake: why traditional earthen architecture is not to blame for the destruction communities have endured: The 6.9 magnitude earthquake that hit Morocco on Friday, September 8 has claimed almost 3,000 lives. A further 5,530 people are injured, and the death toll is expected to rise. The epicentre was high in the Atlas Mountains. Entire …
‘Performative cruelty’: the hostile architecture of the UK government’s migrant barge: The arrival of the Bibby Stockholm barge at Portland Port, in Dorset, on July 18 2023, marks a new low in the UK government’s hostile immigration environment. The vessel is set to accommodate over 500 asylum seekers. This, the Home Office argues, will benefit …
Venice architecture biennale: how pioneering Ghanaian architects reckoned with tropical modernism: Owusu Addo Residence by John Owusu Addo. Kuukuwa Manful, CC BY-NC-ND As curator of the 2023 Venice architecture biennale, the Ghanaian-Scottish architect, Lesley Lokko, has chosen to highlight the African continent as “the laboratory of the future”. But as well as looking at the …
Architecture after COVID: how the pandemic inspired building designers: An architect working on a model. Jacob Lund/Shutterstock Walking during lockdowns, following protocols and restrictions, city dwellers witnessed the birth of a new architectural aesthetic. Concern with infection began gradually redefining the space of cities and the social choreography of daily urban life. This has led …
A distributed database load-balancing architecture with ShardingSphere: A distributed database load-balancing architecture with ShardingSphere wuweijie Fri, 04/14/2023 – 03:00 Apache ShardingSphere is a distributed database ecosystem that transforms any database into a distributed database and enhances it with data sharding, elastic scaling, encryption, and other capabilities. In this article, I demonstrate how to build a …
Animal architecture: why we need to design buildings for wildlife as well as people: How did early humans first learn to build? It’s quite possible that it was by observing animals that had already mastered the art. Indeed, when you look at the animal world many birds, insects and mammals are excellent architects and builders. …
Event-driven architecture explained in a coloring book: Event-driven architecture explained in a coloring book Seth Kenlon Tue, 07/19/2022 – 03:00 Register or Login to like Register or Login to like “Explain it to me like I’m five.” When you want someone to get to the point as efficiently and as clearly as possible, that’s what …
A nice South African City image: NYC – MoMA: Design and the Elastic Mind – Architecture and Justice – Brownsville, Brooklyn Image by wallyg Architecture and Justice, from the Million Dollar Blocks project, 2006 Laura Kurgan (South African, b. 1961), Eric Cadora (American, b. 1962), David Reinfurt (American, b. 1971), and Sarah Williams (American, b. …
A guide to Kubernetes architecture: You use Kubernetes to orchestrate containers. It’s an easy description to say, but understanding what that actually means and how you accomplish it is another matter entirely. If you’re running or managing a Kubernetes cluster, then you know that Kubernetes consists of one computer that gets designated as the control plane, …
How anarchist architecture could help us build back better after COVID: Spaces built collaboratively, close to nature. Shutterstock/kasyanovart Architecture and anarchy may not seem like the most obvious pairing. But since anarchism emerged as a distinct kind of politics in the second half of the 19th-century, it has inspired countless alternative communities. Christiania in Copenhagen, …
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A nice Paternoster image: Image from page 50 of “An illustrated dictionary of words used in art and archaeology. Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornamen Image by Internet Archive Book Images Identifier: illustrateddicti00moll Title: An illustrated dictionary of words used …
South Africa in the news: Architecture News: Counterspace, a practice based in Johannesburg, South Africa, has been selected to design the Serpentine Pavilion 2020. The youngest architects to be commissioned this internationally renowned program …: “South Africa” – BingNews China reports most COVID cases in five months as Hebei infections rise: Authorities in Guangdong province …