Experience the historic rise (and a tragic fall) of the skyline of New York as a time-lapse elevator ride to the observatory atop One World Trade Center.
Handy for illustrating both broad eras or shorter time spans, as well as applicable for classroom assignments and conference papers, these web-based tools are great for creating interactive and dynamic timelines: Tiki-Toki: a web app to create interactive multimedia timelines with embedded images, text and even videos (YouTube, Vimeo and AVIs); they also have a…
Great news from Google – the Pro version of Google Earth is now free! Features in Pro that were not in Google Earth include the ability to compute distances and area with built-in measurement tools, and to print high resolution images. Learn more, and download, here. When installing, use your email address and the key…
In an opinion piece posted on the Royal Academy of Arts website, Stella Duffy (writer, theater-maker and and founder/co-director of Fun Palaces) and Kieran Long (Senior Curator of Contemporary Architecture, Design and Digital at the V&A Museum) defend both sides of the question, “Are we building too many museums?” Read both sides and then vote for…
Artist Chris Burden was good at keeping secrets. For example, it came as a shock to most people that, when he passed away on May 10, he had been battling cancer. Another longer-standing secret was the identity of the participant in Burden’s 1971 performance piece “Shoot,” where a person only identified as Bruce (in the…
Earlier this month, ArchDaily published “Which Architectural Software Should You Be Using?” (originally published on ArchSmarter as “Which architectural software is right for me?”), where author Michael Kilkelly works through factors that could influence your decision to select and learn architectural software and, with the added help of a platform-based flowchart, offers a list of applications…