Snøhetta Wins ‘King Abdulaziz Center for Knowledge and Culture’ Competition in Saudi Arabia

In competition with some of the world’s greatest architects, Snøhetta has won the competition about designing Saudi Arabia’s new Cultural Center. Saudi Aramco – the world’s largest oil company – is the client.

King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz set the cornerstone for the Cultural Center which will house a museum, library, theater, cinema and more. The building reflects the history of oil in Saudi Arabia and is different from the country’s architectonic traditions with its abstract and spectacular form.
Along with five other internationally know architect offices, Snøhetta participated in the competition and was chosen in preference to famous names as Zaha Hadid and Rem Koolhaas.

The building itself is pretty stunning, with its unique landscaping.....

looks like Saudi is leading the field in design innovation

Source: Bustler.net

Italian Architect David Fisher's Dynamic Architecture Building at Dubai

A 420 meter high building by the Italian architect David Fisher that changes it shape based on the rotation each floor has. Integrated wind turbines makes the building powered by wind making a green building. Most parts of the building will be prefabricated as modules in an Italian factory and shipped to Dubai and later a building in Moscow.

For more visit Dynamic Architecture's website - make sure to see the intro.

Some videos on YouTube: Dynamic Tower plans unveiled, Preview of World's First Rotating Skyscraper, Dynamic Tower, Dynamic Architecture

Source: JTB World Blog

Marc Ramones Residence rendered in AutoCAD 2008 & 3D Max

my stab at it
a warning though
i have no background in 3D Max
im thinking of going to school for it though

Controller that Helps Imaging Precisely target Cancer Cells

Focused radiation continues to be an effective means to treat cancerous tumors, particularly when there is a clear-cut shot at the target. Finding that shot, however, is no simple task for clinicians for several reasons; the target is often surrounded by healthy tissue, it can grow, shrink or shift over time, and it is affected by changes in the patient's anatomy.

The Hi·Art® treatment system, a radiation therapy device that uses 3D CT imaging, was developed by TomoTherapy Inc., Madison, Wis., to address this challenge. The device leverages the ring gantry geometry used in CT scanning to deliver intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) from all angles around the patient, with minimal side effects More + Video>>

Happy Holloween!!

Happy Holloween to everyone!!

Autocad Architecture Service Pack 1

Service Pack 1 is now available for AutoCAD Architecture 2008.

AutoCAD Architecture 2008 crashes during startup - FATAL ERROR

On the command line you might see the command aecprojectbrowserstartup and then you get a crash. It says something like: AutoCAD Error Aborting - FATAL ERROR: Unhandled Access Violation Reading 0x0000 Exception at cf77528h. The address cf77528h can be different each time.

Knowledge Base document: AutoCAD® Architecture crashes during startup

There is no need to uninstall SP1 as suggested in the KB unless you find other reasons that SP1 is trouble for you.

Use REGEDIT.EXE (be careful though)

Locate the following key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk\MC3

Set MC3OptIn to 0

This is the same as opting-out from Customer Involvement Program (CIP)

Either you can continue to not opt-in for CIP or you can select to not Show Project Browser at Startup.

1. Start AutoCAD Architecture 2008.
2. Click Tools menu > Options.
3. In the Options dialog box, click the AEC Project Default tabs.
4. Select the Show Project Browser at Startup option.
5. Click OK.
6. Click Help menu > Customer Involvement Program.
7. Select Yes.
8. Click OK.

Source: JTB World Blog

this is really handy because i had this problem before and i kept reinstalling AutoCAD
till i found this.