image the CLOUD ©www.raisethecloud.org The cloud is a proposal for an Olympic monument in London for the 2012 games designed by a multidisciplinary team of leading architects, engineers and artists. Revealed on November 11 2009 The Cloud embodies a radically new type of Olympic structure and architecture; it is a lightweight, transparent, carbon neutral, versatile, [...]

Image ©Resfest Turkey – The Fall, courtesy VIEW The tenth edition of VIEW, Italy’s premiere international event on digital cinema, 3D animation and computer graphics, kicks off on October 30 2009. View is divided into two main events ViewFest 3 days of premiere screenings, workshops and open talks with leaders of the digital culture and [...]

Peripheral Landscapes, by architects and multimedia designers Sarah Lorenzen, David Hartwell of Plasmatic Concepts was shown on Saturday July 11 2009 at the 9th edition of the Beyond Media Festival: Visions The video captures how informal urban development in Mexico City is changing the city in both its social and economic dynamics as well as [...]

L’Arca, international Magazine of Architecture, Design, and Visual Communication has opened up to ‘guest editors’. The publication will be dedicating 32 pages per month to a professional architect of their choice, offering them the freedom to write and illustrate their reflections and opinions on architecture, design and the built environment. By offering the guest editors [...]

‘IT and the cITy’ is part of a seven month research project entitled ‘The promise of invisibility – Technology and the City’ written and researched by Nishant Shah, Director of research at the Centre for Internet and Society , in collaboration with the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Shanghai University. Nishant Shah, tells ten stories [...]