Design Empathy

‘Design empathy’ builds inclusive spaces for people with autism

Skyscraper Airport 2

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Dutch Windwheel Corporation

• The Dutch Windwheel
• In The Netherlands, A Giant Wind Turbine For People To Live On
• A Giant Funhouse Wind Turbine: Your New Apartment?

Illegal Penthouse

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Skyscraper Airport

Blade Runner Sketch Book (1982)

Architectura Curiosa Nova by Georg Andreas Böckler (1664)

Source. A book on theory and application of hydrodynamics for fountains, water-jets, garden fountains and well heads with many designs for free-standing fountains and pleasure gardens.

Shipping Container Dorm, Johannesburg

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Post-Soviet Architecture

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Proposed Makeovers for Abandoned Metro Stations of Paris

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Hotel Eclat Beijing and Taipei; Upgrading the ‘Art Hotel’

Hotel Eclat Beijing; Upgrading the ‘Art Hotel’
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"The Eclat hotel within Park View Green Mall on Dongdaqiao Road, Chaoyang, has only been open since March [2013] but has already made impressions around the world for its architecture and art collection. Taking the concept of a boutique art hotel and super sizing it, each one of the 100 rooms in this hotel is completely unique, and packed with original pieces by modern artists and designers from China and the world."

The Castle - Franz Kafka

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Le Courbusier: Elements of a Synthesis

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The Lost Victorian Mansions of Downtown LA

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cf The 13 Scariest Places in Los Angeles | Discover Los Angeles

Supertall

From Second Life Marketplace

The Rise of the Supertalls (Popular Sciemce)
Building Big: Glossary
Burj Dubai: The Highest Building In The World

Supertalls - SkyscraperCity
The Skyscraper Museum: SUPERTALL!
$2 billion Azerbaijan Tower to usurp Saudi Arabia’s Kingdom Tower
Proposed Supertall Buildings: Forum
SkyscraperCity - Threads Tagged with supertall
Wikipedia: Skyscraper

• Skyscraper design and construction
• Skyscraper Index
• Emporis Skyscraper Award
• Skyscraper Museum in NYC
• Skyline
• List of tallest buildings and structures in the world
• List of tallest buildings in the world
• Timeline of three tallest structures in the world
• List of cities with most skyscrapers
• Skyscrapers in film
• Groundscraper
• Vertical farming, "farmscrapers"
• Seascraper
• World's littlest skyscraper

Spanish Builders Forget Skyscraper Elevator | ArchDaily

Antarctic Architecture and Extreme Weather Design

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Supercomputer Architecture and Data Centres

• (1 Sept 2014) A Drone’s Eye View of Apple’s Headquarters Under Construction in Cupertino, California
• (30 May 2014) ‘Internet machine’, A Multi-Screen Film About the Infrastructure of the Internet That Often Remains Hidden
• (29 May 2014) 6 Stunning Photos of the Internet’s Hidden Infrastructure
• (20 May 2014) The cloud is not the territory
• (14 Jan 2014) IBM to spend billions on new cloud data centres
• (7 Jan 2014) Why Data Centre Providers Love the Greater Toronto Burbs - Techvibes.com
• Inside Facebook's new Arctic Circle data centre - Telegraph
• (7 Aug 2013) NSA's Utah Data Center
• (17 Oct 2012) A Look Inside Google's Mystifyingly Beautiful Data Centers
• Inside our data centers – Data Centers – Google

• The Aesthetics of Data Storage

• Supercomputer Architecture on Wikipedia

•  Facing the Multicore-Challenge: Aspects of New Paradigms and Technologies in Parallel Computing.  
• "Cray's Titan Supercomputer for ORNL could be world's fastest". PC Magazine.
• (28 Oct 2011) Facebook Builds Data Center Near Arctic Circle
•  (11 Oct 2011). "GPUs Will Morph ORNL's Jaguar Into 20-Petaflop Titan". HPC Wire.
• (11 Oct 2011). "Oak Ridge changes Jaguar's spots from CPUs to GPUs".
•  (22 Aug 2011). "The K computer: Japanese next-generation supercomputer development project". Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED) 2011 International Symposium on: 371–372.  
• (22 November 2010). "IBM uncloaks 20 petaflops BlueGene/Q super". The Register.
•  (4 November 2010). "U.S. says China building 'entirely indigenous' supercomputer".
• "IBM Hot Water-Cooled Supercomputer Goes Live at ETH Zurich". 
• (10 May 2010). "IBM liquid-cooled supercomputer heats building".
• "Top 500 supers – The Dawning of the GPUs". The Register.
• (14 March 2005). "System X building the Virginia Tech supercomputer". 
• 27 June 2007). "IBM creates world's most powerful computer". New Scientist.
• (2004). "The Chess Monster Hydra". 
• (1998). Cracking DES – Secrets of Encryption Research, Wiretap Politics & Chip Design. Oreilly &  (2007). "Quasi-opportunistic supercomputing in grids". 
• "IBM Triples Performance of World's Fastest, Most Energy-Efficient Supercomputer". 2007-06-27.  

• TOP 500 Supercomputing Sites
• Facebook’s Architecture

Historical/Curiosity

• Big-Brother 7074 Is Watching You (1963 article)

Farmscrapers

Source. One of the advantages of living in a city is that the urban environment is in many ways more sustainable than suburbia — mass transit provides easy access to different areas without cars or highways, and dense planning efficiently fits more people into less space. But the quintessential architectural unit of the city, the skyscraper, isn’t always the greenest method of building. Enter “farmscrapers,” a new creation by the France and Belgium-based firm Vincent Callebaut Architects.

“Farmscraper” is the term they invented for a plan of six skyscrapers, deemed “Asian Cairns,” created for Shenzhen province in China. The towering structures are divided into ovular, blob-like sections that look like rocks smoothed by years in running water. Each blob plays host to a miniature forest of trees and grass, along with wind turbines and solar cells. Each farmscraper measures 1,300 feet high and has 111 floors, reports New York Daily News.

The farmscrapers are designed to act as self-contained ecosystems: The water created and collected by the planted farms will be recycled for use within the building. The farms will not necessarily produce food to sustain the community, but they will improve the city’s legendarily bad air quality. Each pebble unit will also contain a mixture of office, residential, and recreational space. By mingling efficient density with green design strategies, Callebaut is developing an architectural solution for China’s booming urban expansion. “In this context of hyper growth and accelerated urbanism, the Asian Cairns project fights for the construction of an urban multifunctional, multicultural and ecological pole,” the firm explained on World Architecture News.

L.A. 2013

As predicted in 1988.

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Construction of Disneyland

Thank you to Adrianne and Retronaut for this.

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c/f Pictures of Disneyland in Opening Day, July 17, 1955
c/f Disneyland Construction Time Laspe - Main Street Camera 3