SketchUp is obviously well suited to urban planning and urban design studies. The movie below, posted by JeremyNicholls, details the town of Cobourg in Canada through their digital imagery project.
Using a mix of the ‘classic’ SketchUp look combined with photographic facades the project illustrates how quick changes can be made to the model providing an overall look into the future of the town.
We can’t quite make our minds up if the voiceover is real or virtual…(?)
SketchUp is obviously well suited to urban planning and urban design studies. The movie below, posted by JeremyNicholls, details the town of Cobourg in Canada through their digital imagery project.
Using a mix of the ‘classic’ SketchUp look combined with photographic facades the project illustrates how quick changes can be made to the model providing an overall look into the future of the town.
We can’t quite make our minds up if the voiceover is real or virtual…(?)
The Isokon Building in Camden is one of Wells Coates finest examples of modernist architecture. A Grade I listed building it is tucked away on Lawn Drive a few minutes walk from Belsize Park Tube Station, London (see map).
The Open University notes that:
‘Wells embraced Le Corbusier‘s architectural mantra that buildings should be ‘machines for living’ (machine à habiter). The machine á habiter ideal was best-reflected in his Isokon building (also known as Lawn Road Flats), completed in 1934. Indeed, the architectural critic J. M. Richards suggested that he improved on Corbusier, coming “nearer to the machine á habiter than anything Corbusier ever designed”. The building was compared to the exterior of an ocean liner by the novelist Agatha Christie, who lived there for a time, so clean and striking was the design’.
You can view a higher resolution version of the panorama via our Flickr Group.
View the Isokon Building in Quick Time Virtual Reality (4.8Mb).
There is an unexpected increase in quality this week for our Line Rider Friday post.
Uploaded by ashlewis 87 the guy on a sledge explores a new city:
If you make your own Urban Line Rider scene let us know, you can start by going to the Line Rider site.