Brad Pitt Wants to be an Architect

In the tradition of aspiring architects, Brad takes his turn building architectural models with Frank Gehry.



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Microsoft Trying to Compete With Sketchup

Microsoft has purchased a 3-D modeling program called trueSpace and released it for free. You can build models and place them in Microsofts Virtual Earth.

You can get trueSpace here.

via Digital Urban

Walking Directions in Google Maps

Now you can get walking directions from Google Maps. It looks like they're still not aware of all of the walking paths available, but still cool.

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via Google LatLong

"Planners waste architects' time"

An article from Ireland.

Eighty percent of architects believe that planning decisions made by local authorities do not support good quality design.

Energy Modeling

In doing a little bit of research, I ran across this Sketchup application for doing basic energy modeling at the conceptual stage. I love the idea of this. It would be awesome to be able to compare area-wide energy performance of different alternatives at the early planning stages.

It's called Demeter