Showing posts with label Singapore. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Singapore. Show all posts
Friday, 4 January 2013
18:00 | 
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Bjarke Ingels: 3 warp-speed architecture tales Video Clips. Duration : 18.20 Mins.
www.ted.com Danish architect Bjarke Ingels rockets through photo stories of his eco-flashy designs. His buildings not only look like nature -- they act like nature: blocking the wind, collecting solar energy -- and creating stunning views.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at www.ted.com Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at www.ted.com
www.ted.com Danish architect Bjarke Ingels rockets through photo stories of his eco-flashy designs. His buildings not only look like nature -- they act like nature: blocking the wind, collecting solar energy -- and creating stunning views.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at www.ted.com Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at www.ted.com
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Tuesday, 1 January 2013
07:40 |
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Architects Save The World And Bring Joy To Millions: Singapore 2050 Video Clips. Duration : 6.35 Mins.
The WOHA Design2050 Studio was commissioned by DesignSingapore and its proposition, "Architects Save The World And Bring Joy To Millions: Singapore 2050" was presented at the Icsid World Design Congress 2009 (proposition included below). The copyright for this video and all related content is lodged with WOHA and relevant parties, as indicated in the credits at the end of the video. WOHA can be contacted at the following address: WOHA 29 HongKong Street Singapore 059668 Tel: (65) 6423 4555 Fax: (65) 6423 4666 www.wohadesigns.com Architects Save The World And Bring Joy To Millions: Singapore 2050 The WOHA Design2050 studio humbly declares that architects and urban planners re-emerge from oblivion and return to their roots of benevolent megalomania. We attempt to save the world. In order to do so, we focus on the two things that we know best: The creative expertise of our profession, which historically has developed concepts for new societies at times translated into stone and mortar (or steel and glass) at times immortalised in international archives and galleries as paper architecture. Our home planet Singapore , apotheosis of planned renewal and radical make-over. Our small but notoriously efficient city state, invented in less than 40 years, is the perfect petri dish for a makeable future. Together with National University of Singapore and special guests School Of The Arts: Singapore, Blackdesign and Obilia, WOHA will develop and present architectural and urban concepts ...
The WOHA Design2050 Studio was commissioned by DesignSingapore and its proposition, "Architects Save The World And Bring Joy To Millions: Singapore 2050" was presented at the Icsid World Design Congress 2009 (proposition included below). The copyright for this video and all related content is lodged with WOHA and relevant parties, as indicated in the credits at the end of the video. WOHA can be contacted at the following address: WOHA 29 HongKong Street Singapore 059668 Tel: (65) 6423 4555 Fax: (65) 6423 4666 www.wohadesigns.com Architects Save The World And Bring Joy To Millions: Singapore 2050 The WOHA Design2050 studio humbly declares that architects and urban planners re-emerge from oblivion and return to their roots of benevolent megalomania. We attempt to save the world. In order to do so, we focus on the two things that we know best: The creative expertise of our profession, which historically has developed concepts for new societies at times translated into stone and mortar (or steel and glass) at times immortalised in international archives and galleries as paper architecture. Our home planet Singapore , apotheosis of planned renewal and radical make-over. Our small but notoriously efficient city state, invented in less than 40 years, is the perfect petri dish for a makeable future. Together with National University of Singapore and special guests School Of The Arts: Singapore, Blackdesign and Obilia, WOHA will develop and present architectural and urban concepts ...
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