Foster + Partners’ hotel to be built amid Saudi Arabian sand dunes — from dezeen.com by Tom Ravenscroft
Foster + Partners’ hotel to be built amid Saudi Arabian sand dunes — from dezeen.com by Tom Ravenscroft
Frank Gehry reveals latest design for supertall skyscraper in Toronto — from dezeen.com by India Block
Excerpt:
Frank Gehry has released visuals of a pair of twisting shiny skyscrapers, one of which will be over 300 metres, for King Street West in Toronto.
Currently named the Gehry Project, the plan is to build a 289-metre-high supertall and a 262-metre-high skyscraper at the intersection King Street West and Ed Mirvish Way.
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Richard Rogers balances his final building over Provence vineyard — from dezeen.com
5 industries that AR is going to change in 2021 — from wikitude.com by Maria Stenina
Excerpts:
AR enables remote collaboration with stable two-way video and audio annotations that any team member can access on-site and in the office. Such technological advancements leave traditional ways of cooperation far behind and accelerate the adoption rate by construction companies and the open public. Imagine a construction company using an app to add a detailed view of the future building for the local community to inform and provide a communication and feedback channel. The same channel could be used in-house for the cross-team collaboration in real-time.
ZJA to create museum around underwater 18th-century shipwreck — from dezeen.com by Lizzie Crook
Library of law books wraps staircase in Mexico City office designed by Esrawe Studio — from dezeen.com by Eleanor Gibson
Heatherwick Studio designs flood-resilient park The Cove for San Francisco — from dezeen.com by Eleanor Gibson
Excerpt:
Slated for completion in 2026, The Cove is intended to provide a new hub of activity while addressing rising sea levels threatening the waterfront site and also consideration [of] its history.
From DSC:
Many years ago, my wife and I spent several years out in the San Francisco Bay area. I was there to go through SFSU’s Multimedia Studies Program. I have many good memories from our time out there. I hope to be able to take that road trip in 2026!
Care over IP — from Inavate EMEA October 2020
Care over IP The Covid-19 outbreak has put working from home centre stage, but what happens when you work in a hospital? Paul Milligan speaks to those proving remote/virtual alternatives for patient care.
From DSC:
I continue to wonder how telelegal will be impacted by what’s happening with telehealth/telemedicine/virtual health…my guess is that telelegal will also grow quite a bit in the future.
Addendum on 9/25/20, below is an excerpt from a press release sent to me by Ashley Steiger at AristaMD:
University of Colorado School of Medicine and AristaMD Partner to Expand eConsults to Community Providers
SAN DIEGO – Sept. 22, 2020 – AristaMD, an innovative telehealth platform that delivers primary care providers (PCPs) timely and documented specialist insight through eConsults, has partnered with the University of Colorado School of Medicine (CU) to expand eConsults to a network of community providers. The partnership begins with Salud Family Health Center, which has 13 clinic locations and serves communities in northeast and southeast Colorado.
“AristaMD is pleased to be working with our first partner that is a part of the Association of American Medical Colleges’ Project CORE: Coordinating Optimal Referral Experiences. We can support health systems, including those already using eConsults within their own electronic health records (EHR), to more broadly expand to clinics on any system,” said Brooke LeVasseur, CEO of AristaMD. “The AristaMD platform works with all EHRs, seamlessly integrates into physician workflows, and will allow us to scale to community providers throughout the state of Colorado as the partnership grows.”
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Eight ways Virtual Design Festival has set the agenda for architecture and design — from dezeen.com
Excerpt:
After three months, two million video plays, over 600 posts and more than 50 live interviews, Virtual Design Festival [ended on 7/10/20]. From defining a new design movement to imagining new planets and urban wildernesses, here are a few of the agenda-setting ideas it raised.
Atelier Oslo and Lundhagem unveil Oslo’s “huge but intimate” central library — from dezeen.com by Tom Ravenscroft
Amazing Architectural Photography by Anna Devís and Daniel Rueda – Fubiz Media https://t.co/sM4IQ8iLhK
— Daniel Christian (@dchristian5) May 31, 2020
Explore Revit models in VR with Unity Reflect — from by Nick Davis
Unity Reflect makes it easy to bring Building Information Modeling (BIM) data into virtual reality (VR). Learn how you can use the Unity Reflect VR Viewer to conduct immersive design reviews with Autodesk Revit models.
Excerpt (emphasis DSC):
The value of VR in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry is well documented. It provides an unrivaled medium for gathering rich feedback, catching design flaws, and reducing the need for physical mockups. Studies have shown construction professionals are twice as likely to spot design errors when reviewing designs in VR versus PCs.
Today, 60% of AR and VR content is powered by Unity. Unity’s AEC customers use VR for a wide range of use cases, from conducting immersive walkthroughs that help their clients catch errors pre-construction and save hundreds of thousands of dollars on individual projects, to creating immersive training programs that lead to safer job sites.