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The federal appeals court in Philadelphia ruled on Tuesday in a precedent-setting decision that the FBI and law enforcement did not always need a warrant to access stored location from cell carrier records. A three-judge panel of the Third Circui...Read more

For the exhibition Still Action -- on view at the School of the Art Institute's Sullivan Galleries in Chicago until October 2nd -- Brandon Pass designed, built, and installed (the last two with Nick Bastic) a kinetic wall installation for artists Elissa Papendick and Libby O'Bryan to "challenge and broaden the curatorial process as an artistic practice."



Inspired by anthropologist C. Nadia Seremetakis's concept "still-act" ("moments when a subject interrupts historical flow and practices historical interrogation"), on each Friday the gallery hosts different artists "who instigate aesthetic experiences that leave viewers with a heightened sense of awareness."



As can be seen in the image at top, the wall installation is more of a work surface than an armature for artistic expression, fitting with Papendick and O'Bryan's focus on curating for their residency. Some relatively mundane activities take place when the wall is opened as a desk (meetings, coordination, etc.), but all of the curatorial elements are then tucked away when the wall is closed.





These drawings illustrate how pieces hinge in plan and section, not just projecting from the wall but protruding through to modify both sides of the wall simultaneously. For example, the desk surface extends through the wall to become a small stand for a microphone and coffee or tea; curating and interviewing happen on either side but are interdependent on the same movable elements.



Function in the realm of the exhibition and the artists' tasks aside, I prefer the image of the wall in the closed position. Over time it probably won't have the unadorned appearance of above, but the combination of panels, reveals, and hardware give it the appearance of a cabinet of curiosities, or something like Ben Nicholson's Teloman Cupboard. One may not envision a simple desk and other accoutrements when open, instead letting the mind wander to whatever slender artifacts may lie behind the plywood. Regardless it's a small but dynamic and influential element within its surroundings that addresses the needs of the curators and over time the other artists as well.

The University of Michigan leadership committed this summer to seek LEED certification for every new construction project of at least $10 million. The new Ross School of Business building is full of environmentally friendly technology.



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Overlooking the Sea of Japan in the Shimane Prefecture, the incredible Stairs House offers an intimate interior while providing a welcoming exterior environment. The passive solar house is built not just for a couple and their twin children, but for all the children of the neighborhood to enjoy. The exterior takes the form of a huge staircase that rises two stories and provides views and a place to lounge. The interior is a thoughtfully-designed space that consists of bookcases, cubbies, and open rooms that are illuminated by the constantly changing light provided by the unique windows. Thanks to passive heating and cooling and a host of other green building strategies, the Stairs House stands out for being as generous to the environment as it is to its neighborhood.

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The Solar Impulse solar-powered airplane is unstoppable so far. Earlier this summer, the single-seat plane completed its first night flight, and now the aircraft is getting ready for three test flights across Switzerland — from Payerne to Geneva, Geneva to Zurich, and Zurich to Payerne.

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A low-income housing building in Paris is being sustainably renovated to utilize a very unique heating system — it will be literally drawing heat from Parisian commuters in the metro. Each passenger lets out about 100 watts of energy in body heat each time they enter and wait in the subway — couple that energy with the heat from moving and stopping trains, and the temperature in the underground railway stations is consistently higher than it is above ground. The new heating system will draw heat up from underground in much in the same way that geothermal projects do, providing energy to heat the building’s 17 apartments.

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The Wave Hub, a groundbreaking renewable energy project that is set to become the UK’s first offshore facility dedicated to wave energy, has been installed off the North Coast of Cornwall. Four wave energy generation devices will connect their arrays into the Hub, allowing developers to transmit and then sell their renewable energy to the UK’s electricity distribution grid. The total capacity of the hub will be 20 MWe (megawatt electrical).

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The 36th Annual Ken Roberts Memorial Delineation Competition has just been announced. This year's jury includes Archinect's own Nam Henderson. www.krobarch.com | via Bustler View the results from 2009, 2008 and 2007

Remember the good old days, when you’d go to your lectures with nothing more than a pad and a pen? Well, those days may be coming to a close now that the University of Notre Dame has launched the first paperless class taught using Apple’s iPad instead of traditional textbooks.

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Here at Inhabitat we love bikes that boast the latest and greatest high-tech materials, but we’re equally impressed by more organic takes on two-wheeled transportation. Combining both of these approaches, Schwinn recently rolled out the Vestige, the world’s first bike built from biodegradable flax fibers. The sturdy flax-framed bike performs similarly to carbon fiber cycles, although the Vestige’s carbon footprint is much lower and it’s actually better at absorbing and dampening road vibrations. The bike also features a snazzy internal lighting system that is powered by a dynamo in the front hub, making it a battery-free eco ride that lights up the night.

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Bob Shervin, the owner of a gas station and tire store adjacent to an unsightly metal structure in Jackson, Wyoming, wanted to create an environmentally-friendly, aesthetically-pleasing building that also provided some much-needed affordable housing for his community. He approached Ward + Blake Architects with the additional challenge of maximizing the amount of leasable square footage on the property – all within the confines of a $140 per square foot budget. The resulting eco-building has a lovely roof garden at the second floor that allows apartment dwellers to enjoy the wonderful scenic views of the mountains beyond.

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Combining the eco-friendly benefits of fast growing bamboo and refurbishable steel with the nostalgia-evoking shape of an elementary school seat, Alex Whitney’s ‘Pennyfields’ chair is a simple, elegant design for modern living. The chair has already received a Metamorphisis award from Metropolitan Works for its innovative design, and it’s set to launch at The Dock, Ladbroke Grove, hosted by Tom Dixon during the London Design Festival.

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The FCC now offers four APIs for developers on its new developer page: FCC Consumer Broadband Test Over 1 million user speed tests were generated from FCC Consumer Broadband Test. This API delivers data on the number of tests, average user downlo...Read more

The municipality of Rotterdam doesn’t have a specific portal for incubator projects, the way Amsterdam does. However, several industrial buildings in the former port areas are being used by creative industries.
The artist collective De Fabriek occupied abandoned spaces in Delfshaven, Crooswijk and Spaanse Polder. Some, like Poortgebouw, are the result of squatting. Others, like Creative Factory, Creative Cube and Schieblock, have been negotiated with the owners by cultural groups. The neatly renovated units of for example the Schiecentrale attract more established young entrepreneurs, in search for well a designed post-industrial loft with a view. And the RDM wharf area is being transformed into the RDM campus, an area with several educational institutes and working space for start-up businesses.

In general, more scepticism exists with regard to incubator projects in Rotterdam. They usually take a longer time to get filled up by young creative professionals than in Amsterdam. On the other hand, the supply of empty industrial and office buildings near the centre is more generous. Despite this fact, creative industries in Rotterdam fear that none of these low-cost spaces will eventually remain.

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Recently developer Omniplan literally blew the roof off of Frank Gehry’s Santa Monica Place, pursuing hopes of LEED Silver in one of the United State’s largest sustainable retail renovations. The $265-million makeover turned the enclosed three-story 1980’s structure into an outdoor mall experience. Although we are admittedly not thrilled by sustainable renovations that cater to more consumerism, we were a little bit tipsy about the green building strategies featured throughout the 200,000 square feet of public space that are now open to the public 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

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Like a number of you, I’m heading to the annual GIS in the Rockies event next week in Northern Colorado. There hasn’t been a ton of pre-event hype and hooplah on the social media streams...

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[Image: An outdoor greenscreen for Sony Studios].

Right around the corner from our new apartment here in Los Angeles is an outdoor greenscreen owned by Sony Studios. Something was being shot there the other night, for instance, complete with what amounted to an artificial moon held by crane at least sixty feet above the rooftops, glowing amidst evening fog like a new installation by Leonid Tishkov.

There's something oddly Holodeck-like about having a greenscreen literally just two buildings away from us—as if at any point we might sneak out into what seems like a derelict parking lot, with some odd props scattered here and there, only to be propelled into bullet-time, the world around us dissolving in a hail of miscomposited imagery.

It's the new urban Baroque! Install greenscreens everywhere in an optical infrastructure for the 21st century—a DIY industry of everyday special effects, little greenscreens popping up beside trees, in alleyways, behind buildings, atop roofs, the entire urban environment camera-ready and pierced like St. Sebastian by the arrows of parallel worlds, our cities become effects labs and every sidewalk a set.

We'll host greenscreen parties, illegal raids on this empty parking lot at midnight to stage the elaborate counterphysics of our unacknowledged parallel lives.

[Image: The greenscreen peeking out from the canopy of a tree].

What, for instance, could Google Street View do with this? Every sixth billboard in Los Angeles chroma-keyed to show a new city laminated atop the existing one, phasing in and out like camouflage and opening strange new optical possibilities for urban design in an age of composite imaging.

Ever consider tearing up your driveway and replacing it with a “Greener” choice? I do every day I drive into mine.  Perhaps you live in a cold/wintry climate or a dry/hot climate.  Here are a few suggestions regarding examining your driving behavior and parking needs, which may help with material selection.

One question to consider, regardless of the material you choose, is how much parking area do you truly need?  My wife and I bought a house in Vermont with a very wide and lengthy driveway, which, when the kids grow up, I’d love to make smaller.  You could park up to 6 cars and trucks on it.  Right now we use it as a basketball court, for 4 Square and car & bike parking.
Reducing the amount of impervious or semi-impervious surfaces will lessen the amount of storm-water run off into your street, sewers, streams and ultimately lakes and the ocean.  This well help create healthier natural environments, helping to reduce the heat island effect (the warmth emanating off of pavement or walkways which are in the hot sun.)  If you have a garage, empty it, so you can park your car(s), bikes, scooters in it, which will substantially reduce the width of your driveway, flaring it out some at the garage end, so you can move cars in and out.
Then once you’ve re-evaluated the amount and type of driveway you need, consider installing pervious pavers, or concrete pavers like other’s have suggested if you’re in a climate which doesn’t get much snow and ice.  If you do have either, consider just removing what you don’t need of your driveway and reusing pieces as you can for walk ways around your home.  If you cut up or breakup your driveway intentionally in advance, you probably can reuse pieces of it.  You might be able to rent a construction saw from a rental yard.  Remember, depending on where you live, you also may be able to park on the street and only park near your house when you have to move your car for snow, thus making the driveway less important most of the time.
Another, older fashioned idea which you see in older neighborhoods around the US, is just running a two parallel smaller driving tracks with grass in between - wide enough to drive on but substantially reducing the amount of pavement, pavers, concrete or whatever in a drive lane. This decreases expense, storm-water run-off and heat island effect.  You’ll spend far less money maintaining the driveway.  You just have to work a little harder to maintain the grass between the lanes.
Parking your car on the street is another way of re-evaluating your behavior regarding your driveway and thinking outside the box.  Redefining the way you think about your driveway and reducing the number of cars you drive or downsizing them by commuting with bikes or scooters or walking would also fall in the category of shifting your thinking and ultimately your behavior.  Of course, this isn’t always an option with more suburban or rural areas, but you get the various points I’m trying to make.
I hope this helped.  Let me know if you have comments or other ideas.  Remember, examine your behavior and parking needs first, then examine materials.