Autodesk and CGarchitect have launched a new competition; the Autodesk Excellence in Infrastructure. This new annual competition showcases exemplary use of BIM for civil infrastructure. The competition rewards the use of the technology to plan, design, build and manage infrastructure projects. The competition extends to several industries including water and energy, land development, transportation, urban planning… Read more
Well done to Singapore’s Gardens by the Bay who won this years World Building of the Year, the top prize at World Architecture Festival! Wilkinson Eyre Architects won the award for the design of the Cooled Conservatories, but it was acknowledged that this was a team effort with the landscape architect Grant Associates and engineers… Read more
Facebook is planning to expand their campus! After their IPO on the stock market, Facebook has decided to add to its campus by building a huge new addition designed by world-renowned architect, Frank Gehry. The new extension hopes to hold up to 2,800 engineers once completed in a few years time. The building itself is like… Read more
Baca Architects is working in collaboration with ZM Architecture and have created a design for a floating urban quarter. Along with developers Floating Concepts, these architects are creating the world’s first floating leisure village. Located on the Clyde Waterfront in Pacific Quay, the Casting Basin will be home to a new community of houses, restaurants, shops, offices,… Read more
An increasing trend in the industry is product manufacturers creating BIM-based libraries of their products. What this ultimately means is that manufacturers are now supporting designers (architects, contractors and interior designers) by allowing them to incorporate their products in their building information models easily. At the moment BIM software include libraries of generic components, providing… Read more
A follow up to my previous blog post “Use of BIM for Interiors”, I decided to explore further the use of BIM by interior designers. We all know that BIM allows us to better visual projects but does this help industries other than AEC to better construct and design structures? The answer is yes! As… Read more
The Cardinia Civic Centre is an exciting new project that is expected to be completed late 2013. DesignInc designed and documented the building using Revit, so it’s fantastic to see BIM being used to create such a building. Revit Structure and Revit MEP models were also used by the various consultants throughout the process to enable… Read more
Below is a great video of Darren Tims from Rice Daubney Architects in Australia. In the video Darren gives a fantastic overview of how Rice Daubney are using BIM (Building Information Modeling) in their work flow and the benefits they are gaining from it. This is especially apparent in the larger projects he is talking… Read more
Here’s an interesting concept from the designers at Wally Power. It’s a concept of a large new type of boat (almost island) designed to be a stable place to live on. From the wally site: A private island of unimaginable space, light and tranquility, it is the world’s most stable hull and provides an entirely new… Read more
A new interior render has just been upload to our Rendering and Visualisation gallery. This show cases some of the features which make our renders stand out from the crowd. All of our renders are produced using full Global Illumination and Radiosity. This is the most accurate way of calculating real world effects and helps… Read more
