Design and Art
Peder Hansen's Anawhata House?
A 1980s Design Student Tech visit, a 2025 Anawhata Gravel Bike Ride
Not all CEO's can be Carl Bass
i was listening to this, podcast link below, and the recent news of tech CEO pilgrimages to Florida to meet with the incoming... Conversation with Carl Bass - Former CEO of Autodesk and Maker of All Things Awesome | Manufacturing Spaces By Pete Oxenham This week Carl joins us to share
Maurice and I - Miles Warren and Maurice Mahoney Architects
I missed the limited cinema screening of this, was good to see on DocPlay. A timely and intimate look at one of NZ's greatest architectural partnerships. It also documents the unnecessarily destructive aspects of the Christchurch quake recovery, which almost claimed one of their finest works: The Christchurch
Design and Art
Kiwi affordable housing design, build, operation innovator
I posted this on my personal blog, but it has a lot of design and construction innovation. Simplicity Living is a non-profit retirement/investment fund that is building high quality affordable rental (they'll own and operate) and rent to own (they'll fund) housing. It's
CAD and car design at Renault
Patrick le Quément, Renault Design, on how he fostered the use of CAD at Renault... Of Mouse and Men – Driven To Write Amongst the traditional activities to be found in any design department there was one oddity which drew my immediate attention when I perused the organigramme — it was named
Autodesk rebranding
I put a post on the work CAD Support chat about Autodesk rebranding today. It was just to advise the web asset colours and logos will probably change at some stage and not to think it is a ‘hack’. The new logo is bolder, simpler, than the previous and with
Some design lessons to amuse the kids (of all ages) | COVID-19 Lock In
Shaan shared this resource from Disney & Kahn Academy for children of all ages: One-of-a-Kind Learning Experience from Disney Imagineers | By Shaan Hurley on Between the Lines
The origins of the Revit 2014+ Sample House
Sam shares the story behind his creation, surely seen by every Revit user at some stage, the Revit sample house: Samuel Macalister - Architect and BIM Specialist and the Revit 2014 Sample House | labs.blogs.com
The art of Gifford Jackson
I was browsing the Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT) site, saw a poster for a Boeing Above and Beyond Exhibition while cycling today, and stumbled upon an exhibition of one of my mid-1980s UNITEC (was then Carrington Technical Institute) Product Design Diploma Tutor’s work. Gifford Jackson taught us
For me BIM probably began with LEGO
I haven’t modelled with, or thought much about, LEGO for decades—the photo below is my collection in the mid-1970s, my first building models—but recently created a logon for the LEGO IDEAS site. The motivation was to support an awesome Kākāpō bird project. The real Kākāpō is endangered,
Design and Art
New Zealand Building permit 1976
Compliance is one reason it is difficult (and expensive) to build a house in New Zealand these days. And it probably didn’t leak… “1976 Building Permit, 3pages, $217” ..well that got harder pic.twitter.com/HEhFECaYYJ — Ra Dejardine (@radejardine) June 15, 2018 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
Cool Software
Siemens Catchbook, now in New Zealand
Siemens Catchbook is a sketch application for iOS, Android and Windows 10. I first saw it a year or so ago and was intrigued by the way it interpreted sketch input (pen or mouse on Windows) and captured sketched relationships. Unfortunately Catchbook was not available in New Zealand at the