The New DN: 2007

Monday, October 8, 2007

Fire Safety Video

Please share with others who have kitchens....

Thursday, October 4, 2007

Eat your greens and oranges and reds and yellows

I am not sure if anyone has heard of this before, but I am currently a customer of this and it is amazing. It is an organic fruit and vegetable company that delivers a box of goodies to your door step from local farmers. Check out their website. It is a pretty good deal for those of you who like to eat healthy and stay away from those dang pesticides. They deliver whatever is in season so it is a surprise everytime.

http://denver.doortodoororganics.com/

Be aware monkeys may eat your mangos. They got mine.

Monday, October 1, 2007

We Didn't Start the Fire

http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~yeli23/Flash/Fire.html

Turn it up loud, and hope you don't get caught humming along.

Enjoy!

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Interactive Projection

Amazing large scale projected responsive animation.
See the tiger run....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CufzjUfINgA

Interactive LED table

Very fun ambient use of LEDs with a motion detector array.
From www.becausewecan.org
https://www.becausewecan.org/shop/node/37

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Lenovo - water wall projection

In the Lenovo corporate headquarters no less.

Check it out.

Harry

Monday, September 24, 2007

Charlie Rose - The Future of Architecture

Thursday, August 30, 2007

ski season's a coming!

We may be still getting 90 degree weather, but ski passes are already on sale. Ski pass prices for all resorts in the Rockies has gone up significantly for the 2007-2008 season. As well, gas prices, cost of parking and traffic on I70 are no picnic either.

Car pooling and caravaning are a great way to beat the pains of commuting to the hills. Post which ski passes you are getting and we will try to get some kind of group going on a regular basis.

Wax your skiis or board and hope for a awesome powder season!!!

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Sustainability and Skyscrapers

Are skyscrapers a dying breed? Some thoughts on the long term sustainability of the building type.
www.gsd.harvard.edu/research/publications/hdm//current/26_Buchanan.html

Friday, August 17, 2007

Biomimicry and Biophilia

From Andrea DeVico:

Here is a link to the tree hugger blog, featuring the Eastgate Building I discussed in my presentation last night. http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/08/biomimetic_buil_1.php

also a link to other fascinating case studies some of which are available and in use today. http://www.biomimicry.net/casestudiesB.htm

and to begin training... http://www.biomimicryinstitute.org/Education%20and%20Training%20Detailed.htm

and Janine Benysus's speech, very intriguing!! http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers/view/id/19

From Holly:

As an interesting side note to biomimicry, I had a conversation this spring with Pliny Fisk, III from the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems. We discussed Biophilia which is the psychology behind the human need for a connection to nature in the built environment. (The Green Guide for Health Care includes a credit point for creating this.) Beyond views and incorporating natural elements, it includes things like irregular clustering of elements, creating a sense of enclosure in spaces, rhythms that mimic nature and areas that encourage exploration and discovery.

Here are a few links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biophilia_hypothesis

http://www.aia.org/nwsltr_print.cfm?pagename=cote_a_200608_biophilia

http://arts.envirolink.org/interviews_and_conversations/EOWilson.html

http://www.worldwidewords.org/turnsofphrase/tp-bio2.htm

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Volleyball of the Rockies!

For the best volleyball in the region, check out Volleyball of the Rockies! Their trip to Mexico every January is a week of beach volleyball, amounting to almost 100 games for you die hards.

Volleyball of the Rockies http://www.votr.com/

Say "Hi!" to Tom for me!

Thursday, July 19, 2007

Welcome to the new dn!

blog: noun -
1998, short for weblog

If you are here, you've solved the riddle.

The new dn is a place for Gensler Denver employees to share inspiration, ideas and sources. (It is a public space, so no project info please!)

Have a site that blows you away, an event you want to share with the office, or a site with bunnies making movies? Put it up.

Categories and topics will evolve as content is added and everything is automatically archived, so gradually a library of sources we can all use will accumulate.

Start flat, go 3D....

Interesting forms and structures, all CNC cut from flat sheets.
From dwell
www.sumarch.com

CNC Furniture...

The birch plywood is a bit tired, but some nice stuff from a small producer in Canada.
I love Canada!

http://www.queuebert.com/laminates/

Project for Public Spaces

Case studies, profiles and photos of public spaces.
Lots of resources....
www.pps.org/

Livescience.com

Great science-based imagery and articles.
www.livescience.com

Monday, July 16, 2007

Catch up on your flicks

All your favorite movies condensed to 30 seconds... oh, and reinacted by bunnies:

http://www.angryalien.com/

Statistics couldn't be any cooler

"Remind Me" music video for catchy upbeat Norwegian electronic band, Röyksopp, is an amazing series of statistics, graphs and diagrams brought to life:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBvaHZIrt0o

virtual hotel stay

W's younger budget-conscious (but still hip) spin off hotel, aloft, opened it's first location in the virtual online world, Second Life. It was a way for W's design team to study how people live, travel, and socialize, and react to design elements of the aloft concept. Even the design production was done in virtuality, with team meetings conducted online in a SimCity-esque video game format.

Rooms in aloft resembles a modern studio loft, with higher ceilings, sexy open bathrooms, modern environmentally-sustainable materials, and wide rooms to allow the bed to be positioned towards the window wall. Amenities are few (who needs amenities when you are young, active and mobile?), but includes innovative concepts like a take-away counter (in lieu of a restaurant) stocked with gourmet box meals and snacks, a environmentally friendly "backyard" lounge with a plunge pool, a nightclub-like bar/lounge, and small yet efficient state of the art workout room. While aloft has been open in the virtual world for almost a year now, about 20 has broken ground this year (opening in 2008) with a goal of 500 properties worldwide by 2012.