Tuesday 27 March 2012

Mies van der Rohe - Google Doodle

Google's latest doodle pays tribute to one of the pioneers of modern architecture, Mies van der Rohe, who was born 126 years ago Today.

His steel and glass buildings can be found in most major American cities. His most famous buildings include the Seagram building in New York, the Museum of Fine Art in Houston, the Martin Luther King library in Washington DC and the National Gallery in Berlin.

He is often associated with the aphorisms "less is more" and "God is in the details"

http://www.miessociety.org/

Virgin Soldiers - Moon Song

Not quite related to CAD, but just giving a friends band a plug..!!

Thursday 22 March 2012

CAD - The greatest advance in construction history?

This was voted for back in 2009 - I wonder if the same still stands today?

For the original article click HERE

Thursday 15 March 2012

Take Google Maps Inside the Airport

Indoor Floor Plans to Your Phone

New Version of Google Maps Brings Indoor Floor Plans to Your Phone

Photo courtesy of Google

Google’s Maps team has made fantastic advances in surveying and mapping seemingly every square inch of navigable ground on the planet. But for mobile users, those maps have always stopped just short of indoor spaces — until now.

Google Maps 6.0 for Android with a bold initiative: indoor mapping. Partnering at launch with a selection of businesses and public service structures, the new mobile Maps version allows users to see the entire layout of a mapped building, switch between floor plans if the structure has multiple levels, and locate indoor points of interest like retail stores, bathrooms and ATMs.

Obviously, indoor mapping is only useful when the building you’re navigating is big enough to warrant it. To this end, Google has partnered with more than 25 major businesses that handle large crowds on a regular basis

Photo courtesy of Google

via Wired - Gadget Lab

Wednesday 14 March 2012

Looking for a CAD Job?

Try http://www.cadjobs.co.uk/

Friday 9 March 2012

Out of office today

Thursday 8 March 2012

CAD Resource library

CAD Architect is a worldwide CAD resource library of over 6500 AutoCAD symbols, details & drawings for Architects, CAD draughtsman & other related building industry professionals.