When I was in London my teacher said work hard in your classes, but get the hell out of here and go travel while you’re here. So before I really even knew very much about Lou Kahn and his view on things, I became very interested in ruins. I would go to these old castles that ...
Buildings are largely imaginary; all buildings are in part castles in the air. We live them, their lives and deaths, in imagination, even as buildings are part of the way in which the cultural imagination functions and forms itself. There are occasions, like the obliteration of the twin towe...
"You can talk to the people taking care of these castles or churches, and see if they have any material on a particular building," says Bittner. "Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't! If they don't, then you have to reconstruct it from more general knowledge about the time." Read...
Six-year-old Alice is building a magical kingdom brick by brick, imagining fairy-tale castles and fire-breathing dragons, bad witches and brave heroes. This fantasy is helping her take her first steps towards her capacity for creativity. Minutes later, Alice has abandoned the kingdom in favour...
seeking adventure and performing quests for great kings living in even greater castles, it's tempting to fill an entire world with people based on that design: everyone may share a similar complexion, dress in the same dull clothes, live in the same stone kingdoms, speak the same common ...
Big Sandwich Games recently provided me with two copies of their awesome new game,Hoard. To understand Hoard, I’d like to consider an RTS game. Villages grow and become cities while farms increase in size to feed the villagers. Carts of gold travel along the roads. Castles rise, training...
Backroads Travel has a special site dedicated to last minute trips taking off in the next two months. When we checked, there were 24 on the list including: Denmark Islands Bike Tour of charming harbors, medieval villages and fairy tale castles. ...
This dataset comprises 1849 complete building point cloud models, encompassing various architectural categories, including houses, churches, skyscrapers, city halls, libraries, and castles, among others. The dataset was randomly divided into training, testing, and validation sets in a ratio of 80%, ...