Hasta La Ideas

Thibault et Marc Devauze ont imaginé ce concept « Motorrad » en déclinant l’image d’Audi et en imaginant comment ce constructeur pourrait évoluer sous la forme d’une moto. Un projet personnel très réussi à découvrir en plusieurs rendus dans la suite, déclinant avec talent l’identité de la marque.

News: Frank Gehry has launched his studio’s paperless system for sharing and collaborating on drawings as a scaled-up product for the architecture industry.

The GTeam software by Gehry’s technology development and consulting company Gehry Technologies is now integrated with cloud-based storage service Box, enabling Box’s customers in the fields of architecture, construction and engineering to easily access and manage blueprints, CAD files and contracts.

The paperless system was refined by Gehry’s studio during the construction of New York by Gehry (pictured), the 265-metre-high apartment building completed in 2011, where sharing digital files enabled the architects and engineers working on the tower to significantly reduce the number of expensive alterations required during construction.

Box has now scaled up the software to bring it to the wider industry and allow others to benefit in the same way, according to company CEO Aaron Levie.

“I think when you can bring these tools to the masses, it really opens up innovation in an incredible way,” he said.

The software was developed by Gehry’s studio over the decades to eliminate the need for paper.

“My dream is to do buildings paperless. And it can be done,” Gehry told technology magazine Wired. “I discovered that, using the computer, we had more information, which kept us in control and allowed us to protect the owner from a lot of waste in the process.”

GTeam can incorporate files from other design software, such as Rhino and AutoCAD, and is already being used in the offices of Zaha Hadid and SOM, according to Gehry.

In a similar mood of collaboration, Dutch firm UNStudio this week announced it will relaunch in June as an “open-source architecture studio” inspired by technology start-ups, using an online platform to encourage the exchange of ideas between its own architects and those outside the company.

Gehry was recently asked to “tone down” his plans for Facebook’s new Silicon Valley campus, while earlier this year a Utah congressman launched an attempt to scrap the architect’s proposed Washington D.C. memorial for former president Dwight D. Eisenhower – see all architecture by Frank Gehry.

Photograph are by dbox.

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News: the internet has become a more vital resource in the home than water, heating or television, according to a survey of Londoners.

Asked which household utility they couldn’t live without, 38% of respondents said they’d be most stressed out by not having internet access, while 32% said having no water would be their main priority and 18% said a lack of heating.

No television was a top concern for just 8% of people, while 4% said they’d be most annoyed by a lack of washing machine.

A similar survey carried out in 2012 found 17% said they couldn’t live without an internet connection, but a year later that figure has risen to 27%.

Asked how long they thought they could manage without getting online, 27% of people said they didn’t think they’d cope at all, 25% said they could last a day and 29% said they’d manage just a few days. Only 4% of people said they didn’t need the internet at all.

Respondents also revealed that losing the internet connection at work is more stressful than being late, experiencing a bad journey to the office or dealing with a computer crash.

The street survey of 1000 commuters was commissioned by Infosecurity Europe, organisers of an annual information security event in London, which this year takes places from 23 to 25 April at Earls Court.

Last month a study of people’s bathroom habits found that the under-30s are using their time on the toilet to check social media – see all news about technology and find out more about the latest wearable technology that allows people to stay connected all the time, such as the Google Glass voice-controlled headset and the Pebble smartwatch.

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When they were asked to rethink the camera by BBC Future, the designers at Conran and Partners were clear that they wanted to set about reimagining every aspect, from the form factor to the technology inside. The result is this new-age hybrid that has a gaping hole replacing the camera lens and no digital viewfinder to check out the images clicked. In a very spunky way, the concept transports us back to that era when rushing to the darkroom with the camera roll used to be so much of fun. The anticipation of crisp versus blurry shots, and the excitement of sifting through the photographs as a collection, is such a refreshing change.

Designer Jared Mankelow explains, “What we’ve done is punch a big aperture through the camera’s centre, to connect the photographer with what’s in front of them.”

One of the reasons behind omitting the screen is that since everybody has a smartphone, tablet or PC nowadays (all featuring a very high-resolution screen), it made no sense having a poor-quality substitute sapping battery life from the camera.

• The Conran camera transmits images via Bluetooth with the touch of a button – or you can recapture the delight of a film camera by not looking.
• From a control perspective, the Conran camera combines instant-on, automatic shooting with a full set of manual controls.
• Instead of being buried in fiddly, screen-based menus, all of the controls are physical: grooves, knurls and ridges allow the user to change settings without looking.
• Image quality was another important focus. The camera sensors surround the central aperture in an array, allowing the camera to resolve images with incredible clarity – and a ring flash allows even lighting of close up subjects.

Designer: Conran and Partners

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