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Please Vote for Our Free Green Who’s Next Competition Entry
March 3, 2010 – 11:07 am | No Comment
Please Vote for Our Free Green Who’s Next Competition Entry

And now for a little self promotion…….
If you are a content design and/or an urban facelift fan, we would love your support of our Free Green Who’s Next design entry.
If you like our design, please …

an amazing video to start off the new year
January 8, 2010 – 3:51 pm | One Comment
an amazing video to start off the new year

This one needs to be watched in full screen or maybe on your new big screen LED you just got for Christmas.  You can watch it in HD if you press the link below to …

Friday video……….David Baker + Partners
November 13, 2009 – 11:39 am | No Comment
Friday video……….David Baker + Partners

In our industry there have always been architects and designers that we admire and look up to.  David Baker +Partners Architects is one of those firms.  David Baker has been practicing architecture for nearly 30 …

Scary Houses and Buildings
October 30, 2009 – 9:33 am | One Comment
Scary Houses and Buildings

So what do you post for a Friday video the day before Halloween?  Well scary houses and buildings of course.  Enjoy the slide show and make sure your speakers are on.  The added music and …

The Friday Video: Coast Modern Documentary
October 16, 2009 – 7:56 am | No Comment
The Friday Video: Coast Modern Documentary

It looks like another great documentary film on architecture and design. This one takes us to the West Coast and explores modern architecture from 1922 to the present.
Here is what the film’s blog says …

a.f.v.o.s. – another friday video on saturday
October 10, 2009 – 8:37 am | One Comment
a.f.v.o.s. – another friday video on saturday

We have been thinking about Jacksonville’s urban core and looking at ideas that we think can make it work as a thriving, diversified, and fun place to live .  The urban core must have a …

Hillside Office Park, gainesville fl: photo shoot
September 30, 2009 – 3:30 pm | 2 Comments
Hillside Office Park, gainesville fl: photo shoot

Yesterday was a full day.  I left the house at 5:30 in the morning and returned home at 10:30 p.m.  I went to Gainesville, FL with friend and architect Mike Walburn of Walburn Studio located …

Snakebit Film: a documentary about samuel mockbee and the spirit of the rural studio
September 25, 2009 – 9:52 am | 3 Comments
Snakebit Film:  a documentary about samuel mockbee and the spirit of the rural studio

Samuel Mockbes died on December 30th, 2001  from complications resulting from his battle with leukemia.  Before his untimely death, he co-founded the Auburn University Rural Studio program in Hale County, Alabama.
The Snakebit Film is a …

The Friday Video: Amazing 3D mapping projection
September 18, 2009 – 9:12 am | No Comment
The Friday Video:  Amazing 3D mapping projection

This video is a montage of Easyweb.fr ’s work incorporating 3d video mapping and the projection on buildings, walls, and floors.  If you have seen our Urban Facelift Project, you can imagine how our wheels …

Artificial Owl : The Most Fascinating Abandoned Man-Made Creations
June 22, 2009 – 1:57 pm | 5 Comments
Artificial Owl : The Most Fascinating Abandoned Man-Made Creations

Metro Jacksonville’s article on Jacksonville’s own seemingly abandoned urban ruin, Hogan’s Creek, reminded us of the Artificial Owl website.  Artificial Owl is essentially an online catalog of some of the greatest abandoned man-made structures found …