George Lucas new museum cost $1.5B.
Chicago and SF both turned it down.
So, it’ll open at Exposition Park in LA in September 2026.
It is 300,000 square feet and has 11 galleries holding art (Norman Rockwell, Frida Kahlo), valuable comics (Marvel, DC, Peanuts), original film props (Star Wars) and his 17,000 pair collection of Air Monarchs (to be confirmed).
"Alcoa Aluminum Corporation placed a series of advertisements in leading American magazines to promote aluminum for a variety of design fields, including aircraft framing, automotive fabrication and architectural construction. I was commissioned to create a speculative advertisement which appeared in Time magazine depicting the use of aluminum in a high density cliff community overlooking an urban riverfront."
- Syd Mead
Alcoa, 1969
Testing some long-term interactions - decomposing plants slowly turn sand into fertile soil. It'd be cool to have to use hardy pioneer species to first terraform a world a bit and make way for fancier species. But maybe I'll just make grasses do this automatically if it's tedious
The #Exhibition Center by Hot #Design will be a key symbol for showcasing research, hosting external exhibitions and media releases. It is a dome-like structure with a 39m diameter, 21m height and a total floor area of 4158.99 square meters. https://t.co/vlyZoEXw5p
Digital Artist Ram showcased a truly jaw-dropping building drawing that blurs the line between 2D and 3D.
The artwork was made with @feather_3d, a sketching app that allows artists to essentially "draw in 3D": https://t.co/3GXMKLLT9B
Have a look at Berk Erdag's waterfall scene created using Houdini's FLIP, Karma XPU, and DaVinci Resolve's Fusion.
More beautiful fluid simulations: https://t.co/EzYg2kxeN8
Fuji Yama Restaurant, designed by Bermüller + Niemeyer, is a Japanese restaurant, with captivating wooden panels designed with parametric 3D modeling, in Nuremberg, Germany.
The wooden panels are combined with acoustic absorbers. High-performance acoustic baffles made from recycled PET bottles run parallel to the wood, making a significant contribution to the design.
📸 Simeon Johnke
#parametricarchitecture #parametricdesign #computationaldesign #germany
Quick test. Baked whitewater texture from #liquidgen#jangafx and made a quick shitty loop from it. And now we have infinite beach waves texture! Gotta try add the baked normal+heightmap later as well! #wip#b3d
West Kowloon Station, designed by @Aedas is an underground station in Hong Kong. The bold design of the station encourages people to walk on the station’s undulating, planted roof.
It is one of the largest underground stations and was designed with the aim of creating a station that does not feel underground. The project offers a large open space and parkland to the site. The giant floating roof is supported by the giant steel columns in the interior of the main hall. The 4,000 glass-paneled facade offers people the city view from the lower levels of the station. With its unusual yet attractive look, the West Kowloon Station stands as a landmark in the city.
📸 Edmund Sumner, Paul Warchol, Hisao Suzuki, Andrew Bromberg
#parametricarchitecture #parametricdesign #station #modern #hongkong
Woven Screen Office, designed by @niwao, is inspired by the traditional Vietnamese perforated terracotta block walls. Unlike traditional screens, this modern version has no tails and heads, demonstrating how the concept was realized, uniting space and people.
The 3-dimensional concrete blocks created the screens to achieve an open yet enclosed, public yet private office space. 3D printers significantly contributed to producing these complicated curved surfaces from concrete. 1 unit of 1:1 scale was divided into 4 pieces for 3D printing, assembly, and use as a molding frame for casting concrete.
📸 TRIEUCHIEN
#parametricarchitecture #parametricdesign #wovenscreen #3dprinting #concretescreen