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Architecture

Nemetschek Vectorworks, buildingSMART alliance and Scia openBIM recorded webinar

30 November 2010

Nemetschek Vectorworks, BuildingSMART alliance and Nemetschek Scia have presented a webinar on “openBIM – Real Interoperability, Practical Collaboration”
Building Information Modeling (BIM) interoperability is possible with openBIM—the use of internationally recognized open standards to exchange building information. These open standards include the use of Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) for building geometry and data. IFC is [...]

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Visit to Bird’s Nest in Beijing

12 August 2010

I just came back from my Holidays to China, Tibet and Nepal.
Scia reported several times on the Olympics 2008 Stadium ‘Bird’s Nest’ in Beijing and I had the chance to visit this area. Isn’t this a fantastic view?
Enclosed a high resolution image (4774 x 1793) that I shot. Be free to use [...]

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The 2010 Pritzker Price for Architecture goes to Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa (Japan)

4 May 2010

One of the most recent buildings of the price winning architects is the Rolex Learning Centre of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne (Switzerland). This remarkable shell type structure was engineered by BG Ingénieurs Conseils (Lausanne), the winner of the Nemetschek Engineering User Contest 2009 (category 5).
The jury quoted:” the structure is an assembly of [...]

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New futuristic BMW centre in Munich

10 March 2008

Next October, the German car manufacturer BMW will inaugurate its new, original and futuristic centre ‘BMW Welt (BMW World) in Munich. Entirely realized out of steel and glass, the building will contain a business space, shops and restaurants as well as rooms for business meetings.This impressive project was carried out using the software think project!¹, [...]

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