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The new “Buildings” app for iphones tells you about the local architecture.

A free new iPhone application that shows architecture from across the globe is now available for download from iTunes.

Buildings is an application containing an encyclopaedia of architecture at the user’s fingertips. It supplies information, images and videos on over 2500 historic, contemporary and conceptual buildings. It lets the user find and learn about architecture nearby, across their country or overseas.

Using GPS technology to pinpoint the users location, Building is also a perfect mobile guide for travellers who can use their iPhone to find directions to buildings of interest.

and an excerpt from Archinect’s review:

The app is simply titled “Buildings”, and after playing around with it for the last week, I’ve become hooked. I’m finding myself launching the app as I move around Los Angeles to check which buildings surround me. The database is a little sparse for this user’s city, at the moment, but the open-source nature of this well-constructed platform will inevitably help fill out the gaps quickly.

Seems pretty cool to me.

Sidenote: Peter, please download this. Thanks!

August 30, 2010, 3:35pm  

I’m not big on Renzo Piano as of late, so I haven’t really been paying attention to what is going on at the Whitney, so here are some links to people who have been.*

• Whitney trustees vote to build downtown.
• About the new building.
• Pretty good renderings to give you an idea of the project.**
• Three experts rethink the Whitney.  Real experts, not like me where I just have an opinion.
• What now for Whitney’s Breuer Building?

*This is as much for you as it is for me.  Whirlwind tour of knowledge.

**Surprise, surprise.  I don’t like it.

July 06, 2010, 1:39pm  

Thomas Heatherwick UK Pavillion for the Shanghai Expo, 2010

May 05, 2010, 11:22am  

Last night Atencio and I attended the Architecture and Design Museum (A+D) opening party at its new home on Wilshire Blvd. The event featured a silent auction for balsa wood kits which had been sent out to some of the top names in the architecture and design world, then returned assembled in unique and interesting ways. This piece, contributed by the Audi Design Foundation, which featured a laser-cut image of an Audi S8 sedan that was visible only when viewed from a certain angle (click the picture to see it full-size). The keynote speaker of the evening was LA City Council President Eric Garcetti, who Atencio has now seen give speeches twice in the last week and may have developed something of a man-crush on.

*I have edited this to suit my needs.

April 28, 2010, 11:39am  

» The Serpentine's Ever Changing Pavilion

March 25, 2010, 10:21am  

Curbed LA is right, this tower is frightening.

Watch out Miami, it’s coming to get you!

January 22, 2010, 10:58am  

Architecture, created by Bas Berck, “tells you the story behind the building and the architect, shows two images for each project, website and address, and a detailed map with walking or driving directions. It also presents you with a Google Street View where available. Projects can also be browsed by categories ‘cities’ or ‘architects’ with no data connection needed, because all information and pictures are stored offline on the end-user’s phone. Architecture contains projects from 165 different architects, in 270 cities worldwide. It has more than 1000 pictures from buildings stored internally.”

You can download a free 3 day trial version. The application is USD 3.99 / EUR 2,99. More info available here.

I don’t have an iphone, but I guarantee you that if I did I would have this application! How great would this be if you travel, or are just going to a new neighborhood?

December 10, 2009, 11:16am