Motion Tracking LED Basketball Court
Nike is at it again, this time they are talking to my heart. They have created a basketball court with motion-tracking and reactive LED visualization technology built into the floor for Kobe Bryant and his teaching of players in Shanghai. No, the pictures below aren't snapshots from the "Tron" movie set; This is real life right here. Located in the “House of Mamba,” the court is working with Nike’s RISE campaign that is a competition for young Chinese players to win an opport
Breaking the Surface: An Interactive Ceiling
Scandinavian Design Group, one of Norway’s oldest graphic design studios, has just created an interactive installation for Norway’s branch of Lundin Petroleum, Sweden’s largest oil company. The installation went live at a Scandinavian energy conference. But when Lundin asked Scandinavian Design Group for a proposal for their booth, they proposed something that actually isn’t a booth at all: An undulating ceiling of honey-colored tubes that would rhythmically move in response
Beethoven Music Hall: Zaha Hadid
Music and architecture are pretty amazing alone, but when you combine the two art forms, it's just magical. Zaha Hadid Architects created magic when they designed today's featured building, the Beethoven Concert Hall. The Beethoven Concert Hall is a renovation of the once limiting 1950's building located in Bonn, Germany. It not only gave the existing building a facelift, but it incorporated a "multifaceted crystalline mass, growing out of the earth, floating on water," state
Movie: If Architecture and Meditation had a Baby..
This video was created by 6 Harvard (GSD) students, and began as a project for their course "Innovative Constructions in Modern Japan". The six students modeled the Yoyogi Main Arena as a exercise to model and analyze the architecture in great detail. As you will see in the video, the product was much more moving than just an ordinary replication. The music and angles of the featured building are portrayed beautifully and poetically. After the class ended, two out of the six
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