The water cube’s doppelganger, Casino Oceanus , opens today in Macau at Jai Alai. While there is no mention of the architectural resemblance on developer SJM’s press release, it’s hard not to do a double take (pictured above).
Designed by Las Vegas casino architect Paul Steelman, the casino has more than 32,000sqm of gaming space over three floors. The cool blues and warm reds are meant “to be redolent of the sea and corals”, while the ETFE membrane gives the impression the building is “enveloped in multi coloured bubbles”, SJM said. |
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Tuesday 15 December, 2009 02:49 PM |
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If you peer out over the painstakingly rendered Venetian skyline in Assassin's Creed II, or watch a car being convincingly torn to pieces during a high speed crash in Forza Motorsport 3 one thing is abundantly clear. Videogames are beautiful now.
It's not the figurative beauty of yore – the iconic charm of Pac-Man, the elegiac simplicity of the vector-mapped space craft in Elite. Modern games are edging toward photo-realism; indeed, through technologies like mimetic interfaces and augmented reality, they are encroaching on reality itself. And at times they are breathtakingly close. |
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Tuesday 15 December, 2009 12:47 PM |
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THIS WEEKS TRIVIA QUIZ |
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Tuesday 15 December, 2009 10:11 AM |
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Cranes Software announces that its subsidiary Engineering Technology Associates, Inc. (ETA) was selected from amongst five finalists as the winner of the 2nd Annual SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) Detroit Section/MITEF Vehicle Innovation Competition. ETA’s winning entry was a seamlessly integrated design development process, entitled the Accelerated Concept to Product (ACP) Process. |
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Tuesday 15 December, 2009 06:42 AM |
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The Albany NanoTech Complex will open an Alternative Energy Test Farm and develop an educational and workforce training program to enable participants to design and operate high-tech buildings.
The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering of the University at Albany and Einhorn Yaffee Prescott Architecture and Engineering PC of Albany have put together a $3.5 million initiative toward that end. |
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Tuesday 15 December, 2009 05:41 AM |
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Hewlett-Packard is counting on a novel design and its expertise in micro-scale manufacturing to help it break into the accelerometer market with a new generation of tiny motion sensors — and it’s counting on the low cost and high sensitivity of its product to expand that market dramatically.
Accelerometers, which measure vibration, shock or changes in velocity, have been in widespread use for years in a host of applications.
There are small, simple sensors that cost a dollar or less, like the chip that triggers your airbag in a car crash or tells your iPhone when to rotate the screen display. And then there are large, elaborate sensors that are used in sophisticated electronics such as aircraft guidance systems and sell for around $1,000 each. |
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Monday 14 December, 2009 02:35 PM |
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It was never supposed to hang around this long. Ten years, maybe 15 at most. Perhaps that's why the South Pole Dome -- a modestly sized structure spanning 164 feet and topping out at about 52 feet high -- has loomed so large in the lore and legacy of polar history. The final chapter in that story will be completed 35 years after the U.S. Antarctic Program's most iconic research station was officially dedicated in January 1975. The dome, the second research station built at the geographic South Pole, is coming down. |
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Monday 14 December, 2009 12:32 PM |
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Iberdrola Ingeniería Y Construcción (Engineering & Construction), one of the world’s leading energy engineering companies, has expanded its use of Intergraph® SmartPlant® Enterprise solutions to further increase productivity and accelerate projects throughout the design, engineering and construction cycle of its power generation and distribution construction projects. |
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Monday 14 December, 2009 09:29 AM |
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Things had been tough for Tiger Woods over the past week and so he decided to get away from it all by going for a driving vacation. He got in his Rolls Royce and just took off. After a while, he was going through a small country town in the middle of nowhere and he decided to stop for a break. He parked the Rolls Royce and wandered into a local shop.
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Monday 14 December, 2009 07:40 AM |
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