Architectural Projection by Obscura Digital on the Sydney Opera House for YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011. 

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Urbanized is a documentary from the same folks that brought you Helvetica and Objectified. 
This film focuses on the issues and strategies affecting the design of cities. It takes you on a
journey around the world to some of the most sprawling cities, in Chile and India for example,
and shows the design with them. Watch and see how the design of objects, typography, and 
cities all play a role in our lives.

 
The film makes you appreciate the role of urban planning and city design, which is a major...
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It's high tech. It's revolutionary. It's multi-sensory.

It's called architectural projection mapping and it has been popping up at major events all over the globe. Here is a look at four events that used architectural mapping as part of their display this year:



St Petersburg kicked off their Yota Space festival with a show by production company Drive.



Ralph Lauren transformed their London boutique into an architectural wonder to dazzle the crowd.



The YouTube Play event at the Guggenheim. Whi...
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The desert is full of suprises. Palm Springs happens to have one of the most concentrated areas of modern architecture. In fact, Feb 11-21 is Modernism Week. But I made my own "modernism day" by touring some of the most famous Modernist architecture sights in Palm Springs:


Albert Frey's Modernist Tramway Gas Station is one of the first buildings you will pass when you enter Palm Springs.


Much of the buildings were built in the 50s or 60s and have simple geometric lines.


Hotel del Marcos by Will...
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