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COR Furniture Library

COR are German furniture makers that have (only part of) their collection for download in GDL format.
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Sunday, 9th December 2007 [ Architects | Blocks & GDL Objects | CAD & 3D ]
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Additional Lightworks Material Libraries

ArchiCAD’s rendering engine is Lightworks and, although it comes with some internal material libraries, it’s always nice to have more. Lightworks has therefore set up a website where users can download additional libraries – most of them free. Look for those that have “Base functionality” or “Architectural functionality” – the others may not work.
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Tuesday, 4th December 2007 [ Architects | CAD & 3D | Hatches & Textures ]
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Hill House Font

I’ve been looking for something like this for ages – in fact I even tried creating this font once many years ago. It wasn’t a very professional job but I used it for a while anyway.
Based on Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s typeface for the Hill House in Helensburgh, Scotland, this font has been created by the [...]

Tuesday, 4th December 2007 [ Architects | Fonts ]
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Two Ways to Treat Urban Sewage

Just a few days ago, a friend of mine emailed an article from the NY Times talking about Orange County in California treating their sewage and then piping it back into people’s taps. Conceptually, it’s the correct thing to do but the cost attached is much too high. Of course, this is not the first [...]

Sunday, 2nd December 2007 [ Architecture | Design | Environmental ]
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GRIHA – Green Ratings System for India

After being a while in the pipeline, The Energy Research Institute – TERI – released GRIHA, (Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment) which has been developed keeping the Indian scenario in mind. GRIHA evaluates a building’s environmental performance over its life cycle and rates it based on a number of criteria. Now, the Ministry for [...]

Sunday, 2nd December 2007 [ Architecture | Design | Environmental ]
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