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Here's a nice treat to all architects, interior designers, industrial designers, engineers and other professional and technical persons who uses AutoCAD frequently in their line of work.  It's a free AutoCAD application you can use for free!

Yep, you heard it right, it's really free.  Those professionals who have purchased AutoCAD know that the offline product is very expensive and not all people you coordinate your drawings with have access to this costly software.  So Autodesk, the company who is responsible for spreading the use of AutoCAD in the construction world, has made a solution.  They created an online AutoCAD application which anyone can easily access using a computer and an internet connection.

To all Filipino Architects, Architecture Students and Philippine Architecture Enthusiasts, here's a promising site that will be a consolidation of free, web-based information and exhibition of notable Philippine Architecture and Architects.

Check their site by clicking this link - www.arkitektura.ph

Now here's another design inspired from old traditional practices frankly saying - 'who says old concepts doesn't have any more room in this modern world'. 

Designed by Mey Kahn and Boaz Kahn, this screen and cooling system is a fusion of two Arabic design and concept, permitting air to pass through while cooling the room at the same time.

The ongoing quest of using alternative energy sources for electricity has already made it through the design, architecture and engineering community.  A lot of architectural and engineering designs nowadays are integrating the use of solar panelling and wind power in to the structure.  The bridge above is one of those.  Designed by Italian designers Francesco Colarossi, Giovanna Saracino and Luisa Saracino, this bridge promises to help power approximately 15,000 homes.

Nowadays, it's either the biggest and the largest or the smallest and the thinnest.  In Shanghai City, China's most populated City, also known as the "Paris of the East", has created a humongous scaled model of their vision of the city in the year 2020.

Are you very particular when choosing a room in a hotel? Do you always specify for a room with a view?  Well if you are, you'll definitely love Conrad Maldives Rangali Island's suite in the Maldives.  The view will take your breath away and you will agree when i say that it has redefined the phrase "the Room with a View".

Tennis aficionados will marvel at this beautiful concept for a Tennis Stadium.  Foundations Architecture and Design was commissioned to design the Jimmy Connors World of Tennis Centre and Stadium in Abu Dhabi.