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Free AutoCAD Online!

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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.

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The Online Database for Philippine Architecture

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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

Partitions that Naturally Cool Your Room

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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.

Bridging Solar and Wind Energy to the People

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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.

Print Out Brick Roads Like Magic!

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A Dutch-made paving machine has been created to lay out brick roads like magic.  Using it is like printing out stone roads or brick roads like paper.  The machine is called the Tiger-Stone.

Amazing V-Ray 2010 Architectural Demo Reel

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If you are into computer graphics and animation, and maybe a 3d visualization fan like I am, then I'm sure you've heard and maybe have tried using V-Ray for some of your 3d rendering projects.  I myself use V-Ray with 3dsmax to produce all the architectural rendering and animation works I get.  It's a really powerful rendering system by Chaos Group.

ArkiQuest: Architecture Board Exam Reviewers Portal

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To all those planning to take the next Architecture Board Exam or the Licensure Examination for Architects in the Philippines, here is a good site I think that will help you in your studies.

It's ArkiQuest, a website full of questions and answers related to the subjects in the said exam.

Try it now and good luck to those taking the exam!

Shanghai City Scaled Model: Largest In The World!

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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.

Redefining the "Room with a View"

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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 Ball Inspired Stadium

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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.

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