Digital Urban: Crowd Sourced 3D Modelling?

Digital Urban: Crowd Sourced 3D Modelling?: At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel CEO Paul Otellini demoed how the company's processors are being used to render a 3D ...

24 hour economy - Smithfield Market

4am at Smithfield Market

It would be too easy to slip into an analogy of the city as a body when studying sites such as Smithfield.  The stomach of the city.  800 years as the meat centre of London, it still transforms into a thriving hub each night, butchering huge carcasses that arrive (the live cattle used to be driven down the Farringdon Road into the heart of the city for the slaughter), now in refrigerator lorries, and trimming them down to manageable parts to be sold "front of house" in the aisles running axially through the market.  Buyers come direct from their restaurants around London, and further, after they close - purchase the meat and the whole area shuts down again just in time for the commuters to start arriving at 7am.  The blood splattered men in hard hats and welly boots are only disturbed in their work by annoying photographers and trashed clubbers stumbling out of Fabric.

London Olympic Stadium

Olympics behind the scenes

I was lucky enough to get a behind the scenes tour of the Olympic Park with the head planner from the Olympic Delivery Authority, and a bunch of planners and reps from major sponsors (me and Joe snuck in around the back)... not quite as impressive as some of the press shots, because access and security limited everything but here are some of the views.

 Above - the power centre, turned out quite nice

 Above  - the media centre, 10 full size film studios over 1m sq ft of space. Unfortunately the elements which distinguish it from a warehouse are the cooling units for all the equipment (below) which will all be removed after the Games as it will be turned into standard office units.

 Above - Berlin, 1947

 The Pringle

 Media Centre from afar

 The centre of the site is taken up with a valley and gardens around the existing route of the River Lea

West Ham?

Blurgh

Olympic site official blurb

Coverage of the Olympic site - couldn't agree more about the athlete village... they seemed to be designed completely in the opposite sense of the Hopkin's architect talking about the velodrome... "its all about after the Games"... They're very unimaginative and boring.  Should have got that mad Danish bloke from BIG to do them...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15116027

Rosteague, Cornwall

I did a bit too much on this, I should have kept it simpler.  This is Rosteague, a manor in Cornwall over looking the sea.

London from up high

One of the best locations to look at London, and not a single other person there... amazing.  Paramount at lunch on a Sunday