Iconic Buildings: I work at the Barcelona Pavilion

2018-01-15T09:00:00-05:00

For our series Iconic Buildings, we speak to people who live or work in buildings of architectural significance. Is the exposure to an architectural wonder on a daily basis a source of inspiration or simply part of the backdrop?

This time we were lucky enough to speak to Marc Quintana Carreras Head of Maintenance at the Barcelona Pavilion, a symbol of modernist architecture, most likely studied by every architecture student in the world. The geometric masterpiece arranged out of glass, steel and varying types of marble was originally designed as the German National Pavilion in 1929, part of the Barcelona International Exhibition. After the exhibition the Pavilion was disassembled but its presence and reputation lingered and finally in 1980 Barcelona City Council reconstructed the Pavilion in its original site, where it has remained every since, an icon of the city.

For eleven days last autumn the Pavilion was transformed as part of an artistic intervention 'mies missing materialit...

This augmented reality helmet could revolutionize the construction site

2016-01-26T12:46:00-05:00

Decades of sci-fi movies have made it hard to imagine a future without augmented reality. Yet besides the largely fizzled-out promise of Google Glass, little headway seems to have been made integrating digitally-enhanced vision into everyday life. That might be about to change, at least according to the folks over at Daqri, a Los Angeles-based “human-machine interface company.” Their recently-announced “Smart Helmet” is billed as the the “biggest makeover” the construction helmet has had in its history.

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Iconic Buildings: I work at the Barcelona Pavilion

This augmented reality helmet could revolutionize the construction site