Editor's Picks #521

To kick off a multi-part exploration of Designers in Tech, Alessio Grancini (a prototype engineer at Magic Leap) sat down with Paul Petrunia to talk about the differences between AR, VR and XR, as well as Facebook’s plans for a "Real World Index" aka "worldwide digital twin...live-updated thanks to our devices and AR wearables." Real World Index, a concept described by Facebook in Facebook Connect 2020Plus, Lance Collins published an editorial and personal reflection on Paul R. Williams and The Complexity of being an Architectural Icon (and Black). News Denver will get it’s first Studio Gang project. Which of course inevitably led to mention of a certain "82-story heat exchanger in the heart of Chicago". Concept diagram. Visual courtesy of Studio GangPerkins&Will unveiled a 28-story "vertical campus" at Ryerson University in Toronto. Some of the criticism led Non Sequitur to ask "and what is the issue with AL panels? We've used them in a bunch of different applications and in all so...

Editor's Picks #521

To kick off a multi-part exploration of Designers in TechAlessio Grancini (a prototype engineer at Magic Leap) sat down with Paul Petrunia to talk about the differences between AR, VR and XR, as well as Facebook’s plans for a "Real World Index" aka "worldwide digital twin...live-updated thanks to our devices and AR wearables."

Real World Index, a concept described by Facebook in Facebook Connect 2020

Plus, Lance Collins published an editorial and personal reflection on Paul R. Williams and The Complexity of being an Architectural Icon (and Black).

News

Denver will get it’s first Studio Gang project. Which of course inevitably led to mention of a certain "82-story heat exchanger in the heart of Chicago".

Concept diagram. Visual courtesy of Studio Gang


Perkins&Will unveiled a 28-story "vertical campus" at Ryerson University in Toronto. Some of the criticism led Non Sequitur to ask "and what is the issue with AL panels? We've used them in a bunch of different applications and in all so...