2013-05-21
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Left: the Golden Gate Bridge in London, a scale comparison from “Triumphs of Engineering” (posted by WP Wiles).
Right: a screen shot of MapFrappe, a tool by Kelvin Thompson that allows you to place outlines of one feature on another part of the world, showing the Golden Gate Bridge in London.
If MapFrappe had a rotation feature, I’d be able to more exactly match the 1940s illustration, but that’ll have to wait for vector maps, I suppose.
2012-03-27
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“Diagrams by MacRumors readers expressing their opinions about the new Apple campus” in Clog: Apple, issue 2 of the magazine which “explores, from multiple viewpoints and through a variety of means, a single subject particularly relevant to architecture now”. This issue focuses on the proposed building.
Image via DesignBoom; URL via Buzz, who posted a nicer picture of the cover after seeing my photograph of an issue of the magazine (which I’m going to have to go back to SFMOMA today to actually buy).
2011-08-17
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Calculating the Size of Apple’s Spaceship HQ at The Mac Observer. It turns out the maths is a little out (the diagram shown here uses a radius of 800 feet, when it’s really nearer 700) but that’s still a pretty big building.
