FED UP with the view outside your apartment window?
Fancy being transported to the buzz of a New York street instead?
If you live in one of James Law’s “intelligent” apartments, you would be able to – literally – change the view outside your window to one from a variety of cities – in real time.
Flashback to the first day of the new millennium, when James, an architect, announced he wasn’t going to be an architect any more.
The then 30-year-old wanted to be known as a “cybertect”.
James had thought long and hard about where he and architecture were headed, and decided it was as good a time to launch his vision for the future.
“Cybertecture”, the chairman and chief cybertect of the eponymously-named firm tells me, is a merging of two words – cyber (to mean new innovation) and tecture (to mean the fabric of our world).
“‘Cybertecture’ is a new way that we will design our world, whether it is buildings, cities, technologies, systems, communities … (to) bring out the best in human wisdom and ingenuity for the betterment of mankind in the 21st century,” says James, 39.
This means the embracing of “clever and wise” technologies, he says, pointing – as an example – to the PAD Tower in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates which his firm James Law Cybertecture International is building. Continue reading
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