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bmadsen
2004-06-04, 04:22 PM
This article is about the "tallest residential building in the world". It's Australian.
The discussion is about the use of BIM (but not Revit).
http://www.aecbytes.com/feature/EurekaTower.htm

Steve_Stafford
2004-06-04, 04:31 PM
I attended a Graphisoft seminar on this topic with Jim Balding recently. The images in the article were part of the powerpoint that backed up the speaker, Mr. Sutherland. He was very articulate and I enjoyed his presentation.

aaronrumple
2004-06-04, 04:52 PM
Certianly a feather in ArchiCAD's hat...

beegee
2004-06-04, 10:13 PM
I thought this was a significant comment :-

' With regard to the decision on which software to implement, the choice of ArchiCAD was made based on Sutherland's exploration of model-based solutions in the early 1990s before the formation of FKA. At that time, both Autodesk Architectural Desktop and Autodesk Revit were still into the future, and the only other available solution, MicroStation Triforma, did not match up "