Tag: Architecture - Page 6
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Students Create Mind-Bending Wooden Parametric Pavilion (Video)
Using digital tools, architecture students from Montreal design and build a unique piece of "urban furniture."
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Stunning Sustainable Building is a ... Hydroelectric Plant?
hy do they work so hard in Europe to make the most banal buildings beautiful?
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Old Water Tower is Recycled into a New House
Having passed this water tower many times, now we know that it's a recycled house by designer Tom Dixon.
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Dynamic, Digitally Prefabricated Solar House Takes Two Weeks To Build (Video)
Using computer aided design and manufacturing, the form of this fascinating, solar-powered house is driven by the sun's path.
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Giant Floating Airport Proposed For London
Another grand vision for reinventing the airport, and this time it will float on our rising oceans
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12 Innovative Ways to Rethink Our Cities From the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale
The U.S. Pavilion is spotlighting grassroots efforts to make cities and neighborhoods greener, safer, and happier places to live.
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Sleek & Sustainable Prefab Outdoor Shower Assembles in 30 Minutes
All you need is a garden hose: a quick and easy, prefabricated outdoor shower that is hand-built and uses sustainably-sourced materials.
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Self-Shifting Kinetic Maze Is a Modernized, Urban Labyrinth (Video)
A playful interactive installation of electronically programmed, rotating planters, full of moss collected from New York City's hidden places.
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New Study Proves Beautiful Buildings Are Greener Buildings
It's been said that "You'll never get sued for ugly." Perhaps this is no longer true now that the Pattern Mapping Institute has figured out how to quantify beauty.
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PLATOON Opens Cultural Center Built From Shipping Containers in Berlin
Shipping Containers are used as giant blocks to build a giant steel party room
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Nest-Like Treehouse Uses Glue-Laminated Timber (Video)
Inspired by the nests of weaver birds, this temporary treehouse and walkway is perched in an oak tree.
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Transforming an Old Cooperage into the Hippest Hotel in Brooklyn; the Wythe Hotel (Photos)
The Wythe Hotel in NYC has been designed with an eye for detail and preserving its history. The result: a stunning, hip and truly local place to stay in Brooklyn.
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Tiny Zen Living: 8 Foot Square Mobile Cube Combines Office, Bed & Meditation
It's back to Zen basics with this elegant, two-storey mobile living unit that integrates work, sleep and spiritual practices.
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Visiting Alvar Aalto's Nordic House
The Scandinavian master designed a gem of a building promoting Nordic cooperation.
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Photos of Abandoned Olympic Sites Around the World
For many countries, their Olympic buildings end up being crumbling relics of another time.
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The Week in Design: Green Space Means Less Crime, Washing Machine Furniture, Silly Wobbly Chair, and More
In Design this week, we learned green urban space means less crime, washing machines make great chairs, and a wobbly chair can be ridiculously expensive.
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What Medals Should the London 2012 Olympics Get for Sustainability?
The Games are over, the crowds have gone home: so how was it really when it comes to sustainability?
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Folding Door Design Acts as Instant Earthquake Shelter
This re-designed door could help save lives in the event of an earthquake.
