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Aurelia Institute creates geodesic spacecraft for “leading good lives” in orbit

August 13, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Boston non-profit Aurelia Institute has created a pavilion showcasing its self-assembling geodesic dome, designed to allow space professionals and the general public to “lead good lives” in zero gravity. A continuation of Aurelia Institute co-founder Ariel Ekblaw’s PhD thesis at MIT, TESSERAE (Tesselated Electromagnetic Space Structure for the Exploration of Reconfigurable Adopative Environments) aims to

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Texas A&M Architecture students reveal end-of-year designs in Dezeen video

July 22, 2024 Sonia Singh 0

Texas A&M Department of Architecture students showcased their end-of-year projects in an exhibition held on the university’s campus, as revealed in this video created by Dezeen for the programme. The exhibition at Texas A&M is an annual event highlighting student design projects and faculty research initiatives. This year’s showcase included models, drawings, renderings and animations

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Twelve scenes froms America’s “hidden” industrial world

June 28, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

Pencil production in New Jersey and the fabrication of massive turbines for wind power in North Dakota feature in this roundup of American industrial facilities photographed by Chris Payne. Payne has spent the last decade exploring factories in America, ranging from “traditional industries” like wool carders to the production of contemporary technological machines that he

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Recycling “breakthrough” could usher in zero-emissions cement

May 31, 2024 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have devised a way of cheaply producing low-carbon concrete at scale by making use of waste cement and the steel industry’s electric arc furnaces. The method developed by the engineers involves recycling old cement from demolished buildings by heating it up and reactivating the compounds within it. Key to

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ICON develops 3D printer to build enclosed multi-storey structures

March 12, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

Texas-based ICON has unveiled Phoenix, a robotic-arm-mounted 3D printer that can create fully-enclosed, multi-storey structures from a low-carbon mixture, at SXSW. ICON revealed the demountable crane-based 3D printer during a talk held as part of the annual SXSW festival in Austin, Phoenix allows ICON to construct multi-storey houses with enclosed systems. It said that it

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Construction commences on world’s “tallest 3D-printed structure” Tor Alva

March 7, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Architects Michael Hansmeyer and Benjamin Dillenburger are creating a 30-metre-tall tower in the Swiss Alps, which is being 3D-printed with concrete by technology university ETH Zurich. Named Tor Alva, or White Tower, the building will become the world’s “tallest 3D-printed structure” once complete in Mulegns later this year, according to Hansmeyer and Dillenburger. ETH Zurich

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Google opens New York headquarters built on renovated 1930s train terminal

February 21, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Google has opened a building serving its North American operations in New York City that is housed in a 1930s rail terminal restored and adapted by architecture studios CookFox Architects and Gensler. Developed by Oxford Properties, the 232-foot-tall (70 metres), 12-storey office building houses Google’s North American headquarters for global business organisation and is located on

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“The allure of the ‘bio’ prefix must be taken with some healthy scrutiny”

February 15, 2024 Sioban Imms 0

Biomaterials have the potential to significantly cut carbon emissions but designers should approach them with caution to avoid creating a whole new set of problems, warns Sioban Imms. The vision of a civilisation based on biomaterials is compelling: products, clothes and buildings made from materials that have been “grown”, rather than derived from polluting, extractive

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Gensler designs circular housing block with electric-vehicle garages

February 2, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

US architecture studio Gensler has designed an apartment complex with circular buildings and integrated electric-vehicle parking towers in Ontario. Located outside of Toronto, the Electric Vehicle Enclave (EVE) Park development aims to integrate green technologies into a community-focused residential development. “The EVE Park homes are designed within circular clusters with stepped rooflines that create dynamic spatial

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First full-height timber wind turbine opens in Sweden

January 29, 2024 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

The world’s first full-scale timber wind turbine has started turning in Sweden, with a tower built by wood technology company Modvion. The 105-metre-tall tower, located in the region of Skara, is Modvion’s first commercial wind turbine tower, and follows on from a smaller 30-metre-high demonstration project the company completed in 2020. While its rotor blades

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