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Space Perspective reveals design for “world’s first” Space Lounge

April 13, 2022 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Rendering of Neptune Space Lounge by Space Perspective

Space tourism company Space Perspective has revealed the interior design for its lounge-style travel capsule, which will be hauled into the stratosphere by a giant balloon. Created in-house for the company’s Spaceship Neptune, the cabin has room for up to eight passengers. Space Perspective has dubbed it “the world’s first Space Lounge” and said it

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CitizenM to become “first hospitality company to build in the metaverse”

April 7, 2022 Cajsa Carlson 0

Hotel developer CitizenM has announced plans to build a hotel in the metaverse, which will be set in gaming world The Sandbox and could eventually become a real-life location. CitizenM will begin the project by acquiring a “LAND site” in The Sandbox in the coming weeks. These are digital pieces of real estate backed by

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Dezeen Debate newsletter features 10 new construction materials

March 24, 2022 Karen Anderson 0

3D-printed mycelium Tree Column by Blast Studio with curvy silhouette

The latest edition of Dezeen Debate features 10 promising new construction materials. Following news that hemp could be used as a low-cost, low-carbon way of reinforcing concrete, we have rounded up 10 promising new construction materials, including plastic that’s stronger than steel and 3D-printed mushroom columns. Commenters are amazed. One called the materials “marvellous”. Other

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Ten future materials that could change the way we build

March 17, 2022 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

The race is on to engineer alternatives to traditional building materials that either perform better or tread more lightly on the planet. From super-strong plastics to fungus columns, we’ve rounded up 10 materials that could be the future of construction. 2DPA-1 super-strong plastic Invented by Massachusetts Institute of Technology chemical engineers, 2DPA-1 is light and mouldable

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Hemp rebar could offer low-cost, low-carbon alternative to steel

March 15, 2022 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Hemp rebar by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Researchers at the USA’s Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have invented an alternative to steel rebar made from hemp, which they claim avoids the problem of corrosion while cutting carbon emissions from construction. The hemp rebar could be used to support concrete structures in the same way as steel and other rebars are today, but with a

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Zaha Hadid Architects designs virtual Liberland Metaverse city

March 11, 2022 Alice Finney 0

An aerial view of Liberland city renderings

British architecture studio Zaha Hadid Architects has created a “cyber-urban” city in the metaverse where people can buy plots of land with cryptocurrency and enter digital buildings as an avatar. Named Liberland Metaverse, the virtual city is a based on the Free Republic of Liberland – a micronation claimed by Czech politician Vít Jedlička that straddles disputed land between Croatia and

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ICON and Lake Flato build 3D-printed House Zero in Austin

March 4, 2022 Ben Dreith 0

Construction technology outfit ICON and architecture studio Lake Flato have completed a 3D-printed, modern ranch-style home in Austin to be displayed during the SXSW festival. ICON, the company to first sell ready-to-own 3D homes in the US, worked with San Antonio and Austin-based architecture studio Lake Flato to design House Zero. The home is sited

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New concrete vaulted floor suggests path to cutting carbon emissions

March 4, 2022 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Paul Shepherd stands atop the ACORN vaulted concrete floor prototype at the University of Cambridge

A new type of flooring that uses 75 per cent less concrete than the current standard has been invented by researchers at the universities of Bath, Cambridge and Dundee, who say it could make a “major difference” to the construction industry’s carbon footprint. The UK-based researchers from the ACORN project (the name is short for

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BIG designs virtual office in the metaverse for Vice Media Group

March 2, 2022 Alice Finney 0

A white virtual office builing and employees

Danish architecture studio BIG has designed its first building in the metaverse, a virtual office for employees at media company Vice Media Group called Viceverse. The recently opened Viceverse office is located on the Decentraland platform, where it will serve as the agency’s virtual innovation lab and allow employees to work in the metaverse on

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Andrés Reisinger and Alba de la Fuente design modernist house in frosty metaverse landscape

January 21, 2022 Jane Englefield 0

The clean geometry of Dieter Rams’ industrial designs informed Winter House, a virtual residence by digital artist Andrés Reisinger and architect Alba de la Fuente that exists in a pink-hued winter world. Designed as a hideaway in a snowy forest, the two-storey house is characterised by floor-to-ceiling glass windows and rectilinear volumes. Winter House is

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