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While glass bricks are effective for allowing daylight into buildings, they’re not good insulators and they can’t be used for entire load-bearing walls. Such is reportedly not the case, however, with experimental new aerogel-filled translucent bricks.C… Continue reading Translucent aerogel bricks could outperform their opaque counterparts
Milan’s annual Design Week (aka Salone Internazionale del Mobile di Milano) is currently underway and, as part of the event, Italian design studio Carlo Ratti Associatti has transformed a park in the city into what it calls the world’s largest board ga… Continue reading Milan’s Botanical Garden transformed into “world’s largest board game”
Apple has opened its first retail store in India. Located in Mumbai, Apple BKC incorporates sustainably sourced and local materials, and features a light-filled interior that’s defined by an impressive handcrafted timber ceiling.Continue ReadingCategor… Continue reading India’s first Apple Store topped by complex 450,000-piece timber ceiling
Concrete is one of the most common materials on Earth, thanks to its high strength and low cost – but it’s also one of the largest single sources of carbon dioxide emissions. Engineers at Washington State University (WSU) have developed a new method fo… Continue reading New recipe makes concrete that absorbs more CO2 than it emits
Wind River Tiny Homes recently completed a new tiny house named the Ocoee that sleeps up to four people comfortably in a length of just 30 ft (9.1 m). Like the MitchCraft-designed Jen’s 34′ x 10′ Tiny Home, it has an extra-wide interior, however while … Continue reading 30-ft-long tiny house fits four into light-filled and airy interior
Mitchcraft Tiny Homes, the firm behind the pint-sized Nicole’s 16 x 8 Tiny Home recently completed another interesting model that’s far more spacious. Named Jen’s 34′ x 10′ Tiny Home, it provides a remarkably roomy interior layout that measures 520 sq … Continue reading Tiny house gets extra girth for spacious apartment-like interior
Looking like some kind of strange alien spaceship has landed in China, the Yichang Grand Theater is the latest head-turning project from OPEN Architecture, the firm behind the Chapel of Sound and Sun Tower. Its unusual exterior boasts a flowing design … Continue reading Otherworldy theater expected to land where the Yangtze meets Huangbai
Prestigious British firm Heatherwick Studio has revealed plans to create an unusual new tower in the Netherlands. Designed in collaboration with Barcode Architects, it will be defined by an eye-catching exterior made up of stacked cylindrical cog-like … Continue reading Mixed-use tower defined by eye-catching cog-like exterior
The recently completed Ulla-Carin measures just 26 ft (almost 8 m) long, which is small even for a tiny house. However, designer Modern Tiny Living has equipped it with a fully functional interior that packs in everything needed for a small family to l… Continue reading 26-ft-long Ulla-Carin designed for full-time tiny living
Racing to beat the arrival of the Antarctic winter, contractors have completed a major milestone in constructing a new two-story science and operations building at British Antarctic Survey’s (BAS) Rothera Research Station that is designed to withstand … Continue reading Construction of new Antarctic facility races against coming of winter