Airbnb Is Screwing Over New York’s Vulnerable Neighborhoods
Everyone knows Airbnb is bad for the housing market. But it’s starting to get worse. Continue reading Airbnb Is Screwing Over New York’s Vulnerable Neighborhoods
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Hong Kong’s Government Is Spending Billions Taking Land from the Sea
The scale of land reclamation in the semi-autonomous territory is revving up to unprecedented heights. Continue reading Hong Kong’s Government Is Spending Billions Taking Land from the Sea
Canada Is Looking to Airbnb to Help Fix Its Housing Crisis
This is a terrible idea. Continue reading Canada Is Looking to Airbnb to Help Fix Its Housing Crisis
Modern Wooden Houses With No Glue Or Nails
Depending where you are in the world, the techniques used to build houses can sometimes seem to be stuck in another century. Bricks and mortar, for instance, we build with them because we are used to them and have a large workforce of people trained to work with them and not much else. But in the 21st century with more advanced building technologies sitting relatively unused and looming housing crises at every turn, does it make sense to still build houses the slow and expensive way our great-grandparents did? Probably not.
Wooden houses are a promising solution to some of …read more
3D Print Your Next Dwelling In A Day
What’s the shortest amount of time in which a 400 square foot home can be built? A few weeks? Try a fully printed structure in 24 hours for a little over $10,000.
This radial residence was materialized out of concrete in Stupino, Russia by [Apis Cor], and six collaborating companies, as a prototype. As opposed to traditional — such as it is for tech largely in its infancy — assembly of pre-printed or fabricated pieces, the building was printed as a whole, with the printer removed by crane before finishing the rest of the construction. It features a bathroom, hallway, …read more
Police Floodlights are Unlikely to Reduce Crime, But Could Harm Your Health
Months after the study they were a part ended, bright lights remain in New York housing projects. Continue reading Police Floodlights are Unlikely to Reduce Crime, But Could Harm Your Health
Ultrasuede Bench Power Supply Got Style
From the look of it sitting on his bench, you’d never guess that [3nz01]’s power supply was actually a couple of el-cheapo modules from eBay, but now we all know the dirty truth.
Re-using or re-purposing an enclosure can be a great way to get a project done faster and get on to the next one. In [3nz01]’s case (tee-hee!), it was an old clock with a broken and annoying buzzer that needed to go. The clock was a nice piece of wood, but that Plexiglas front panel just wasn’t cutting it. That’s why it’s good to have a tailor …read more
