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Inside billionaire Marc Lore’s utopian city: ‘Telosa’
Telosa, the metropolitan brainchild of billionaire Marc Lore, now has more details available regarding its development, which aims for a 2030 completion.
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Designers from the UK have built a Martian house
Would you like to live in a Martian house on Earth? If you like to live in one, a Martian house — designed to withstand Mars' harsh climate — was recently introduced in the heart of Bristol, United Kingdom. The Martian house was conceived by artists Ella Good and Nicki Kent, who wanted to use Mars as a lens to focus on what we need and how we want to live on Earth.
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Think small: Amazon has tiny homes in stock!
Big things come in teeny packages.
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Toronto wants to kill the smart city forever
The city wants to get right what Sidewalk Labs got so wrong.
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Underground beer cave built more than 150 years ago rediscovered in Iowa
While some locals had heard about it, the buried beer room had been lost for decades.
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Florida passes condo safety bill in wake of Surfside collapse
A bill has been sent to Florida's governor that would require statewide recertification of condominiums over three stories tall, in response to the Surfside building collapse that killed 98 people.
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Longest pedestrian suspension bridge opens in Czech resort
DOLNI MORAVA, Czech Republic (AP) — A pedestrian suspension bridge that is the longest such construction in the world has opened at a mountain resort in the Czech Republic. The 721-meter (2,365-foot) -long bridge is built at an altitude of more than 1,100 meters (3,610 feet) above sea level.
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South Korea is building the world’s first self-sustaining “floating city”
The trio of pre-fabricated platforms will have a combined surface area of 15.5 acres and support the full range of urban infrastructure—apartment buildings, offices, energy grids, and hydroponic farms.
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13 Belgian brutalist gems
Unearthing some of the most striking and singular examples of Belgium's Brutalist movement, from sprawling social housing unit to private residential villa. Don’t mind the structural scaffolding, protective sheets and rain water buckets as, with everything remotely important to our national heritage, they tend to come with the package.
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Take a look inside China’s first Vertical Forest City
In pictures: Stefano Boeri's newest project has just been completed in Huanggang and the photos are beautiful.
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A 1990s Window Design Could Substantially Upgrade Urban Efficiency
The Department of Energy estimates that buildings use 75% of the United States' electricity.
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China's longest underwater highway tunnel opens
At a length of 10.79 kilometers (6.65 miles), the Taihu tunnel stretches under Lake Taihu in eastern China's Jiangsu Province, about 50 kilometers east of Shanghai.
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How are Rome's monuments still standing?
Nearly 2,000 years on, how are the Colosseum and the Pantheon still standing despite earthquakes, floods and military conflicts?
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BIG's floating city to be built in south korea as part of UN-backed plan
the south korean city of busan, UN-habitat and OCEANIX have signed a historic agreement to build the world’s first sustainable floating city prototype. the project is to be realized off the coast of busan, a city with 3.4 million residents.
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Walmart Billionaire Marc Lore Is Planning a $500 Billion “City of the Future”
While other billionaires are jockeying to get into space, Marc Lore has his eyes on planet Earth: The former Walmart exec has announced plans to create a new utopian city in the American desert, featuring self-driving cars and energy-efficient skyscrapers.
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Yemen's ancient, soaring skyscraper cities
Constructed using natural materials, Yemeni high-rises are superbly sustainable and perfectly suited to the hot and dry Arabian desert climate.
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Inside Tokyo's TINIEST Luxury Apartment
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Plans for $400-billion new city in the American desert unveiled
The cleanliness of Tokyo, the diversity of New York and the social services of Stockholm: Billionaire Marc Lore has outlined his vision for a 5-million-person "new city in America" and appointed a world-famous architect to design it.
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China’s ugliest buildings: contest to celebrate unsightly architecture begins
This year’s contenders include a violin-shaped church and a ‘welcome to hell’ glass bridge joining two mountains
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21st-century storms are overwhelming 20th-century cities
Infrastructure that wasn't built to handle warmer, wetter climate is increasingly risky.
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