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BIG Unveils Massive Masterplan that Aims to be the Most Sustainable City in the World
Titled Telosa, the project aims to create a new city in America that sets a global standard for urban living and becomes a blueprint for future generations.
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World’s Largest Astronomy Museum Opens in Shanghai
The world’s largest astronomy museum has just opened in Shanghai, China. Designed by Ennead Architects, this contemporary cultural center acts as the new astronomy branch of the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum. This proposal for the Shanghai Astronomy Museum won the design competition for its dynamic form that represents the movement of celestial bodies which is made up of an oculus, an inverted dome, and a sphere...
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Houses Built Into Earth Might Be the Perfect Response to Global Warming
Houses built into the earth were all the rage during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Now, with global warming, they might be the ideal solution.
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The house that can withstand a cyclone: how traditional dwellings are making a comeback in Vanuatu
Since Cyclone Pam devastated Vanuatu, locals are returning to the saeklon haos, made from vines, palm fronds and grasses
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How robot carpenters could help solve Canada’s housing crisis
Promise Robotics is using AI to build homes more quickly and help address the housing shortage
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Inside the Imaginarium of a Solarpunk Architect
Imagine a world in which nature is intertwined with the industrial: giant lotus flowers replace concrete skyscrapers; an urban forest forms a city constantly in shift through a tree’s life cycle. This is the imaginarium of Belgian architect Luc Schuiten. To discover his work is to fall under the spe
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World's first 3D-printed school tackles classroom shortages in Africa
Through pioneering projects in Mexico, China, Texas and elsewhere, we're starting to see how 3D printing can make building construction a whole lot more cost effective. An affordable housing venture in Africa named 14Trees has now leveraged the technology to produce the world's first 3D-printed school in Malawi, where students started taking their first lessons late last month.
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The Miami condo collapse is a devastating reminder of America's artificial land problem
The Miami condo collapse is a devastating reminder of America's artificial land problem
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North Korea tallest abandoned Ryugyong Hotel - the 'Hotel of Doom'
North Korea tallest abandoned Ryugyong Hotel - the 'Hotel of Doom'. It was supposed to become the world's tallest hotel. Instead, it became the world's tallest abandoned building. The pyramid-shaped Ryugyong Hotel is 330 meters (1,080 ft) tall and one of the most prominent features of Pyongyang's skyline.
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A Lost Italian Village Just Emerged After More Than 70 Years Underwater
For decades, the only sign of the lost village of Curon was the curious appearance of a 14th century church spire rising out of the middle of a lake.
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5 stunning examples of green architecture around the world
The most magnificent, environmentally mindful buildings from all over the globe.
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Do these eco-homes really pay their own mortgages?
‘Bills are a design flaw,’ says property guru Humayun Khan, and his 13 high-tech eco-homes in Newhaven are proving just that, writes Sam Brooke. But the journey here took him all over the world – and almost to ruin
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Dutch couple move into Europe’s first fully 3D-printed house
A Dutch couple have become Europe’s first tenants of a fully 3D printed house in a development that its backers believe will open up a world of choice in the shape and style of the homes of the future.
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Suspended 115 Feet in the Air, the World’s First Floating Pool Is Unveiled in London
Calling all adrenaline junkies: Take a dip in Sky Pool, a water-filled bridge between two 10-story residential towers
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TECLA Technology and Clay 3D Printed House / Mario Cucinella Architects
Text description provided by the architects. The first eco-sustainable housing model 3D printed entirely from local raw earth. This genuinely innovative and pioneering approach was conceived from the start as a joint project between the two firms, who worked closely throughout the project’s design and construction.
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3,000-year-old ‘Lost Golden City’ found under the sands of Egypt
The buried city of Aten was built in the golden age of Ancient Egypt, and would have been used by powerful pharaohs such as Tutankhamun.
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Formerly Homeless Man Moves Into the First 3D-Printed Tiny Home
A previously homeless man is the first person to live in a 3D-printed tiny house, built by ICON and New Story.
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Egypt prepares to start move to new capital, away from the chaos of Cairo
Egypt is racing to prepare a grandiose new capital city in the desert east of Cairo before the first civil servants move in this summer and ahead of the delayed official opening of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's flagship project.
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France fells oaks to rebuild the Notre-Dame spire
In a former royal forest, tree surgeons on Monday began felling centuries-old oak trees which will be used to rebuild the wooden-framed spire of Notre-Dame de Paris after it was destroyed by fire.
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Why Saudi Arabia Is Building a Linear City
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