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9 killed as building collapses in India
Rescuers search for workers buried in the rubbles of a building that collapsed during monsoon rains on the outskirts of Chennai, India, June 28, 2014. The death toll rose to nine in the 11 storey-building collapse in Chennai of Southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu on Saturday while nearly 40 people are feared trapped under the debris. Police said dozens of workers have been pulled out so far and the search is continuing.
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Rude Goldberg Machine
Good luck with this one
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A Wild Proposal for Domed Houses Made of Inflated Concrete
"Binishells" combine concrete and heavy-duty balloons to create visually stunning, structurally sound, domed domiciles.
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A Wild Proposal for Domed Houses Made of Inflated Concrete
Covering a balloon with papier-mâché, letting it harden, and popping it to leave behind a delicate empty shell is a grade school arts and crafts tradition. For architect Nicoló Bini it’s a technique that’s become a guiding obsession, and which he believes could transform architecture in the developing world. His “Binishells” combine concrete and heavy-duty balloons to create visually stunning, structurally sound, domed domiciles.
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Slaves of Happiness Island
What’s often lost in the reporting about foreign labor in the United Arab Emirates is the agency of the workers themselves. The men I met in the Gulf are brave and ambitious—heroes to their families back home.
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The city in the sky
Ambitious blueprint for London tower block that could house thousands of people - as well as schools, offices, shops and even parks
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Earthscraper: Inverted Pyramid Spans 1000 Vertical Feet Down
Skyscrapers are the traditional small-footprint solution for growing square footage in big cities, but what are developers to do in growing places like Mexico City where new building construction is limited to just ten stories tall?
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Build your Martian dream home
Imagine opening the curtains in the morning and instead of grey skies and rain, looking out at a rust-coloured rocky panorama. The year is 2045. You have woken up on Mars.
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A City In Belgium Is Building A 2-Mile-Long Underground Pipeline To Carry 1,500 Gallons Of Beer An Hour
An underground pipe is being built in Bruges, Belgium that will carry 1,500 gallons of beer an hour underground, according to UK news website Sky News. The pipe is the brainchild of the De Halve Maan brewery, and will be built to take the company’s beer from its historic brewery location to a nearby bottling plant.
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Dubai To Build World's Largest Twinned Skyscraper
Continuing its efforts to reach the moon with cement, Dubai has now announced plans for the world’s tallest twinned skyscrapers. Because of course it has.
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Kim Jong Un unhappy with construction of new airport terminal
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un expressed dissatisfaction during a recent inspection of the construction of Terminal 2 at Pyongyang's Sunan International Airport, the state-run Korean Central News Agency reported Saturday. Construction at the airport, which has been undergoing renovations since 2011, will now be halted while modified designs for
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Strange Case of the Melting House: Alex Chinneck's Mind-Bending Buildings
Houses that melt, float and flip upside down? Alex Chinneck's playful architecture is made for Instagram.
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Migrant workers in Doha: They treat us like animals
They went to one of the richest countries in the world in pursuit of happiness. But their dreams were shattered as the hard reality awaited them in Qatar. Svenska Dagbladet has been given a unique insight into the conditions of the migrant workers in the capital Doha where the price for the World Cup in 2022 is paid for with human lives.
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Balls of Steel: Tractor vs Narrow Wooden Bridge
Holy shit this seriously takes balls.
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An Experimental Building Technique That Makes Concrete Look Like Skeletons
Casting concrete is as old as the Roman Empire—the Romans poured concrete to create their aqueducts—and even now it remains among the strongest, cheapest ways to erect a structure. But it isn’t without limitations. Creating complex concrete forms requires building an exact mold, complete with a non-stick mold medium and a cleaning agent. Reusable molds make constructing uniform buildings efficient enough, but if architect wants to...
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ACC ‘tiny house’ sells for $37,900
An experimental “tiny house” built by local students and area businesses last week sold on eBay for $37,900.
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China Used More Cement In The Last Three Years Than The US Used In The Entire 20th Century
The significance of cement can't be understated. A powdery substance made with calcined lime and clay, it is a binder that enables the creation of concrete (along with water and gravel or sand). Concrete, according to Smil (whom Gates calls his favorite author), is the most important man-made material in history. It has been used in everything from the Pantheon to the Hoover Dam to China's incredibly big Three Gorges Dam.
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Rolls-royce oX bridge concept visualizes futuristic autonomous vessels
Rolls-royce ‘oX bridge’ concept visualizes their futuristic forecast of ship intelligence which predicts that autonomous vessels will become a reality by 2025. The project developed alongside VTT technical research center of finland and aalto university, explores the next transition of the shipping industry as cargo boats become more complex and will require high levels of data analysis to operate on-board systems.
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The largest vessel the world has ever seen
Climbing onto the largest vessel the world has ever seen brings you into a realm where everything is on a bewilderingly vast scale and ambition knows no bounds. Prelude is a staggering 488m long and the best way to grasp what this means is by comparison with something more familiar. Four football pitches placed end-to-end would not quite match this vessel's length - and if you could lay the 301m of the...
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These Dreamers Are Actually Making Progress Building Elon's Hyperloop
When Elon Musk unveiled his idea for the Hyperloop in August of 2013, no one seemed sure what the next step would be. The Tesla Motors and SpaceX CEO dropped a 57-page alpha white paper on us, noting he didn’t really have the time to build a revolutionary transit system that would shoot pods full of people around the country in above-ground tubes at 800 mph.
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