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Chinese Homeowner's Illegal Skyway Bridges 2 Highrise Condos
Sky bridges are a common sight in many cities, but are generally used to create a semi-public pathway from one building to the next, not to illicitly join two private highrise units in midair. In Nanning, China, one resident apparently purchased two apartment units situated nearly across from (and facing) one another with a novel plan in mind: connect them via a slightly-sloped extension to expand his interior space.
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How computer-aided organic architecture could change the city of the future
We’ve seen the future of architecture and design, and it’s at the intersection of biology, computing, and engineering.While many architects these days put up buildings loaded with energy-saving features and attractive, sustainable design, one company is taking its approach to being green to another level: growing fully biodegradable building materials. Known as The Living, the small, New York-based architecture firm has pioneered mixing biological technologies with...
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Holdout Houses: 10 Stubborn Structures That Won't Make Way
Despite the emergence of highways, shopping malls, frighteningly deep pits and even moats around them, the tenacious owners of these older structures refused to give in to developers, remaining in their increasingly incongruous homes. In China, they’re referred to as ‘nail houses,’ like stubborn nails in wood that can’t be pounded down; American developers call them ‘spikes.’ Most of them are ultimately demolished, but some stand like strange little monuments to the past.
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New York's Newest Skyscraper Is 32 Floors Of Prefab Apartments That Click Together
Imagine a future in which cities are no longer grown from the ground up with poured concrete. Factories spit out bathrooms, kitchens, and whole apartment floors to be stacked and sealed into dazzling towers. Faster, more environmentally efficient, and affordable housing is a given, and megacities more closely resemble tightly assembled airplane engines than accidents of density and sprawl.
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In China, Projects to Make Great Wall Feel Small
The plan here seems far-fetched — a $36 billion tunnel that would run twice the length of the one under the English Channel, and bore deep into one of Asia’s active earthquake zones. When completed, it would be the world’s longest underwater tunnel, creating a rail link between two northern port cities.
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Algae-Fueled Building: World's First Bio-Adaptive Facade
Bio-reactors and micro-algae sound like the stuff of science fiction, but this is the real deal: biomass built into panel glass on an actual working structure.
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Canada being sued for billions under NAFTA investor protections
The private owner of the Detroit-Windsor bridge is suing Canada for billions under NAFTA, one of many legal cases cited in a new study on corporations’ growing use of investor protection measures to challenge the Canadian, U.S. and Mexican governments. Michigan billionaire Matty Moroun, owner of the existing bridge connecting Windsor to Detroit, is claiming damages from Ottawa in connection with Canada’s plan to help build a second...
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Straw Bale Houses go on Sale
The first straw houses in the UK to be offered on the open market are on sale.
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Five Ideas For Remodeling Your Restaurant
Five restaurant remodeling ideas designed to improve your guests' experience and beef up your bottom line.
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Dubai's 'Aladdin City' is coming next year
Dubai has given the green light to yet another outrageous building project - a 4,000-acre complex of towers inspired by characters from Arabian Nights, including Aladdin and Sinbad the Sailor. “Aladdin City” will feature six towers, some designed to resemble Aladdin’s magic lamp, linked by air-conditioned bridges with moving walkways (magic carpets?). Construction will begin next year, and although the total cost has yet to be revealed, Hussain Nasser Lootah, Director-General of...
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The Luxury Liner of the Future
Watching the process of loading a cruise ship is a bewildering spectacle of logistics and organization. Tons of food and drink join a seemingly endless assembly of trucks packed with other essential supplies—lugging aboard a menagerie of goods aimed at anticipating the every need of paying passengers. Which is a sort of nice way of saying: There’s a lot of junk that gets loaded onto a cruise ship. And even more that ends up coming off of it.
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Building skyscrapers on Chicago's swampy soil
From his office tower in downtown Chicago, Mike Vendel has no reason to doubt the structural stability of the buildings where he and hundreds of thousands of others spend their workdays. Looking back on the Loop from the shores of Lake Michigan, though, it’s a different story.“Outside enjoying the lakefront, beaches, parks,” says Vendel, “you see the sand and you see these huge skyscrapers in the skyline and you think: How do they stay stable in that structure?”
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How can we build skyscrapers without throwing cities into shadow?
There are around 250 tall towers currently planned for London's skyline. From afar, they'll probably look great. But unless they're planned carefully, they'll start throwing shadows across ever-growing swathes of London. So one local architecture firm is offering a solution. Using computer modelling, they've figured out a design which would reduce the shadows cast by two theoretical towers by as much as 60 per cent.
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The Learning Hub Building By Heatherwick Studio
The hub, completed in March of 2015, is part of a £360 million scheme by Nanyang Technological University, and is the first redevelopment of its campus in twenty years.
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How China used more cement in 3 years than the U.S. did in the entire 20th Century
China used more cement between 2011 and 2013 than the U.S. used in the entire 20th Century. It’s a statistic so mind-blowing that it stunned Bill Gates and inspired haiku. But can it be true, and, if so, how? Yes, China’s economy has grown at an extraordinary rate, and it has more than four times as many people as the United States.
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Modern Masonry: Cool Concrete Cabin + Warm Wood Patio
We tend to think of wood as a warm material appropriate to indoor spaces of a home and concrete in terms of cold building blocks best left to the driveway paving, retaining walls or an outdoor porch. This minimalist modern cabin reverses these conventions.
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First Offshore Wind Farm In The U.S. Kicks Off Construction
Offshore wind is coming to the United States
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Chinese builder puts up 57-story skyscraper in 19 days
A Chinese construction company is claiming to be the world's fastest builder after erecting a 57-story skyscraper in 19 working days in central China.
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Europe's Most Transformative Project Is Definitely This Tunnel From Denmark to Germany
The long-planned Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link moved one step closer to reality this month.
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The 'living concrete' that can heal itself
It's the world's most popular building material, and ever since the Romans built the pantheon from it some 2,000 years ago, we've been trying to find ways to make concrete more durable. No matter how carefully it is mixed or reinforced, all concrete eventually cracks, and under some conditions, those cracks can lead to collapse.
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