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Month: March 2013

Lunar Soil Structures: 3D-Printing Dwellings on the Moon

One of the biggest challenges of settlements in space is the cost of transporting materials and technologies for construction, a problem addressed beautifully via 3D printing technology in this ...

Preservation Puzzle: Extreme Ideas to Save an Urban Facade

The Prentice Women’s Hospital building at Northwestern University has some serious fans, including a range of architects such as Frank Gehry, Robert Venturi, Tadao Ando, Jacques Herzog, Pierre ...

3D Printed Car is Strong, Light and Close to Production

The Urbee 2 is strong as steel, half the weight of a conventional vehicle, and can be manufactured in a warehouse full of plastic-spraying 3D printers. The teardrop-shaped 3D-printed car is an ...

Airborne Architecture: 12 Images of Flying French Houses

Context - that is the key to taking the ordinary and making it amazing in this series of displaced homes soaring up from forgotten streets of Paris. The results float like an intentionally ...

Harvest Energy from Power Lines to Recharge Your Batteries

The entire city is your power source with an innovative gadget by designer Dennis Siegel that harvests energy from electromagnetic fields and instantly recharges batteries. These 'energy ...

7 Monumental Abandoned Wonders of Military Architecture

Rusted sea forts, top-secret submarine bases, sprawling military hospital complexes and entire islands still stand as silent reminders of wars long past, from Ukraine to New York's Hudson River. ...

Works of Impossible Architecture Built from Found Photos

Like dreams while you are having them, these buildings make perfect sense subjectively and yet no sense objectively. They are seamlessly integrated, yet structurally surreal ... and, like a dream ...

Slam Drunk: 12 Weird, Wild & Wacky Basketball Courts

These 12 jaw-dropping basketball courts stretch the limits of Dr. James Naismith's original vision far beyond the prescient gym teacher's wildest hoop dreams. ...

A Million Times: Clock Wall is a Moving Art Installation

Staring at the hands of an analog clock for too long can lead to the feeling that the hands are moving in odd ways. In the case of this large installation, however, that feeling is completely ...

Wiki Your City: Mobile App Lets You Geo-Tag Articles

Wikipedia is making it easier than ever to participate in the aggregation of user-provided knowledge and information with its GeoData extension, a mobile app for iPhones and Androids. This app ...

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