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Year: 2017

Elegant Energy-Free Air Conditioner Can Drop Temperatures by 26 Degrees

At a glance, the honeycomb structure of terracotta tubes looks more like large-scale work of handmade sculpture than a highly designed air conditioner. Developed for an electronics factory in ...

Blooms: Hypnotizing 3D Printed Sculptures Come Alive Under Strobe Lights

It’s really easy to lose a chunk of your day getting lost in the hypnotizing effects of these trippy 3D-printed sculpture animations by artist John Edmark. Drawing from spiral patterns and ...

Starchitect Spotlight: 9 Wooden Wonders by Kengo Kuma & Associates

Acclaimed Japanese architect Kengo Kuma brings traditional Japanese building techniques and aesthetics into the 21st century with dynamic structures making creative use of wooden elements. Known ...

Prefab Plyscraper: World’s Tallest Timber Building Tops Out at 173 Feet

On the University of British Columbia's campus in Vancouver, a new record-setting wood structures highlights the many advantages of a growing trend: vertical timber construction. Brock Commons ...

SYMBIOZ: Renault’s Autonomous Car Integrates Into a Matching Residence

In the future, will our autonomous vehicles simply sit within our homes like a part of the living space, eliminating the need for garages and parking spots? Probably not. At least, not for most of ...

Lush Life: 12 Verdant Architecture Projects Making Plants a Main Priority

Not all architecture incorporating lots of living greenery is doomed to remain an unrealistic rendering, depicting buildings that can't structurally support the weight of all the soil and water ...

Bar The Rays: 15 Closed & Abandoned Tanning Salons

These closed and abandoned tanning salons, spas and studios made hay while the sun didn't shine but sooner or later they (and their clients) felt the burn. "Sun-Tan-Drews" may not have ...

Incredible Grain Silo Transformation: Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa

106 vertical concrete tubes making up a massive disused grain silo in Cape Town, South Africa are sliced and carved from the inside out to produce cathedral-like spaces in this incredible ...

Mobile E-Home: Solar-Powered Electric Motorhome Recharges on the Road

Electric vehicles are often limited by recharge options, a design problem this Dethleffs camper tackles with solar panels and German engineering. Their E.Home concept vehicle has a maximum ...

3D-Printed Muscle Straight Out of ‘Westworld’ Makes Robots More Realistic

If you watched HBO’s ‘Westworld’ earlier this year, you probably remember the scenes where the nascent humanoid robots were strung up on circular frames like Leonardo da Vinci’s ...

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