House of Hemp and Blood: 16 Futuristic Building Materials
Future buildings could be made of artificial human bone, hemp, bacterial byproducts or concrete that absorbs greenhouse gas emissions and lasts thousands of years. Innovations in building ...
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Building Blocks of Innovation: 11 Cutting Edge Materials Set to Shape the Future
Architecture has looked much the same since early humans first began constructing their own shelter, but that could change soon with the introduction of new materials and technologies producing ...
Shipping Manifesto: An Introductory Guide to Building Cargo Container Architecture
In the 1950s, Malcolm McLean developed a modular design that would simplify the loading and offloading of ships, boxing up goods for easier loading and unloading between trains, trucks and boats ...
Restyling Blandmarks: Those Much Maligned Boxy Urban Condo Buildings
From Seattle to New York City, Minneapolis to Dallas, boxy apartment and condo buildings sporting bland facades, metallic or colored cladding and a generally flat aesthetic seem to dominate new ...
Wooden Wonders: Innovative Updates to an Ancient Building Material
Despite the fact that wood has been in use as a primary building material for millennia, it’s being hailed as the material of the future. Who says you can’t teach an old dog new ...
Linking Past and Present: Modern Architecture Made of Reclaimed Materials
Recycled architecture is more than just novelty structures and offbeat buildings made from bottles, cans and tires - though those can be pretty cool in their own right. It’s a way to put ...
Universal Design: Creating Better Buildings & Cities for All
Conventional design only welcomes a certain type of person: the one arbitrarily deemed "normal." It’s easy for designers, or even the casual observer, to define the most typical user of a space ...
Plastic Could Be Fantastic Again if We Make It With These Natural Materials
A material once seen as a breakthrough innovation that could benefit the environment by replacing animal products now litters the Earth to the tune of approximately 6.3 billion metric tons, most ...
Glass Houses: The Lure of Transparent Materials in an Era of Waning Privacy
We seem to have reached a new era of human civilization in which people marvel over the lack of privacy to be found in a completely transparent glass house while also revealing every last ...
Zero Waste Land: 13 Design Projects Making Smart Use of Reclaimed Materials
There's already more than enough plastic, glass and other materials in the world for all of our manufacturing needs - we just have to reclaim and recycle it instead of trying to bury it. For some ...
