Speedy Prefab: How a 9-Story Apartment Was Built in 5 Days
We see conceptual modular designs of this kind all of the time, but rarely such exquisite real-world proof of how fast construction can be in the age of prefabrication. The ...
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Lightweight ‘Airbeams’ Frame Inflatable Geodesic Dome Tent
Derived from crystal structure of diamonds and geodesic domes of Buckminster Fuller, these all-weather structures are astonishingly strong but incredibly light at the same ...
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 ...
15-Year Photo Project: Construction of a 150-Year Bridge
A photography project well over a decade in the making, these images by Joseph Blum show the human side and vast scale of construction behind the world's largest self-anchored suspension bridge, ...
Cool Colors: Rainbow Igloo Built of 500 Translucent Blocks
When your prospective future mother-in-law takes the time to fill hundreds of cartons with colored water before your visit, it would behoove you to do something with them. And thus this ...
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 ...
Gone Fission: 11 Unfinished Nuclear Power Plants
These 11 unfinished, abandoned, canceled, mothballed and/or suspended nuclear power plants will, for better or worse, never know the warmth of split atoms. ...
Engineering Marvel: The Mysterious Ruins of Nan Madol
The only ancient city ever built upon a coral reef, Nan Madol is a marvel of ancient engineering so complex, no one can figure out how it was conceived and built starting in the 8th or 9th ...
Penny Wise: 12 Cool Copper-Clad Buildings
Copper's fiery glow, relative abundance and famed durability have served civilization well for countless centuries. The metal's many attributes have also endeared it to architects of all ages, from ...
DIY Civilization: 40-Part Post-Apocalypse Construction Kit
Worried about the end of the world? A group of engineers has created a series of do-it-yourself machines for building (or reconstructing) society anywhere with access to light, water and ...
