"The Hybrid Air Breeze Tower would contain translucent photovoltaic windows so the amount of energy usage would be minimal. The building could also have mixed...
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"The world's leading certification system for sustainable architecture is set to undergo its most sweeping changes in 2009. The proposed revisions encourage...
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A design firm in Dubai called Timelinks is proposing designs for the Ziggurat: a complete city layered inside a huge pyramid that could house a million people. The...
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Timlinks, which develops environmentally safe projects, has recently published several stunning images of a giant pyramid titled Ziggurat. The company also posted the...
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Here's something that always crops up every four years - what happens to the Olympic venues after the games? Beijing has either built or refubished 31-odd...
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Shipping containers, those big metal boxes used to transport the lamps, washing machines and furniture in our houses, are now becoming homes in their own right....
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When you show an unusual project to a developer in New York, they ask: “Have you done this before?” The client in China asked me: “Are you sure it...
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The Olympics have spurred a 60 Billion dollar buildout of Beijing, including Olympic venues such as the Bird's Nest, the Water Cube, and the Airport... but all...
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Check out plans for this new Museum of Modern Arab Art, planned to be in the desert near Doha, Qatar. The museum is scheduled to be finished in 2011 and will house...
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This building fell due to the simultaneous failure of it's 81 vertical columns. An unbelievable event due to fire alone. They have stated they have a...
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The fall of the 47-story World Trade Center building 7 (WTC 7) in New York City late in the afternoon of Sept. 11, 2001, was primarily due to fires, the Commerce...
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NIST are going to make history as they explain how for the first time in history a steel framed structure collapsed into it's own footprint from fire. For this...
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Shimon Peres' dream of a new Middle East...brings you this Valley of Peace Project -- creating a canal between Jordan and Israel could nourish the world! I...
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Zhou Jun works with a high specification camera to record the changing face of Beijing. He highlights, in red, to tell a story about the creative conflicts between...
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Normally, I don't get to excited about things ... but this one is quite the spectacle.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter Bruce Wong published this news article about plans slated for a museum -- the Bruce Lee Action Museum -- commemorating film actor...
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Oh my this took a lot of work. "This scale miniature of Midtown took 2000 hours to complete. As reference, he used blueprints, old photographs, digital...
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Architect and author Sarah Susanka talks about what she calls The Not So Big Life. It is a theme of all of her books and essentially is about living in the moment...
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Some people view them as vandals, others, performance artists. Why aren't the nimble tricks of the skateboarders of London's South Bank valued as much as...
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Inbox blocked by spam and don't know what to do with them? How about something creative like this: "Alex Dragulescu's "Spam Architecture"...
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