A look into India's first shipping container home (Video)
• treehugger.comRemade into housing, pop-up shopping plazas and funhouses, shipping container architecture is so trendy nowadays that they are even making knock-offs in China.
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Giant Purple Theater Is World's First Inflatable Music Hall
• popularmechanics.comIt looks like a giant purple donut. But in fact the Ark Nova, or "New Ark," is the world's first inflatable music hall.
Ben Swann Reality Check: More Americans "Rethinking" 9/11?
• Ben Swann Reality CheckBen Swann Reality Check takes a look at claims by Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth about why they say the official story on the collapse of Building 7 is not only untrue, it is not possible. Also, a new poll shows that more and more Americans
Breakthrough urban food forest tower under construction in Milan
• naturalnews.comThe city of Milan, Italy, is the future home of the world's first two food forest skyscrapers
The First Tornado-Proof House Will Be Built In A Tiny Kansas Town
• Business InsiderThe first prototype of a tornado-proof house will be built in Utica, Kans., a very small town roughly 200 miles west of Wichita.
Carbon-Neutral ‘Woodcube’ Building Makes Steel Obsolete
• earthtechling.comAs EarthTechling has reported in the past, the construction industry is fast regaining its appreciation for wood as a building material.
New high rise focuses sun into burning torch
• The TelegraphBusiness owners in Eastcheap say the £200 million project has blistered paintwork, caused tiles to smash and singed fabric. A motorist has also said the intense heat melted part of his Jaguar.
This Seaweed-Covered House Is the World’s Coziest Sushi Roll
• Wired.comThe history of modern architecture has been tightly coupled with technological development, from the Bessemer steel that provided structure for Louis Sullivan’s skyscrapers to CAD simulations that transformed.........
This Might Be the Coolest Kite Ever
• Wired.comLeft up to Tomás Saraceno, the buildings of the future might look a lot like kites. Not just any kite, either.
Shigeru Ban: Emergency shelters made from paper
• ted.comLong before sustainability became a buzzword, architect Shigeru Ban had begun his experiments with ecologically-sound building materials such as cardboard tubes and paper. His remarkable structures are often intended as temporary housing....
Build a $300 underground greenhouse for year-round gardening (Video)
• treehugger.comGrowers in colder climates often utilize various approaches to extend the growing season or to give their crops a boost, whether it's coldframes, hoop houses or greenhouses.Greenhouses are usually glazed structures, but are typically expensive ......
Wild 3D-printed house can be assembled 'in a day'
• http://www.dvice.com, Megan WollertonSoftkill Design is a team of designers and architects that collaborate together on various building projects. And, although Dutch architects from Universe Architecture have announced plans to build the first 3D printed house, the folks at Softkill ha
'Breaking Bad' star completes green dream home
• Mother Nature Network.comBryan Cranston's new net-zero energy beach home features solar, recycled materials, and one awesome automated car lift.
New Forms That Function Better
• Technologyreview.comSince the unveiling of Frank Gehry’s titanium-skinned Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in 1997, we’ve grown accustomed to eye-popping architectural statements, whether in the complex geometry of Herzog & de Meuron’s Beijing National Stadium .....
No Joke: This 380 Square-Foot Apartment Actually Feels Spacious
• Wired.comWhile some bachelor pads end up as filthy man-caves littered with game console controllers and dumpster-dive furniture, this Alan Chu-designed micro apartment is not one of them.
Construction on world's tallest building reportedly halted
• dvice.comLast year, news broke about China's bid to construct the world's tallest building. Its name for the structure, Sky City, sounded a lot like something Lando Calrissian might invest in.
5 Amazing Antarctic Research Buildings
• popsci.comNew designs make suffering through freezing desolation in the name of research actually look okay.
Ikea Develops a Smart Flat-Pack Shelter for Disaster Refugees
• Wired.comIkea’s flat-pack furniture has been the source of many frustrated moments thanks to its deconstructed, DIY nature.
Michael Green: Why we should build wooden skyscrapers
• ted.comBuilding a skyscraper? Forget about steel and concrete, says architect Michael Green, and build it out of … wood. As he details in this intriguing talk, it's not only possible to build safe wooden structures up to 30 stories tall (and, he hopes, high
Planned Vikings Stadium will have world's largest transparent roof
• gizmag.comThe Minnesota Vikings American football team has announced the final design for a new stadium to built in the Minneapolis city center that will feature the world’s largest transparent roof.
Five Reasons Why You Love Sustainable Architecture
• livescience.comThe images in this article depict ECO Modern Flats, a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) for Homes Multifamily Platinum project located in Fayetteville, Ark. —
Can You 3D-Print Your Dream Home?
• technewsdaily.comIf you love Legos, you might have imagined building a real house from them.
From Shard to shoebox: Renzo Piano does micro-housing
• Mother Nature Network.comIf there’s one thing that I’ve learned from covering the tiny house movement, it is this: From pre-teens to Etsy artisans to Rage Against the Machine tribute band drummers, micro-dwelling enthusiasts are a truly motley bunch.
Water Discus Hotel to be built in the Maldives
• http://www.gizmag.comPolish architectural and deep-sea engineering company Deep Ocean Technology has inked a deal with Ridgewood Hotels and Suites Pvt. Ltd. to build its futuristic part-underwater Water Discus Hotel just off the shore of Kuredhivaru Island in the Maldive
Robots and worms join forces to spin silk pavilion
• gizmag.comSilk Pavilion by MIT Media Lab poses some interesting questions about how what it calls "biological fabrication" might fit into the future of making things alongside 3D printing and similar computer-aided cleverness.
WoodSkin aims to bridge the gap between virtual design and real construction
• http://www.gizmag.com, By Donna TaylorThese days it seems the term architecture has broadened to encompass fantastical projects and shapes in the virtual domain.
Green Light For Plan To Build World's Tallest Building At Record Speed
• popsci.comThe 220-story, 2,750-foot, 90-day Sky City construction project is a go.
Mad Genius Buys Volcano, Transforms It Into Naked-Eye Observatory
• Wired.comWay out on the edge of the Painted Desert in Arizona, 70-year-old Californian artist James Turrell has spent the past three decades excavating a 389,000-year-old extinct volcano. Roden Crater, as it’s known, is Turrell’s magnum opus.
Alastair Parvin: Architecture for the people by the people
• ted.comArchitect Alastair Parvin presents a simple but provocative idea: what if, instead of architects creating buildings for those who can afford to commission them, regular citizens could design and build their own houses?
Chinese Company Says Construction On World's Tallest Building Will Begin Next Month
• Business InsiderConstruction on what may just be the world's next tallest building is (finally) due to begin, Lloyd Alter of Treehugger reports.
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