Architecture

The World’s Most Famous Office Building? The Empire State Building

Empire State Building: Monument of the Millennium Civil engineers recently ranked the 1,454 foot (381m), 102-story skyscraper as one of the top 10 civil engineering projects of all time, dubbing it the Monument of the…

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Secrets of Great Pyramid of Giza Unlocked

The Great Pyramid of Giza, also called the Pyramid of Khufu and the Pyramid of Cheops, was constructed some 4,500 years ago. But this amazing monument continues to fascinate the world with its mysteries even…

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3D Technology to Rebuild Palmyra, an Ancient, War Damaged City in Syria

Time magazine has identified nine cities lost to time including Chernobyl and its nuclear disaster, Turkey’s mountainside fortress Termessos, the sunken city of Baia in Italy, the Gedi Ruins in Kenya, the quaint Romanian town…

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The WaterNest 100 is a Floating Solar-Powered Eco-Home That’s Nearly 100% Recyclable

If you are tired of the chaotic, dull, and busy life of cities and want to live with nature avoiding pollution, noise, and stress, you will love the WaterNest 100, the adorable ecological floating habitat.…

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How Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) Reduces Crime

Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design Principles City and regional planners spend a lot of time thinking about the design of buildings or infrastructure and how they interact with the environment and the people living in…

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Failing Grades Across the Board in $3.6 Trillion US Infrastructure Crisis

If your children came home with a D+ average, you’d be pretty worried. But the fact that US congressmen and women can earn a D+ grade on infrastructure should have US citizens mad as hell.…

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Abandoned Urban Underground Space to Become World’s First Subterranean Green Park

Lowline: World’s First Underground Green Open Space IndustryTap has written about an amusement park built inside the Turda Saltmine in Turda, Romania. Underground parks are not new, but they are getting bigger and increasingly urban.…

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Silicon Valley’s Y Combinator Launches Project to Design 21st Century Cities from Scratch

IndustryTap has reported on the world’s fastest supercomputers that execute 20 trillion calculations per second, a global smart cities market that will reach $2 trillion by 2020, and China’s use of supercomputers to design smart…

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Smart Elevators Reducing Waiting Times, Cost

Elevators are responsible for 8 to 10% of energy consumed in a building, meaning that new, smarter, connected elevators not only reduce wasting time but also save a lot of money. Elevators are used in…

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OUE Skyspace 70th Floor Skyslide & Observation Deck

Los Angeles has a new 2,800 square foot glass observation deck with 360° views of LA and a Skyslide on the 70th floor of the U.S. Bank Tower, the tallest building west of Chicago. The…

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