Micro-Housing Trends & Forecasts
The vast majority of humans today are migrating to cities where jobs and culture can be found. In the rural and suburban areas left behind, there are lots of opportunities to buy nice houses at…
Architecture
Japan to Use Autonomous Machine Swarms to Colonize Moon, Mars
Autonomous Machines Key to Space Exploration For better or worse, Mars is more than 200,000 miles away from Earth. Whatever Mars teams do, they must have backup systems and redundancy galore to make sure when…
World’s First “Tesla Town” With Solar Roofs and Powerwalls to be Built Near Melbourne
Australia is going to build the world’s first “Tesla Town” on the outskirts of Melbourne. Designed, developed, and built by the property group Glenvill, each and every house in this town will have a solar…
Norway is Going to Build World’s First Floating Underwater Tunnels
Norway is a beautiful country with tall mountains, glaciers, and deep fjords. But getting from one place to another often requires lengthy journeys. Most people have to use ferries to get from one place to…
This Pop-Up Rainwater Pavilion in Edinburgh Portrays Smart Water Management and Climate Adaptation
Rotterdam, a major port city in the Netherlands, is well-known for its strategies that enable it to adapt to climate changes. Inventions from Rotterdam are in the international spotlight time and again. Recently, the Festival…
Avoiding Structural Buckling with Better Design Tools
When the World Trade Centers came down in 2001, the weight placed on the structure by the planes and the weakening caused by heat resulted in structural buckling. The new World Trade Center in New…
Is Sustainable Architecture a Fad or a Revolution?
There is currently a sustainable development debate over what the definition and practice of “sustainable architecture” is or should be. Of course, sustainable development in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq is quite different than in…
Scientists Use Laser Beams to Unearth a Lost City Around Angkor Wat
The famous Angkor Wat temple complex in Cambodia, which is the largest religious complex in the world, was built in the first half of the 12th century. The Hindu temple, dedicated to the god Vishnu was constructed…
The Living on the Edge Project Explores the Future of Urban Residential Design
All big cities around the world have the same story, as rapid population growth is impacting the quality of life. To manage this population surge, we need to allow existing cities to keep sprawling outside…
$2.3 Billion Gotthard Base Railway Tunnel Opens as World’s Longest, Deepest
AlpTransit Gotthard, the company charged with building the world’s longest railway tunnel, the Gotthard Base Tunnel, celebrated its opening on June 1, 2016, after 17 years of work. The Gotthard project is part of the…
