Architecture

World Economic Forum’s Top 10 Emerging Technologies, 2015

Technologies that seemed like dreams just a decade ago are coming of age. We can continue to dream but the world can get a lot of mileage from technologies available today. IndustryTap reported on the…

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The Luxurious Carbon Neutral Grand Cancun Eco Island Will Clean Up the Ocean Around It

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Mexican city of Cancun’s development as a tourist destination in 2020, a Grand Cancun eco-complex is being envisioned. New York architect Richard Moreta Castillo has designed the luxurious…

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Phipps Center for Sustainable Landscapes is the World Leader of Green Buildings

Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is a world leader in sustainable innovation. Its Center for Sustainable Landscapes (the CSL) is hailed as the first and only project in the world to attain…

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Over Development, Over Population, Over Shoot in Pictures

Over Development: Clear & Present Dangers to Earth In dealing with some of the world’s biggest challenges, the Population Media Center and the Population Institute have created the “Global Population Speakout Campaign” with a 316-page…

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Times Square 3015: A Mile High Skyscraper

Times Square 3015: Vertical vs. Horizontal Living IndustryTap has regularly covered Evolo’s skyscraper competitions; this year’s competition included over 6,000 entries with winners chosen last month. One of the more interesting entries was Times Squared…

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Medical Grade Marijuana Production Going Mainstream

Last week, India Globalization, Inc. (ICG), a New York Stock Exchange-listed company in the materials sector (i.e. iron ore, steel, and electronic components), announced plans to build a cannabis growing facility in Washington State as part…

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World’s First Carbon Positive House Produces More Energy Than It Uses

ArchiBlox, a modular buildings specialist, has recently unveiled Australia’s first carbon-positive prefab home. A prototype of this prefab home has been installed in Melbourne’s City Square. This compact carbon-positive house with ‘edible garden walls’, a…

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Frank Gehry to Redesign Eastern Gateway to Sunset Strip

Earlier this week, Townscape Partners announced that Frank Gehry has been chosen for the 8150 Sunset Project to redesign the eastern gateway, pictured above, to the 1.5 mile (2.4 km) Sunset Strip in West Hollywood.…

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Architect Ole Scheeren Creates New Guardian Art Center, Auction House in Beijing

German Architect Ole Scheeren of Beijing-based Buro Ole Scheeren has been working with the Beijing Institute of Architectural Design and Chinese planning authorities to create the Guardian Art Center pictured above, just two blocks from…

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A Look at Emerging Green Nanotechnology

The image above by Pelagie Favi and Samantha Tracht of the University of Tennessee shows tentacles protruding from a sundew plant secreting a powerful adhesive capable of stretching to a million times its size. One…

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