Architecture

Mindbending Mall Features 804 Curved Glass Window Panes

In Malmö, Sweden, the developers of Emporia decided to give an architecture firm a $390,000,000 construction budget to work with, resulting in a 2,228,130 square foot mammoth of a mall. Emporia is a three-story mall,…

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Forget the Tallest Skyscrapers in the World. This One’s Invisible.

Man’s desire to be invisible or make things disappear dates back to ancient times. Illusionists have been successfully making objects as big as the Statue of Liberty, the ‘Taj Mahal’ and even the space shuttle…

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Geostellar Plans to Revolutionize Shopping in the Solar Industry

As a homeowner, have you ever weighed the options of going solar? Thanks to the start-up company Geostellar, U.S. homeowners will now have an online marketplace to compare pros and cons of leasing solar panels…

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Will Mile-Long Ice Wall Stop Fukushima’s Radioactive Water Leaks?

Researchers estimate that every day about 400 tons of highly radioactive water enters the Pacific Ocean from the tsunami- and earthquake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The levels of contamination are dangerously high. TEPCO (Tokyo Electric…

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$10 Billion Tunnel Under the Alps on Track to Open in 2016

When the Gotthard Base Tunnel is complete in 2016, a total of 28.2 million tons (79.8 Million cubic meters), or the equivalent of five Giza pyramids, will have been excavated using four Tunnel Boring Machines…

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Algae-Powered Building Redefines Going Green

An innovative apartment block has been unveiled at the international building exhibition in Hamburg, Germany. This 15 unit apartment block – The Bio Intelligent Quotient (BIQ) house is the world’s first building that generates heat…

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130-Year-Old Tabernacle Ready for Rebirth with Massive Foundation Project

In Provo, Utah, engineers are saving the 130-year-old Provo Tabernacle that was gutted by fire in 2010. The building has huge historic and spiritual significance for Provo’s “Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints” (LDS)…

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Surrealism Movement’s Delightfully Disturbing Influence on Architecture

We’ve all seen buildings that twist, turn and seem to challenge gravity. They may be beautiful or downright disturbing. These architectural masterpieces are inspired by the Surrealism movement that began in the 1920s. Surrealism tends…

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Window Coatings That Can Save Your House Energy And Money

Scientists have developed a new coating that can be applied to window glass that will change how sunlight passes through so as to save energy. The US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is…

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Space Age Floating Lillypad Cities Inspired By Natural Disasters

Very Large Floating Structures (VLFS) If and when the seas begin to rise to the point where whole islands or even nations are underwater: Kiribati, Maldives, Seychelles, Torres Straight Islands, Tegua, Solomon Islands, Micronesia, Palau,…

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Architecture

Mindbending Mall Features 804 Curved Glass Window Panes

Forget the Tallest Skyscrapers in the World. This One’s Invisible.

Geostellar Plans to Revolutionize Shopping in the Solar Industry

Will Mile-Long Ice Wall Stop Fukushima’s Radioactive Water Leaks?

$10 Billion Tunnel Under the Alps on Track to Open in 2016

Algae-Powered Building Redefines Going Green

130-Year-Old Tabernacle Ready for Rebirth with Massive Foundation Project

Surrealism Movement’s Delightfully Disturbing Influence on Architecture

Window Coatings That Can Save Your House Energy And Money

Space Age Floating Lillypad Cities Inspired By Natural Disasters

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