The Smart Scale Tackle’s a Designer’s Worst Nightmare: Human Error
The year is 1999, the month, September. There’s panic at the NASA headquarters because they’ve just lost contact with their Mars Climate Orbiter. The orbiter entered…
Architecture
Skyshelter.zip is like a compressed bellow that opens into a skyscraper
What these designers proposed was ground-breaking enough to win them the Golden Prize at the eVolo Skyscraper Competition 2018. The premise? Instant Skyscrapers. The technique? Compressing…
A glass house that uses nature as its decor
To be honest, with the amount of natural beauty Iceland has to offer, and with its 300K population (that’s the entire country), ceilings and walls are…
20 A’ Design Award winning buildings that make us drool!
Goethe’s words “I call architecture frozen music” couldn’t ring more true for these 20 structural marvels. If architecture truly is frozen music, this article is a…
Turning Plastic Trash into Fantastic Tiles!
After stunning audiences in Beijing, Shanghai, and most recently in London, the Trashpresso makes its way to the Milan Design Week. The massive machine, big enough…
The Norwegian hotel that’s saving planet earth
While we try to minimize our carbon footprint on the earth, Norwegian hotel Svart doesn’t really worry about its own carbon footprint of energy because it…
For Bird Watchers, Inspired by Bird Builders
You’ve probably heard of biomimicry as a design trend but have you ever heard of animal architecture mimicry? Designed just for bird watchers of the Pape…
Greek architecture or underwater energy harvester?!
Neither have we discovered Atlantis, nor has the Parthenon sunk yet! This is the Parthenon Seawall, a structure designed by Waterstudio led by Netherlands based Architect…
