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Sydney's 'ugliest building' gets a high-tech bag over its head

Sydney's 'ugliest building' gets a high-tech bag over its head

The University of Technology Sydney Tower in Australia, an old slat-stack from the '60s, has the dubious honor of being...
 
MercuryHouseOne pod home offers solar-powered living

MercuryHouseOne pod home offers solar-powered living

Increasingly, the problem of creating sustainable, eco-friendly solutions extends beyond transportation and is moving into the realm of home building....
 
Archipod makes working from home like a trip to the future

Archipod makes working from home like a trip to the future

If you're among the new class of workers allowed to deliver the goods from home, the Archipod was made for...
 
Hitachi builds 40.26mph elevator, fastest in the world

Hitachi builds 40.26mph elevator, fastest in the world

Buildings are getting higher, and nobody wants to stand around waiting for an elevator. Hitachi aims to fix that with...
 
Giant QR code building offers new kind of augmented reality

Giant QR code building offers new kind of augmented reality

QR codes are still quite prevalent within Japan but if a new design technology experiment is any indication, the country...
 
Plug-and-Play hospitals saving lives in Haiti

Plug-and-Play hospitals saving lives in Haiti

It's hard for the doctors of Doctors Without Borders to do their work in Haiti. Its infrastructure has been devestated...
 
Villa Hush Hush has amazing push-button elevation

Villa Hush Hush has amazing push-button elevation

Whether there's any chance of this project coming to fruition, you've got to admire the chutzpah of Marks Barfield architects....
 
One man's wall of urinals is another's cascading fountain

One man's wall of urinals is another's cascading fountain

One urinal overflowing is bad enough, but 15 of them? Well, that's another beat altogether. A fountain, in fact, if...
 
Spectacular floating city of the future designed for Boston Harbor

Spectacular floating city of the future designed for Boston Harbor

If the days of gigantic arcologies ever arrive, architect E. Kevin Schopfer will be at the forefront of their design....
 
World's tallest building opens, named Burj Khalifa

World's tallest building opens, named Burj Khalifa

Just a few minutes ago, Dubai officially opened the world's tallest building. Until now, we thought it was going to...
 
A Subway sandwich shop dangling from a crane

A Subway sandwich shop dangling from a crane

Most Subway shops are pretty accessible to the normal lunchtime crowd. But the new one being introduced to the workers...
 
MAD's Urban Forest skyscraper is simply that: mad

MAD's Urban Forest skyscraper is simply that: mad

You may remember MAD Architects from their equally mad designs, such as this star-shaped floating city. Now they've got the...
 
3D video mapping projection brings buildings alive

3D video mapping projection brings buildings alive

Get together a group of talented 3D artists, project their work onto buildings with a battery of powerful projectors, and...
 
Large Hadron Collider sets world record, now the most powerful collider in town

Large Hadron Collider sets world record, now the most powerful collider in town

CERN's Large Hadron Collider always had the chops to be the new proton accelerating sheriff in town, but this morning...
 
Large Hadron Collider finally collides for the first time

Large Hadron Collider finally collides for the first time

Baby just took her first step! After over a year of delays, CERN's Large Hadron Collider saw its first collision...
 

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