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An international collaboration of architects, engineers and artists has recently released its plans for the new “digital cloud” that will adorn London's skyline pretty soon. The giant, inflatable structures would essentially float on its support pillars, and would be used primarily for displaying mul... |
11 November 2009
10:23 GMT |
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New York City is highly renowned for its brick buildings, which have a characteristic reddish hue, and give certain streets a unique look. Over a period of three weeks, architects Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler, both of whom are professors and researchers at ETH Zurich, in Switzerland, will guide their amazing ro... |
27 October 2009
10:10 GMT |
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Urban architects undoubtedly have something special of their own, a fact that has been evidenced numerous times by the wide array of improvements and reconversions they brought to seemingly decrepit and abandoned structures. San Francisco architects Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello one day took a look at the San... |
8 October 2009
13:01 GMT |
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For a good while now, people have been speculating on the bits and pieces of NVIDIA's next-generation GPU architecture, the much-anticipated GT300, which the company has been consistently keeping under wraps. Rumored to be scheduled for release sometime by the end of this year, or early next year, the new GT300 ... |
29 September 2009
04:47 GMT |
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Scientists were able recently to demonstrate that it's not only the genetic sequence of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) that makes it so dangerous, but also its architecture. The term is used to compare the way the virus is put together with an electrical diagram, for example. The experts in charge of the... |
6 August 2009
14:51 GMT |
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Engineers have recently unveiled a plan that a few years back might have seemed like a joke – to build a wall to mark the spread of the Sahara desert, so that the dunes stop spreading over yet-unaffected ground. The problem appears all over the Saharan borders, as fields and families are being displaced by the ... |
24 July 2009
10:58 GMT |
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Researchers at the University of Illinois have created a new brand of polymers, which is able to shift color when it is stressed beyond its capacity, or overloaded. The innovation could benefit a wide range of applications, from building structures to designing more efficient climbing ropes or parachute cords. Basica... |
7 May 2009
05:38 GMT |
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In his new book, “Beyond the Bubble: The New Japanese Architecture” (Phaidon Press), University of Illinois (UI) architecture professor Botond Bognar draws attention to the fact that the US shouldn't turn to the architectural model employed by Japan in the mid-1990s, especially now, in times of econo... |
10 March 2009
04:34 GMT |
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The world's City of Culture (Cidade da Cultura), currently under construction in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain, is the most complex architectural design in history. The decade-long work, scheduled to be finished in 2012, represents the culmination of our design capabilities as far as buildings and build... |
21 February 2009
05:01 GMT |
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A growing agreement of opinions among architects worldwide holds that almost everything that could have been done with conventional construction techniques has been done. As proof, we have the City of Culture, in Galicia, Spain, a mind-boggling architectural complex, and the newest innovation – the first rotati... |
17 February 2009
02:24 GMT |
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A team of scientists managed to invent a new piece of software that will aid engineers and architects to better project their work in a digital environment, with the help of a doodling tablet. The new program will allow for increased creativity among these professionals, as it will not feature the classic drag-and-dr... |
14 January 2009
06:18 GMT |
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Assessing the structural integrity of a building is a very complex task, and a very necessary one at that, especially in the event of an earthquake or other natural catastrophe that could damage the internal make-up of a very expensive building. Until now, outside sensors were used, small devices that recorded fluctu... |
6 January 2009
06:30 GMT |
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The acoustical magic of the Boston Symphony Hall is due to the fact that the architectural company that built it resorted, for the first time in history, to the services of a physicist. It was built based on the design of Leipzig's Gewandhaus, which was devastated later on, during World War II. Constructed ... |
15 October 2008
10:31 GMT |
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Researchers from Timelink – an environmental design company based in Dubai – have come up with the idea of building these carbon-free cities in order to accommodate people on a surface that covers about 10% of the area they would otherwise need. The term "ziggurat," which comes from the Akkadian lang... |
8 September 2008
06:48 GMT |
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Nvidia has officially gone public with its upcoming GT-200 graphics processor, after a long series of rumors. The company planned to talk about its new technology earlier this month during a press conference held in Munich (April 10), but the announcement would have arrived too close to the introduction of its Quadr... |
15 April 2008
11:49 GMT |
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IBM as the "king of the hill" on the server market is now officially announcing a new chipset architecture, named X4, for high performance x86 compatible server systems, just in time to be integrated alongside the new Intel platform for multiprocessor systems. The X4 architecture will be used on IBM servers that inte... |
6 September 2007
04:48 GMT |
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Intel announced that its designer teams are working on a new internal architecture for its processors that should address a number of performance bottlenecks and make improvements in the way several cores are connected and are communicating among them. This new processor architecture is going to mean a drastic change... |
29 August 2007
06:54 GMT |
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Now, things are somehow clear when it comes to serious audio: you're either into it or not, the middle road is very thin and few manage to walk on it. "In" and "out" do not relate to the money you spend with audio gear but are more closely bound to how you spend it and on what kind of gear.Some people prefer few... |
20 March 2007
12:07 GMT |
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