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A new project that will be completed in Seoul by 2015 seems to have drawn for inspiration on one of the most unfortunate tragedies in modern history: the collapse of the World Trade Center Twin Towers in NYC on September 11, 2001. Called “The Cloud” and designed by architecture firm MVRDV as part of the l... |
12 December 2011
13:31 GMT |
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Tapping geothermal heat is perhaps one of the most beneficial green methods of keeping the temperatures under control in urban buildings. By next spring, workers will finish the construction of an eco-friendly 35-storey office tower in Montreal, offering more than 230,000 square feet of office spaces and 25 storeys o... |
8 December 2011
09:57 GMT |
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Parking facilities available in airports, hospitals, universities, gas stations and commercial parks will have to display chargers for electric vehicles, responding to the demand of a growing segment of buyers who have decided to buy a car with a minimum impact on air quality.
This strategy has been encouraged by g... |
29 November 2011
08:31 GMT |
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Architect Esteban Suarez has come up with a solution to the current problem for building space in Mexico City and it doesn’t even imply tearing down historical landmarks – because it’s completely underground. If the Earthscraper is ever made, it will be the one building in the world to go this deep ... |
13 October 2011
15:51 GMT |
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Frenchman Alain Robert also goes by the name of “Spiderman” and a simple Google search will show that it has nothing to do with wearing a red and blue mask / costume. Known for his love of climbing some of the world’s tallest buildings, Robert has done it again.
Since he’s always going for... |
30 March 2011
14:51 GMT |
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Google has now officially confirmed its latest acquisition. This time around, though, it's not adding another company to the more than 40 it acquired this year, it has bought a building in New York. One of the biggest buildings in New York, in fact - it's ranked fourth when it comes to office space, which o... |
23 December 2010
04:02 GMT |
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It looks like the rumors about Google buying the New York building it's currently renting space in were true. New sources have popped up and are now saying that Google is very close to completing the deal which values the building at about $1.9 billion. The Wall Street Journal is confirming earlier rumors, thoug... |
3 December 2010
08:42 GMT |
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Mankind might one day live on the Moon or on other planets but before doing so, people must know how to build liveable places somewhere else other than Earth.The key element (and the first one too) of a building is its foundation; it needs to be very stable and this has to be tested, except that for future buildings ... |
29 September 2010
11:07 GMT |
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Who would have thought just a few decades ago that space flight would be ramping up so abruptly? We're talking about sending probes and landers anywhere in the solar system and far beyond, or even going to the Moon or Mars. And with things evolving at such a fast pace, who can tell what we'll be able to do ... |
18 December 2008
03:28 GMT |
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For most of you, the Google Earth project doesn't require any supplementary explanation, but for those who are not that much up to date, I'll explain it briefly. The goal of the project is to map the planet's cities by means of satellite (or other high-distance aerial) images, allowing users to zoom in... |
13 November 2008
09:39 GMT |
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For 230 years, the Greenbrier Hotel in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, has been a summer residence for royalty, presidents and the rich. But little was known about the fact that, a bit more than half a century ago, the shelter it provided also came in a different version - the nuclear one. Unwittingl... |
30 October 2008
10:31 GMT |
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Google’s ambitions seem to have no limit in sight so, after leaving its mark on the Internet and after trying to help the world help itself, the next logical step for the company is to build the greenest office there ever was. Consequently, it has submitted the plans to the Mountain View Planning Department th... |
29 October 2008
10:02 GMT |
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A psychology professor from the Health and Human Sciences Research Institute at the University of Hertfordshire has built a room that is a mix of multimedia features linked to relaxation. Richard Wiseman has constructed it based on the previous research on the relaxation topic, and, in doing so, tried to add every fa... |
23 October 2008
10:48 GMT |
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Back in 1998, there was a contest called EDITT (Ecological Design in the tropics) which would sponsor ecologically-oriented building projects. The winner was Dr. Ken Yeang from T.R. Hamzah & Yeang International, an ecological architecture company, whose project focused on the building of a large ecological skyscraper... |
16 October 2008
05:57 GMT |
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The recent weather catastrophes, like hurricanes, tropical storms, massive rainfall, or rising sea levels have resulted in large areas of land being submerged. Consequently, countless homes have been abandoned, as the people who once claimed them are now left without a shelter. But visionary ideas and eco-proje... |
4 October 2008
04:48 GMT |
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Some of the employees at one of the largest online transactions companies will work in a new and improved building. According to the PayPal Blog, Scott Thompson, the PayPal president, along with with John Donahoe, eBay CEO and Chuck Reed, Mayor of San Jose, have inaugurated the new PayPal building, last week on 8th o... |
12 May 2008
04:16 GMT |
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This construction will match the size of Mother Russia and its thirst for size and territories. The work on the Russia Tower started in September 2007, and - once finished - will be Europe's tallest building, being 612 meters (2,008 feet) high. But the new project, called Crystal Island, will overshadow this, as... |
28 December 2007
05:51 GMT |
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This will match the size of Mother Russia and the Russian thirst for big territories. Yesterday started the work on the Russia Tower, which - once finished - will become Europe's tallest building and it will be located in the heart of Moscow's business district, in the precincts of the Moscow International ... |
19 September 2007
14:06 GMT |
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Some of the buildings out there are really strange and usually produce amazement and admiration towards the designer. Well, this one is most notable for its weirdness and its true beauty is hard to appreciate unless you have a really strange art sense.The AT&T Long Lines Building is a truly unique building, not beca... |
25 July 2007
05:03 GMT |
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Scientists managed to create an ultrastrong material that has many of the characteristics of the plexiglas, used to make bulletproof glass. The strange thing about this material is the fact that it's made of a 50-atom-thick layer of gold particles.Seen under a microscope, the new material, developed by scientis... |
23 July 2007
05:04 GMT |
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The tallest building in the world is taking the city of Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, closer to the sky, as it has just overthrown the former champion, the 1,671 ft (449 m) tall Taipei 101 tower in Taiwan.Building the world's tallest buildings seems to have become a fierce competition in the last decades.... |
23 July 2007
02:48 GMT |
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Erecting record-breaking buildings seems to have become a fierce competition in the last decades. Owning it is a matter of great pride, not only for the builders which gain a lot of fame and also a lot of money but also for the hosting country, which will benefit from having one of the most important tourist attr... |
18 July 2007
10:56 GMT |
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Mushrooms, the fleshy spore-bearing fruiting bodies of fungi typically produced above ground on soil or on their food sources, are good on pizza and even for getting high. Indoor, the ones growing on the walls are considered harmful and inaesthetic and make a bad impression on visitors.Not anymore. A group of young ... |
25 June 2007
05:07 GMT |
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A team of researchers in the UK created a strange mixture between concrete and grass, called Grasscrete, an ecological alternative to classic building materials, designed to create footpaths while leaving room for greenery.It looks interesting, giving the feel of an old alley where grass started growing over the yea... |
4 June 2007
10:09 GMT |
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Building the world's tallest buildings seems to have become a fierce competition in the last decades. Owning it is a matter of great pride, not only for the builders - which gain a lot of fame and also a lot of money - but also for the hosting country, which will benefit from having one of the most important to... |
30 May 2007
11:13 GMT |
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Are you getting tired of the same old view when you look out the windows of your apartment, or you just feel the need for a change in your life? No problem!Soon, with the push of a button you will be able to rotate your entire floor so that your apartment will get on another side of the building. This could be very ... |
23 May 2007
11:37 GMT |
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News about earthquakes and the damage they produce are becoming more frequent as the media now reach almost all "four corners" of the Earth. An earthquake is the result of the sudden release of stored energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves. At the Earth's surface, earthquakes may manifest t... |
17 April 2007
02:55 GMT |
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