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    Heart of the District is an Innovative Hotel Lobby that Hangs Like a Parasite Between Existing Buildings

    Hanging between buildings like a parasite, ZA Architects’ Heart of the District is a unique architectural interruption that engages the city streets. The pod structure would serve as a hub for an adjacent hotel, drawing passersby in with its ventricle-like ...
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    10 Green design predictions for 2016

    What will 2016 hold for green design and the environment? It’s a brand new year filled with boundless potential – and we’ve called upon some of the world’s most prominent designers, makers, movers, and shakers to help separate the signal ...
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    Gorgeous solar-powered prefab can be picked up and moved almost anywhere

    PAD studio has unveiled a home that can literally be picked up by crane and moved almost anywhere you please. Constructed off-site in Yorkshire as a factory-built dwelling, the Forest Lodge is a gorgeous modern prefab that offers much more ...
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    52 firms sign agreement to tackle climate change

    On Oct. 22, 52 architecture and planning firms signed the China Accord, a collaborative effort to design buildings, neighborhoods, and cities in that country to low-carbon or carbon-neutral standards. These firms, based in China and other countries worldwide, gathered last week in ...
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    The architect as the orchestrator of information

    When MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte wrote Being Digital (Knopf, 1995) two decades ago, he predicted that virtual tools and environments would increasingly supplant material ones. The eventual de-materialization of technology would seem to be an inevitable outcome in ...
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    Light up Paris with ‘human energy’

    Created by the artists Yann Toma, “Human Energy” is billing itself as the biggest participative work of art ever, in honor of the climate summit COP21, which will take place in Paris. Underneath the Eiffel Tower, participants can dance, pedal, ...
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    How to heat and cool a supertall

    Soaring more than 1,200 feet into the sky, supertall skyscrapers are monuments of engineering prowess, from their structural design to their construction. Less well appreciated is the technology that makes them livable: How exactly do you heat and cool a ...
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    Creating Authenticity Through Context

    In modern society’s expanse, forests have gradually turned into concrete jungles. As a result, designers are beginning to push back to ensure that offices and city planners can create experiences that are in harmony with their local surroundings, and make a ...
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    Vaulted retreat hall uses two different types of bamboo

    Known for his visionary work of building soaring structures with bamboo andgreenery-covered homes, Vietnamese architect Vo Trong Nghia is at again, this time completing a conference hall with two types of locally sourced bamboo. Located near the central port city ...