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    A new workstation for nomadic employees

    Spotting a shift in job structures and the diminishing status of the office, Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Shay Raviv designed Hotel Travail  ­– a new workspace concept for nomadic employees. The Raviv is focused on developing socio-cultural concepts that place the ...
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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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    Giant blooming flower lamps turn Jerusalem into a wonderland

    Sometimes it seems like a city hates you. It’s a maze built in unrelenting concrete and steel, full of lights that are always too red, signs that are always too vague, and benches that are always too hard. By contrast, ...
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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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    Understanding low-e Glass

    Low-e coatings play an important role in the overall performance of a window and can significantly affect the overall heating, lighting, and cooling costs of a home. But what exactly is low-e glass? How does it work? To answer these ...
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    These ferrofluid desk toys might be the perfect Christmas gift for your boss

    What blobs of heated wax bubbling in a glass cylinder was to the ’70s,ferromagnetic fluid is to 2015. Kyle Haines, founder of Inspired Designs, says this is natural: ferrofluid and lava lamps are a natural fit. “It’s actually a very ...
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    Everything I ever knew or said about green sustainable design was probably wrong

    The drawing above, or some version of it, has been part of every sustainable design class since about 1970: have lots of south facing windows carefully shaded by properly designed overhangs, with the winter sun heating up that thermal mass ...
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    Thermal sponge table designed to save energy

    Paris-based industrial designer Jean-Sébastien Lagrange and French engineer Raphaël Ménard created Zero Energy Furniture table, the table able to cut energy costs by 60 per cent through its ability to regulate the temperature in a room without the use of ...