Connect Homes wants to change the world of prefab. Since the it’s run by architects with pedigrees that include time spent at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, the company’s in a good position to make an impact, too. But it needs your help.
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Every year, 10,000 Danes come together for the Folkemødet, a celebrated "political festival" of spirited policy debate, which sounds extremely Danish. This summer, they’ll be doing so in an incredible space: A beautiful, wood-and-steel geodesic dome.
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New skyscrapers will do anything for attention—which is why an under-construction supertall in Los Angeles, soon to be the tallest building on the West Coast, is trying to break another record, too. Starting Saturday, construction crews will pump 21,200 cubic yards of concrete onto the Wilshire Grand site, which might make it the largest continuous foundation pour in the world.
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When it was time for the NYC ad agency, Barbarian Group, to design a new office, they wanted to do something different. The agency wanted something more open, less inhibiting. So architect Clive Wilkinson built them an "endless table."
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The owners of this 8-bedroom Victorian mansion in South London apparently had a knack for juxtaposing classic architecture and high tech goodies. Case and point: this meticulously detailed cockpit for would be astronauts in the attic.
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There are houses and then there are RVs. But a Wyoming company called Wheelhaus sells something that’s somewhere between the two: Fully built-out cabins that are easily hitched to a trailer and dragged to new locations.
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On a particularly cold, sunny day recently, thousands of people arriving in Lower Manhattan were forced to reroute their commute—because huge slivers of ice were cracking off of the One World Trade Center and plunging hundreds of feet down onto the street. And the WTC isn’t alone.
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If you’re somehow not sick of winter yet, then you’re sick of hearing other people complain about it. And there’s at least another month of this crap in our future. So sit back, relax, and let Jesus Diaz take you on a calming ride through the world’s best beach houses.
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Eager for an escape? You might consider Sri Lanka, that ancient island off the coast of mainland India that’s not nearly as dangerous as it used to be. If you’re not interested in ancient statues of Buddha, you might just want to rent this beautiful jungle bungalow.
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OK, it didn’t win the design competition, so this proposed radio tower will never be broadcasting over a city near you, but its harp-like cables and rings sure do make a cool structure in the sky. Designed by the London-based firm Architects of Invention for a site in Santiago de Chile, the tower would have included a circular walkway suspended above the city below. For other entries in the call for a landmark radio tower, stop by Plataforma Arquitectura. [Architects of Invention]
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