Dec 02
New Yorkers who live near One World Trade Center already have to contend with "fortress-like isolation
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Dec 02
In the late 1950s, many people took it for granted that our skies would be filled with thousands of amazing flying machines by the year 2000. But this posed a design challenge for futurist-minded planners. Where would these flying cars and helicopters land in the cities of tomorrow? In 1957, a handful of designers in London came up with a solution: the Skyport One.
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Nov 29
When an unexpected power surge sparked the world’s worst nuclear accident in Chernobyl, nearly a quarter of a million construction workers risked their lives to build an ad hoc "sarcophagus" of concrete around the stricken reactor. It was a stop-gap measure—and now, almost 3o years later, one of the biggest engineering projects in history is underway to protect it.
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Nov 28
If you’ve ever braved London Underground’s Northern Line tube service during rush hour, you’ll have have experienced the 10th circle of hell that Dante somehow managed to forget.
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Nov 28
And you thought your last move was difficult. The process of moving a large building, from a mansion to a railway station, from one location to another is a major engineering challenge. Here are some eye-popping photos of massive structures in transit.
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Nov 27
The World Expo Milano 2015 is still a few years years off, but details about the pavilions are starting to emerge. Today, we learn that a building sponsored by agricultural machinery company New Holland will feature a sloping rooftop field farmed by two "zero-emission, robotized, self-driving tractors."
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Nov 27
As you curse the rat’s nest of terminals, walkways, and people movers of whatever transit hub you’re using to get home this week, it’s easy to forget how extraordinarily sophisticated the average airport is. They’re works of art, really—but they’re nothing compared to the airport concepts artists have dreamt up over the last 100 years.
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Nov 26
Holy crap, someone is opening a new record store? Who in their right mind would open a record store? And in New York of all places, with its exorbitant rents! Didn’t these guys see what happened those who came before them? Well, this is different.
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Nov 25
As the NYPD and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey iron out the final plans for the World Trade Center site, new details are emerging—including this week’s news that the roof of the site’s vehicle security checkpoint at the WTC will be occupied by a lovely elevated park.
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Nov 25
Heathrow’s Terminal Five was designed to be a soaring, light-filled tribute to the wonders of flight. Five years into its life, though, 60 percent of its lightbulbs are burned out—because there’s been no safe or cost-effective way to change them. Now, officials say they’ve found a solution: Acrobats.
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