Oct 24
Amazon has somehow gained initial approval to build a huge series of greenhouses
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Oct 23
Happy birthday, you old crumpled wave of steel, you! L.A.’s signature building opened to the public 10 years ago today, giving the city’s downtown a much-needed civic boost and cementing architect Frank Gehry’s status as a metal god. I wrote a story for this month’s Los Angeles Magazine about the building’s anniversary, and, in the process, dug up a few more interesting facts that you can read while you wrap Disney Hall’s birthday presents in aluminum foil.
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Oct 23
It’s a hotly contested issue amongst architects and designers. Does a building’s height stop at the highest usable floor, or should the spire above it count, too? What’s the difference between a spire and an antenna? Does it really matter? Well, it does to the developer of the 1,776-foot-tall Freedom Tower.
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Oct 23
In a corner of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, on a factory floor that resembles an oversized assembly line, workers are building entire apartments in days. Most New Yorkers might not realize it, but the tallest prefab building in the country—and maybe the world—is currently taking shape not far from where they live. Gizmodo recently got a chance to visit the space and watch it come together.
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Oct 22
CyArk, short for Cyber Archive, is scheduled to digitally scan 500 of the world’s oldest and most notable monuments over the next 5 years for posterity. The project uses laser scanners to capture full-size digital replicas of structures like the Tower of London, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Mount Rushmore and others as determined by […]
Oct 21
The phenomenon of the multiplex cinema goes back decades in America, but in Russia, the verdict is still out. Some residents aren’t happy about watching the grand—though often decaying—movie theaters of their youth traded for bland 32-screen mega theaters.
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Oct 20
Design THE 21st Century Skyscraper, Win $5,000 Via eVolo 2014 Skyscraper Competition
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If you are an architect, designer, futurist, artist or inventor with a vision for how skyscrapers will look in the 21st century, there’s no better way to showcase your work than the eVolo 2014 Skyscraper Competition!
Oct 18
How can a thousand photos turn into a single timelapse? And what’s it like inside an artificial cave 200 feet below Manhattan? The answer to both of these questions and more lie in the most beautiful items of the week.
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Oct 18
How do you hide a building? It sounds like a rhetorical question, but it was the very real dilemma confronting the architects charged with building a new Maritime Museum of Denmark a few years ago. The museum, you see, is located a few hundred yards away from Kronborg Castle—which serves as the setting for Shakespeare’s Hamlet and is protected by law.
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Oct 18
One of these days, Michael Bloomberg is not going to be mayor of New York City anymore, and someone else is going to be crowned King of the Great Underground River
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