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Tiny Titanium Origami Highlights New Method Of Micro-Construction
Origami Crane Folded From Printed Sheet of Titanium Hydride This crane is only the size of a penny. University of Illinois , via EurekAlertWhile three-dimensional printing has come a long way,...
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Sensor Networks in Buildings Could Use AC Ducts as Huge, Building-Wide Antennas
RFID Antennas Tiny RFID antennas are cheap and plentiful, and they could turn sensor networks in buildings wireless by using HVAC ductworks as antennas to transmit radio signals. Maschinenjunge via...
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After 14 Years of Drilling, the World's Longest Tunnel Breaks Through the...
Wye Junction Wye Junction is in the western tube of the Gotthard Base Tunnel. The right tunnel is the main western bore, while the left tunnel is a connecting spur into the main eastern bore. Creative...
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At Last, Construction Begins This Week On the 1,000 MPH Bloodhound Rocket-Car
Bloodhound Inside The guts of the Bloodhound, including its dual rocket/jet engines and fuel pump. Nick Kaloterakis Remember the ludicrously fast rocket-powered Bloodhound car? Years in the making,...
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How the Greenest Skyscraper Complex Ever Is Rising Out of the Rubble of the...
From Overhead A view of the entire construction zone, with the Hudson River at the top of the photo. Getty Images: Mario Tama View Photo GalleryOn September 11, 2001, the World Trade Center...
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Video: PopSci Contributor Builds a Real Life "Up" House, Lifted Into the Air...
House From Up National Geographic This week on the National Geographic Channel, the answer to that eternal question (providing "eternal" means "since 2009 when the movie came out"): Can we really...
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Giant 3-D Printer to Make An Entire House in 20 Hours
3-D Printing Concrete Houses Contour Crafting 3-D printers can make airplanes and their parts, food and more — why not entire buildings? A professor at the University of Southern California aims to...
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FYI: Why Does Salt Water Make Hurricane Damage So Much Worse?
Damage To New York Transit Metropolitan Transportation Authority of the State of New York via FlickrSandy crippled the NYC subway system this week, knocking out power, damaging switches, and dumping...
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Reimagining Buildings Of The Past With The Materials Of The Future
'Hacking' the FBI's headquarters Courtesy Gensler Part of the reason we're enamored with our famous buildings is for the sense of history they impart. When you look at the White House you're not just...
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Why Are Architects Deploying Drones?
Marcio Kogan Photo By Fernando Guerra Drones have been taking on more creative jobs lately. (Artsy skateboarding photographer? Check. Local news reporter? Check.) So it was just a matter of time...
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Crowded Hong Kong Is Planning To Build Datacenters Deep Inside Caves
Data Caves Arup via The RegisterCompanies have made data centers--those big warehouses full of servers--into creative, even beautiful, spaces before. But, short on available land, Hong Kong is looking...
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Can You Tornado-Proof A Home?
Safe House After Storm via RhinoSafe As with so many "is it possible" type questions, the answer of whether you can have a tornado-proof house is a resounding "well, yes, but." In this case, that...
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The World's Largest Tunnel-Boring Machine
Bertha Courtesy Washington State Department of Transportation After a 2001 earthquake severely damaged the double-decker section of Seattle’s Route 99 highway, state and city officials decided to move...
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The World’s Most Advanced Building Material Is... Wood
A Wooden Skyline Dan Bracaglia On a cloudy day in early October, the architect Andrew Waugh circles the base of a nondescript apartment tower in Shoreditch, a neighborhood in East London. Shoreditch...
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The World's Most Advanced Building Material Is... Wood
A Wooden Skyline Dan Bracaglia On a cloudy day in early October, the architect Andrew Waugh circles the base of a nondescript apartment tower in Shoreditch, a neighborhood in East London. Shoreditch...
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Using 'Doom' To Design A Room
Doom With A View. Note: There are no actual couches in Doom ... as far as we know. Wikimedia Commons/Photoshop By Popular Science Remember that early ‘90s horror-themed video game, Doom, where you...
View ArticleFYI: Why Does Salt Water Make Hurricane Damage So Much Worse?
Sandy crippled the NYC subway system this week, knocking out power, damaging switches, and dumping gallons of storm water into the city's aging tunnel infrastructure.
View ArticleReimagining Buildings Of The Past With The Materials Of The Future
Part of the reason we're enamored with our famous buildings is for the sense of history they impart. When you look at the White House you're not just looking at a building; you're looking at our...
View ArticleWhy Are Architects Deploying Drones?
Drones have been taking on more creative jobs lately. (Artsy skateboarding photographer? Check. Local news reporter? Check.) So it was just a matter of time before drones…
View ArticleCrowded Hong Kong Is Planning To Build Datacenters Deep Inside Caves
Companies have made data centers--those big warehouses full of servers--into creative, even beautiful, spaces before. But, short on available land, Hong Kong is looking…
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