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The property was slated to be a parking garage [sigh], but construction workers accidentally excavated something so much more delightful: Roman ruins [wahoo!].
So, the city of Seville, Spain, nixed the garage project and staged a grand design competition — for a structure that would shade and protect the ruins, as well as attract locals and tourists to a plaza in this somewhat down-and-out area of the city.
Tower of Nests: The Smelly Apartment of the Future
by Josh Clark | April 26, 2011
If you’ve ever wanted to step out on the balcony of your ¥3300-a-month high-rise apartment in downtown Shanghai and inhale deeply the smell of bird poop right next to your face and maybe get a wasp caught in your hair, then, mister, are you going to be happy with this post. As a web log posting on Design Addict tells it, the people at Swedish firm Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture have designed a green high rise that tackles the issue of balancing urban density and nature in the same spot.
Bryan Berg uses no glue or tape – just playing cards leaning against each other for support. Yet he is able to build amazing structures using tens of thousands of cards. Like this one with 22,000 cards: Here’s the world record structure, built over 6 weeks using 219,000+ cards: And its destruction: How does he [...]
You Asked: How do air-supported structures work? — Jeff, Leander, Texas Marshall Brain Answers: Let’s say you need to cover a big area and you don’t have a lot of money to do it. You might want to cover it to protect it from the rain or to provide some temperature control. For example, you [...]
This is a stunning achievement. In China they have completely built a 15-story apartment building in just 6 days. This time-lapse video tells the tale: Even more amazing is the level of greeness. From the description: Level 9 Earthquake Resistance: diagonal bracing structure, light weight, steel construction, passed level 9 earthquake resistance testing 6x Less [...]
Every escalator you have ever seen in your life has been straight. Now, thanks to a new invention from Britain, it is possible to build curving escalators that include moving sidewalks, landings, etc. as a bonus, as shown here: It’s like a merge between the traditional escalator and the curving moving sidewalk (also see in [...]
A different way to build a house #59 – Making the most of small apartment spaces
by Marshall Brain | September 27, 2010
You may recall the amazing “transformer apartment”:
A tiny apartment with moving walls becomes 24 different spaces
Now there is a new take on this idea using rolling walls on tracks, similar to the mechanism seen here…
One way to build a house would be to design it yourself. Even if you don’t want to do your own design, the exercise might be helpful before talking to a “real” architect to help you get a handle on your ideas. If you plan to follow this path, reading some books would be a [...]
Blueprinting, which has been around since 1842, is a common way to reproduce an architectural drawing. Tune in to learn more about the complex chemical processes that make blueprints blue — and white — in this podcast from HowStuffWorks.com.
The Great Barrier Reef, which is actually made up of thousands of individual reefs, is a wonderland of marine life. Take a swim near this amazing ecosystem — and meet some of its many inhabitants — in this video podcast from HowStuffWorks.com.
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