Since 2006, the architectural design magazine, eVolo, has hosted an annual competition dedicated to highlighting some of the year’s most creative, ambitious, and downright fantastical skyscraper concepts. The publication’s editors announced 2024’s top three winning entries along with 15 honorable mentions picked from a pool of 206 submissions. [Related: Colossal skyscrapers could harness height for […]
Towering (some might say, decadent) superstructures continue to capture the imaginations of investors—but at least some skyscrapers are now being designed to pull their own weight. According to a recent announcement from Energy Vault Holdings and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), architects and engineers are planning to construct 1-km-tall (3,280 feet) buildings that harness their […]
A material that’s more transparent than glass without sacrificing privacy sounds like an impossibility, but an ultrathin film designed by researchers at Germany’s Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) does just that. The new polymer-based microphotonic multifunctional metamaterial (PMMM) owes its abilities to silicone “micro-pyramids,” each one-tenth the diameter of a human hair, and is more […]
After a five-year reign, the world’s largest 3D printer located at the University of Maine has been usurped—by a newer, larger 3D printer developed at the same school. At a reveal event earlier this week, UMaine designers at the Advanced Structures & Composite Center (ASCC) showed off their “Factory of the Future 1.0,” aka the […]
Researchers at Drexel University are experimenting with imbuing concrete with living organisms to extend the building material’s lifespan. And although the new approach is based on cutting-edge technology, the underlying engineering strategy originates within the human body. Concrete is second only to water as the most consumed material on Earth—a particularly problematic statistic, given the […]
After years of stealth purchases and the threat of a $510 million lawsuit against locals, billionaire-backed company California Forever’s CEO says he now calls Solano County ‘home.’
Although not legally enforceable, the EPA’s new definition could appeal to developers looking to simplify sustainable projects.
Here’s how combining mushroom spore paste and knitted textiles make for surprisingly strong, sustainable building materials.
Thanks to a process called ‘kerfing,’ wood could be used to rearrange your home’s walls whenever you need another room.
Rebuilders are consciously employing medieval era tools such as hand axes, mallets, and chisels to reforge the cathedral.
