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OCTOBER 16, 2023

Foster + Partners has unveiled renderings for a new scientific research and development facility design located in Oxford, UK. Its creation positions the institute, which also operates out of Los Angeles, for better collaborations with Oxford University and the city’s biotech and technology industries.

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MAY 27, 2024

It's been slow to adopt digital in the widest sense Consultant Sam O’Gorman and other experts speak to the BBC about the confounding gap between digital technology and the analog process for delivering residential architecture.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

This quote by Knut Ramstad from the Nordic Office of Architecture encapsulates the seismic changes we have witnessed in the development of architecture projects over the last few decades. Image Cortesia de Autodesk "In just one generation, we have gone from the pencil to AI.”

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MARCH 17, 2024

© Beta Realities, Morean, Yoshi Render German-based architecture and design studio Beta Realities has developed the “ Collective Parts ” initiative, a design and technology platform for enabling the construction of affordable 3D printed housing.

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Archinect

JANUARY 30, 2024

News is circulating about a novel method for 3D printing liquid metals that was developed by researchers working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Self-Assembly Lab. They say their discovery works without re-melting the recycled materials, as is the case with many current technologies.

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MAY 28, 2024

MAD Architects has posted a construction update for the Hainan Science and Technology Museum in China ahead of its anticipated 2025 opening. This will form a key part of the site's cultural component, contrasting the many sports stadium designs that surround it in coastal Haikou National Wetland Park.

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Archinect

MARCH 17, 2023

The technology is based on principles derived from animal biology and was developed by recent mechanical engineering master’s graduate Raphael Kay with the help of Associate Professor Ben Hatton and his team over a period of years, including Ph.D.

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MAY 12, 2024

Courtesy of Foster + Partners Foster + Partners has unveiled plans for the Changfeng mixed-use development in Shanghai , China. Designed as a component of the Shanghai Science and Technology Finance cluster in Putuo District, the project is part of the broader Shanghai 2035 Masterplan.

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Archinect

APRIL 18, 2023

MVRDV has designed what the firm describes as a “pointillist” master plan for a health and technology campus in the Dutch city of Nijmegen. The buildings will serve as a grid into which new buildings are added over time over three phases of development. A green sp.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Continuing with our weekly job highlights, we're focusing on six firms with open positions for design professionals who specialize in BIM, architectural technologies, and computational design. Recognized by the 2023 ULI Awards in the Low-Carbon Development Category. University of California Merced, Master Architect 2020.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Today, our tour continues with a look at public programming at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) Hillier College of Architecture and Design (HCAD) this Fall. and focused on development in the city of Newark on October 12. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the architect program at NJIT and the 15th anniversary of HCAD.

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ArchDaily

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Image © CreatAR MAD Architects has announced the completion of the Jiaxing Train Station, the first transportation infrastructure project developed by the architecture office. As China has developed significantly in terms of urbanization, its train stations have grown into complicated, widespread, and uninviting infrastructures.

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Archinect

APRIL 29, 2024

A new mixed-use design from Foster + Partners has been revealed for Shanghai’s Science and Technology Finance hub as part of the larger Shanghai 2035 master plan.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The firm’s Bio-Blocks technology is being presented as a replacement for traditional Concrete Masonry Units (or CMUs) and can reduce emissions on a project by up to 8% if used at scale.

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Archinect

JUNE 14, 2024

A team of researchers from Japan’s Tohoku University has developed a new mechanoluminescent construction material they say can be used in infrastructure to monitor daily use stress information in real-time in order to avert potential future catastrophes that may result from its aging stock of bridges, roads, and dams. NbO3 (or LNNO).

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JANUARY 18, 2024

It aims not only for a net-zero approach but also seeks collaboration with non-human organisms to develop environments beneficial to all. Below, explore some emerging material technologies designed to benefit both humans and other life forms. Read more »

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ArchDaily

MAY 17, 2023

To address issues such as warping, aging, and high environmental costs associated with solid wood , materials like Technowood have been developed. Therefore, solutions are being sought to optimize its use in production processes and reduce its consumption without losing its capabilities and characteristic beauty.

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MAY 28, 2023

president and CEO of Autonomic Materials explains the concepts underlying the technology of self-healing high-performance coatings. The latest edition featured a fascinating presentation on self-healing technology for coatings by Gerald Wilson , Ph.D, Gerald Wilson , Ph.D president and CEO of Autonomic Materials, Inc.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Researchers based at the Drexel University College of Engineering have devised a new method for performing structural safety inspections using autonomous robots aided by machine learning technology.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 30, 2021

An influx of new technology, from carbon-calculating software to the development of new, sustainable materials, has been a major response by a field with such a large influence on each of these issues. With this, new approaches and solutions have been required in order to both adapt to this new reality and make it better.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Space agency NASA has awarded construction company ICON a $57 million contract to develop 3D-printing technology to build roads, launchpads and homes on the moon 's surface. Pushing this development forward with our commercial partners will create the capabilities we need for future missions.". The contract, worth $57.2

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Dezeen School Shows: a proposal for an affordable housing model in New York City , USA, is included in this school show by the New York Institute of Technology. This creates a framework for the future evolution of the neighbourhood as it organically develops over the coming decades.⁠

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Researchers aiming to combat rising global temperatures have developed a new 'cooling glass' that can turn down the heat indoors without electricity by drawing on the cold depths of space. The new technology, a microporous glass coating, can lower the temperature of the material beneath it by 3.5

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Archinect

AUGUST 7, 2023

Researchers from MIT and the Institute of Science and Technology Austria have developed a computational technique that makes it easier for a user to quickly design a metamaterial cell from any of those smaller building blocks, and then evaluate the resulting metamaterial’s properties.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

An international team of researchers from Imperial College London and the Swiss Federal Laboratories of Materials Science and Technology have developed autonomous, bee-inspired 3D-printing drones. The researchers believe this technology can provide a safer approach for building or repairing structures in precarious situations.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The research is part of a wider mission to develop feasible robotic construction technologies that can support the building of long-term settlements on the Lunar surface, including habitats, landing pads, and radiation shields. Related on Archinect: ICON to work with DARPA on a framework for Lunar architecture.

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AUGUST 29, 2023

The Urban Land Institute (ULI) has selected ten recent standout developments from around North America as the recipients of its 2023 ULI Americas Awards for Excellence. “This year’s ULI Americas Awards for Excellence winners represent a diverse group of pro.

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Archinect

MARCH 1, 2022

university-led proposals have been selected by NASA to develop technologies for living and working on the Moon. These efforts were selected under the second Lunar Surface Technology Research (LuSTR) solicitation, which is part of NASA’s Space Technology Research Grants program.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

After five years of development, LG Display has created a stretchable digital screen capable of expanding up to 50 per cent, which can also be twisted and bent into various shapes. The photography is courtesy of LG The post LG Display develops stretchable screen capable of expanding 50 per cent appeared first on Dezeen.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Thoughtful material choices in technology can enhance digital experiences by making them more intuitive, tactile and less intrusive, says Future Facility during a talk hosted by Dezeen and ASUS. It took away the kind of space race or the high-res space that all technologies are in.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Dezeen School Shows: a pharmaceutical app which integrates Eastern and Western healthcare approaches and designed using AI is included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at Swinburne University of Technology. The post Ten architecture and design projects by students at Swinburne University of Technology appeared first on Dezeen.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Nike is, in many ways, the perfect topic for a design exhibition, an intersection of style and technology, with obvious audience appeal but also a lot of unknown stories." Developed in collaboration with NBA star Penny Hardaway, it features an upper made by introducing heated polyurethane into a mould.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Following last week’s look at an opening for a VDC Coordinator at Assembly OSM , we are using this week’s edition of our Job Highlights series to explore an open position on Archinect Jobs for an Architectural Designer at Vessel Technologies. Vessel Technologies system.

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OCTOBER 16, 2024

Promotion: Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar has announced an undergraduate course in game design, combining technological and media teaching with creative practices. Course chair Levi Hammet explained that jobs in these technology fields increasingly require employees with creative training.

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Archinect

MAY 11, 2022

The Yangqu dam project is set to finish in two years and is being overseen by Tsinghua University ’s Liu Tianyun, who recently argued that developments in 3D printing have made the technology “identical to nature.”

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Archinect

MAY 27, 2023

Belgian-French construction group BESIX and Dutch dredging and heavylift company Boskalis have been announced as the first European contractors to be awarded a design and build lump sum contract by NEOM to work on the first phase of development for the Port of NEOM project.

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MARCH 27, 2024

Second-Generation Invisibility Shields launching on Kickstarter Following the successful development of functional invisibility shields in 2022, UK-based Invisibility Shield Co. Over four years, the team focused on refining optical technologies to […] The post invisibility shield 2.0

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