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Architecture

Glowing Night Train is a beacon of change made from local Latvian materials

  • Lucy Wang
  • 08/24/2016

[gallery_extend] Made from light-colored timber, the Night Train provides a sharp contrast to its stone and brick surroundings. Its slim horizontal form, comprising a 13-meter-long raised track and mobile timber-framed ‘carriage,’ provides a foil for the adjacent wide brick chimney tower belonging...

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Homes

Refined timber-wrapped house is a low-maintenance space for a retired couple

  • Lidija Grozdanic
  • 08/24/2016

[gallery_extend] The house is located on a sloping site in Victoria, Australia. The configuration of the plot dictated the form of the building, which the owners wanted to be all on a single level for convenience. Completed in 2014, the building functions as a friendly getaway where the couple can...

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Architecture

How Opera used 1,000 old floppy disks and other e-waste in their new Poland headquarters

  • Lidija Grozdanic
  • 08/24/2016

[gallery_extend] Opera's new headquarters are located in two prestigious townhouses in the heart of Wroclaw. The buildings-one built in the 19th century and the other dating back to 1913-are part of the city's rich architectural heritage. The architects combined this historic narrative with the atmosphere...

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Dozens killed by powerful earthquake in picturesque rural region of central Italy

  • Cat DiStasio
  • 08/24/2016

The death toll continues to rise after a magnitude 6.2 earthquake shook the mountainous countryside in central Italy around 3:30 a.m. local time. This morning, officials are reporting at least 39 deaths related to the earthquake, many of which were residents of Pescara del Tronto, one of the many small villages...

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Architecture

6 world-changing finalists announced for the 2016 Buckminster Fuller Challenge

  • Lucy Wang
  • 08/24/2016

[gallery_extend] Cooperación Comunitaria In 2013, Tropical Storm Manuel and Hurricane Ingrid ravaged La Montaña, one of the poorest and most marginalized areas of Mexico. Home to over three-quarters of the Mexican state Guerrero’s indigenous population, the beautiful but devastated area struggled...

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Breezy Vietnamese restaurant shows off the beauty and strength of bamboo

  • Lucy Wang
  • 08/24/2016

[gallery_extend] Completed in 2016, the Kim Boi Bamboo Restaurant was built on the bones of a twelve-sided concrete structure that was abandoned and left unfinished for many years due to the economic crisis. The architects worked with the existing concrete columns and beams to build a bamboo bearing...

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Stack Exchange envisions a futuristic LES community made of layers of timber

  • Nicole Jewell
  • 08/24/2016

[gallery_extend] University of Washington students, Buddy Burkhalter, Mingjun Yin and Connor Irick used a traditional lumber drying process as inspiration for the Stack Exchange design. In the proposal, large timber blocks would be created by stacking the volumes alternately and rotating them 90 degrees....

[gallery_extend] University of Washington students, Buddy Burkhalter, Mingjun Yin and Connor Irick used a traditional lumber drying process...

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Architecture

Take the ultimate Times Square selfie on these giant X-shaped loungers

  • Yuka Yoneda
  • 08/24/2016

[gallery_extend] XXX Times Square with Love is a play on Times Square's formerly sordid image, as well as the "X"-like shape of the intersection of Broadway and 7th Avenue, the two streets that form the plaza. The loungers are the first specially-commissioned ongoing street furniture for the new Times Square...

[gallery_extend] XXX Times Square with Love is a play on Times Square's formerly sordid image, as well as the "X"-like shape of the intersection...

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  • Katie Medlock
  • 08/24/2016

Federal regulators have proposed a ban on swimming with Hawaii’s spinner dolphins in the interest of wildlife safety. The attraction might be a boon to local tourism, but experts say it's actually a huge stressor on the curious cetaceans. The ban would stretch two nautical miles from shore, where 98 percent...

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  • Cat DiStasio
  • 08/24/2016

An Indian Railways engineer recently won the MIT Climate CoLab competition with plans for an elevated “Caterpillar Train” (cTrain) that hints at a new era for mass transit. Ashwani Kumar Upadhyaya’s concept, designed by Jacob Innovations Inc, is a new response to the decades-long question of how to integrate...

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  • 08/24/2016

For one glorious day in September, the streets of Paris will be without traffic jams, car horns, or the smell of exhaust fumes. On “Journée sans voitures,” or Car Free Day, the city hopes to raise awareness of alternative transportation and the mindfulness that can come from experiencing all the city has...

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Homes

Extraordinary Red Hill rammed-earth residence's funky funnel shape helps direct light

  • Lidija Grozdanic
  • 08/24/2016

[gallery_extend] The single-story residence is located near Melbourne, on the Mornington Peninsula. Built for a winery owner, the house combines modern and traditionalbuilding materials and features warm details that reference rural architecture. Its minimalist volume forms a large canopy oriented toward...

[gallery_extend] The single-story residence is located near Melbourne, on the Mornington Peninsula. Built for a winery owner, the...

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