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Gaudi's Sagrada Familia could be finished soon thanks to 3D printing

[youtube =http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWymPPQuXQA] Barcelona's Sagrada Familia is perhaps one of the longest active construction projects on the planet. Work began in 1882, when the beginnings of architect Antoni Gaudi's design graduated from 2D into 3D. Ironically, over one hundred years later, modern technology's...
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Alma-nac's Slim House is a super-narrow London home filled with daylight

[gallery_extend] The original building was already positioned on a narrow plot on the busy high street of St John’s Hill, Clapham. The structure, measuring just 2.3 meters wide, presented certain challenges in terms of organizing the spaces. Alma-nac managed to build the Slim House on a small budget...
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Balloons appear to suspend this glass table in mid-air

[gallery_extend] Artist Duffy London is well known for his playful trompe-l'Е“ils, from swing tables that make conferences a fun affair to an abyss table that looks like a cross-section of the ocean floor. London derives inspiration for his designs from Bob Monkhouse, an English entertainer who once...
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Google is launching giant kites to harvest wind energy next month

[youtube =http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSYMHzgLLn8] Speaking at SXSW this week, Google X head Dr. Astro Teller announced that the tech giant's secretive branch will test a massive 84-foot flying wind turbine over northern California next month. The airborne turbines—which look rather like tethered drones...
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Newman Architects' Slover Library blends old and new in historic renovation

[gallery_extend] [youtube =http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQsCsBCNugA] The design proffered by Newman Architects combines three generations of architecture into one incredible public building. The 115-year-old core, the Seaboard building, was originally a customs house before becoming Norfolk's main...
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Join a seed-planting workshop with Ilan Dei Venice in California this Sunday!

Outdoor living company Ilan Dei Venice is hosting a seed-planting workshop in Venice, California, on March 22nd. From 2-4 pm, special guests Matthew Van Diepen and Sarah Klein of Home Grown Gardens LAwill be offering instruction on how to build and feed healthy soils, how to grow plants in pots versus in the...
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Ulf Mejergren Architects team up with 100 kids to build a city from sticks

[gallery_extend] Related: The Bum Shack is a Winter Retreat With Removable Shingles Perfect for Sledding Each pair of kids will build one skyscraper according to the dimensions given by the architects. They will usebundles of reedand tools for creating figures of paper maché to cover the outside...

[gallery_extend] Related: The Bum Shack is a Winter Retreat With Removable Shingles Perfect for Sledding Each pair of kids will...
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Researchers are making super-strong spider silk for regenerative medicine

A team of researchers from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid believe they can create regenerative medicine from super-strong spider silk. The team are using a procedure used to fabricate the form of silk that was used two centuries ago in Murcia. The silk, which is currently being developed at the Center for...

A team of researchers from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid believe they can create regenerative medicine from super-strong spider silk. The...
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Guerilla gardening: strategies for greening up your neighborhood

Regardless of whether you are an urban, suburban, or rural dweller, there is inevitably a patch of neglected turf in your neighborhood that might need a bit of TLC to green it up. If you see hidden gardening potential between sidewalk cracks when others see decay and abandon, well then, you might be a budding...

Regardless of whether you are an urban, suburban, or rural dweller, there is inevitably a patch of neglected turf in your neighborhood that might...
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INFOGRAPHIC: Celebrate International Day of Forests with these important forest facts

Tomorrow is International Day of Forests! In honor of this holiday, Crowes Sawmills Ltd. created an infographic that’s packed with interesting forest facts, from why trees are important for continued human life to why we should concerned with current deforestation rates. The infographic also pays close attention...

Tomorrow is International Day of Forests! In honor of this holiday, Crowes Sawmills Ltd. created an infographic that’s packed with interesting...
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Perkins+Will's soaring tower concept creates a greenery-clad vertical neighborhood in Midtown

Perkin+Will recently unveiled a soaring concept tower that would bring sustainable high-rise living to East 37th Street. Recognized with a MIPIM Architectural Review Future Projects Award in the Tall Buildings category, the design envisions a vertical community in the heart of Midtown that would aim for...

Perkin+Will recently unveiled a soaring concept tower that would bring sustainable high-rise living to East 37th Street. Recognized with...
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LivingHomes' zero-energy Joshua Tree prefab house is now on sale

[gallery_extend] LivingHomes desgned the C6 series in collaboration with the Make it Right foundation, which was founded by Brad Pitt and architect William McDonough in order to build affordable homes in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. LivingHomes decided to use part of the proceeds from the sale...

[gallery_extend] LivingHomes desgned the C6 series in collaboration with the Make it Right foundation, which was founded by Brad...