architecture
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What The Oval Office Looks Like Empty
The Oval Office has a very pretty floor! You’d never know it based on most photos of the White House’s most famous non-square-shaped room, but the president spends his days walking on a Reagan-era design. It’s a heck of an improvement over the wood-grain linoleum of the Johnson years.
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Frank Gehry Is The Wrong Architect To Revitalise The Los Angeles River
Last month Los Angeles was promised $US1.3 billion in US federal funding to transform its river from a cinematic cement chute to an honest-to-goodness urban waterway. That great news has been eclipsed by today’s puzzling announcement that the city has tapped architect Frank Gehry to lead the redevelopment. It’s a really bad idea.
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The World’s Biggest Free Form 3D Printer Is Being Used To Build Houses
The dream of 3D printing buildings is not a new one and, typically, it’s not a pretty one either. However, the visionaries at Branch Technology, a startup founded by architects in Chattanooga, Tennessee, want to change that — and they have built the world’s largest free form 3D printer to do it.
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This Super Tall, Super Thin Tower Was Built Just To Test Elevators
How do you design a new type of elevator without installing it in an existing building? It’s a chicken/egg question that engineers have long struggled with — even using abandoned mine shafts to test new technology.