building
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City Of London’s Tallest Building Will Be A Simple Work Of Engineering
The architect Eric Parry has unveiled his plans for what will be the tallest building in the City of London. Measuring 309.6 metres in height, the building is a surprisingly simple structure, which wears its engineering design on its sleeve.
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This Is How Foster And Partners Wants To 3D-Print A Martian Settlement
The acclaimed architecture firm Foster + Partners has unveiled a series of images that depict plans for a 3D-printed settlement that could be built on Mars.
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A Room-Sized 3D Printer Will Make Freeform Concrete Design Easy
Concrete is an amazing building material: cheap to create, strong when used correctly and hard-wearing too. But turning it into exotic and shapely forms can be prohibitively complex and expensive. Now, a 3D printer capable of producing one-off moulds as large as a phone booth could help turn architectural dream into affordable reality.
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These New Smart Bricks Are Like Lego For Real Buildings
If these lumps of concrete look familiar, that’s because they take some of their inspiration from Lego — but there’s more to them than child’s play. Created by a company called Kite Bricks, the blocks are actually referred to as Smart Brick, or S-Bricks to their chums.