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Why The White House Is Spending Millions To Promote Wood Skyscrapers
The Department of Agriculture doesn’t usually meddle in architecture, but this week at an event at the White House, it announced an unusual project: A $US1 million competition for high-rise buildings built out of wood — and another million that will go to educating architects about it.
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The Brutally Beautiful Wastelands Of Outer Moscow
The seam where a city meets the country is an uncanny place. It’s not rural, yet not exactly urban, either, a non-place often full of half-finished streets and isolated developments. Most of us only see these environments through the windows of our cars, but photographer Alexander Gronsky has spent the last four years in Moscow’s…
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NYC’s Next Super-Skinny Skyscraper Probably Won’t Melt Your Car
Proving that all press is good press when it comes to real estate, Rafael Viñoly — the architect behind two recent death-ray skyscrapers — revealed plans for a new super-tall tower in Lower Manhattan today. It’ll be his second supertall in NYC, and like the first, this one is conspicuously free of curved surfaces.
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Why Aren’t Telephone Towers This Beautiful Anymore?
You’re looking at what was once the main junction for telephone connections in Stockholm. See all the wires? That’s because it was used for around 5,000 phone lines — literal lines — from 1887-1913.