Buildings as rechargeable batteries
An experiment at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, shows the way to construct buildings that store electricity like giant batteries.
10 floors in one day, Living Building (+VIDEO)
With this residential tower erected in record time, the Chinese company BROAD Group proves that it can build buildings like cars.
A vision of future construction
A futuristic project for automated construction, which adds to the debate on the impact that machines will have on architecture.
Automatic architecture, when Artificial Intelligence takes the reins
We report on research that makes architectural design an automatic creative process without human intervention.
The future of steel production: “green” steel
A unique initiative for the complete decarbonisation of steel production using hydrogen, is being planned in the Norrbotten region of Sweden.
First high-speed rail line between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea (+VIDEO)
A major investment that will boost Egypt's economy, both in the industrial and tourism sectors.
World’s first airport for air taxis, in Coventry (+VIDEO)
An example of modular architecture, a multimodal urban airport for vertical take-off and landing craft.
Expansion of a hotel with containers (+VIDEO)
Completed in record time, the annex to the Crowne Plaza Hotel is a unique example of the prefabricated volumetric construction method.
Visionary architecture: a single city for the entire world’s population
Imagination is one of the sources from which, as a creative profession, architecture draws its nourishment. Precisely, one of the latest proposals with the greatest dose of imagination has caught our attention: Planet City. It is a visionary idea rather than a project, mixing fiction and reality or, more precisely, science fiction and architecture. Los Angeles-based Australian architect Liam Young proposes a Copernican twist in urban planning and architecture: a single city to house the entire world’s population. This is the part of the imagination, or science fiction, whilst the part of reality is provided by the challenges of deforestation, species extinction and climate change facing the world today, to which he intends to [...]
Trends in architecture for a new decade
Advances in technology, together with population growth and the fight against climate change, are factors that will shape the development of architecture and construction in coming years.