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13/02/2018
Ecocapsule is a self-sustainable smart house powered solely by solar and wind energy. It allows you to live off-the-grid, with the luxury of a hotel room. Exclusive series available, affordable series coming soon...
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10/02/2018
MIT News
Illumination from nanobionic plants might one day replace some electrical lighting. By embedding specialized nanoparticles into the leaves of a watercress...
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05/02/2018
The Economist
Perovskites have the potential to outshine silicon in solar panels. When the first perovskite, a compound of calcium, titanium and oxygen, was discovered in the Ural mountains in 1839...
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04/02/2018
Consumers will simply tap a button to request the closest robomart. Once it arrives, they head outside, unlock the doors, and shop for the products they want. When they are done, they just close the doors and send it on its way.
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27/01/2018
South China Morning Post
A 100-metre high air purification tower in Xian in Shaanxi province has helped reduce smog levels in the city, preliminary results suggest...
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23/01/2018
The Economist
The most distractingly unrealistic feature of most science fiction is how the great soaring cities of the future never seem to struggle with traffic...
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21/01/2018
The New York Times
In her latest interpretation of the material, Prada asked the architects Rem Koolhaas and Herzog & de Meuron to design something in nylon for the show...
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20/01/2018
The Economist
On a launching pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida, sits the Falcon Heavy, the latest offering from SpaceX, a private space-flight firm. It is 70 metres tall and sports 27 engines...
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19/01/2018
The Economist
Small multicopter drones—souped-up versions of those sold by the million as Christmas toys—have tremendous potential for use in industry and agriculture...
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27/12/2017
The Economist
As the vertical elevator did in 1983, the new cable-free elevator will reshape our cities enourmously, as it allows the cabin to move sideways too...
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27/11/2017
The Economist
The old fuse box gets a new lease of life. In the future, homes will use electricity much more sensibly than they do now...
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26/11/2017
The Construction Index
Photovoltaic (PV) concrete cladding is set to outperform rooftop solar, according to LafargeHolcim, which has developed a façade system with partner Heliatek...
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16/11/2017
Daily Mail
Controversial screen tracks you with hidden cameras and shows adverts based on your age, gender, mood and the car you drive...
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14/11/2017
Icon
‘Cerámica’, anexhibition at RIBA North supported by Tile of Spain / ASCER, explores the use of ceramics and technology in architecture. From 28 October 2017 to 10 February 2018...
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20/10/2017
The Economist
In 2016 Lee Sedol, one of the world’s best players of Go, lost a match in Seoul to a computer program called AlphaGo by four games to one...
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16/10/2017
Arup
Arup initiated a research in the field of printing sand moulds for use in a traditional metal casting process. We took the design of the renowned 3d-printed steel structural...
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29/09/2017
A work of the Catalan firms Sarrablo & Colom + Roviros & Castelao, the Virolai Petit creche in Barcelona is wrapped in a ceramic lattice that uses the Flexbrick system conceived by Vicente Serrablo.
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27/09/2017
CTBUH
As part of a recent collaboration with the Guinness Book of World Records, CTBUH certified that Shanghai Tower has the fastest elevator and the longest...
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21/09/2017
Ferdinand Facklam presents this art installation in Jávea (Alicante) that plays with a perforated structure of CorTen steel and its reflections on the ground (Video)
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18/09/2017
The Economist
Henry Ford may have brought motoring to the masses in 1908 with the Model T, but his wife, Clara, preferred to drive an electric car. Combustion engines were noisy...
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16/09/2017
The Economist
The word “smart” is ubiquitous these days. If you believe the hype, smart farms will all employ sensors to report soil conditions...
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15/09/2017
Introducing E-type Zero – a Series 1.5 Roadster fitted with a bespoke electric powertrain. E-type Zero is totally original in specification, driving and handling like an original Jaguar E-type but with a 21st century...
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08/09/2017
Interesting Engineering
With the UK government claiming that petrol and diesel cars will be banned from 2040, electric cars could soon monopolize the world’s roads...
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06/09/2017
The brick fan
There is a new LEGO Architecture set based on the LEGO House as what it looks like in Billund, Denmark...
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01/09/2017
The Verge
The City Council in Hawthorne, California voted in favor of a plan from Elon Musk’s Boringl...
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31/08/2017
The Economist
Marine contractors carry out surveillance of their activity and complement it with computer simulation to help to avoid mistakes...
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28/08/2017
The Economist
MIT team lead by Daniela Rus studies the best way for Collaborative Robots, to interact with human collagues in a sensitive way...
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15/08/2017
Johan Hanegraaf
ArchiSpace´s newest features, including Virtual Reality and Laser Movements, make it smoother to work with three-dimensional images...
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14/08/2017
Inhabitat
Ten-Fold Engineering offers mobile structures that can travel on a standard truck, be deployed in eight minutes and work with solar power...
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09/08/2017
Digital Trends
Aktiv, Ikea´s new prefab collaboration features functionality, modern lines and even the brand´s furniture. Sold for $86,525...
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New Books
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AV Monographs
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analyzes in each issue a theme related to a city, a country, a tendency or an
architect, with articles by leading specialists complemented by commentary on works
and projects illustrated in detail. Published bilingually, with Spanish and English
texts placed side by side.
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Arquitectura Viva
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covers current topics, taking stock of recent trends in set sections: cover story,
works and projects, art and culture, books, technique and innovation. From 2013
on, monthly and bilingual, with Spanish and English texts printed side by side.
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AV Proyectos
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is the third member of the AV family: a bilingual publication essentially focussed
on design projects (with special attention on competitions and construction details),
heretofore only laterally dealt with in the other two magazines.
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Other publications
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The Age of Spectacle Time of Uncertainty
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Luis Fernández-Galiano portrays the development of architecture in the course of the turn of the century through 256 articles written for El País from 1993 to 2006, presented in 2 volumes containing close to 2,500 images and 2,000 references to the protagonists of projects and debates of the period in question.
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Time of Uncertainty
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Through a selection of essays written by Luis Fernández-Galiano for El País, Time of Uncertainty – volume 2 of Alexandrine Years – examines the beginnings of a 21st century marked by 9/11, wars, and climate change.
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The Age of Spectacle
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The Age of Spectacle, volume 1 of the book Alexandrine Years, offers a chronicle of the bonanza and optimism of the 20th century’s closing years through texts that Luis Fernández-Galiano wrote for the newspaper El País.
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RCR arquitectes
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Land architecture, but also architecture of the land. After three decades of work, Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta have obtained universal recognition for a stubbornly local oeuvre.
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SANAA
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The 352-page volume, in hardcover and fully bilingual Spanish-English edition, which gathers the complete oeuvre of Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa over almost three decades of work of the three studios they lead in Tokyo
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Francis Kéré
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The ICO Foundation has published a bilingual (Spanish and English) catalog of the exhibition ‘Francis Kéré: Primary Elements.’ Presenting a selection of 33 works, the book journeys through the professional trajectory of the Burkinabe architect.
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David Chipperfield
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The Fundación ICO presents the bilingual Spanish-English catalogue of the exhibition ‘Essentials. David Chipperfield Architects.’ Featuring thirty works and projects, the book covers thirty years in the career of the British architect.
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Juan Navarro Baldeweg
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The Fundación ICO publishes, in bilingual Spanish-English edition, the catalogue of the exhibition ‘One Zodiac. Juan Navarro Baldeweg,’ which covers the professional career of the Spanish architect, establishing connections between his works as if they formed a zodiac, a ring of constellations.
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The Architect is Present
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Published by the Fundación ICO in a bilingual edition, Spanish and English, the book ‘The Architect is Present’ shows the work of five studios that work in underprivileged contexts, proving that scarcity of means can stimulate technical inventiveness and comunity participation.
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Spain mon amour
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Published by the Fundación ICO in a bilingual edition, Spanish and English, the book ‘Spain mon amour’ reviews recent Spanish architecture through fifteen works in fifteen different cities, completed by five studios and represented by five prominent photographers.
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Atlas: Europe
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Devoted to the most recent architecture of the European continent, it is the fourth volume in a series which develops and updates the work published in 2007 by the BBVA Foundation, Atlas. Global Architecture circa 2000. The current publication, of 320 pages, is also edited in Spanish.
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Atlas: Africa and M. East
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Devoted to the most recent architecture of Africa and the Middle East, is the third volume in a series of four which develop and update the work published in 2007 by the BBVA Foundation, Atlas. Global Architecture circa 2000. The current publication, of 320 pages, is also edited in Spanish.
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Atlas: America
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Devoted to the latest architecture of America, it is the second volume in a series of four which develop and update the work published by the BBVA Foundation in 2007, Atlas. Global Architecture circa 2000. The current publication, of 320 pages, is also edited in Spanish.
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Atlas: Asia and Pacífic
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This Atlas, devoted to the latest architecture of Asia and the Pacific, is the first volume in a series of four which develop and update the work published by the BBVA Foundation in 2007, Atlas. Global Architecture circa 2000. The current publication, of 320 pages, is also edited in Spanish.
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Atlas. Circa 2000
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The BBVA Foundation presents Atlas. Arquitectura global circa 2000, a volume of 312 pages published also in Spanish. Centered on the period opened by the Fall of the Berlin Wall, this work intends to be a critical assessment of world architecture in our global times.
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Spain Builds, 1975-2010
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Second edition of the work published in 2006 coinciding with the exhibition on architecture in Spain held at the MoMA. Now, to mark Spain's presence at Expo Shanghai, the oeuvre is extended, adding Chinese to the original languages.
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