Renzo Piano Building Workshop   Switzerland   The organization that operates the world’s largest particle physics laboratory has opened a facility for scientific education and outreach, composed of several blocks pierced by a raised walkway.

Renzo Piano Building Workshop   Switzerland   As part of its mission to engage the public in science, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (known by its French acronym, CERN) is launching the Science Gateway, a new facility for scientific education and outreach. The purpose of the proj

Woods Bagot   Spain   An intelligent facade reveals an interior atrium and wraps a hybrid structure of concrete in the labs (for longer spans) and wood in the workspaces (adding warmth), rotated 45º to mitigate the difference between building and parking...

Picharchitects/Pich-Aguilera Felipe Pich-Aguilera Estudi 2BMFG   Spain   The building is conceived as a materials testing lab, with lightweight, low impact recoverable components that are assembled dry. The laboratories and offices are arranged around a bioclimatic atrium free of intermediate supports or drainpipes...

IDOM BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Spain   A forest of columns – augmented by a grid of trees – supports the new volume, which is at once building and pergola, creating a shaded plaza at ground level. Vernacular building methods like the Catalan vault are also included in the project...

BAAS Arquitectura Moneo Brock casa solo arquitectos   Spain   To meet the most convenient size standards for research labs, the project features two structures – one of concrete and another of steel – which offer views of the central atrium. A wrap-around terrace connects the workspaces with the outdoors while

MAA   South Korea   The Istanbul firm MAA, headed by the architect Melike Altinisik, has unveiled its competition-winning design for the Robot Science Museum in the Chang-dong neighborhood of the South Korean capital. Saving time and money, robots will build the curvin

Frank Gehry   United States   Like an enormous anonymous garage, Facebooks new campus conceals its exact polish with the easygoing, almost slapdash air that characterizes the company. 

Renzo Piano Building Workshop   Italy   The Quartiere delle Albere district in Trento used to be the site of a former Michelin factory. This site shares many characteristics with the urban fabric: the clear hierarchy of the design, its functional stratification, and an overall similarity i

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   United States   Google promotes the integration of the private lives and the work lives of all its employees within a huge mixed-use complex that fosters leisure, health, and interaction. 

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group Heatherwick Studio   United States   The project for the new Google campus in Mountain View responds to the rapid expansion and constant diversification of the business activity of the technology company, which have ended up leading to an unsustainable organizational situation for its e

Rafael Moneo   United States   The complex comprises interconnected spaces for neuroscience and psychology. A solution might have been to break up the complex into pavilions. Instead, the program presents two sections sharing a large entrance foyer, which encourages contact and co

Kengo Kuma   Italy   The project refurbishes an old industrial complex by attaching several volumes with a pitched roof, and frees up part of the ground floor to establish contact with the sea; a brick facade with different degrees of density unifies the ensemble...

Grimshaw Architects   United Kingdom   Un nuevo referente se recorta en el perfil de Leicester. Con sus 42 metros de altura, la torre del Centro Nacional del Espacio se eleva en las proximidades de la ribera del Soar como una hermana transparente y gigantesca del famoso muñeco neumático d

Science   Robert F. Service   It would be a nightmare lab leak: Synthetic bacteria escape the petri dish and unleash a global plague that life on Earth is incapable of defending itself against. That’s the concern raised by a group of eminent researchers in a Policy Forum publishe

The Economist   The launch was remarkable: a booster rocket with twice the power of the Apollo programme’s Saturn V lancing into the early-morning sky on a tight, bright column of blue-tinged flame. But that wonder has been seen four times before. It was the landing

University of Cambridge   This landmark achievement has been conducted by the FlyWire Consortium, a large international collaboration including researchers from the University of Cambridge, the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, Princeton University, and the Un

José Manuel Sánchez Ron   Allow me to introduce myself, not as I am known but as what, when all is said and done, I am, we are. I am the offspring of a star, a beneficiary of the Sun, a brother of the Moon, a neighbor of Venus and Mars, and above all an improbable offshoot of

The Economist   In many parts of the world, the cool blast of an air-conditioner on a hot day is nowadays seen as a luxury rather than a necessity. Climate change is tipping the balance. Average global temperatures are now roughly 1.2°C higher than they were before

Two for two! A duo of interacting galaxies commemorates the second science anniversary of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, which takes constant observations, including images and highly detailed data known as spectra. Its operations have led to a “

Ariane 6 is the latest in Europe's Ariane rocket series, taking over from Ariane 5, and featuring a modular and versatile design that can launch missions from low-Earth orbit and farther out into deep space. "A completely new rocket is not launched o

The Guardian   Nicola Davis   Uncrewed Chang’e-6 lander is carrying rock and soil samples in ‘very important achievement’ after lunar liftoff China’s uncrewed Chang’e-6 probe is on its way back to Earth carrying the first samples from the far side of the moon, in a major achievem

Eduardo Prieto   Nowadays drawing tends to be thought of as an artistic discipline of its own accord, but for a long time it was little more than a tool in the service of art, and it was in technology and science that drawings were considered useful and of value. The

The Economist   The true master builders of the insect world, however, are the hundreds of species of stingless bee, native to the tropics and subtropics, which weave combs of unparalleled variety and intricacy inside hollow tree trunks or other cavities. Now a grou

Since November 2023, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has been sending a steady radio signal to Earth, but the signal does not contain usable data. The source of the issue appears to be with one of three onboard computers, the flight data subsystem (FDS),

Jesús Díaz   AutoFlight’s five-seater Prosperity eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) aircraft completed a significant milestone by autonomously flying the 50km (31 miles) route from Shenzhen to Zhuhai. The flight from Shenzhen to Zhuhai across the Pear

After years of research into the qualities and benefits of fibers and other natural materials in the field of construction, the designer Jonas Edvard has taken advantage of the sound-absorbing properties of mushroom mycellium to create the Myx Sail/F

The Essential Induction is the most recent innovation of Gaggenau, the luxury brand for professional quality kitchen appliances. The cooktop and the worktop, two elements that are usually independent in the kitchen, are combined to create a unique ar

Roy Nachum (1979, Jerusalem) works across disciplines and is known especially for paintings that go from surrealism to hyperrealism. Nachum rose to fame with the cover design for Rihanna’s Anti album of 2016, a work that included a fragment in Braill

The speed at which technology is advancing takes the space race of the 21st century to a higher level. It is no longer enough to just reach and set foot on our satellite, we also want to live on it. The architecture studio Hassell has unveiled the Lu

Renco is an American company, based in South Florida, which spearheads advancements in the renewable composites products industry, from which it takes its name (RENewable COmposites). The huge Lego-like blocks they have patented are manufactured with

Eduardo Prieto   The word ‘robot’ evokes certain 20th-century obsessions. For a start, it brings to mind the servile figures if those roboti through which Karel Capek lent weight to the myth, and which found their most amiable expression in the pair of androids of th

MareNostrum 5, the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) supercomputer located in Spain was officially inaugurated in Barcelona by Pedro Sánchez, the President of the Government of Spain. MareNostrum 5 is a pre-exascale

The New York Times   Debra Kamin   Through partnerships and 3-D printing, NASA is plotting how to build houses on the moon by 2040. The moon is a magnet, and it is pulling us back. Half a century ago, the astronauts of Apollo 17 spent three days on that pockmarked orb, whose gravitati

Luis Fernández-Galiano   In 17th-century Holland, the microscope and the camera obscura for evermore changed the way we behold. The historian Laura J. Snyder describes this phenomenal mutation in how we perceive things through two figures who coincided in time: Antoni van Le

Architecture has had so many ties to the hard power of politics and religion that we can easily forget how it has also always, from the very beginning, served the soft power of science. Weren’t the Babylon ziggurats towers from which to observe the s

The Guardian   Ian Sample   A portrait assembled from Lego bricks, woodcuts printed in Ukrainian soil and a collection of poetry from every continent are among thousands of works to be archived on the moon as a lasting record of human creativity. The collection, known as the Lu

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