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...

Pich architects 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...

Moneo Brock BAAS Arquitectura 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   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

Scientific American   Mark Fischetti   Nick Bockelman   Wil V. Srubar   New techniques and novel ingredients can greatly reduce the immense carbon emissions from cement and concrete production. We make more concrete than we do any other material on Earth. Cement is one of the most energy-intensive products on the planet.

Interactions on social media or meetings on virtual platforms are growing non-stop. Andrés Reisinger (Buenos Aires, 1990) thinks that, as a result of this fast-paced reality, the new generations of artists are starting to show a greater interest in d

Nature Geoscience   Differential rotation of Earth’s inner core relative to the mantle is thought to occur under the effects of the geodynamo on core dynamics and gravitational core–mantle coupling. This rotation has been inferred from temporal changes between repeated

El País   Rafael Clemente   A new project known as the Habitable World Observatory aims to better understand near-Earth exoplanets and study those that could support life. NASA is contemplating an ambitious project: the Habitable World Observatory (HWO), whose mission is d

Atlas’s advanced control system enables highly diverse and agile locomotion, while algorithms reason through complex dynamic interactions involving the whole body and environment to plan movements. Atlas uses 3D printed parts to give it the strength-

Scientific American   Clara Moskowitz   As light travels through space, it gets stretched by the expansion of the universe. This is why many of the most distant objects shine in infrared light, which is longer in wavelength than visible light. We can't see this ancient light with our eyes,

The Guardian   Ed Pilkington   US space agency rejoices after re-entry of spacecraft that should clear way for possible lunar landing of astronauts by 2025. Orion’s return brings to a completion the first flight of Artemis I... The Guardian: Nasa’s uncrewed Orion capsule spla

Financial Times   Tom Wilson   Net energy gain indicates technology could provide an abundant zero-carbon alternative to fossil fuels. The fusion reaction at the US government facility produced about 2.5 megajoules of energy, which was about 120 per cent of the 2.1 megajoules of e

Scientific American   Douglas Fox   Two expeditions to the Thwaites Ice Shelf have revealed that it could splinter apart in less than a decade, hastening sea-level rise worldwide. The Thwaites Ice Shelf begins where the massive Thwaites Glacier meets the West Antarctic coast. The shelf

The Economist   They offer ways to produce cement without releasing carbon dioxide. Concrete is one of the world’s most important materials. But making the cement that binds it generates about 8% of anthropogenic carbon-dioxide emissions. This is not just because of

MVRDV   MVRDV NEXT, Superworld, and the Municipality of Rotterdam presented RoofScape, a new software that provides a visualisation engine for Rotterdam’s rooftops. Aimed at professionals and citizens alike, RoofScape is intended to be detailed and informati

NASA   Pictures of the sky can show us cosmic wonders; movies can bring them to life. Movies from NASA’s NEOWISE space telescope are revealing motion and change across the sky. Every six months, NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer,

Eduardo Prieto   It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s, the place and years of a utopia so radical it aspired not so much to end the old system of the czars as to upend human nature itself. The new world o

Smithsonian   Margaret Osborne   The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is a first step toward defending Earth from threatening space rocks. Traveling at 14,000 miles per hour, a NASA spacecraft slammed into an asteroid on Monday evening. But the crash was intentional: NASA mea

Deutsche Welle   The US film director's documentary, which premiered at the recently concluded Venice Film Festival, advocates nuclear energy as the solution to end the climate crisis. "Nuclear" was one of the many environment-related films featured at the 79th Venic

Ignacio Nieto de la Cal   The web revolution that the metaverse is bringing about creates new opportunities in which architects can play a more significant role.

Miguel Fernández-Galiano   The appearance of new ‘softwares’ makes it possible for artificial intelligence to generate images of extraordinary quality by means of word prompts.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Climate kills, science saves. During this summer of drought and fires, the best news have been scientific. Energy, inflation, and war made the covers, but some of the achievements in science cast light on a troubled world: the James Webb spatial tele

Science   Adrian Cho   Two players leverage quantum rules to achieve a seemingly telepathic connection. The Moon isn’t necessarily there if you don’t look at it. So says quantum mechanics, which states that what exists depends on what you measure. Proving reality is like t

Norman Foster   Around 83% of global energy is generated by burning fossil fuels. So, the transition from our predominantly dirty production of energy to one which is clean is at the very heart of our combating global warming. There is also a moral dimension to the

Nature   Ewen Callaway   From today, determining the 3D shape of almost any protein known to science will be as simple as typing in a Google search. Researchers have used AlphaFold — the revolutionary artificial-intelligence (AI) network — to predict the structures of some 2

Vega-C is a single body rocket about 35 m high with a mass at liftoff of 210 tonnes. It is able to place about 2200 kg in a reference 700 km-polar orbit. This will meet the needs of European institutions and industry. Using a new range of payload car

The Guardian   Oliver Milman   Ian Sample   The pictures show elements of the universe as they were 13bn years ago, reshaping our understanding of the cosmos Nasa has released an image of far-flung galaxies as they were 13bn years ago, the first glimpse from the most powerful telescope ever la

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