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APL plays with proportions in “dramatic but serene” LA flagship store

January 22, 2020 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Sneaker brand APL has opened its first store — a dramatically narrow, runway-like space in Los Angeles with an interior designed by architect Bernard Dubois. Located in luxurious retail area The Grove, the APL (aka Athletic Propulsion Labs) flagship store is twice as high as it is wide and ten times as long. APL co-founders

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Carlo Ratti’s Eyes of the City exhibition in Shenzhen tracks visitors with facial-recognition tech

January 6, 2020 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Architect and MIT professor Carlo Ratti stokes the surveillance debate with his biennale exhibition, which is set in a working train station in China and actively uses facial-recognition technology. A part of the the Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture in Shenzhen, The Eyes of the City exhibition is now open at Futian station. It features works

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Dosist opens second LA cannabis store that elevates “wellness in every detail”

December 28, 2019 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Dose-controlled cannabis brand Dosist has opened its second shop in Los Angeles, with an interior designed to reinforce its products’ associations with wellness and consistency. The store, located on West 3rd Street in the Fairfax district west of central LA, sells Dosist’s vape-style Dose Pen and edibles-inspired Dose Dial — products that are meant to

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Two robotic fabrication methods entwine to make Tongji University bridge

November 29, 2019 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Thin carbon fibres wind over a 3D-printed metal frame to form this hybrid bridge, made by university students in Shanghai using two emerging robotic fabrication techniques. Students participating in the DigitalFUTURES International 2019 summer workshop at Tongji University worked with local research studio Fab-Union to design the bridge, which can hold more than 20 people.

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Natuzzi launches Augmented Store for VR furniture shopping

August 5, 2019 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

The Italian furniture brand Natuzzi has embarked on what it calls “a new era of advanced, white-glove customer service” by launching a virtual-reality shopping experience. The brand’s Augmented Store is part of its New York City Madison Avenue showroom. It enables customers to enter a digitally rendered version of their own home in virtual reality

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Carlo Ratti imagines how Boulevard Périphérique in Paris will look in 2050

June 14, 2019 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Paris’ famous Périphérique ring road could have its car lanes slashed by half and replaced by a playground in the switch to driverless cars, says Carlo Ratti. The Italian architect, who is one of the world’s leading voices on technology in urban environments, has explored how Paris could adapt its roads to an autonomous, electric

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Drone-equipped hospitals could be resilient to disasters

June 7, 2019 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Architecture and engineering firm Leo A Daly has proposed building “drone-powered” hospitals in hurricane-prone areas, which could continue operating even when roads are closed or destroyed. The firm’s Miami design office, led by architect Eduardo Egea, designed the concept hospital based on their observations of how healthcare was disrupted in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.

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University of Stuttgart makes Urbach Tower from self-shaping wood

June 3, 2019 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

University of Stuttgart engineers have harnessed the natural shrinking process of wood as it loses moisture to create this world-first self-twisted tower in Germany. The university’s Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD) and Institute for Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE) built the Urbach Tower in the Rems Valley for the Remstal Garden Show.

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University of Stuttgart makes Urbach Tower from self-shaping wood

June 3, 2019 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

University of Stuttgart engineers have harnessed the natural shrinking process of wood as it loses moisture to create this world-first self-twisted tower in Germany. The university’s Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD) and Institute for Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE) built the Urbach Tower in the Rems Valley for the Remstal Garden Show.

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MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab proposes new way of growing islands and coastlines

May 13, 2019 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Researchers at MIT and in the Maldives have come up with a solution to help coastal communities threatened by climate change: submersible objects carefully placed to promote the growth of beaches and islands. The Growing Islands project is the work of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Self-Assembly Lab and Maldivian organisation Invena, who came together to

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