This $2 Billion Tower Will Be A City In The Sky. Shanghai Tower was never going to be an ordinary skyscraper.
Commissioned by the Chinese government, it was to be a soaring statement about the city and country's growing economic prominence. It would be the tallest building in the nation and the second tallest on the planet. 3 Futuristic Devices To Help City-Dwellers Avoid The Hassles Of City Living. To live in a city is to endure stress at all hours of the day.
Why A Boston Bombing Survivor Who Lost Her Leg Is Now Able To Ballroom Dance. Hugh Herr, the director of the Biomechatronics Group at the MIT Media Lab, is known for his work on high-tech bionic limbs, and for demonstrating new prosthetic technologies on himself (he lost his legs in a climbing accident age 17).
At TED this week, Herr showed off one of his more recent innovations in the space. Once Part Of The Nazi War Machine, This Huge Bunker Now Supplies Renewable Energy. The enormous air raid bunker in Wilhelmsburg, Germany, was once part of the Nazi war machine.
During World War II, it sheltered 30,000 Hamburg residents a night as Allied bombs fell, and men shot from "flak towers" on the roof. Freeports: Über-warehouses for the ultra-rich. Water Discus underwater hotel by Deep Ocean Technology. The world's largest underwater hotel is being planned for Dubai, with rooms both on the seabed and on stilts above the surface (+ slideshow).
The Water Discus hotel has been designed by Polish company Deep Ocean Technology (DOT), whose other ventures include designing underwater vehicles and equipment for seabed exploration. The hotel will be made up of two main discs, one above the water and one below the surface, connected by five columns and a vertical shaft for the stairs and lift. Smaller circular volumes above the surface will contain additional facilities, with a helicopter landing pad mounted on one. The lower disc will comprise 21 hotel rooms with underwater views, an underwater diving centre and a bar. These Strangers Become Friends in Just Minutes. You Won’t Believe What Made Them Do It. Lego-Like Bike Lanes That Snap Into Place Could Create Instant Biking Cities. Ask any biking advocate what it takes to get a new bike lane in place, and you’ll hear stories about painful bureaucracy and skeptical neighbors.
But what if a city could try out a pop-up lane that snaps together like a set of Lego--without any permanent commitment? The Copenhagenize Flow, a set of tiles made from recycled plastic and wood, are designed to let a city easily and cheaply create separated bike lanes, says Mikael Colville-Anderson, an urban mobility expert and CEO of Copenhagenize Design Co., a consultancy and design company that specializes in exporting Copenhagen's expertise in urban biking to the rest of the world. Is This The Most Sustainable Neighborhood In The U.S.? A new urban neighborhood on Bainbridge Island, Washington, is arguably the most resilient--and healthiest--in the entire United States.
Grow Community is not the first place to have net zero energy homes, community gardens, carsharing, or any of its other features, but it’s the first community to have all of those features, by design, from its inception. Each home in the new development, from apartments to single-family homes, can run entirely on solar power.
The ultra-efficient buildings are insulated to save energy, and include heat pumps and heat recovery ventilators. Wood siding comes from local, sustainably managed forests. This 300-MPH Bullet Train Will Take You From D.C. To New York In Just An Hour. Possibly egged on by Hyperloop optimism, an old proposal for turning the Northeast Corridor into a high-speed transit route has risen from the grave.
Investors in the Northeast Maglev (TNEM), an American company with funding from a Japanese government bank, say that a superconducting magnetic levitation train is the future of transportation between Washington, D.C. and New York City. If successful, the Northeast Maglev would carry passengers one way in 60 minutes, and from Baltimore to D.C. in 15 minutes. (Magnets! How The Netherlands Became The Biggest Exporter Of Resilience.
Huib de Vriend was five years old when the great flood of 1953 hit.
It was a chilly Saturday night, and the local radio stations had gone off the air at their usual hour near bedtime, just before the full force of the storm blew in. A River Runs Through It. Back to the (Sustainable) Future: The Year 2050 In Words And Pictures. The $1 Million Plan For Farming Crickets, And The Huge Controversy Of Who Hatched It. Business plan competitions don't come any bigger than the Hult Prize.
The prize, which was just awarded to a team from Montreal's McGill University, is worth $1 million. And part of the kudos includes meeting Bill Clinton, who handed over the check and trophy in New York City this week. But back in Montreal, another McGill student isn't too happy. Jakub Dzamba claims the McGill team made generous use of his (very similar) idea, and has yet to provide any sort of compensation. Infrastructure in Laos: One night to Bangkok. Photoshopping The Future: Take A Look At The World That Awaits Us In 2050. Bucky and Spaceship Earth. Diversión y vigilancia. This Futuristic Pool Cleans New York's Polluted Water, Then You Swim In It. My Quest To Create Self-Building, Self-Tooling, People-Free Manufacturing Plants ⚙ Co. How a Rocket Scientist Ended Up Designing Automated Factories On Earth Every morning I sit down at my computer and work on an idea that could change the world: Automated factories that can grow, like an acorn can grow into an oak tree.
Like any factory, these factories would produce useful products, but they would also make parts and materials for their own expansion. Broadway Malyan design city for 100,000 inhabitants. Dezeen Wire: architects Broadway Malyan have unveiled plans to build a city for 100,000 inhabitants in Brazil. Convida Suape will be constructed in four phases and is intended to set a benchmark for sustainable urban development in the north-east of the country. See more stories about Brazil » Here's the full press release from the architects: Broadway Malyan’s vision for new Brazilian city launched by Moura Dubeux. A Istanbul, mobilisation citoyenne contre un projet urbain controversé. Broadway Malyan. Ciudades futuristas del pasado. Urbanismo del Bloque Soviético. REFERENCIAS GRAFICAS CIUDADES RADICALES « Gran Via Radical DAI2 2010. Futurist Ray Kurzweil Says He Can Bring His Dead Father Back To Life Through a Computer Avatar.
Future By Design [Jacque Fresco] Scrap Skyscraper by Projeto Coletivo. Imagining A Future City Filled With Driverless Cars And Without Any Parking Spaces. As self-driving cars move from fantasy to reality, what kind of effect will they have on cities? A fantastical research and urban prototyping project called Shuffle City investigates, and in the process, becomes a manifesto for a new kind of modern city--one that depends less on traditional public transportation like buses or light rail and more on creating a fleet of continuously moving automated vehicles to serve urban mobility needs.
Focusing on Houston--the country’s car-oriented fourth largest city--the project "identifies opportunities outside of the ownership model to liberate an otherwise suppressed urban landscape, by programming a dynamic system of flow that is made more immediately possible through a public autonomous (driverless) vehicle fleet," according to its website. The project wonders: "Is there a new model for American cities, in which mobility can reverse the effect of city centers consumed by the private motor car and its needs?
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