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          Project Drift Bench Author Amanda Levete Dimensions  Height: 420mm (Seat Depth: 420mm) x Length: 2880mm x Depth: 870mm Description A future classic from the Established & Sons stable. The exaggerated, elongated form of the Drift bench has a modulated, fluid language that is characteristic of the work of Future Systems architects. With this [...]

          Client: The Eden Project Size: 23,000 sq m Completion: 2001 Cost: £57m Structural engineer: Anthony Hunt Associates Services engineer: Arup Cost Consultant: David Langdon & Everest Main contractor: Mc Alpine Join Venture The Eden Project is the largest plant enclosure in the world, built in the lightest most ecological way possible. The [...]

Advanced computational modelling helped develop the product and establish a dialogue with Melissa and Zaha Hadid in order to bring the design to the production line. This challenging process employed 3D printing and rapid prototyping techniques as key tools for refining the ergonomics of the shoes. The fluidity of the design was a perfect match [...]

Freedom Of Creation (FOC) is where cutting edge technology meets design. FOC is a pioneering design and research company, specialized in designing with 3D printing technologies. The outcome of this work is either part of the FOC Collection or commercialized by other design labels. Since 2000, the extensive research conducted by FOC in design with [...]

Bathsheba Grossman, Santa Cruz, California has created this lamp which is a 3D sculpture. She says, “advanced prototyping went from something that was completely in-house at Boeing to something you walk in off the street and order. I can’t tell you how cool it is to have your own small hunk of metal.” This shows [...]

Geotube is a proposal from Berkeley-based Faulders Studio for Dubai (natch) that self-generates a salt-based skin with seawater.  The building’s skin is entirely grown and is in continual formation rather than fully completed.  The building sucks up water from the Persian Gulf through a 4.62 km underground pipeline, and then sprays it over its mesh facade. The water [...]

Renaissance Pavilion features an inflatable structural skin that is precision-cut by computer-controlled machines. It fully inflates in a little more than an hour, and the entire skin is 100% recyclable through a process called Texyloop. Wind turbines will help generate the power needed to maintain the inflatable structure and any lighting systems deployed during the [...]

DUBAI, UAE 2006 Construction 2007 Size: 31,400 sq. m Type: Office Structure: Concrete Shell, steel, glass In May of 2009, the exterior shell of O-14 was topped out, revealing the full height concrete exoskeleton, which surrounds the tower in a lace-like veil. O-14, a twenty-two storey tall commercial tower perched on a two-storey podium in [...]

“Meet the Taichung Center, Taiwan’s massive eco-friendly installation. The building comes complete with eco-skin, a Venetian blind-style covering which will allow airflow and light to enter the structure.  The center will also feature large grassy areas in an effort to focus on the Eastern wisdom of harmony between nature and dwellings.  Taiwan hopes that this [...]