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An image of a timber-finned kiosk on the harbor front with skyscrapers visible in the background and a statue visible in front. Overlayed on the picture is the wooden fins both open and closed.
Motion of the Ocean

This seaside kiosk in Hong Kong uses robotics armatures for a cinematic effect

A segment of a gray tower with lattice designs at center on top of a wider gray building.
Tall Tales

Sidewalk Labs unveils digital model for the world’s tallest timber tower

A tall building with a sweepiing facade made of interlocking white Ts, designed by Morphosis. The building continues at a lower height as a undulating gray roof with some irregular fenestration.
Processing power

Morphosis’s Kerenza Harris talks tech and integration

A person using an iPad to view AR effects over a model of the BAMPFA.
History's Mysteries

Luisa Caldas uses AR to let DS+R’s BAMPFA tell its own story

A black-and-white photo of a woman, Upali Nanda, in a dark suit smiling and holding papers.
It's Alive!

Upali Nanda uses neuroscience to understand buildings as living organisms

A procedurally generated neighborhood drawing
Idea Generator

Sidewalk Labs is using machine learning to make neighborhood design smoother

A rendering of a curving white and green tower in an intersection.
High Velocity

Studio Symbiosis proposes green, air-purifying towers for polluted Delhi

A concrete cube pavilion with puzzle piece–like panels that has bulbous forms made of white circles growing out of it.
Puzzling

Gerardo Broissin creates a lush microclimate inside a puzzle pavilion

A gray house-like building with many transparent domes embedded in a public square.
Bubble Wrapped

Obra Architects creates self-contained, yearlong spring in Seoul

A top down view of colorful metal bands forming columns and circular open roofs, designed by SOFTlab
Highly Evolved

SOFTlab used complex computation to realize a colorful Philly installation

A curving concrete facade with thin, tall windows that was 3D-printed by Apis Cor
Scaled Up

Apis Cor claims to have created the largest on-site 3D-printed building

A white panel over a plexi platform that has various wires with fans, a phone, and other devices connected
All in one

Canadian architecture collaborative designs a low-power panel to integrate tech

A top-down view of a white plastic tile with a 3D map of a city.
Watertight

Boston architects come together to make a 3D-printable map of the city

Four 3D-printed blocks, two gray stacked, the top with a dent, at right a gray block with a dent over a broken yellow block. These demonstrate the structures of Tubulanes
Honey I shrunk the building!

3D printing nano-tech inspired forms could lead to stronger, lighter buildings

Two figurines in front of a green glowing plant
Lite Brite

MIT researchers think glowing plants could reshape our relationship to the built environment

Topdown look at students at work on tables at Cornell
Pushing Boundaries

Cornell forms new interdisciplinary collaboration to teach students about digital design

Aerial rendering of a floor clad in
Second time around

French researcher “quarries” on site for a new type of recycling and restoration

A person stands under an elliptical skeleton of hexagons that are glowing purple, designed by Jenny Sabin
Feeling Myself

Jenny Sabin’s installation for Microsoft responds to occupants’ emotions

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