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April 25 to May 1, 2005
Now classified military research is making inroads into the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Dozens of students and faculty have occupied the administration
building
in a rare sit-in...
46 benefits of
building
green...
April 11 to 17, 2005
Hey, developers - check out the Green
building
Products directory...
March 14 to 20, 2005
Using the BlueSniper rifle, hackers were able to extract information from PDAs and cell phones from people in the U.S. Bank
building
in L.A. from over a mile away...
This photographer is doing a booming business capturing 144 megapixel photos - they're so sharp that a picture of an entire
building
can be used to inspect cracks...
March 7 to 13, 2005
Meanwhile, Wal-Mart sidesteps a town ordinance limiting store size by
building
two Wal-Marts next to each other...
Folks are
building
robots that learn from the collective behavior of ants...
"The most comprehensive video ever made on the design and construction of a green home": http://www.
building
withawareness.com/Movies2.htm...
The world's thinnest
building
, with a very colorful history...
February 21 to 27, 2005
However, all this luxury island
building
is (temporarily?) destroying Dubai's natural environment...
The new 1-kilometer high Solar Tower, which could power 200,000 homes, has found a
building
site in Australia. This got a lot of press this week...
February 7 to 13, 2005
Dubai is
building
the world's biggest waterfront development - it's 2.5 times the size of D.C....
January 1 to 9, 2005
An architecture firm is turning the considerable amount of waste from Boston's massive Big Dig project into office
building
s and groovy-looking modern housing...
November 15 to 21, 2004
The World Wildlife Fund is
building
a 6,000 structure "eco-city"...
September 20 to 26, 2004
A new report finds that wood is one of the most environmentally-sensitive
building
materials...
August 22 to 29, 2004
The first interior commercial space in Hawaii to get gold certification from the U.S. Green
building
Council...
August 8 to 14, 2004
What to do about the War Memorial/Natatorium on Kaimana Beach, an unlabeled hazardous collapsing eyesore that's confused tourists and annoyed locals for 25 years? The one that will cost untol...
August 2 to 8, 2004
A new
building
system is making polystyrene homes for the re
building
effort in Afghanistan...
Amsterdam needs cheap temporary housing for 7,000 college students quickly! A developer is
building
a temporary, modular, and easily moveable student city made of 1,000 40-foot cargo containers...
Semi-transparent solar panels can be used as a new
building
material and video projection surface, and they generate 3.8 watts per square foot...
July 19 to 25, 2004
The latest thinking in dualmode transports - a truck that runs on wheels and rails. Why not use one to transport people from Honolulu to Kapolei instead of
building
a second level...
UH is
building
a plant waste processing facility that will net $100k a year by tunrning plant waste into charcoal...
July 5 to 11, 2004
A new type of affordable condo complex with intelligently designed 347 square-foot spaces. I'd rather see a
building
like this than (yet) another rundown concrete brick apartment in Hawaii any day...
March 31, 2004
Hawaii Kai is one of the most garish neighborhoods I've seen. Hawaii is not Greece, Italy, or Hollywood. So why build faux (stucco, fenced-in, highly paved) structures which are neither here no...
The last two years have seen a rise in co-housing and prefabricated architecture projects in Europe and the U.S.. Thanks to the support of cutting-edge shelter magazines such as Dwel...
These projects are perfect for Hawaii - they are low-cost, replaceable, expandible/evolveable, tough, and designed beautifully with a sense of environment. A number of them incorporat...
"
building
modernism on a pre-fab budget...
If local architects aren't willing to follow that cue, at least here's a translucent concrete material that can make
building
s appear light and airy instead:...
Looking at the other side of the world, here's an overview of China's recent massive architectural works: "...the
building
boom sweeping over China has no precedent in human history." They're usin...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
A-POC ("A Piece of Cloth"): Seamless clothing A new manufacturing method is changing how clothes are made by making ready-to-wear seamless clothes out of a single piece of cloth. This process ca...
This was widely circulated last week. Lots of ammo
building
up on both side of the issue...
March 15 to 21, 2004
Due to biological and technological constraints, there is an optimum number to group sizes. Some fascinating discussion about group dynamics, community
building
, bureaucracy, and organizations...
March 1 to 7, 2004
To save money, school systems and other organizations are
building
their own DIY fiber networks and selling off the excess bandwidth instead of paying up the nose to regional operators (such a...
November 17 to 23, 2003
A working nano-transistor has been self-assembled using biology for the first time. A first step to
building
self-assembling molecular computers...
September 30, 2003
The most phallic
building
in the world and more...