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Plenty of robots can fly -- but none can fly like a real bird. That is, until Markus Fischer and his team at Festo built SmartBird, a large, lightweight robot, modeled on a seagull, that flies by flapping its wings. A soaring demo fresh from…
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A robot that flies like a bird
With the arrival of August and will officially announced the closing of the restaurant of Ferran Adrià. Since announcement of the closure, not definitive and its planned reopening in 2014, begins a tour of the United States (below the calendar) of…
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Here we bring the interview by Anatxu Zabalbeascoa for El País, for the supplement this weekend., full_html
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Eduardo Souto de Moura, Portuguese architect. Photograph © Sofía Moro
It launch just the sixth issue of "Desacuerdos", a project with research on cultural policies and the public sphere. , full_html
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The design for the new science building at 120th St and Broadway has its origins in the historic Morningside Heights campus plan designed by McKim, Mead and White for Columbia University in 1897.

The architects determined very early on…
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Columbia University Northwest Corner Building. Photography © Wade Zimmerman
A music video for BELL , full_html
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How algorithms shape our world – Kevin Slavin’s wildly thought-provoking talk at last week’s TEDGlobal. , full_html
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The Kunsthaus in Bregenz / Austria explores the architectural work of Ai Weiwei with a solo show titled Art / Architecture. On the three levels of architect Peter Zumthor's Kunsthaus building, the exhibitions focuses on Ai Weiwei's collaborative…
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Ai Weiwei: Art / Architecture at Kunsthaus Bregenz
Today comes the announcement in May, the premiere in Spain of the film "The Man Next Door", a film full of prizes Argentina. Shot in the House Curutchet, Le Corbusier, with an excellent script and certainly very architectural, neighborly relations,…
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Ricardo Legorreta will be the first Mexican artist to receive the Praemium Imperiale. I remember in 1995 as a PhD student conducting research on the Cathedral of Managua, a strange building, but especially interesting morphologically. My good friend…
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Ricardo Legorreta Vilchis