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Foster + Partners has designed a new Apple Store for Chicago, an "ambitious design" with huge glass walls and a slender roof., full_html
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Apple Store Michigan Avenue, Chicago by Foster + Partners. Photograph © Nigel Young
Closing weekend in Amsterdam for the exhibition, "Imprinted mater", Women of Plaza de Mayo, an exhibition on the construction of memory and repression in the Argentinean dictatorship by the artist Aimée Zito Lema. , full_html
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We’ve seen RoboBees that can fly, stick to walls, and dive into water. Now, Inspired by insects, researchers at the Wyss Institute and Harvard SEAS have developed a hybrid robot that can fly, dive into water, swim, propel itself back out of water,…
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The hybrid RoboBee uses a tiny, novel sparker inside the chamber ignites the gas to propel itself out of the water. The robot is designed to passively stabilize in air, so that it always lands on its feet. Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University
Saudi Arabia has officially recognised a humanoid robot as a citizen, marking the first time in history that an AI device has been awarded such status. Howerver many pointed out that those same rights aren't afforded to many humans in the country…
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The Citywall house by Node 17 is located inside one of the walled rings of the outer enclosure of the Real Alcázar in the historical center of Seville, Spain. , full_html
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The first Meganom project in the United States: a 1001-foot-tall (305 metres) residential tower on Fifth Avenue. The innovative separation of systems allows every apartment column-free panoramic views, and the roof is crowned with a observatory for…
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262 Fifth Avenue by Meganom. Rendering by DBOX
The Architecture Drawing Prize winners have been selected, naming with the Grand Prize and winner in the Hybrid Images section to Jerome Xin Hao Ng with Moment Mori: Peckham Hospice Care Home. The other two winners of the Digital and Hand Drawn…
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Today KAPSARC (King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Centre) has opened its 70,000 square meter campus to the public, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The project was designed in 2014, by Zaha Hadid as a modular structure that grows and multiplies…
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KAPSARC by Zaha Hadid Architects. Photography © Hufton + Crow
Fernando Menis is in charge of this year's Christmas lighting in the town of La Oliva on the Canary Island Fuerteventura., full_html
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Squid design. Christmas lighting in La Oliva, Fuerteventura. Image courtesy of © Fernando Menis
In a world experiencing dramatic climate change, a decline in resources, a political and social disagreement, a difference of income among its inhabitants, a rapid population growth leading to a substantial consumption of space, the various…
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(W)ego by MVRDV. Photograph © Ossip van Duivenbode