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Scientists at the Google[x] research facility in California have begun testing on an intelligent contact lens containing tiny electronics that could constantly monitor glucose levels in the tears of people to help control diabetes. It is a huge and…
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Cristina Argos and María Loriente designed this building for 44 Social Housing Units in Teruel, Spain. Bioclimatic design and the use of passive systems and strategies enhances the building's thermal and acoustic comfort, achieving the ideal…
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44 Social Housing Units in Teruel
Last 19th of September, Slovenian artist Roman Ondák presented his first work in Spain at the Crystal Palace in Retiro Park. The intervention consists of an exterior walkway which goes nearly unnoticed. Spectators are thus provided with a new view…
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Scene, a project by Roman Ondák at the Crystal Palace of Madrid. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. 2013. Photography: Joaquín Cortés/Román Lores
Last year, the Museum of Modern Art caused a ruckus with a plan to raze its neighbor, the former American Folk Art Museum building, designed by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien. So MoMA trustees hired the architecture firm Diller Scofidio & Renfro…
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Buildings around the Museum of Modern Art, shown in 1939, have fallen to accommodate expansion, changing the scale of West 53rd Street. Andreas Feininger/Museum of Modern Art
Paris architects Lacaton & Vassal have reinvented as a modern, lightweight "doppelgänger", a translucent structure to house an international art collection, in Dunkirkʼs harbour. Established during Mitterrand’s presidency in the early 1980s, les…
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First building. FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais by Lacaton & Vassal. Photography © Philippe Ruault.
This is a graduation film by Tomas Bata University in Zlin, from Czech Republic, in 2011. Few device, however very intense. Short video with, rain, cops, cafe, city,... all with great illustrations. , full_html
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The Catalonian Institute of Economists opened a few months ago its new headquarters in Gal·la Placídia square in the neighbourhood of Gràcia, Barcelona.

Roldán + Berengué Architects…
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Catalonian Institute of Economists. Photography © Jordi Surroca. Courtesy of Roldán + Berengué arqts
Today we present a video from Studio Zimoun's new project. Zimoun's installations are experimental explorations about sound, material and space, many of which we have published in earlier occassions and which you can see on the links below. Zimoun…
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2 prepared dc-motors, cotton balls, cardboard boxes 16.5x12x5cm by ZIMOUN. Photography © courtesy of Studio Zimoun
We are transported to the Mediterranean coast, Aguilas a seaside city surrounded by mountains. Looking from the sea, we can see the difference in scale between the new building Auditorium and Congress Palace, with large windows, and the other…
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Auditorium and Congress Palace Infanta Doña Elena by Estudio Barozzi Veiga. Photograph by Mariela Apollonio
What Louise Campbell has erected in Pure Village at the imm cologne with such incredible passion for detail isn’t one house, it’s two! Two timber-framed, prototypical houses with an exposed beam structure that look as if they were positioned at an…
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