Posted on January 4th, 2010 by axb
The future may look greener for New York City: Belgian firm Vincent Callebaut Architectures has designed a winged vertical farm for Roosevelt Island in NYC, called the Dragonfly. This funky, wind and solar-powered structure would stand over 600 meters (close to 2,000 feet) and house the equivalent of 28 agricultural fields. Read more here.
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Tags: Agricultural, Architectural, Art, Biomimicry, Design, Energy, Environmental, Green Technology, renewable energy
Posted on December 16th, 2009 by axb
Wired’s (12/16, Alfred) “This Day In Tech” blog reports that on this day in 1832, Gustave Eiffel was born in Dijon, France. In addition to designing the Eiffel Tower and the internal framework for the Statue of Liberty, his “other engineering works include the Porto viaduct over Portugal’s River Douro, the Pest railway station in Hungary, and the Nice observatory dome and Sioule Bridge in France.” He was also “the chief engineer of the locks in the unsuccessful French effort to build the Panama Canal.”
Wired’s “This Day In Tech” blog reports that on this same day in 1832, Gustave Eiffel, a French structural engineer, was born in Dijon. Does his name sound familiar?
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Tags: Architectural, Civil, Engineering in History, Transportation
Posted on December 9th, 2009 by axb
If you ever wished to watch the Olympics on a plastic bubble in the sky, your dream may soon come true. A group of engineers, artists and architects, led by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have unveiled plans for a Digital Cloud that would seemingly hover over London.
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Tags: Architectural, Art, Green Technology, Olympics, Sports
Posted on December 7th, 2009 by axb
A couple of creative engineering students at The University of British Columbia have turned a holiday treat into an A+ science project with their report Structural Analysis of Gingerbread. Experiments included subjecting gingerbread to a multitude of stress tests to measure qualities such as density, tensile strength (how well it performs under tension), and flexibility.
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Tags: Architectural, Chemical, Materials, Mechanical
Posted on November 27th, 2009 by jxh
Structural engineer Ted Zoli makes bridges from novel materials that are both lightweight and disaster-proof.
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Tags: Architectural, Bridge Building, Bridge Design, Civil, Structural, Transportation
