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9 Best Articles in 2021
The Conversation
Algorithms are designing better buildings
The Conversation
4 min read · 58 saves · 2020-03-01 · Silvio Carta · Algorithms can now work out the best ways to lay out rooms, construct buildings and even change them over time to meet user needs.
Aeon+Psyche
The concrete buildings of Brutalism are beautiful
Aeon+Psyche
7 min read · 35 saves · From 2016 · Everybody recognises Brutalist architecture – the massive concrete buildings that thumped their grey bulk into the heart of almost every city on Earth during the course of the 1960s and ’70s. Now they often look unloved: streaked with rain and dir...
In Future
Fast Company
How we can redesign cities to fight future pandemics
Fast Company
6 min read · 223 saves · 2020-03-24 · Adele Peters · “Buildings have to be the secret weapon in the future to combat infectious diseases.”
The New York Times
40 Percent of the Buildings in Manhattan Could Not Be Built Today
The New York Times
6 min read · 25 saves · From 2017 · In Manhattan alone, roughly two out of every five buildings are taller, bulkier, bigger or more crowded than current zoning allows. And often that can actually be a good thing.
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Fast Company
The case for cookie-cutter buildings
Fast Company
3 min read · 30 saves · 2020-12-02 · Nate Berg · A new system helps architects design buildings with factory-produced parts—making them cheaper and more environmentally sustainable.
The Intercept
The NSA’s Hidden Spy Hubs In Eight U.S. Cities
The Intercept
~18 min read · 113 saves · From 2018 · These fortress-like AT&T buildings are central to a secret NSA program that has monitored billions of communications, documents and sources reveal.
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The Architecture of Open Source Applications
aosabook.org
1 min read · 102 saves · From 2015 · Architects look at thousands of buildings during their training, and study critiques of those buildings written by masters. In contrast, most software developers only ever get to know a handful of…
The Verge
Inside Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin
The Verge
128 saves · 2020-10-19 · Josh Dzieza · The two-year charade that upended people’s lives
The School of Life
Buildings that give hope – and buildings that condemn us
The School of Life
3 min read · 15 saves · 2020-06-17 · A strange and rarely remarked upon feature of buildings is that they talk. They don’t necessarily speak very loudly, it can sometimes just be a whisper, but if you go up to them and look at them…
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Fast Company
The case for cookie-cutter buildings
Fast Company
3 min read · 30 saves · 2020-12-02 · Nate Berg · A new system helps architects design buildings with factory-produced parts—making them cheaper and more environmentally sustainable.
In Privacy
Futurism
A new satellite can peer inside buildings, day or night
Futurism
3 min read · 133 saves · 2020-12-16 · Cloud cover, and even in some cases walls, can't block this ultra-precise satellite's view.
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Fast Company
Designers reimagine the U.S. Capitol as a brutalist fortress
Fast Company
2 min read · 24 saves · Jan 11th · Mark Wilson · This dystopian vision illustrates what’s so precious about our federal buildings.
IoT For All
Smart Buildings Facing The New Normal
IoT For All
3 min read · 2020-11-19 · Buildings can keep employees and business assets safe by adopting various smart automation systems to help combat the spread of COVID-19.
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The New York Times
This Brooklyn Landlord Just Canceled Rent for Hundreds of Tenants
The New York Times
5 min read · 115 saves · 2020-04-03 · Matthew Haag · Mario Salerno, who has 18 apartment buildings, said he did not want renters to stress about their payment during the coronavirus pandemic.
Forbes
How AI Is Making Buildings Smart And Intelligent
Forbes
3 min read · 25 saves · 2019-08-13 · Artificial intelligence and smart buildings are converging to improve residents’ lifestyles, and also serve to achieve sustainable development.
Los Angeles Times
Explosion in downtown L.A. leaves multiple buildings on fire, firefighters injured
Los Angeles Times
1 min read · 16 saves · 2020-05-17 · Explosion in downtown L.A. leaves multiple buildings on fire
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Atlas, The Next Generation
youtube.com
108 saves · From 2016 · A new version of Atlas, designed to operate outdoors and inside buildings. It is specialized for mobile manipulation. It is electrically powered and hydrauli...
In Privacy
Futurism
A new satellite can peer inside buildings, day or night
Futurism
3 min read · 133 saves · 2020-12-16 · Cloud cover, and even in some cases walls, can't block this ultra-precise satellite's view.
The Verge
Foxconn’s buildings in Wisconsin are still empty, one year later
The Verge
5 min read · 18 saves · 2020-04-12 · Josh Dzieza · It’s been a whole year since Foxconn told reporters its buildings in Wisconsin weren’t empty. (They’re still empty.)
Quartz
Photos: Inside one of the world’s largest bitcoin mines
Quartz
3 min read · 68 saves · From 2017 · Fifty Bitmain staff, many of them local to Ordos, watch over eight buildings crammed with 25,000 machines that are cranking through calculations 24 hours a day.
The Verge
Inside Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin
The Verge
71 saves · 2020-10-19 · Josh Dzieza · Two years of a charade that upended people’s lives.
The New York Times
Which Buildings in Manhattan Couldn't Be Built Again Today?
The New York Times
13 saves · From 2016 · Over the last century, changes in zoning have created a unique predicament for nearly 40 percent of buildings in Manhattan. Find out which of Manhattan's 43,000 buildings defy their zoning restrictions.
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