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Smart Circular Bridge built with flax completes in The Netherlands

May 5, 2022 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Almere flax bridge by Smart Circular Bridge project

The Eindhoven University of Technology has led a project building a bridge that is partly made from flax in The Netherlands, aiming to demonstrate the material’s potential to replace steel in construction. The bridge in the city of Almere is built from flax fibres combined with bio-resin and polyurethane foam blocks, creating a light and

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Meta to open first physical retail shop for virtual reality products

April 27, 2022 Alice Finney 0

Social media brand Meta, formerly the Facebook Company, is opening its first permanent Meta Store for customers to purchase its virtual reality products as a “gateway to the metaverse”. The 1,550-square-foot shop will open on 9 May in Burlingame, California, near the company’s Reality Labs campus – a research and development hub for virtual reality products.

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Urban-Air Port designs “world’s first urban airport” for flying cars and drones

April 20, 2022 Alice Finney 0

Aviation and aerospace manufacturing company Urban-Air Port has designed Air One, an airport for electric flying cars and large drones in Coventry, UK. The 17,000-square-foot airport is designed to be “a world-first fully-operational ‘pop up’ urban airport and charging hub for future electric vertical take-off and landing (EVTOL) aircraft”, Urban-Air Port said. Air One, which was

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Space Perspective reveals design for “world’s first” Space Lounge

April 13, 2022 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Rendering of Neptune Space Lounge by Space Perspective

Space tourism company Space Perspective has revealed the interior design for its lounge-style travel capsule, which will be hauled into the stratosphere by a giant balloon. Created in-house for the company’s Spaceship Neptune, the cabin has room for up to eight passengers. Space Perspective has dubbed it “the world’s first Space Lounge” and said it

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CitizenM to become “first hospitality company to build in the metaverse”

April 7, 2022 Cajsa Carlson 0

Hotel developer CitizenM has announced plans to build a hotel in the metaverse, which will be set in gaming world The Sandbox and could eventually become a real-life location. CitizenM will begin the project by acquiring a “LAND site” in The Sandbox in the coming weeks. These are digital pieces of real estate backed by

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Dezeen Debate newsletter features 10 new construction materials

March 24, 2022 Karen Anderson 0

3D-printed mycelium Tree Column by Blast Studio with curvy silhouette

The latest edition of Dezeen Debate features 10 promising new construction materials. Following news that hemp could be used as a low-cost, low-carbon way of reinforcing concrete, we have rounded up 10 promising new construction materials, including plastic that’s stronger than steel and 3D-printed mushroom columns. Commenters are amazed. One called the materials “marvellous”. Other

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Ten future materials that could change the way we build

March 17, 2022 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

The race is on to engineer alternatives to traditional building materials. From super-strong plastic to fungus columns and loofah bricks, we’ve rounded up 10 materials that could be the future of construction. 2DPA-1 super-strong plastic Invented by Massachusetts Institute of Technology chemical engineers, 2DPA-1 is light and mouldable like all plastics, while being twice as strong

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Hemp rebar could offer low-cost, low-carbon alternative to steel

March 15, 2022 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Hemp rebar by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Researchers at the USA’s Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have invented an alternative to steel rebar made from hemp, which they claim avoids the problem of corrosion while cutting carbon emissions from construction. The hemp rebar could be used to support concrete structures in the same way as steel and other rebars are today, but with a

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Zaha Hadid Architects designs virtual Liberland Metaverse city

March 11, 2022 Alice Finney 0

An aerial view of Liberland city renderings

British architecture studio Zaha Hadid Architects has created a “cyber-urban” city in the metaverse where people can buy plots of land with cryptocurrency and enter digital buildings as an avatar. Named Liberland Metaverse, the virtual city is a based on the Free Republic of Liberland – a micronation claimed by Czech politician Vít Jedlička that straddles disputed land between Croatia and

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ICON and Lake Flato build 3D-printed House Zero in Austin

March 4, 2022 Ben Dreith 0

Construction technology outfit ICON and architecture studio Lake Flato have completed a 3D-printed, modern ranch-style home in Austin to be displayed during the SXSW festival. ICON, the company to first sell ready-to-own 3D homes in the US, worked with San Antonio and Austin-based architecture studio Lake Flato to design House Zero. The home is sited

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