Beautiful Eichler-inspired home draws the eye with a dramatic roof

A coastal infill lot in Southern California has been transformed into a beautiful new home that leans heavily on mid-century modern influences. Surfside Projects and architect Lloyd Russell teamed up to design Avocado Acres House in Encinitas, a beach town just outside of San Diego. The Case Study Houses and Eichler Homes provided the main inspiration for the home, which also incorporates sustainable and energy-efficient design elements. Like all beloved mid-century modern homes in...

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Steven Holl Architects unveils funky Parachute Hybrids residences for Moscow

Steven Holl Architects and Art-group Kamen have unveiled designs for a playful and unusual-looking mixed-use development set to rise in Moscow’s Tushino district. Punctuated by giant circles and topped with green roofs, these asymmetrical glass buildings won an international design competition, beating out proposals from the likes of Fuksas Architecture and Zaha Hadid Architects. The project draws from the site’s history as a former paratrooper airfield and proposes a new building typology that...

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Architects insert a daylit multi-family dwelling behind an old shop front in Melbourne

The H.I.V.E. (Hybridized Interlocking Vertical Environments) x Five is a live-work dwelling nestled within an existing shop façade in Melbourne. Design studio Megowan Architectural punctured the existing roof of shop front retail spaces and opened the house toward the outside through the introduction of a rooftop deck that overlooks the city skyline. The form of the new structure recedes into the roofline at the street level and comprises four levels. Perched over the middle dwellings,...

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Gravitricity is turning old mine shafts into power generators using giant weights

The coal mining industry is dying (despite what some people would have you think) and it isn't coming back. But a new startup is breathing life into mining communities with an ingenious design that uses old mine shafts to generate energy. Gravitricity wants to create a giant weight that will drop down into disused mine shafts to create power. Here's how it works: "Our patented technology is based on a simple principle: raising and lowering a heavy weight to store energy." It's sort of the...

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New quantum tunneling application captures electricity from Earth's heat

Researchers have learned how to produce electricity from Earth's excess infrared radiation and waste heat through the unusual physics of quantum tunneling. Quantum tunneling is a phenomenon in which particles are able to tunnel through a barrier that, under the rules of classical mechanics, they are usually unable to pass through. First predicted in the early 20th century and generally accepted by mid-century, quantum tunneling plays an important applied role in devices such as the tunnel diode,...

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Fish-friendly whirlpool turbine makes hydropower green again

Water power serves as an energy source in a whirlpool turbine designed by Belgian company Turbulent. Their vortex turbine can be installed in most canals or rivers, harnessing flowing water to generate power - for as many as 60 homes. The device can operate at night and during the day to offer a clean, fish-friendly source of energy.

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This giant inflatable dome is made of hundreds of tiny pinhole cameras

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