by GCO | Mar 31, 2020 | News
Rotterdam-based firm MVRDV has been selected as the winner of a competition to design the new Shimao ShenKong International Centre, a mixed-use collegiate complex to be built in Shenzhen, China’s Universiade New Town. Described as a “multi-level urban living room,”...
by GCO | Mar 31, 2020 | News
It’s been named the Dublin Link, and it’s the only bridge like it in the world, says the town of Dublin, Ohio. The S-shaped suspension bridge features a 169-foot tower and 43 cables. It opened March 17, and the town claims it’s not only the longest single-span,...
by GCO | Mar 31, 2020 | News
Assuming the recently unveiled Rainbow Tree by Vincent Callebaut Architectures is actually built, the greenery-covered timber tower will rise to an impressive height of 115 m (377 ft) in Cebu, Philippines. The project will also feature significant sustainable design,...
by GCO | Mar 31, 2020 | News
A 50-foot wide hole excavated 150-feet into bedrock below a six-level underground parkade in downtown Toronto will serve as a “thermal well” filled with 8.5 million litres of Lake Ontario water to heat and cool downtown buildings. Lined with concrete, the giant...
by GCO | Mar 31, 2020 | News
The modules that the major space agencies plan to erect on the Moon could incorporate an element contributed by the human colonizers themselves: the urea in their pee. European researchers have found that it could be used as a plasticizer in the concrete of the...
Recent Comments