World’s Smallest Park Returns to New Naito Parkway

World’s Smallest Park Returns to New Naito Parkway

Brief  Though it was closed and demolished last year during road construction along Naito Parkway, the world’s smallest park is now back along Portland’s waterfront.   Insight The new and improved Mill Ends Park includes a miniature park sign, a few tufts of...
A Stunning Energy-efficient Single-Family Home

A Stunning Energy-efficient Single-Family Home

Brief  Giuseppe Gurrieri Studio has recently finished a stunning energy-efficient single-family home inspired by architecture trends from the 1930s that balances on 12 slim pillars, raising the house up and over a dramatic rocky landscape.   Insight Italian...
How Engineers Moved an 11,000-ton Telephone Exchange

How Engineers Moved an 11,000-ton Telephone Exchange

Brief  In November 1930, in Indiana, United States, one of the great feats of modern engineering was executed: a team of architects and engineers moved an 11,000-ton (22-million pound) telephone exchange without ever suspending its operations either basic supplies for...
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