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How concrete buildings took over the jungle

Amid ferns and fronds, in the drip of a rainforest or the humid stickiness of a jungle, the hulking gray mass of concrete is increasingly present. One...

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Wage theft is rampant amongst construction workers. This app helps them get their money back

The questionnaire is part of ¡Reclamo!, a digital tool for screening and filing wage theft complaints with the government. Written at a 7th grade...

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So long shop class: This high school is designed for the jobs of the future

A giant trapezoidal building with a donut hole in the middle rises from the flatlands of a former ranch outside Tampa, Florida. Clad in shiny metal,...

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5 ways to save office buildings before it’s too late

Buildings can stand for centuries, or even millennia. But for many buildings in the modern world—particularly the big office towers that make up...

30.05.2023 7

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Norman Foster’s new vision for long-term refugee homes uses ‘rollable’ concrete

For refugees and people displaced from their homes by wars and conflicts, resettlement is often preceded by a long period of limbo. The camps that are...

24.05.2023 10

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The toilet paper roll may have just been dethroned

Toilet paper, in its current form, has too much air, according to Roy Shihor. He’s the founder of the box-based bamboo toilet paper company Bambox,...

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This wooden high rise wiggled its way through two devastating earthquakes

In a single day in early May, one 10-story building survived the brunt of some of the biggest earthquakes in recent history. Standing in a clearing...

22.05.2023 10

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Ray-Ban’s new sunglasses are inside out on purpose

Look closely at the front of almost any pair of eyeglasses and one constant will emerge: whether on dollar store readers, prescription bifocals, or...

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These toothbrush handles are custom designed for the 360 million people with dexterity issues

For people with dexterity and grip issues, the act of holding a thin toothbrush and carefully brushing their teeth can be a challenge, a pain, or an...

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These floating triangle buildings could be the future of coastal cities

The decorative ponds surrounding the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam have been taken over by a massive floating structure. Looking like an oversized...

17.05.2023 10

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These flag-inspired graphics could help migrants navigate a new city

One day earlier this year, Kimberly Silver noticed something unexpected happening in her Brooklyn neighborhood of Red Hook. Scores of young men were...

15.05.2023 10

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How a vacant office tower became a symbol of rebirth in downtown Detroit

Standing beneath 6,000 shimmering pieces of stained glass that have been immaculately formed into a dome, it’s hard to imagine that this opulent...

15.05.2023 10

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Spotify’s AI DJ knows your musical past, and wants to shape its future

Artificial intelligence has leaped from the nerdiest of technological fringes to the mass market of pop culture memes. The classic dystopian worry...

09.05.2023 10

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This spectacular new museum could be a skeleton, a cave, or the fabric of the universe

When talking (or writing) about buildings, a favored and useful analogy is the skeleton. Buildings are often said to have “good bones”—the...

09.05.2023 10

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A 120-year-old former factory is now the most stunning school in America

A hulking 120-year-old brick building on the shore of the Harlem River in the South Bronx was once a centerpiece of the New York City economy. Its...

04.05.2023 9

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How an old Athens airport is being transformed into a 650-acre coastal park

Sasaki is one of the winners of Fast Company’s 2023 World Changing Ideas Awards. Explore the full list of projects we’re honoring for making...

02.05.2023 6

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This abandoned Detroit building is now the epicenter of Ford’s new mobility plan

Inside the refreshed shell of an 87-year-old building in Detroit that’s been wracked by fire, tragedy, and more than 30 years of abandonment, a new...

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How a clever Budweiser ad is helping to save Brazil’s public basketball courts

In one of the latest songs from Brazilian rap star Rincon Sapiência, streetwise lyrics take an unexpected turn to legalese. Sapiência starts out...

25.04.2023 10

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How a ‘Frankenbuilding’ became a stunning new art museum

The new folded concrete roof that swoops across the center of the sprawling Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts (AMFA) in Little Rock is the rare expressive...

24.04.2023 10

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The forgotten story of America’s first female architect

The story of Minerva Parker Nichols is finally being told. A trailblazing architect, she was the first woman in the U.S. to practice architecture...

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This is how a 3-year-old sees a city—and it’s not very pleasant

VR95 is new virtual reality experience that transports users to a world many rarely see or consider. It’s not some fantasy land or extraordinary...

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The new ‘Super Mario Bros.’ movie was a gamble. It paid off big time

When The Super Mario Bros. Movie opened in theaters worldwide earlier this month to blockbuster ticket sales, the studio behind it let out a big...

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This is what happens when starchitects design birdhouses

The birds of San Antonio will soon have nicer homes than you do. Ten new birdhouses designed by some of the top architecture firms in the U.S. are set...

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No adults allowed: Google designed its new tech lab specifically for teens

Next to the Fruitvale BART station in Oakland, California, a new tech space opened recently. With desks for coding, hardware for robotics, and a wall...

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Bark built a dog park *inside* its office

It should not surprise anyone that Bark, the company behind the dog toy and treat subscription service BarkBox, has a very liberal policy when it...

13.04.2023 4

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Exclusive: One low-tech move is the key behind Chipotle’s new all-electric restaurants

For nearly three decades, the experience of walking into a Chipotle fast-casual restaurant was defined by the sizzling sound of meat cooking on a gas...

11.04.2023 10

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Polaroid’s new, bizarrely beautiful blue film was invented by accident

Polaroid has a new color film. But not full color. Reclaimed Blue 600 is, as the name suggests, a blue-color instant film from the company that...

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U.S. playgrounds are boringly safe. New designs add a whiff of danger

Slides and swings are the bread and butter of the American playground. Whether a tiny neighborhood park or a grand, multimillion-dollar Amazon-size...

10.04.2023 10

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The MLB redesigned baseball for 2023. So far, it’s working

Baseball’s slow era may be over. In recent years, the duration of the average nine-inning baseball game has stretched the patience of both fans and...

07.04.2023 10

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This Danish school is made from straw and seaweed

Behind the thick wooden walls of a small school in northern Denmark are two wholly uncommon materials: One is often burned to run the country’s...

06.04.2023 20

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Do you want to replace your garbage disposal with a ‘reverse juicer’?

At the end of a typical meal, uneaten bits of food head to one of two places: into a bin to be landfilled or composted, or down the drain of the...

04.04.2023 3

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This polar art installation is a stunning ode to Ukraine

A delicate outline of a house has materialized in the icy darkness of Antarctica. Like a child’s line drawing built at full scale, stainless steel...

27.03.2023 7

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#Vanlife goes glamping with these customizable EVs

For most of the relatively few people who ditch the conventional residential world of apartments and homes for the rolling nomadism of #vanlife, the...

23.03.2023 30

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Artists are giving old, dirty gas stations a second life

As gas stations lurch towards obsolescence in the age of electric vehicles, the land they use is becoming a widely distributed real estate development...

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The Girl Scouts have a real estate strategy

The typical Girl Scout meeting happens wherever it can. It might be in a borrowed room in a church or community center, the home of a volunteer scout...

21.03.2023 20

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Too big? Too small? No, these offices are just right to become housing

It’s time to admit it: Most empty office buildings are not turning into housing. That simple recipe for pandemic lemonade—offices people no longer...

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Sizzler gets a redesign, but keeps the salad bar

Sizzler patrons know what to expect. The restaurant chain, with about 70 locations across the U.S., offers a casual dining experience, modest prices...

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BIC’s new 22-patent razor may have just ended the blade wars

In the disposable shaving razor industry, building a better razor has been a numbers game. First there was the single-blade, then the double blade,...

13.03.2023 3

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How the Oscars designed its post-slap stage

The stage can’t be completely to blame for what happened at last year’s Academy Awards ceremony, but it was arguably an accomplice. When Will...

13.03.2023 7

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This Airstream has Porsche DNA

The familiar silver torpedo design of the Airstream trailer is as recognizable as it is revered. The company has been churning out travel trailers for...

09.03.2023 3

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Adobe designed its new color-coded office with a secret creative weapon

As the company behind the imagery and design software Photoshop, Adobe has a special sensitivity to color. Humans do, too, with color being able to...

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Can teens make the mall cool again?

Shopping malls, you may have heard, are dying. These suburban staples of retail and elderly loafing have been hit hard by the rise of e-commerce, and...

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“Understated but transformative”: architect David Chipperfield is 2023’s Pritzker Prize winner

David Chipperfield, a British architect known for his subdued and contextual buildings, has been named the latest laureate of the Pritzker...

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How St. Louis designed its new soccer stadium to feel like part of the city

As buildings designed to hold tens of thousands of people, sports stadiums don’t exactly blend into most urban settings. Feeling more like...

03.03.2023 10

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The race to build AI-powered humanoids is heating up

A new humanoid walks among us. Robotics startup Figure, which launched in 2022, has spent the last half year quietly developing a bipedal humanoid...

02.03.2023 7

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From Porsche to Pokémon, Daniel Arsham’s art examines the modern age

Daniel Arsham resists categorization. In a word, he’s an artist, but his work fans out across such a wide spectrum that the description is almost...

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The impossible challenge of designing a better baby bottle

Calling the top of a typical baby bottle a “nipple” is a convenient, if imprecise, shorthand. Yes, the rubber tip has the familiar form of a...

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New buildings are terrible for the environment. This arena is proof

When the owners of Baltimore’s CFG Bank Arena decided it was time to bring the 1960s-era basketball and concert venue into the 21st century, they...

27.02.2023 10

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Rethinking public housing one design solution at a time

The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) is the nation’s largest landlord of public housing, which also means it has the potential to be the...

24.02.2023 10

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Architects are rebuilding Ukraine, even while bombs are still falling

In March 2022, barely a month into the war in Ukraine, Nikita Bielokopytov learned that the home of his grandparents had been destroyed. Its roof and...

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