The Extended Entry Deadline for Architizer’s 2025 A+Product Awards is Friday, February 21st. Get your brand in front of the AEC industry’s most renowned designers by submitting today. The global workforce of today is more diverse than ever, and as such, the importance of crafting workplaces that cater to the unique and evolving needs of…
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The Extended Entry Deadline for Architizer’s 2025 A+Product Awards is Friday, February 21st. Get your brand in front of the AEC industry’s most renowned designers by submitting today. Defining what constitutes a design classic is highly subjective, in part because we each respond to design from our unique perspective as well as the fact that…
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The Extended Entry Deadline for Architizer’s 2025 A+Product Awards is Friday, February 21st. Get your brand in front of the AEC industry’s most renowned designers by submitting today. Picture this: you relocate to a major city. The charm and prosperity of urban life beckons, but so does the absurdity of its real estate. One year,…
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[ By WebUrbanist in Technology & Vehicles & Mods. ] The 20th-century American dream of suburban houses and picket fences unfolded in parallel with another vision: freedom to roam, embodied in camper vans and other mobile housing designs. The increasing costs of city living and desire to escape nine-to-five life has since led to a…
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[ By WebUrbanist in Conceptual & Futuristic & Technology. ] In Newark, New Jersey, a large and deceptively nondescript building is redefining the Garden State, producing millions of pounds of food per year just outside of Manhattan. This 70,000 square foot facility has the equivalent yield of over 5 million square feet of traditional farmland….
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[ By WebUrbanist in Technology & Vintage & Retro. ] In the wake of World War I, the United Kingdom developed a powerful yet relatively low-tech architectural system for detecting incoming enemy airplanes, the remnants of which can still be found across the countryside. Starting in the 1920s, these concrete sound mirrors were built to…
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[ By WebUrbanist in Technology & Vehicles & Mods. ] According to photographer Xiaoxiao Xu, the Chinese farmers and other rural hobbyists building flying machines from scratch are not in it for fame or fortune. Mostly working out of their own backyards, these creators are simply trying to find ways to lift themselves up into…
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[ By WebUrbanist in Technology & Vehicles & Mods. ] A combination of rugged and road-worthy, this self-balancing electric scooter boasts quick-start functionality and speeds of up to 25 mile per hour, perfect for scooting through (and around) traffic in congested cities for hours on a single charge. For those already into Bird, Lime or…
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