Efforts to promote more neighborhood-scale mixed-use buildings typically focus on local policy changes, but there may be an event bigger obstacle than local zoning: the federal government. A new paper ...

How does scale factor into the practice of architecture? For any architect, scale and proportion are two skills that appear to be the most challenging to master. Scale and proportion are also where a ...

They got 99 problems — with a new tax program. New York City developers have a hit a fresh snag in trying to solve the city’s housing crisis: A new tax program that costs them extra dough if they want ...

Decarbonization of the electricity grid and the electrification of transport, heat, and industry related energy consumption are at the heart of many governments’ policies to reach ambitious targets to ...

Researchers at MIT have developed a system with the capability to create a large-scale building using 3D-printing technology. The system, known as a Digital Construction Platform (DCP), consists of a ...

Walls can’t hold [Elijah Cirioli]. The would-be superhero has been busy scaling the sides of buildings using his self-contained vacuum climbers. (Video embedded after the break.) After being inspired ...