Evolo Magazine holds a yearly skyscraper competition. The submissions are always great, Biomimetic Architecture shares our favorite finalist with you and links to the published projects. Enjoy and let us know your favorites in the comments!
Metropolis Magazine’s Next Generation Design Competition has announced their winner for 2011: A scientist that claims to have devised a system to build bricks using bacteria, sand and one commonly found not so convential ingredient: urine.
The Building Centre is hosting an Adaptive Architecture conference March 3rd to 5th. The Line Up is very impressive. Visit the Official Website for more information.
[ted id=1064] Interesting project suggesting to rebuild the New York Harbor’s ecology with introducing artificial reefs harvesting oysters. Project website here.
[ted id=1072] Michael Pawlyn, the director at Exploration Architecture recently informed us of his TED speech on biomimicry applied to architecture. Great video, a must watch. We posted about the Eden Project he was involved with many months ago, a …
Sean Hanna is a very interesting architect/engineer that takes inspiration from nature for a variety of projects. The PAN_07 chair which was designed and manufactured in collaboration with Timothy Schreiber takes inspiration from advanced cellular lattices that occur in nature …
Revano Satria’s thesis dissertation at the AA involves looking into cellular solids and manipulating them to be more responsive to external forces in their immediate environment. Cellular solids occur frequently in nature, examples include the more porous centers of human …
MATSYS architecture are a brilliant design house that delve into emergent design and digital fabrication like none other, we have a very popular article about their Honeycomb Morphologies project here as well. Their newest post is about the Zero Fold …
We’d like to invite you to the opening reception of the exhibit, “ROGUE Design: 5 from CA”, at the LA Contemporary Gallery from July 10 – September 10. The opening takes place this Saturday, July 10 from 6-8PM at 2634 …
Designboom featured a Prague Academy of Arts tent design by Ondrej Vaclavik inspired by the vein structure of leaves. Below are some more renderings and illustrations of the project.
