A fascinating new structure set in the grassy park of Louvre-Lens in France asks the question “why do we care more about things we perceive to be alive?” If we can harness that tendency, maybe we ...
Self-anointed professional dreamer Cyril J. Silberman and grounded structural engineer Lawrence G. Griffis prove opposites can attract. They have become a duo of dynamic roofs—and walls and playing ...
Abstract: Topology optimization is a powerful and well-established tool for generating optimal structural designs. Unlike the sizing and shape optimization approaches that preceded it, this method ...
(CBS) - Wow, talk about dedication! Scott Weaver spent over 35 years designing this amazing kinetic structure entitled "Rolling Through the Bay" made out of over 100,000 toothpicks that depicts San ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jeffrey Steele has been a freelance writer for one-third of a century. Imagine an unchanging building whose form and function is ...
What can you do with a piece of paper? For 22-year-old Low Zi Hao, the possibilities are endless. The NTU School of Art, Design and Media student has created a sizeable social media following with his ...
Figure 1: Schematic illustration of the configurational space, molecular free-energy landscapes and experimental set-up. Finally, to illustrate the power of the method we show the case of molecules I2 ...