Infrastructure

Combas uses natural stone to build “warm and robust” juvenile detention facility in Marseilles

November 20, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

This detention centre for minors in Marseilles offers an alternative to oppressive prison architecture through its muted material palette of natural stone and board-marked concrete. Nice-based architecture office Combas was responsible for designing the facility in the Chutes Lavie neighbourhood of Marseille’s 13th arrondissement. The studio was selected for the project following a competition organised

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Black-stained barn built by Macdonald Wright Architects at Caring Wood country house

November 19, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Macdonald Wright Architects has added a barn clad in black-stained boards to Caring Wood – a Kent country villa that is vying to be named the UK’s House of the Year. Corvid Barn was erected close to Caring Wood house, which the London-based firm worked on with Niall Maxwell of Welsh studio Rural Office for Architecture.

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Cards Against Humanity buys land on US-Mexico border to fight Trump’s wall

November 16, 2017 Dan Howarth 0

The creators of adult game Cards Against Humanity have purchased a vacant plot along America’s southern border, in the hopes of preventing the controversial wall the country’s president Donald Trump is planning to build. The team made the purchase, and hired a lawyer that specialises in preventing the state from taking private land for public

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Cards Against Humanity buys land on US-Mexico border to fight Trump’s wall

November 16, 2017 Dan Howarth 0

The creators of adult game Cards Against Humanity have purchased a vacant plot along America’s southern border, in the hopes of preventing the controversial wall the country’s president Donald Trump is planning to build. The team made the purchase, and hired a lawyer that specialises in preventing the state from taking private land for public

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Manhattan vehicle attack prompts call for better bike lane and pedestrian protection

November 2, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

New York City must provide better protection for cyclists and pedestrians in areas close to busy roads, says a local transportation think tank, following Tuesday’s terrorist attack that killed eight. Transportation Alternatives deputy director Caroline Samponaro said the fatal incident, when a motorist drove onto the popular Hudson River Greenway and knocked down 18 people, could

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Manhattan vehicle attack prompts call for better protection for cyclists and pedestrians

November 2, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

New York City must provide better protection for cyclists and pedestrians in areas close to busy roads, says a local transportation think tank, following Tuesday’s terrorist attack that killed eight. Transportation Alternatives deputy director Caroline Samponaro said the fatal incident, when a motorist drove onto the popular Hudson River Greenway and knocked down 18 people, could

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World’s first 3D-printed concrete bridge opens in the Netherlands

October 27, 2017 India Block 0

The first 3D-printed concrete bridge has been completed in the Netherlands as a crossing for cyclists, but construction company BAM Infra claims it could take the weight of 40 lorries. Made from pre-fabricated concrete blocks 3D-printed by robots, the 8-metre-long bridge forms part of a new ring-road being constructed around Gemert in the Dutch province of Brabant. The

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World’s first 3D-printed concrete bridge opens in the Netherlands

October 27, 2017 India Block 0

The first 3D-printed concrete bridge has been completed in the Netherlands as a crossing for cyclists, but construction company BAM Infra claims it could take the weight of 40 lorries. Made from pre-fabricated concrete blocks 3D-printed by robots, the 8-metre-long bridge forms part of a new ring-road being constructed around Gemert in the Dutch province of Brabant. The

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Saudi Arabia to invest $500 billion in fully automated city spanning three countries

October 27, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

Robots may outnumber humans in a new pioneering city billed by Saudi Arabia as “a new blueprint for sustainable life”, which would be entirely powered by renewable energy, and served by driverless vehicles and vertical farms. The city called Neom is to span an area of 26,500 square kilometres, stretching across the borders of northwest Saudi Arabia into Jordan and

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Trump wall prototypes pop up near US-Mexico border

October 24, 2017 Dan Howarth 0

Portions of eight proposed designs for the wall that President Donald Trump wants to construct along the US-Mexico border are to be tested over the coming months. The prototypes, all measuring 30 feet (9.1 metres) tall, have been constructed at a site close to the existing border fence south of San Diego, California. Starting next

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