If you’ve ever wanted to own a piece of authentic Frank Lloyd Wright history, now’s your chance. At least if you’ve got a healthy bank account. His last documented design, the Norman Lykes Home, is up for sale in Phoenix for a cool $3.6 million. This home showcases the organic nature of the architect’s late-career…
DetailsWhen is a smaller house not really small, perhaps not really large, but built exactly right? In a “Not so Big” house. Downsizing gets a lot of attention these days, and the tiny house movement has really taken off. But tiny homes just won’t work for a lot families. There has to be a middle…
DetailsMost architects have at least one foot in the ring for community responsibility. But those who go all out and take on pro bono work might find a more rewarding career with a wider range of experiences, even when the meanwhile doesn’t pay much, if at all. Architecture is already tasked with the greater good.…
DetailsAll engineers have a dream of designing and developing something. That’s so much a part of being an engineer that it’s practically ingrained, and it’s bound to happen at least a few times through the span of a career. But until you’ve been there, really part of a design team that’s trying to bring an…
DetailsWhat if solar energy wasn’t just available, but consistently available on-demand? Researchers at MIT might have found the solution to a longstanding problem, at least as it applies to on-demand heat. This isn’t a development for turning solar into electricity. It’s for using the warmth of the sun anytime, and without the need for a…
DetailsEvery year brings new and wondrous developments in engineering and architecture, and 2016 promises to reveal some of the most innovative. The groundbreaking building products in this year’s lineup are all problem solvers. Some of them, in a most unusual way. Here’s what you can expect 2016 to hold. You might not find them at…
DetailsBIM helps clients really see what makes a building. Architects who use Building Information Modeling or BIM have long had access to better and more detailed planning and design tools. But there’s another benefit to BIM, and that’s communication throughout the design and build, and assisting the client later. What BIM offers is a model…
Details3D printing is doing just fine, at least in manufacturing. Is the era of the personal 3D printer coming to an end, before it even got a reasonably good foothold? Probably not, but that’s not stopping 3D Systems from pulling the plug on Cube. If you own one, the company has promised to continue offering…
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Have you ever wished that your snoring partner had a volume dial so that you could turn down the sound and get a little shuteye? Everyone who has lived with a snorer has a couple of tricks up the old pajama sleeve, but a new device could be the end of the nasaly, nighttime nocturnes.…
DetailsBruce Lee famously said, “Be like water.” Water changes course to move around objects, or it can cut a path through them. It conforms to whatever contains it, but you can’t grab it. Water, in other words, is a real problem. That’s especially true when you set out to protect architecturally significant property from it.…
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