A small community of 3D-printed concrete houses is coming to the NetherlandsCNN - Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN(CNN) — Living in a community of 3D-printed homes will soon be reality in the Dutch city of Eindhoven. In what is considered a world first, a single-floor, three-room house made of 3D-printed concrete
World's largest single-domed tropical greenhouse is coming to FranceCNN - Jamie Robinson, The Spaces(CNN) — Designs have been unveiled for the largest single-dome greenhouse on the planet, set to spring up in France's Pas-de-Calais. Tropicalia will span a colossal 215,000 square feet, and is designed
Festo's fantastical robots inspired by animals and insectsCNN - Jacopo Prisco, CNN(CNN) — German robotics company Festo's new robo-spider looks menacing enough when it's just sitting there. But let it engage its special ability -- curling up into a ball and rolling around -- and it
What will the office look like in 10 years? 6 experts predict the futureCNN - Emily Wright, The Spaces(CNN) — It happens every few years: a seismic shift in the way we live our lives fuels a change in human behavior so significant, it blows the concept of the office as we know it out of the water. Modern
Jeddah Tower: What does the world's next tallest skyscraper look like now?CNN - Andrea Lo, CNN(CNN) — These are the images that show what will soon be known as the world's next tallest building rising from the desert. When the 3,280-feet-tall (1,000-meter-tall) Jeddah Tower, in Saudi Arabia, opens
When chemistry meets couture: Clothes that change color with the climateCNN - Allyssia Alleyne, CNN(CNN) — Entering The Unseen Emporium at London's Somerset House is like walking into an alchemist's workshop. The room smells strongly of burning sage, and there are old books stacked high on wooden shelves.
Eyes off: The 3-D printed cape that warns you when you're being watchedCNN - Allyssia Alleyne, CNN(CNN) — Behnaz Farahi is an architect obsessed with cyborgs. "I've been reading a lot of British philosopher Andy Clark, and his theories about how we have already become cyborgs. "Our iPads, our iPhones,
Dissolving dresses and LED screens: Hussein Chalayan's brand of innovationCNN - Angelica Pursley, CNN(CNN) — Fashion designer Hussein Chalayan sees himself as "a weaver of different worlds". Drawing inspiration from design, science and art, he is one of the industry's most celebrated and intellectual
Haute technologie: The otherworldly designs shaping fashion's futureCNN - Theo-Mass Lexileictous, Special to CNN(CNN) — Technology is creating new ways to do and make and even dream, ushering in a whole new era for the fashion world. Designs that in the past would have been difficult to imagine, let alone realize,
Could this be what our faces will look like in the future?CNN - Madeline Schwartzman(CNN) — Do you feel your head as a sandwich -- as layers of bone, skin and hair? Probably not. The brain integrates ourselves into a functioning, unconscious whole. We feel the cladding only when something
Retro visions of futuristic architectureCNN - Sofia Borges(CNN) — There was a time when it seemed like blueprints, dreams, and raw concrete could change the world. We were optimistic then. We thought we could build utopia. We thought we could cast our vision
