Film Material For Windows Switches From Translucent to Mirror Mode

02/12/2013, One of the biggest energy requirement for a city is to heat or cool down buildings and houses. It is not easy to design a place that will be warm in the winter, and stay cool in the summer, and [...]

NTT DoCoMo Data Center shrugs off earthquakes

04/26/2011, Japan’s largest telecom operator, NTT DoCoMo, has recently unveiled their latest data center (the fifth, in fact), where this 16-storey building that is located right smack in earthquake-prone Tokyo (heck, the whole of Japan is prone to earthquakes for that [...]

Augmented Reality Lets You See Tweets From Inside A Building

01/18/2010, Augmented Reality (AR) is giving birth to many new innovations, and after helping you to perform your mechanic duties, the technology is being used by Qosmo and Teradadesign, resulting in the street-facing side of Tokyo’s N Building being covered in [...]

Bendable Concrete Could Usher In New Era

05/06/2009, Victor Li’s composite building material could very well revolutionize the way buildings are constructed in the future – after all, it can be bent into a “U” shape, ‘heals’ cracks with nothing more than rainwater, and is strong enough to [...]