Primitive Technology: Grass thatch, Mud hut
AdultsCreativityHumanNature...Primitive Technology: Grass thatch, Mud hut - Creating a grass thatch, mud hut from scratch.
Why Atlanta's Mercedes-Benz Stadium Matters: Future MEGAPROJECTS
AdultsConstructionSportsTechnology...Atlanta's Mercedes-Benz Stadium is the most expensive stadium ever built. The $1.6 billion price tag was driven by a spectacular retractable roof design, an LED video board that is by far the world's largest, and the pursuit of LEED platinum certification.
How An Igloo Keeps You Warm
AdultsConstructionScienceArchitectureBuilding a perfect igloo takes cool science!
Robots Decorated The Outside Of This Entire Museum
AdultsConstructionTechnologyArt...The Elytra Filament Pavilion was designed by a team from the University of Stuttgart.
Snowboarder Builds His Amazing Tiny House In The Mountain, And It's Absolutely Beautiful
AdultsNatureSportsArchitecture...Pro-snowboarder, Mike Basich, tours his self-built 225 square foot home in the middle of his 40 acre snow covered property near Truckee, CA - and shows how being close to nature drives his most creative decisions.
China Builds This 57-Storey Skyscraper In Just 19 Days?
AdultsConstructionGlobal WarmingEngineering...Speed to Reach a Bluer Sky with energy efficiency, material economy, cohesive community. Broad Sustainable Building is a Modular Factory Built Product.
Lego-style apartment transforms into infinite spaces
AdultsConstructionCreativityArchitecture...When Christian Schallert isn't cooking, dressing, sleeping or eating, his 24 square meter (258 square feet) apartment looks like an empty cube. To use a piece of furniture, he has to build it.
Traditional Japanese Wood Joinery Is An Act Of Art
AdultsArtConstructionDesign...Interesting way of connecting wood beams.
How Were the Pyramids Built?
AdultsConstructionHistorySociety...The most common misconception about the pyramids is that they were built by slaves. Recent archeological evidence suggests they were instead constructed by paid workers. Some may have performed this work as a form of tax payment for several months of the year. Skilled engineers would have planned and orchestrated the building. An estimated 10,000-20,000 people would have been working on a pyramid at any one point in time. They were well fed and provided with shelter near the pyramids. Plus their burial sites close by indicate they were respected and were not slaves.
Hong Kong's bamboo scaffolding
AdultsCitiesConstructionLife...It takes strength, skill and, most importantly, intellect to erecting intricate webs of sky-high walls and platforms strong enough to hold a legion of construction workers.
European Landmarks At Night
AdultsCitiesTravelWorld...Nightvision is a celebration of the brilliance and diversity of architecture found across Europe. Over the course of three months I journeyed with a friend through 36 cities in 21 countries with the ambition of capturing some of the greatest European structures in a new and unique way. Comprised of thousands of carefully taken photographs, strung together and stabilized in post-production, Nightvision aims to inspire appreciation for these man-made landmarks.
Joe McNally Photography- Climbing the Burj Khalifa (The World's Tallest Building)
AdultsCitiesConstructionPhotography...What it looks like from the very top of the tallest man made structure in the world.
The Amazing Origami House: This Home Unfolds Eight Ways
AdultsConstructionCreativityArchitecture...It all started with Lapland. When David ben Grunberg was an architecture student, he was given the assignment to design a pre-fab home that could work in wildly different temperature extremes.
Biggest Fountain in the world
AdultsCitiesConstructionArchitecture...King Fahd's Fountain, also known as the Jeddah Fountain, is the tallest water fountain in the world. Located in the coast of Jeddah, west coast of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The fountain jets water 312 metres (1,024 ft) above the Red Sea. It was donated to the city of Jeddah by King Fahd, hence its name. The fountain is visible throughout the entire vicinity of Jeddah. The water it ejects can reach a speed of 375 kilometres (233 mi) per hour and its airborne mass can exceed 18 tons. It was constructed between 1980 and 1983 and began operating in 1985. The fountain uses saltwater taken from the Red Sea instead of freshwater. It uses over 500 spotlights to illuminate the fountain at night.