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From Float Glass to OLEDs: How Recent Advancements in Glass Technology Are Reshaping 21st Century Design

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They were an educational tool to teach religion to an illiterate population — 13th-century marketing at its very best. As time and technology progressed, the float glass process (pouring the molten glass from a furnace into a chamber that contains a bed of molten tin), conceived by Sir Alastair Pilkington in 1959, was groundbreaking.

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From Timeless Materials to High-Tech Hybrids: A New Era in Architecture and Construction

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Hybrid construction materials and techniques might be the beacon of hope in a construction industry riddled with carbon-intensive practices and logistical challenges. Hybrid construction materials and techniques offer an alternative approach to traditional and modern building materials and methods.

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Cool Schools: 7 Educational Structures Championing Affordable and Sustainable Construction

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Modern educational institutions are also evolving with new technology to offer high-tech learning environments for students. Large glass facades, parametric forms and advanced engineering can be found in some of the leading educational facilities of today. Bamboo Sports Hall at Panyaden International School.

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Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation

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The new Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation, designed by Studio Gang and set in Theodore Roosevelt Park, connects 10 buildings across the Museum’s four-block campus, establishing continuous pathways to enhance visitor circulation. Collections Core, which features the Macaulay Family Foundation Collections Gallery.

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The Sponge Evangelist

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Photo © Turenscape, courtesy the Cultural Landscape Foundation. In awarding the second biennial Oberlander Prize to the Chinese landscape architect Kongjian Yu, FASLA, the Cultural Landscape Foundation and its 2023 jury sent an unmistakable signal about the future of the field.

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Pyramid of Tirana by MVRDV

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The park and the sculpture are home to an ensemble of colourful boxes, scattered in and around the original building that now house cafés, studios, workshops, start-up offices, incubators, festivals, and classrooms where Albanian youth will learn various technology subjects for free. Source by MVRDV.

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Ten landscape architecture projects by students at Clemson University

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The MLA programme at Clemson University prepares students with the knowledge, skills, techniques, theories and technologies to become an effective contributor to the landscape architecture profession. "As Visitors to the park will experience various 'rooms', or pockets, of vegetation, with views of the two landmark steam stacks.

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