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    How knocking down a building helped researchers design a safer structure, and a sustainable 3D printing resin made from a bodybuilding supplement.

    • Benjamin Thompson
    •  & Elizabeth Gibney

  • Comment |

    Skyscrapers in cities rob people of sunlight and put human health, well-being and sustainability at risk, warn Karolina M. Zielinska-Dabkowska and Kyra Xavia.

    • Karolina M. Zielinska-Dabkowska
    •  & Kyra Xavia

  • Books & Arts |

    Kendall Powell probes a study claiming that swanky buildings spark discovery.

    • Kendall Powell

  • Books & Arts |

    William Foster enjoys Rob Dunn’s investigation of the teeming life in shower heads, navels and basements.

    • William Foster

  • Books & Arts |

    Robots, DNA and electricity bask in the limelight, as Blade Runner reboots, Kazakhstan gets energetic and a 'space tapestry' rolls out. It's quite a year — and key anniversaries hit, too, for Canada, the anthropology dynamo the Peabody Museum and architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Nicola Jones reports.

    • Nicola Jones

  • Books & Arts |

    John E. Moalli and Adam P. Summers relish a book on biomechanical spin, from wheels to free-falling felines.

    • John E. Moalli
    •  & Adam P. Summers

  • Books & Arts |

    Austin Williams examines two books that probe the dynamic relationship between people and city.

    • Austin Williams

  • Books & Arts |

    Ann Finkbeiner delves into a collection reappraising the hippy tech-heads, agronomic groovers and far-out ecodesigners of the 'long 1970s'.

    • Ann Finkbeiner

  • News Feature |

    By scouring the remains of early loos and sewers, archaeologists are finding clues to what life was like in the Roman world and in other civilizations.

    • Chelsea Wald

  • Books & Arts |

    John Gilbey lauds San Francisco's vastly expanded showcase for modern art and photography.

    • John Gilbey

  • Books & Arts |

    Barbara Kiser reviews five of the week's best science picks.

    • Barbara Kiser

  • Books & Arts |

    In linear economics, objects of desire from skyscrapers to paperclips are waste waiting to happen. Now, linearity is reaching the end of the line: designers are looking to the loop and redefining refuse as resource.

  • Books & Arts |

    Barbara Kiser reviews five of the week's best science picks.

    • Barbara Kiser

  • Letter |

    The most comprehensive architectural model to date of the nuclear pore complex reveals previously unknown local interactions, and a role for nucleoporin 358 in Y-complex oligomerization.

    • Alexander von Appen
    • , Jan Kosinski
    •  & Martin Beck

  • Books & Arts |

    Materials scientist and engineer Andrea Hamilton at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK, uses chemistry research to conserve the structural and aesthetic integrity of concrete. She talks about dams, nuclear-waste storage and an artwork that explores weathering.

    • Alexandra Witze

  • Books & Arts |

    Acoustical engineer Trevor Cox has designed concert halls, but recently turned to 'sound tourism' — gathering audible phenomena worldwide for his book Sonic Wonderland. He talks about burping sand dunes, the bass baritone of a cracking glacier and the hiss of the nervous system.

    • Jascha Hoffman

  • Books & Arts |

    Joanne Baker plunges into an exhibition on visionaries who break all the rules.

    • Joanne Baker

  • Books & Arts |

    Architect Rahul Mehrotra builds with social advocacy in mind. His latest project at Hathi Gaon, a village in Rajasthan, India, provides housing for 100 elephants and their mahouts. A professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he talks about urban evolution and 'impatient capital'.

    • Laura Spinney

  • Books & Arts |

    From concrete to plastics, the megatonnes of stuff in the built environment are mostly manufactured and used with little thought for waste and pollution. Radical moves are afoot to refashion the urban fabric.

    • Chris Wise
    • , Michael Pawlyn
    •  & Michael Braungart

  • Outlook |

    Better thought-out town planning and interior design can create healthier environments, but how to effectively implement the best designs remains uncertain.

    • Duncan Graham-Rowe

  • Books & Arts |

    Allan McRobie enjoys a life of the audacious engineer who pioneered the windproofing of bridges and skyscrapers.

    • Allan McRobie

  • News Feature |

    Scientists are testing the idea that the stress of modern city life is a breeding ground for psychosis.

    • Alison Abbott

  • Books & Arts |

    Georgina Ferry enjoys a biography of a little-known Victorian woman who built monuments to nature.

    • Georgina Ferry

  • Books & Arts |

    Urban campaigner and architect Arif Hasan has been central to a sanitary revolution, transforming Orangi, Karachi, from informal settlement to thriving community. Using his technical know-how, residents built a sewage system, sparking vast social change. Now chair of Pakistan's urbanization task force, he discusses incorporating sustainable design into poor cities.

    • Anna Petherick

  • Books & Arts |

    If architecture is 'design for living', one of its greatest challenges is how to live with the masses of waste we excrete. Four pioneers in green sanitation design outline solutions to a dilemma too often shunted down the pan.

  • Books & Arts |

    Charles Jencks designs landscapes and sculptures to convey concepts in astronomy, biology and mathematics — notably at CERN, Europe's particle-physics lab near Geneva, Switzerland, and in his Garden of Cosmic Speculation near Dumfries in Scotland, UK. On the launch of his new book, he discusses green architecture and metaphor.

    • Jascha Hoffman

  • Books & Arts |

    A section of salt marsh in a Biennale pavilion links the city and its environment, notes Colin Martin.

    • Colin Martin

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