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3M Film Design Turns Ordinary Windows into Solar Panels
10/7/2011 Time Compression

Although the designs of many household solar panels are such that installation requires the skills of full-blown professionals, 3M has developed a see-through solar film that changes not only the idea of what solar panels look like, but also how they are installed.

3D Printing Comes to “This Old House”
9/29/2011 Time Compression

One technology that’s playing an increasing role in architectural design is 3D printing. And 3D printing is becoming more mainstream, too. Evidence of both these claims can be seen on PBS’ upcoming season of “This Old House,” where a 3D-printed model will help communicate renovation plans on the historic Massachusetts homestead formerly owned by Revolutionary War hero Nathaniel Page.

Designing By Nature
9/13/2011 Time Compression

Although designers and engineers have been knocking off nature since the days of Daedalus, not all designers go the “let’s use bird wings to fly” approach. Some go to places that many may not even think about.

A 9/11 Tribute Made with 3D Printing
9/7/2011 Time Compression

David Munson, owner of Munson3D.com, an architectural visualization company, has created a tribute to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, by documenting the totality of the events in a three-piece scale model of lower Manhattan.

ArchiCAD Software Helps Speed Building Renovation
7/12/2011 Time Compression

When architectural design firm architecture365 was called on to complete the half-finished Pleiades condominium project in Austin, Texas, they inherited a structure with design flaws so bad that architect Kit Johnson says it shouldn’t have even been built.

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