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“Every one of the stars in the sky uses fusion to generate enormous amounts of energy. Why shouldn’t we?”
7 months ago

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Why Is Homeowners Insurance Getting So Expensive?

The recent Los Angeles fires have highlighted the rising costs of homeowners insurance in the US.

a week ago 18 votes
Why Skyscrapers Became Glass Boxes

Everything put into the building that is unnecessary, every cubic foot that is used for purely ornamental purposes beyond that needed to express its use and to make it harmonize with others of its class, is a waste — is, to put it in plain English, perverting someone’s money — George Hill, commercial real estate expert, 1904

2 weeks ago 25 votes
Morris Chang and the Origins of TSMC

Book review of the autobiography of Morris Chang.

a month ago 49 votes
Energy Cheat Sheet

Building an intuition about energy

a month ago 59 votes
What Learning by Doing Looks Like

The evolution of polycrystalline diamond drill bits

a month ago 56 votes

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Hans van der Laan: Playing With Proportions in 3D

A new book on the Dutch monk-architect tries to explain it all.

2 days ago 3 votes
Architects vs. Algorithms: A 2025 Love Story

This year, AI will assert itself on both the designer and the client sides of the construction industry.

3 days ago 7 votes
Valley So Low

In 2008, a billion gallons of toxic sludge spewed across 300 acres of Tennessee in the middle of the night. It was just before Christmas. At the time, Jared Sullivan was in high school and remembers the disaster. For over fifty years a power company called the Tennessee Valley Authority – or the TVA –

4 days ago 3 votes
What a Renaissance Painting Tells Us About the Future of Architectural Visualization

In the closing chapter of Archinect In-Depth: Visualization, we return to one Renaissance painting referenced in an earlier article from the series. What does this painting, and our wider series, teach us about the relationship between technology and visualization? What do they tell us about the potential for visualization to open new worlds not beholden to the natural laws of space and time?

4 days ago 6 votes