Architecture

Advanced tools for tracking people’s eye movements and facial expressions can be used to design better places

Building the ultimate sandcastle

An ambitious project is underway to develop a robot with enough smarts, strength and sensitivity to restore fragmented archaeological remains

To build better and healthier spaces, architects are heeding evidence-based lessons 

Once considered blunt instruments, robots show finesse in constructing experimental German architecture

Urban Farm on a Rainy Day © Jon Ellis (aka jonorobo). Click each image to see enlarged version on DeviantArt. Most concept art is obsessed with various forms of self-inflicted apocalypse.

The Energy Innovation Hub is trying to understand how buildings squander their energy-saving potential

A tour of the world's tallest buildings, including those under construction.

Although it is still loosely defined, net-zero usually means a building that produces as much energy as is consumed

In a surprising study result, more numerous and diverse varieties of fungi inhabit temperate zone households than dwellings in tropical climes

A new report argues that green building standards are weighted too heavily toward energy conservation