The Office for Visual Interaction designed a prototype LED streetlight for New York to cut down on energy use.
Dean/Wolf Architects designs a folded stainless steel staircase for a Manhattan townhouse.
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill design a prototype system that uses plastic bottles, bags, and other compressed waste to lighten and fill spaces in concrete slabs.
Barkow Leibinger Architects use 2D and 3D cutting and casting technology to create a huge cantilevered roof for the Gatehouse building on Trumpf's campus.
Perkins Eastman's design for the new TKTS Booth in New York relies on a series of trusses and bearing walls made entirely from glass.
Shaw Industries created a cradle-to-cradle solution for broadloom carpet backing.
SOM's Chicago office engineers a desalinization tower that aims to make the seaside desert a bit more habitable.
A 3D model of San Francisco developed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill is being used to track old and new construction and determine the viability of future developments.
Sika Sarnafil create a mechanical attachment system to bond thermoplastic membranes to roofs without damaging them.
IwamotoScott Architecture creates a lightweight structure of compression arches out of wood laminate for SCI-Arc.
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill designs a building frame that rolls with the impact of an earthquake and then returns to form when the aftershocks are finished.
Green wall systems are a balm for cubicle-weary office workers as well as a great energy-saver. The Center for Architecture Science and Ecology creates a new modular green wall system that bares the plants roots and increases air-cleaning efficiency.
Wahoo Decks creates a flexible, weather-resistant system of aluminum decking.
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