A fascinating new structure set in the grassy park of Louvre-Lens in France asks the question “why do we care more about things we perceive to be alive?” If we can harness that tendency, maybe we ...

The renovated BMW Museum in Munich, Germany, offers one of the largest spaces for focused car-design ogling, and is as large (5000 square meters) an expression of the company's outsized engineering ...

Self-anointed professional dreamer Cyril J. Silberman and grounded structural engineer Lawrence G. Griffis prove opposites can attract. They have become a duo of dynamic roofs—and walls and playing ...

Abstract: Topology optimization is a powerful and well-established tool for generating optimal structural designs. Unlike the sizing and shape optimization approaches that preceded it, this method ...

(CBS) - Wow, talk about dedication! Scott Weaver spent over 35 years designing this amazing kinetic structure entitled "Rolling Through the Bay" made out of over 100,000 toothpicks that depicts San ...