Visualizing zoning futures
Today’s research is tomorrow’s design. We’re asking researchers within Arup and beyond to describe their work and its potential applications. Jordan Woodson, a structural engineer in Arup’s Washington...
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Can we ensure energy resilience after a disaster?
Today’s research is tomorrow’s design. We’re asking researchers within Arup and beyond to describe their work and its potential applications. Russell Carr, an electrical engineer in our San Francisco...
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A water expert looks to the future
Water plays a major role in many of the planet’s most pressing challenges, from food security to political instability. With a resource so critical and a set of related issues so complex, how do...
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[Y]our future, according to Chris Luebkeman
How do you design for something that hasn’t happened yet? Predicting how the world will look in the future and shaping buildings, parks, streets — really everything — accordingly seems impossible. But...
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The future is fiction
Around the start of the 20th century, a number of French artists, including Jean-Marc Côté, depicted their visions of the future in the form of illustrated postcards. They imagined life in the year...
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Tomorrow’s architecture, starring algae and hemp
Walking past the BIQ apartment building in Hamburg, Germany, you’ll see a variation on solar power not found anywhere else in the world. Inside 129 bubbling bioreactors attached to the façade, algae...
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The upside of the looming resource crisis
We’ve all heard the expression “Waste not, want not,” but most of us don’t live by this rule — or even have the option. Everything from the buildings and cities we live in to the food we eat is the...
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Can solar power fuel mass transit?
Today’s research is tomorrow’s design. We’re asking researchers within Arup and beyond to describe their work and its potential applications. Tony Bruzzone, a transportation planner in our San...
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Can drones inspect urban building façades?
Today’s research is tomorrow’s design. Doggerel is asking researchers within Arup and beyond to describe their work and its potential applications. Here, Josh Treuhaft and Felix Weber describe their...
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The New York City blackout that never happened
How do you design for an emergency that hasn’t happened yet? When creating physical or digital objects, whether cars or apps, designers often use prototypes to test their ideas. By bringing a vision to...
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