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Is There Anything We CAN’T Do With Carbon Nanotubes?
Cleaning up toxic spills has always been a problem. It’s hard, and it’s expensive, and you have to be thorough. But things might have just got easier: Scientists from the Peking University and Tsinghua University have created a sponge like no other. It is made of carbon nanotubes – regular carbon atoms arranged in a specific cylindrical shape – and can absorb organic pollutants from the surface of water (such as oil and solvents) up to 180x its weight (!) without absorbing water (see video below to see how light it is). And once its full of toxic liquids, the best part is that you can just wring it and start again. Via:TreeHugger
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On July 31, to mark the close of Reef, Storefront for Art and Architecture will host a discussion among a group of practitioners whose work focuses on digital design, material logic and innovative fabrication techniques. With the crucial objective of forging new relationships between research and practice in mind, this discussion will explore how new methods of fabrication and advances in computational geometry cyclically feed into one another. read more
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SOM’s design concept, BayARC, was selected as one of six winners in the Rising Tides international design ideas competition. Hosted by The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC), the competition called for ideas responding to sea level rise in San Francisco Bay and beyond. Please find attached an article from the San Jose Mercury News about the competition and SOM’s winning submission.
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Professor W. Katavolos has been part of the Architecture School at Pratt Institute since the sixties. He is co-director of the Center for Experimental Structures. Over the years liquid architecture has been developed there. His early furniture is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of art and the Louvre.
As a consulting designer he created the Time-Life and Owens Corning partition systems, the suspension ring system for the Moscow Fair, the Agricultural and Solar Pavilions for Salonika. His manifesto, Organics, published in Holland in 1961 became the basis for chemical architecture. His theory of the fundamental structure of nature is being prepared for publication. He lives with his wife, Terenia in Key West and New York.
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