In another hard-won triumph for contemporary architecture in Paris, a new building casts stone into bright and airy modernism. Paris’s urban center is a large set piece that’s preened and preserved to ...

The folded facadeconsists of two layers. The outer one is a glazed skin made up of framed glass set in a tubular frame while the inner layer is the building’s windows. There are two major benefits to ...

From new ways of to to the , we've been covering a number of research and design breakthroughs that were inspired by origami here at SmartPlanet. Yes, the traditional Japanese art of folding paper ...