For most of human history, maps have flattened the world. Cities appeared as outlines, buildings as blocks of colour, and entire neighbourhoods were reduced to symbols on paper or screens. That ...

From historic homes in Edinburgh to towering skyscrapers in Shanghai, you can now explore every building in the world from the comfort of your home. An incredible new map charts the location and size ...

From the latest skyscraper in a Chinese megalopolis to a six‑foot‑tall yurt in Inner Mongolia, researchers at the Technical University of Munich claim they have created a map of all buildings ...

BERLIN: Scientists in Germany have, for the first time, produced the most comprehensive digital representation of the world’s built environment by compiling a high-resolution, three-dimensional ...

Promotion: American technology company Snaptrude is making its flagship building design tool free for architecture students across the world, so that they can "build the kind of portfolios that get ...

Why it matters: At the University of Pennsylvania's Polyhedral Structures Laboratory, a team of architects and engineers is rethinking how one of the world's most polluting building materials could ...

Have you ever imagined turning your ideas into physical objects with just a few clicks? Thanks to tools like Tinkercad, what once seemed like science fiction is now an accessible reality for anyone ...

Imagine if you could "print" a tiny skyscraper using DNA instead of steel. That’s what researchers at Columbia and Brookhaven are doing—constructing intricate 3D nanostructures by harnessing the ...

Located in Mulegns, Switzerland, the world’s tallest 3D-printed tower was designed by Architect Michael Hansmeyer and ETH Professor of Digital Building Technologies Benjamin Dillenburger. The ...