From a sculptural reading space to a turreted mausoleum, our latest roundup gathers curvy brick buildings where skillfully laid brickwork is shaped into fluid forms. Two connecting hemispheres create ...

After decades, deferred maintenance totals an estimated $50 billion. But getting repair funds from Congress is a laborious process. After decades, deferred maintenance totals an estimated $50 billion.

Imagine living in a tower covered with thousands of trees, a home built almost entirely from bamboo, or a house that stays cool in extreme heat without relying heavily on air conditioning. Around the ...

Since its tallest buildings were completed in the 1980s the Dallas skyline has remained fairly consistent. At least on the outside. Within the walls of Dallas' glass and steel behemoths things are ...

A new computer model developed by US researchers could reduce the amount of material for bridges and buildings by up to 90 percent and make future structures far more efficient. The approach was ...

This folder contains all material related to the Soil Model for Enhanced Weathering (SMEW) published in Bertagni et al., 2025, JAMES The material includes the numerical codes for the model, the ...

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Abstract: Although the integrated energy system (IES) technology is developing rapidly along with energy transition and technological advancements, their configuration optimization still remains ...

Abstract: Seismic deconvolution is essential for extracting layer information from noisy seismic data, but it is an ill-posed problem with nonunique solutions. Inspired by classical optimization ...

An earlier version of this page included retrofit information from the city of Los Angeles that contained numerous errors. This story has been updated and buildings from Los Angeles have been removed ...