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Paola Dávila & Ilán Rabchinskey This is the last week to visit Espacios Intermedios (until Saturday May 21), an exhibition by Paola Dávila & Ilán Rabchinskey. As part of the closing activities, there will be visits to the artists' studios this week. Free entry. - Paola Dávila studio - Thursday, May 19, 2022 4-9 pm or by appointment Calle San Francisco Figuraco 11 Int 8, La Concepción, Coyoacán, CDMX - Ilán Rabchinskey studio - Friday, May 20, 2022 4-9 pm or by appointment Calle Lucerna 59, Juárez, Cuauhtémoc, CDMX We will be very happy to see you! 

Architects should give up concrete say experts at Architecture of Emergency climate summit Experts and activists at the Architecture of Emergency climate summit in London have called upon architects to fight climate change by ditching concrete. "If you came here with the hope of one clear action for what you can do in the office tomorrow – stop it with the concrete," said Maria Smith, founder of architecture studio Interrobang, who gave a keynote speech. "We don't have to wait to solve every single problem in order to start something today." Over 10 speakers took to the stage at the...

Kengo Kuma breaks ground on plant-covered Silicon Valley building with "green lung" Construction has begun on Park Habitat, a plant-covered building in Silicon Valley that was designed by Japanese studio Kengo Kuma and Associates with a green atrium at its centre. The 20-storey building will have a glass and wood facade covered with vines and planters and will be located in downtown San Jose in the middle of Silicon Valley, California. Kengo Kuma has designed a plant-covered building to be built in San Jose. The image is by Hayes Davidson The mixed-use 1.3 million-square-feet (120,774-square-metre) structure, which broke ground on...

Arnhildur Palmadottir proposes building cities from lava Icelandic architect Arnhildur Palmadottir has revealed her "radical and gigantic" Lavaforming proposal at this year's DesignMarch festival in Reykjavík. Lavaforming would see controlled lava eruptions being used to create buildings, which according to the designer would be substantially more sustainable than those built with steel and concrete. "Lava is the building material of the earth, but instead of letting landscapes form naturally over millions of years we can take over Earth's building process and produce a whole city for humans in a few weeks," Palmadottir told Dezeen. "It would mean that we have...

MIT engineers invent plastic that is stronger than steel Massachusetts Institute of Technology chemical engineers have invented a new type of plastic that is twice as strong as steel and could one day be used as a building material. Dubbed 2DPA-1, the material is light and mouldable like plastic but has a strength and resistance that the researchers behind the project liken to steel and bulletproof glass. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) engineers envision 2DPA-1 being used in the near future as a coating to enhance the durability of objects, and eventually as a structural material. "We don't usually...