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 ...

A plastic bladder folded into an origami shape can stand up to cryogenic temperatures. (WSU Photo) Build a better fuel tank, and the space industry will beat a path to your door. At least that’s what ...

Shape-shifting buildings might sound like the stuff of science fiction — but scientists from Harvard have developed a new material that could potentially make such buildings a reality. Objects built ...

Origami can be used to create mechanical, binary switches, and researchers report the fabrication of such a paper device, using the Kresling pattern, that can act as a mechanical switch. By putting ...

Looks like the Miracle Mile area is going to see a lot more construction in the future. There's LACMA's $600-million makeover and the Purple Line's new stop at Wilshire and Fairfax. And now we have ...

In contrast to lithographic techniques, the LMU team uses a method called DNA origami to design and synthesize building blocks, which then self-assemble into a specific lattice structure. “It’s long ...