ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Thu, 9 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/892466/one-of-the-biggest-sustainability-concerns-in-construction-right-now-is-sand Mon, 16 Apr 2018 09:30:00 +0000 Ella Thorns https://www.archdaily.com/892466/one-of-the-biggest-sustainability-concerns-in-construction-right-now-is-sand Sand is the most-consumed natural resource in the world after water and air. Modern cities are built out of it. In the construction industry alone, it is estimated that 25 billion tons of sand and gravel are used every year. That may sound a lot, but it’s not a surprising figure when you consider how everything you’re surrounded with is probably made of the stuff.

]]> https://www.archdaily.com/868990/finding-love-in-the-sand-the-instinctive-architecture-of-the-pufferfish Sun, 23 Apr 2017 09:30:00 +0000 Isabella Baranyk https://www.archdaily.com/868990/finding-love-in-the-sand-the-instinctive-architecture-of-the-pufferfish How much effort are you willing to put in to attract that special someone? The humble Japanese pufferfish, just twelve centimeters long when un-puffed, almost certainly has you beat. To attract the best fish in the sea, male pufferfish spend at least seven 24-hour days completing an intricate mating ritual that involves swimming their bodies into and through the seafloor to form ridges and trenches in the sand. If they pause too early, the entire ordeal gets washed away by currents.

]]> https://www.archdaily.com/786440/call-for-submissions-mat-i-erre-s-about-the-connection-between-men-and-matters Fri, 29 Apr 2016 03:40:00 +0000 Rene Submissions https://www.archdaily.com/786440/call-for-submissions-mat-i-erre-s-about-the-connection-between-men-and-matters Under the name "MaT(i)erre(s) - about the connection between man and matters", this initiative invites you to share your experiences, theorical thoughts and eyesights on simple matters, in relation with body, space, urban areas, art, crafts, mind, socio-cultural, cosmogony, and science. These disciplines are called for setting in motion and in echo their actions and intuitions, to gather them soon in an « event-laboratory » where "doing" and "thinking" will be as one.

]]> https://www.archdaily.com/179148/manifestations-the-immediate-future-of-3d-printing-buildings-and-materials-science Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:00:49 +0000 Oscar Lopez https://www.archdaily.com/179148/manifestations-the-immediate-future-of-3d-printing-buildings-and-materials-science The future potential to build and realize the concepts of the human mind lie just there, within the potential of the human mind. For years the architectural world has been struggling to keep up with the ability of pen-to-paper and the recent advents in NURB surface computer modeling, algorithmic and parametric architecture. This in-return has led to the  building and technology industry playing catch-up with the recent advances in 3D architectural visualizations. In fact, as computer-aided design invaded these practices in the 1980s, radically transforming their generative foundations and productive capacities, architecture found itself most out-of-step and least alert, immersed in ideological and tautological debates and adrift in a realm of referents severed from material production.

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