ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Mon, 3 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/990040/seratech-wins-this-years-2022-obel-award-succeeding-to-the-concept-of-15-minute-city Thu, 06 Oct 2022 03:00:00 +0000 Christele Harrouk https://www.archdaily.com/990040/seratech-wins-this-years-2022-obel-award-succeeding-to-the-concept-of-15-minute-city Material researchers and Ph.D. students at Imperial College London, Sam Draper and Barney Shanks have won the 2022 OBEL AWARD for Seratech, a solution for carbon-neutral concrete. With a special focus this year on “embodied emissions”, the OBEL AWARD jury selected scientists to obtain the architecture award to “encourage innovative cross-disciplinary solutions to the challenges of climate change”.

]]> https://www.archdaily.com/797993/vertical-walking-prototype-aims-to-replace-the-stair Mon, 24 Oct 2016 12:00:00 +0000 AD Editorial Team https://www.archdaily.com/797993/vertical-walking-prototype-aims-to-replace-the-stair Vertical Walking, an experimental prototype by Rombout Frieling Lab designed "to move ourselves between floors in a building," exploits the potential of the human body, materials and intelligent design to require less than 10% of the effort required by taking a flight of stairs – and without the need for any sort of ancillary power supply. The ultimate aim of the designers is to allow people to "move harmoniously through our vertical habitats of the future."

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