Eskom has announced that it will implement stage 2 load-shedding until 23:00 on Monday 9 December. The power utility added that the...

During the recent return of load-shedding, many South Africans suffered extended periods without electricity. The national power grid...

More than 35 billion tonnes of non-metallic minerals are extracted from the Earth every year. These materials mainly end up being used to...

In the recently published ‘Fiber-reinforced lightweight foamed concrete panels suitable for 3D printing applications,’ the authors...

In a bid to reduce the carbon footprint of construction, French architecture firm Atelier du Pont has created an office for Santé...

When Timothée Boitouzet studied architecture in Japan, where buildings need to survive earthquakes, he realised the next smart material...

Residential estate living in South Africa has grown hugely in popularity, and despite tough economic times, the developers of Steyn City...

A collaboration between ondřej císler of AOC architects and petr tej of klokner institute at CTU in prague sees the fabrication of the...

Non-governmental organization ‘givepower’ has built its first solar water farm in kenya, turning the region’s saltwater into clean and...

According to WHO, air quality in India’s capital of Delhi is among the worst in the world and is the fifth leading cause of death in...

In recent years, shipping container architecture has been moving forward as a real-world solution for affordable housing. What’s even...

In South Africa, we’ve seen containers being used for site offices, ablution units and RDP housing, but it has only been in the last...

It may be little more than grains of weathered rock, and can be found in deserts and on beaches around the world, but sand is also the...

With extreme weather wreaking havoc around the world, there is a need for resilient shelters more than ever before. EEMY Architecture and...

Concrete is the most widely used man-made material, commonly used in buildings, roads, bridges and industrial plants. But producing the...

📷 Almost nine years after the century's worst nuclear crisis - which by some counts has eclipsed Chernobyl in total radioactive...

Researchers in the US say they have created an ultra-slippery toilet coating that could help save vast quantities of water around the...

London blogger The Gentle Author has been photographing the changing face of London, focusing on what is known as "facadism", the...

When the owners happened upon an early 20th-century house in Ghent, Belgium, the garden space and location sold them on the property...

Paris-based design firm Studio NAB has unveiled a proposal for transforming the traditional asphalt parking lot into an urban farming...