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China’s 29-Hour Tower: How Broad Group Built Ten Storeys So Fast
On Changsha’s southern outskirts in central China, people gathered outside what seemed to be an enormous Lego…
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Why Your Fresh White Ceiling Keeps Yellowing After Painting
Many homeowners give their ceilings a new coat of paint each autumn, expecting to wipe away accumulated smoke…
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Why Lift Mirrors Help You Feel Less Trapped
You sense the lift shift, watch the floor display flash and hear the soft hum of the motor above. Nobody…
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Repairing Earth’s Crust: Sealing Seabed Cracks and Reinforcing Fault Lines
A compact research ship sways softly at dusk off Japan’s coastline, its deck packed with cable drums, sensors…
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How a Walnut Helps Hide Scratches on Wooden Furniture
There is a very particular pang of guilt that arrives when you spot a new scratch on a wooden piece…
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Malaysia’s glowing roads: why the Semenyih pilot project ended
In Malaysia, the future of road lighting briefly appeared to have arrived: rather than relying on conventional…
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France’s Coastal Towns: Why Life by the Sea Could Change by 2030
Many Germans dream of living on the French coast: a historic harbour, a sandy beach on the doorstep and a…
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La Chapelle-Baloue water tower for one euro: an unusual property project
In a remote community, the local authority is offering an unusual structure for a symbolic price – with an…
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Paris 2050: XXL Metro, Cable Cars, Bicycles and Electric Flying Taxis
Paris is undergoing a radical transformation: instead of queues of cars, XXL metro lines, cable cars, bicycles…
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China’s 22 km Tunnel: Engineering Miracle or Environmental Disaster?
Officials describe it as an engineering miracle. Environmental campaigners see a slow-burning catastrophe…
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How Pumping Water into Old Oil Fields Slows City Subsidence
On a grey morning in Mexico City, engineer María López stands on a still residential road, gesturing towards a…
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How 90,000 Green Walls Are Changing Cities
You turn a corner and find yourself facing a vertical jungle: ivy, ferns and tiny white blooms climbing ten…
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Construction Robots and Human Hands: Building Homes That Feel Liveable
At the edge of a new-build development near Munich, a robotic arm stands in the morning mist as though it…
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Australia’s Alkimos Desalination Plant and the Beverley Barge
Infrastructure designed to secure drinking water is attracting global attention as technological innovation…
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How a Country Turned Shipwrecks into Underwater Cities
On the sonar display inside the cramped cabin, outlines emerge where the chart says there should be nothing…
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Redwood City halted residential project: inspectors bring construction to a standstill
We have all experienced that moment when something that seemed unstoppable suddenly comes to a standstill. In…
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How Olive Oil Makes Hardwood Floors Shine Like Glass
Sunlight cut through the sitting-room window, falling like a spotlight across the centre of the hardwood…
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How Hawthorn Place Residents Are Fighting Portland’s City Plan
The leaflets came first. They were flimsy pages fastened to lamp posts and letterboxes, their edges curling in…
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How to Silence Squeaky Floorboards With Dry Lubricant
Every step across the landing coaxes a faint, aggrieved squeal from the boards, like an elderly relative…
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Plano Building Permits: How a Small Garage Conversion Became a Court Case
An American flag stirs gently in the breeze, a child’s scooter lies abandoned on the drive: the sort of street…
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Mayo and Heat Hacks for White Water Rings on Wood: Fix or Ruin Your Table?
The glass rested on the timber for under a minute. It was a slow Sunday afternoon: ice cubes were melting…