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World’s longest immersed road and rail tunnel also features remarkable design solutions
The Fehmarnbelt fixed link in the Baltic Sea will connect the Danish island of Lolland with Germany's Fehmarn island and is expected to boost transportation between central Europe and Scandinavia. Spa...
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The Chinese South–North Water Transfer Project: a gigantic and complicated engineering approach to water management
The South-to-North Water Diversion Project (SNWDP), also called the South–North Water Transfer Project, is an ongoing Chinese effort to channel 45 billion m3 of water annually from the Yangtze River i...
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World's longest pedestrian suspension bridge just opened in Switzerland
On Saturday, July 29th, the world’s longest pedestrian suspension bridge opened to the public in Switzerland. Having a length of 1621 feet, a width of just over two-feet and rising as high as 279...
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The largest tunnel boring machine (TBM) in the world finished drilling underneath Seattle
The tunnel will become a double-decker highway, scheduled to open in 2019 It was in April of 2013 that the 57-foot wide boring machine arrived in Seattle after leaving Japan three weeks before....
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A ‘super sewer’ is under construction in London to stop the flow of waste into the Thames
As London’s population has doubled from 4 million in the 1860s to 8 million and counting by 2015, the old Victorian sewers, although in excellent condition, cannot handle the huge amount of waste anym...
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A Chinese architecture firm builds multi-story bamboo treehouses with no fasteners
In 2013, architects Dayong Sun and Chris Precht founded Penda, with the aim to reconnect people with our natural environment through their designs. Since then, the Beijing and Vienna-based architectur...
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World’s first ship tunnel to be built in Norway
A shipping tunnel for safer passage through the dangerous Stadhavet Sea in northwestern Norway, an idea that was first suggested in 1874, received the ‘green light’ for construction. The Stad Peninsul...
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This two-story 3D-printed villa was constructed in just 45 days
3D printing technology is about to bring a housebuilding revolution. Even two-story building s can now be constructed this way, as the villa shown in the photos below demonstrates. 3D printin...
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The highest wooden building in the Netherlands is also highly transformable
Patch22, a creation of the Dutch architectural office FRANTZEN et al, is the highest wooden apartment building in the Netherlands. Patch22, a creation of the Dutch architectural office FRANTZE...
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This 3D-printed residential house cost just $10,000
The first ever 3D-printed residential home was built on-site in just 24 hours in the town of Stupino, near Moscow in Russia last December. Having a cylindrical shape and consisting of a hallway, a bat...
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