14-09-05 Dusk -- of a summer night. And the tall walls of the commercial heart of an American city of perhaps 400,000 inhabitants -- such walls as intime may linger as a mere fable. And up the broad street, now comparatively hushed, a little band of six, --...
14-07-01 Green spaces in towns and cities need extra consideration as they may be damaging buildings in the area, according to new research from the Universities of Southampton and Surrey. When organic chemicals from trees and vegetation mix with air polluta...
14-01-14 Four years after the January 2010 earthquake, 145,000 people still remain homeless in Haiti. A cheap and simple technology to repair earthquake damaged buildings -- developed at the University of Sheffield -- could help to reduce these delays by qui...
13-12-10 Vertical sprawl refers to the unplanned addition of a large number of high-rise buildings in a relatively small area, leading to problems with traffic, parking, and infrastructure, as well as lessening culture and quality of life. Vertical sprawl指...
13-08-11 An Italian architect has revealed the ambitious plans to create Dynamic Towers in cities around the world with separate floors that spin 360 degrees around a concrete centre every 90 minutes. 意大利佛罗伦萨建筑师戴维菲舍尔计划在世界各大城市打造360度...
12-08-09 At least two people have died after two unfinished buildings, where hundreds of people were living illegally, collapsed in the Nigerian capital, Abuja. 尼日利亚首都阿布贾两座未竣工的建筑突然倒塌,至少两人死亡,据悉此前有数百人非法居住在这里。 The BB...
10-10-26 Brief Introduction The largest existing complex of ancient sacrificial(牺牲的,献祭的) buildings in China; masterpiece of China's royal sacrificial buildings complex and one of the best symbolic illustrations(插图) of Chinese cosmology(宇宙学)...
10-10-13 Kaiping Diaolou and Villages, the unique residential and defensive buildings in Guangdong's Kaiping, were inscribed(题写,雕刻) on UNESCO's World Heritage List on June 28. The cultural site nomination(任命,提名) was approved by the ongoing 31st...
10-08-24 Some of the nation's most historic buildings and monuments may be better protected from decay(衰退,腐烂) in future, following a development by engineers. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have devised a method of forecasting damage cause...
10-05-31 Scientists have discovered the secret behind an ancient Chinese super-strong mortar made from sticky rice, the delicious sweet rice that is a modern mainstay(中流砥柱) in Asian dishes. They also concluded that the mortar(灰泥) ― a paste used to...