How the Romans became the greatest builders in the ancient world

The expansion of one of the Mediterranean’s strongest powers wasn’t only driven by conquest, but also infrastructure. By ...

Family Builds 12-Foot Rainbow Igloo Using 700 Ice Blocks. Then a Warm Spell Nearly Ruined It (Exclusive)

A Minnesota family’s rainbow igloo, built with more than 700 ice blocks and weeks of work, went viral online. But the project ...
IEEE

Informing Building Retrofits Using Surrogates of Physics-Based Simulation Models: A Comparison of Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms

Abstract: Surrogate models are increasingly used to reduce the computational costs of building performance simulation (BPS) models. However, they are rarely coupled with optimization algorithms to ...
The Architects' Journal

Stirling Prize winner appointed to design Plymouth new town

Stirling Prize-winning practice Mæ has been chosen to masterplan up to 10,000 new homes in Plymouth — one of the New Towns ...
IEEE

Zero-shot Building Attribute Extraction from Large-Scale Vision and Language Models

Abstract: Existing building recognition methods, exemplified by BRAILS, utilize supervised learning to extract information from satellite and street-view images for classification and segmentation.