Some buildings aim to stand out as much as possible, rising from the Earth like alien spaceships and reveling in all their artificiality. Others use clever forms of camouflage to virtually disappear ...

Architect-developer Jonathan Segal’s 5,300-square-foot house, cast in concrete around a reflecting and swimming pool, has won the sole honor award by the American Institute of Architects’ local ...

Joey Eddington, an industrial design student at Brigham Young University, recently won the QUIKRETE One Bag Wonder 2.0 contest with his floating concrete ghost table. Bernie Solo’s mid-century lamp ...

1. Statoil's Hywind floating windfarm will employ cylindrical floats constructed out of steel and sand-water balast. They will share the same power lines and be tethered to the ocean floor. (Image ...

Concrete — though it seems conterintuitive — floats. And floats well. This summer, in the waters off western France, this rock-hard material — used for megaprojects from the ancient Roman dome of the ...

When most people think of canoes, they probably envision a standard wooden canoe floating peacefully in a lake. However, students at BYU have done the impossible and built something completely ...

This June the waters of Lake Sammamish will see sailboats, Jet Skis and a fleet of unconventional watercraft — concrete canoes. The University of Washington will host the American Society of Civil ...

07 September 2005 DOHA: A group of Qatari businessmen have found a unique solution to meet the severe shortfall of cement in the local market. They have brought in a floating cement factory which is ...