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High school science to go low-poly with Poly Bridge
Like a bridge over troubled waters?
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Become a great game designer by living in a cabin in the woods
Why some Swedish seasoned game developers think that loneliness and nature can help make great games.
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MIT is designing furniture that’s smarter than we are
The new project at MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab is a miniature chair that constructs itself.
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Höme Improvisåtion: if IKEA made videogames
No no, it’s not official, but it does look like a group of game designers may have managed to capture the infernally infuriating experience of putting together IKEA flatpack furniture in virtual reality. Höme Improvisåtion as the game is called (complete with appropriate Scandinavian accents) is app
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LittleBigPlanet 3 is full of toys and joy
The series moves beyond floatiness.
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All those vacant stores in shopping malls are being turned in data centers
Malls and department stores both have generous amounts of space, so with many vacancies still left unfilled after the recession, there’s a need to find replacement entities that can make efficient use of of the ample room. An answer to this problem is to buy the space and fill it up with servers, co
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This new art exhibit puts a human face on hard steel
The Barbican Centre, located on Silk Street in the City of London, is one of the largest performing arts centers in Europe. (The smallest is Captain Franko’s Fantabulous Flea Circus in Covent Garden.) Until January 11th, 2015, the venue is hosting an exhibit called “Constructing Worlds: Photography
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This mountain hut is like a crash-landed spaceship
Part LEGO and part crash-landed Borg cube, Atelier 8000’s entry into the Kemarská Chata (Kemarská Hut) international architectural competition would have looked right at home in the High Tatras peaks of Slovakia. The design team said that the “clean simple cube shape” is intended to evoke a scene
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A family of English architects is rebuilding Iraq
Nasiryah, Kut, and Kufa are reimagined from afar.
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These cloud-shaped skyscrapers may give Columbia a run for her money
Only, instead of racism, it’s all about eco-friendliness.
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Let’s all leave this cold world and live in a LEGO house together
This week marked the groundbreaking of the LEGO House in Billund, Denmark, a massive structure that aims to be a sort of futuristic Mecca for Lego lovers, design nuts, and artists alike. The 8,500 square foot building isn’t just a building made of LEGOs or a building made to look like it’s made of L
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Harvard architecture students turn Tokyo into brain-melting digital playground
Do architects make the best game designers?