Green Roofs Are Great. Blue-Green Roofs Are Even Better

Courtesy of De Dakdokters Below that stretches a filter layer, which keeps the soil from getting into the next layer, a lightweight crate system that stores the water. And finally, below that you’ve got additional layers to keep water and plant roots from infiltrating the actual roof. “You have, in fact, a flat rain barrel …

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Keep Inspiration in Reach with Nix Color Sensor, Now $60 for One Week Only

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Meet the Designer Behind Neuralink’s Surgical Robot

As a designer, what safety considerations did you have to think about with the Neuralink device? The primary safety considerations weren’t so much on the device but on the robot. We had a small role to play, which was to psychologically transform their first-generation robot, which was exposed steel—you could argue it looked pretty ominous—to …

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The Global Danger of Boring Buildings

We need to make the exterior parts of buildings that people focus on more interesting, so that people want to protect rather than replace them. But most people aren’t architects or city planners—they can’t change the designs of what’s being made. Indeed, we have a public who feel utterly powerless, and a construction industry that …

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What is a flat white? What to know about coffee drink in Google Doodle

Customers who frequent their local coffee shops might be familiar with the subject of today’s animated Google Doodle. The doodle for Monday, March 11 celebrates the date in 2011 in which the “flat white” was added to the Oxford English Dictionary. A flat white is a coffee drink made up of an espresso shot topped …

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Artist Dirk Rozich creates LeBron James mural at Akron museum

Stark County artist Dirk Rozich caught himself in a moment of awe while painting images of global sports icon LeBron James. Working on a trio of 28-by-20 inch paintings, each one would be enlarged into murals at the LeBron James’ Home Court museum at House Three Thirty in Akron. “It was very emotional when I …

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Get This AI Photo Editing Bundle for Only $150 Through December 25th

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