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san francisco streets, soon home to self driving taxis?
No Free Rides

Self-driving taxis get the go-ahead in California to start charging for rides

tree-lined street in los angeles, one section that will be covered under tree canopy lab
Shady Deal

Google debuts an AI tool for tracking tree canopy coverage in L.A.

Rendering of a warehouse containing the materials the caused the beirut blast
A Better Beirut

Forensic Architecture reconstructs the port blast that crippled Beirut

man sitting in sculptural installation made from plant waste, homegrown
Plant A Seat

After Architecture explores the structural possibilities of invasive species with Homegrown

A y-shaped flying taxi station
Cloudy With A Chance Of Traffic

This flying car startup will bring a “vertiport” to Orlando

The Victorian big battery, a field next to power towers
Throw Another Battery On The Barbie

In Australia, a battery the size of a football field will stabilize Victoria’s energy grid

a self-driving waymo car on public streets
NOT Making My Way Downtown

Waymo, anticipating election protests, docks its self-driving cars in San Francisco

Pinching a fleshy phone case, art from virtual exhibitions
Think Outside the (White) Box

Four museums without walls

Skyline of NYC with white rooftops, candidates for the whitest-white paint
Take That, Anish Kapoor

This newly discovered “whitest-white” paint could help cool cities more than ever

photo of a digital projects on an armature, which will be shown at acadia 2020
Distributed Proximities

ACADIA 2020, launching this weekend, adapts to the social distancing moment

A screenshot of flight simulator 2020 showing a plane over the mountains of brazil
Around the World in 80 Minutes

Flight Simulator 2020 provides a worldwide playset for architects and urbanists

A mirrored balloon for Moving Atmospheres in a field
Up, Up, and Away

Tomás Saraceno’s ETFE installation at the Garage Museum eyes sustainability in the Anthropocene

A waymo branded minivan in front of chandler city hall
Robot Runs

Waymo launches its fully driverless taxi service in Phoenix

Rendering of a lunar colony with circular buildings for project olympus
When The Moon Hits Your Eye

NASA, BIG, SEArch+, and ICON team up to develop a lunar city

Children playing with a concrete obelisk and red beams
Practice Into Play

Matter Design parlays its concrete research into a Pennsylvania play-lab

downtown new rochelle
A New Approach in New Roc City

New Rochelle, New York, launches a virtual reality platform to visualize planned downtown improvements

A banner that reads Post-Pandemic potentials
Mixed Methods

How hybrid teaching could help reinvent architectural education

A church in the fog from the venice shore
Welcome To The Apocalyptic Dystopia

As Venice sinks, a research team is trying to digitally preserve its heritage

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