Models by Japanese architects including Shigeru Ban, Kengo Kuma and Riken Yamamoto are the focus of a museum that has opened in Tokyo (+ slideshow). Billed as Japan's only architectural model museum, ...

'It could be described as "sophisticated Lego" or "reality Minecraft",' says architect Damien Murtagh of Arckit, his design for a reusable, scaled architectural model building kit that is about to ...

Automation aims to standardize industrial operations and bring overall efficiency to today’s production lines. Such gains, however, may come with considerable effort, as engineering teams must ...

Stanton Williams director Gavin Henderson on why the Stirling Prize-winning practice makes models to explore their designs I take a pencil and make marks on paper. I take pieces of card and hold them ...

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Most engineers are surprised to learn that the term mechatronics isnearly 40 years old. It was first used in1969 by Tetsuro Mori, anengineer at the Yaskawa Company, to describe a system composed ...

New York architect David Rockwell's models of his flamboyant set designs for Broadway shows and movies, from Hairspray to Team America, are documented in these photographs. On top of architecture, ...

Applying model-predictive methods and a continuous process-control framework to a continuous tablet-manufacturing process. Currently, there is a high level of interest in the pharmaceutical industry ...

From GCDS’ digital fashion arcade to Pretty Little Thing, fashion brands are doing what fashion brands do best; embracing the weird, the wonderful and the new. This season that’s virtual models.