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, ...

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 ...

'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 ...

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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 ...

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.

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 ...

Shanghai studio Xisui Design drew on natural shapes for the minimalist Thin-Shell Metal Woven Pavilion, which was designed as a sunken resting space on a pond in China. The ovoid metal pavilion was ...

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 ...