3 World Trade Center has been declared open for business in an official ribbon cutting ceremony. Standing on the same Manhattan plot as the original building destroyed in the September 11 attacks, the supertall skyscraper rises to a height of 1,079 ft (328 m).
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Artist Olafur Eliasson's studio recently completed its first major architectural work, Fjordenhus (or Fjord House). Rising out of a Danish fjord like a sculpted modern take on a castle, the building is arranged into four converging cylinders and is defined by its remarkable brickwork.
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A few years ago, Microsoft revealed the Surface Hub, an interactive electronic whiteboard with video conferencing capabilities targeted at businesses. The expensive device didn't exactly take off, but the company is hoping to find greater success with the second-generation model – the Surface Hub 2.
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Google must be pleased with BIG's work on its Charleston East and London HQ's as the tech giant has commissioned the architecture firm to design yet another new campus. This one will be located in Sunnyvale, California, and comprises two green-roofed buildings with long, sloping terraces.
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Desktop PCs are traditionally packed into boring old boxes, but HP is shaking things by cramming a multi-purpose machine into a triangular, smart-speaker-styled body. It’s called the Pavilion Wave, and this newest version has the added abilities of Amazon’s Alexa assistant.
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No matter how many notices are pinned around the office, some workers will forget to lock their computers when away from their desks. The Halberd will automatically take care of such things, wirelessly locking a workstation when a user strays beyond its range and granting access upon return.
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Many of us don’t need any extra incentive to clock off after work, but in Japan the intense business culture means many workers put in too much overtime. Now, two companies have unveiled a quirky solution: a drone that flies around the office at home time, blasting music to annoy staff into leaving.
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MAD Architects has completed a large mixed-use development adjacent to a park in Beijing's central business district. The Chaoyang Park Plaza draws inspiration from Chinese paintings of nature and includes a pair of distinctive towers that are meant to resemble jutting mountain peaks.
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Research continues to show that sitting down all day is bad for our health, but a wide-ranging new study suggests that regularly splitting up these sedentary periods can make a difference, with those that do so experiencing a lower risk of death.
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Even for a firm as happy to experiment as MVRDV, its Bałtyk tower has a very unusual design. The mixed-use building looks totally different depending on the where you view it from, appearing almost too narrow to support itself from some angles and solid and wide from others.
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