A Victory Under The Sun Must Also Be Against It

2018-09-19T12:54:00-04:00

Imitative solar panels - designed by companies including Sistine Solar and Tesla - call into question the relationship between infrastructural aesthetics and the urgent need to conserve material resources in the current climate. Can conservation really only be sold in a dress? Is the conflation of the two our only way out of the environmental crisis?

Designing the Hyperspace: UCLA studio imagines Hyperloop's future in California

2015-04-01T09:01:00-04:00

Walking into the enormous Hercules building on UCLA’s IDEAS campus, in the tech-infused suburb of Playa Vista, feels a bit like a traveling through a rip in space-time. The Hercules building is a giant airplane hangar – now, it’s neighbor to YouTube’s offices and a twin hangar where film studios stage scenes for steroidal Hollywood blockbusters like Transformers and Avatar, and formerly, it housed Howard Hughes’ Spruce Goose. And since last fall, the hangar has played host to another audacious promise of transportation technology: the Hyperloop.

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A Victory Under The Sun Must Also Be Against It

Designing the Hyperspace: UCLA studio imagines Hyperloop's future in California