Archinect - News 2024-11-21T18:04:26-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/18131540/the-21st-century-navy-yards The 21st century Navy Yards Archinect 2011-08-25T16:00:46-04:00 >2011-08-27T00:46:02-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/r9/r9cl8lqybxnehtir.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Curved buildings with mushroom roofs! Giant 3D printers spewing out ships! Swarms of high-tech workers making electric cars! It&rsquo;s all part of &ldquo;Super Dock,&rdquo; a futuristic science park designed by radical eco-architect Mitchell Joachim. &ldquo;There are no walls,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re merging architecture and land into the water. The entire area becomes a ballast for Brooklyn, so it can absorb water, clean it and filter it back into New York.&rdquo;</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html> https://archinect.com/news/article/31960/mit-treehouse-gets-discovered MIT treehouse gets discovered Cameron 2006-01-21T13:31:00-05:00 >2022-03-16T09:16:08-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/4r/4rs8mrht1da39x0m.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>The Discovery channel finds <a href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060116/treehouse_tec.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">houses made out of trees</a> designed by Mitchell Joachim, Lara Greden and Archinect's own <a href="http://www.archinect.com/members/profile_view_ind.php?id=5" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Javier Arbona.</a></p><p>The news story was also picked up by <a href="http://www.fark.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">FARK</a> bringing trolls out of the woodwork to <a href="http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=1868730" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">chip in</a> with their thoughts.</p>