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New Computer Science Building seen from the end of the plaza near the bridge with Gates Hall
#photo #photography #buildings

I even remember the ones that bombed entire populations of Brown people on fabricated charges just to get at their oil. But, yeah, the original point stands. https://mastodon.social/@JoeD/114881976528681976

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Ty Segall:
🎵 Buildings
#TySegall
https://tysegall.bandcamp.com/track/buildings-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/76OFo5N9D8SHaHzGnISea5

join the DSA SF social housing reading group!!
next Tuesday 7/22 7pm in person
#sfPol

Social Housing Reading Group
What could social housing look like in San Francisco, and how do we get there? Join DSASF for a reading of the Budget and Legislative Analyst's report on how the city can build its own publicly owned, deeply affordable housing. We will also read the SF Berniecrats report, Housing for the 99%, which lays out a vision for social housing for all in San Francisco.

Life on Different Paths III🚶🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️
生活诸多路径 III🚶🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️
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🎞️FOMAPAN Action 400
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#filmphotography

Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany 2025
View at some old and new buildings near danube.
The town I grew up ❤
#silentsunday

Limn Issue 12: Climate's Interiors is out now online and in print.
Read anywhere with the link below.
https://limn.press/issue/climates-interiors/

Climate's Interiors - Limn
We tend to think about climate solutions from the exterior. Mitigating emissions, climate-proofing crops, erecting solar panels and windmills. But what happens when we shift our perspective? What if we think of climate change from inside cells, bodies, buildings, and systems? This issue of Limn takes the interior as a counterintuitive starting point for thinking about planetary change. Our proposition: Thinking from the interior fundamentally shifts how we understand our warming world and, cruc…

Automated Building Heritage Assessment Using Street-Level Imagery
Kristina Dabrock, Tim Johansson, Anna Donarelli, Mikael Mangold, Noah Pflugradt, Jann Michael Weinand, Jochen Lin{\ss}en
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11486

Automated Building Heritage Assessment Using Street-Level Imagery
Detailed data is required to quantify energy conservation measures in buildings, such as envelop retrofits, without compromising cultural heritage. Novel artificial intelligence tools may improve efficiency in identifying heritage values in buildings compared to costly and time-consuming traditional inventories. In this study, the large language model GPT was used to detect various aspects of cultural heritage value in façade images. Using this data and building register data as features, mach…

As usual we watched the "Stoertebekker" stage play at Ralswiek on Rügen Island. The stage setups and wardrobes were as awesome as always. They really try to improve on that every year and come up with clever mechanisms to transform the building for the various acts of the play. The script this year left room for desire ;) Nevertheless a happing worth attending
htt…

DRONES hit RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS: Russians attack KHARKIV #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/07/drones-hit-residential-buildings-russians.html

Urban RIS-Assisted HAP Networks: Performance Analysis Using Stochastic Geometry
Islam M. Tanash, Ayush Kumar Dwivedi, Taneli Riihonen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15338

Urban RIS-Assisted HAP Networks: Performance Analysis Using Stochastic Geometry
This paper studies a high-altitude platform (HAP) network supported by reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). The practical irregular placement of HAPs and RISs is modeled using homogeneous Poisson point processes, while buildings that cause blockages in urban areas are modeled as a Boolean scheme of rectangles. We introduce a novel approach to characterize the statistical channel based on generalized Beta prime distribution. Analytical expressions for coverage probability and ergodic capa…

Visited my 95-year-old Mom in Saskatchewan and came away with Prairie pictures and thoughts on memory and topography and Google color science and healthcare economics. https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/07/09/Saskatchewan

Memory in Saskatchewan

‘As thrilling as driving a sports car’: the Tokyo capsule tower that gave pod-living penthouse chic
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/jul/07/pod-living-nakagin-capsule-tower-tokyo-architectural-marvel-pent…

"As a collective of homeless and marginally housed mothers, Moms 4 Housing organizes to reclaim vacant property warehoused by investors. In 2020, another group of mothers began squatting in vacant foreclosed properties owned by Philadelphia’s Housing Authority (PHA)." ❤️‍🔥
https://rosalux.nyc/self-help-housing/

The case of an independent publisher banned from county buildings in Jeff Davis County, Texas, raises questions about who gets to call themselves a journalist (Carlos Nogueras Ramos/The Texas Tribune)
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/11/we

In West Texas, an independent publisher’s arrest sparks First Amendment questions
Publisher David Flash has been documenting the happenings in Jeff Davis County since 2020. Last year, he was banned from county buildings over allegations of harassment.

Day 17 of the road trip was spent in Fremantle. Gorgeous old buildings, decent breweries, and great street art. #RoadTrip

Remember, Trump’s DoE is trying to roll back accessibility requirements for buildings (Section 504).
@… wrote about this and her 9 June update links to a newer comment template:
…

New Attempt to Roll Back Accessibility Requirements - Comments Needed
For over forty years the United States has had regulations that say new buildings must be accessible to people with disabilities if the building is built by an organization that receives federal funds. Now the trump administration is taking the first steps to undo this long history of access in the

Urban Living III - Secrecy 🙊
都市生活 III - 秘密 🙊
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🎞️Lucky SHD 400
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We have urgent news from Ukraine.
More innocent lives were lost and dozens were injured after a second consecutive night of massive aerial attacks on the city of Kyiv.
Hundreds of Russian drones destroyed homes, residential buildings and healthcare clinics.
How much more can the people of Ukraine take?
Right now, more than 5 million Ukrainian refugees are scattered across Europe,
while 3.7 million people remain displaced inside their own country.
Famili…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Ty Segall:
🎵 Buildings
#TySegall
https://tysegall.bandcamp.com/track/buildings-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/76OFo5N9D8SHaHzGnISea5

Early Detection of Furniture-Infesting Wood-Boring Beetles Using CNN-LSTM Networks and MFCC-Based Acoustic Features
J. M. Chan Sri Manukalpa, H. S. Bopage, W. A. M. Jayawardena, P. K. P. G. Panduwawala
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12793

Early Detection of Furniture-Infesting Wood-Boring Beetles Using CNN-LSTM Networks and MFCC-Based Acoustic Features
Structural pests, such as termites, pose a serious threat to wooden buildings, resulting in significant economic losses due to their hidden and progressive damage. Traditional detection methods, such as visual inspections and chemical treatments, are invasive, labor intensive, and ineffective for early stage infestations. To bridge this gap, this study proposes a non invasive deep learning based acoustic classification framework for early termite detection. We aim to develop a robust, scalable …

Photo of the Day.
Israel threatened reprisals if the press filmed Gaza from above during airdrops.
This is why. A scene of destroyed & burnt out buildings in what is left of Gaza City, the pre-war home to 800,000 people.
Credit to Post photographer Heidi Levine who defied the ban & took this.
[Post by @newseye on Bluesky: …

News Eye (@newseye.bsky.social)
Photo of the Day. Israel threatened reprisals if the press filmed Gaza from above during airdrops. This is why. A scene of destroyed & burnt out buildings in what is left of Gaza City, the pre-war home to 800,000 people. Credit to Post photographer Heidi Levine who defied the ban & took this.

Dynamic Campus Origin-Destination Mobility Prediction using Graph Convolutional Neural Network on WiFi Logs
Godwin Badu-Marfo, Bilal Farooq
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05507

Dynamic Campus Origin-Destination Mobility Prediction using Graph Convolutional Neural Network on WiFi Logs
We present an integrated graph-based neural networks architecture for predicting campus buildings occupancy and inter-buildings movement at dynamic temporal resolution that learns traffic flow patterns from Wi-Fi logs combined with the usage schedules within the buildings. The relative traffic flows are directly estimated from the WiFi data without assuming the occupant behaviour or preferences while maintaining individual privacy. We formulate the problem as a data-driven graph structure repre…

Series D, Episode 01 - Rescue
AVON: But not without a gun.
DORIAN: That's right, Soolin.
[Soolin examines her gun.]
SOOLIN: You're right. I did underestimate you, my dear.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/401/484 B7B4

City Features VII 🏙️
城市特征 VII 🏙️
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Some states manage to lead, while others talk about how they are leaders. I'm impressed.
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/carbon-free-buildings/new-york-finalizes-gas-ban

New York becomes first state to commit to all-electric new buildings
The state finalized rules ensuring most new edifices will install electric heat pumps and stoves instead of gas appliances, lowering costs and improving…

Some states manage to lead, while others talk about how they are leaders. I'm impressed.
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/carbon-free-buildings/new-york-finalizes-gas-ban

New York becomes first state to commit to all-electric new buildings
The state finalized rules ensuring most new edifices will install electric heat pumps and stoves instead of gas appliances, lowering costs and improving…

"Inspired by elephant ears, new wall design could help buildings stay cool and cut energy use"
#Buildings #Energy
https://…

Inspired by elephant ears, new wall design could help buildings stay cool and cut energy use
Drawing inspiration from the venous ears of jackrabbits and elephants, Drexel University researchers have come up with a new approach to passive heating and cooling that could one day make buildings more energy efficient. Their concept, recently published in the Journal of Building Engineering, embeds a vascular network within cement-based building materials that, when filled with paraffin-based material, can help passively regulate the surface temperature of walls, floors and ceilings.

"Images verified by The Washington Post show that at least five residential buildings in Tehran appear to have been damaged by Israeli strikes. "
Israel strikes Iran’s nuclear sites, kills military leaders; Trump urges for deal: Live updates - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/12/israel-attacks-iran-tehran-explosions/#link-TXFBA7VYLVGVBNJLB4AWY4VRNE

Russian attack on Odesa injures at least 8, damages residential buildings: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/11/russian-attack-on-odesa-injures.html

Genocide expert:
“The argument that the IDF [Israel Defense Forces] is conducting a war in Gaza is simply cynical, there is no war in Gaza. What the IDF is doing in Gaza is demolishing it. Hundreds of buildings are being bulldozed every week. This is not a secret, but mainstream media coverage has been insufficient.”
Seeking bulldozer drivers to demolish Gaza: how a genocide is being outsourced | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian

Kanbara - Evening Snow
Utagawa Hiroshige, about 1833-5
#SilentSunday

Deep reinforcement learning-based joint real-time energy scheduling for green buildings with heterogeneous battery energy storage devices
Chi Liu, Zhezhuang Xu, Jiawei Zhou, Yazhou Yuan, Kai Ma, Meng Yuan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06824

Deep reinforcement learning-based joint real-time energy scheduling for green buildings with heterogeneous battery energy storage devices
Green buildings (GBs) with renewable energy and building energy management systems (BEMS) enable efficient energy use and support sustainable development. Electric vehicles (EVs), as flexible storage resources, enhance system flexibility when integrated with stationary energy storage systems (ESS) for real-time scheduling. However, differing degradation and operational characteristics of ESS and EVs complicate scheduling strategies. This paper proposes a model-free deep reinforcement learning (…

Alley Stories V 🔣
巷弄故事 V 🔣
📷 Nikon FE
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#filmphotography

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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Life Without Buildings:
🎵 New Town
#LifeWithoutBuildings
https://gargleblastrecords.bandcamp.com/track/new-town
https://open.spotify.com/track/6fNtjb3OEYKAUMJY9SXHrC

Last weekend we drove through Pennsylvania on the way to Maryland and found a Dandy Mini Mart built into an old mansion
#dandy #photo #photography

Switzerland 🇨🇭 to ease #EV charging in apartment buildings: The Ständerat has voted in favour of the 'Unverbietbarkeit' of installing home EV charging points, which means that owner's associations cannot prohibit them.
The same applies to rental properties. This is a major step that will help more Swiss to switch.
The Bundesrat must now amend law(s) and regulations.

Groups of Projectivities in Spherical Buildings of Non-Simply Laced Type
Sira Busch, Hendrik Van Maldeghem
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02441 https://…

Groups of Projectivities in Spherical Buildings of Non-Simply Laced Type
In this article we describe the general and special projectivity groups for all irreducible residues of all thick, irreducible, spherical buildings of type $ \mathsf{B_{n}}$, $ \mathsf{C_{n}}$ and $\mathsf{F_4}$, and rank at least 3. This determines the exact structure and action of Levi subgroups of parabolic subgroups of groups of Lie type related to those buildings.

If I were the DC public works department I'd schedule an immediate, unannounced, emergency shutdown and closure - for purposes of repair - of sewer lines leading from all Federal buildings, including the white house.

Enhancing Urban GNSS Positioning Reliability via Conservative Satellite Selection Using Unanimous Voting Across Multiple Machine Learning Classifiers
Sanghyun Kim, Jiwon Seo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12706

Enhancing Urban GNSS Positioning Reliability via Conservative Satellite Selection Using Unanimous Voting Across Multiple Machine Learning Classifiers
In urban environments, global navigation satellite system (GNSS) positioning is often compromised by signal blockages and multipath effects caused by buildings, leading to significant positioning errors. To address this issue, this study proposes a robust enhancement of zonotope shadow matching (ZSM)-based positioning by employing a conservative satellite selection strategy using unanimous voting across multiple machine learning classifiers. Three distinct models - random forest (RF), gradient …

Probably a good day 🥵 to remind of our CoolWalks study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-97200-2
- Above all, stop burning fossil fuels
- Buildings (and trees) cast a lot of shade in cities. We systematically quantify the benefits for 🚶🚴
- Make shade plans, b…

CoolWalks for active mobility in urban street networks - Scientific Reports
Walking is the most sustainable form of urban mobility, but is compromised by uncomfortable or unhealthy sun exposure, which is an increasing problem due to global warming. Shade from buildings can provide cooling and protection for pedestrians, but the extent of this potential benefit is unknown. Here we explore the potential for shaded walking, using building footprints and street networks from both synthetic and real cities. We introduce a route choice model with a sun avoidance parameter $$…

Hey #FOSS friends! 🚴‍♂️
I just got into biking again as an adult, and I’m loving it!
Now I’m on the hunt for a simple open source app to track how far I ride. Bonus points if it’s on GitHub, if not, at least F-Droid works. If there’s nothing bike-specific, I’m cool with any travel or hiking tracker too.
I use a Pixel 9a with GrapheneOS.
Any recs? Drop ’em here! 🙌

Alley Stories V 🔣
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Last year, we bought a collection of 17 Georgia paintings by 19th- and 20th-century artists, many of whom are lesser known. Even the ones who are better known, like #NellChoateJones, aren't exactly _well_ known. We're excited to start studying these works and learning about the Georgia scenes many of them show.

Solar cells on cattle holding pens seems like a great idea! Probably tons of buildings and farms that would be fine with solar cells on top.
I'm no (food) scientist but I am a lot more confident that it doesn't pose a risk to the food source. But I'm less confident of growing crops under solar cells or solar cells floating on aquatic farms. Likely need significant maintenance over the years to prevent leaching and it's always hard for politicians to fix old instead of …

Little Village buildings spray-painted with swastikas, pro-ICE statement (Katherine Weaver/Chicago Tribune)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/20/little-village-buildings-swastikas-vandalism/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250720/p50#a250720p50

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Ty Segall:
🎵 Buildings
#TySegall
https://tysegall.bandcamp.com/track/buildings-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/76OFo5N9D8SHaHzGnISea5

This is the main square in Piran, Slovenia, early morning today. Only 10 minutes away, the 22nd Extended Semantic Web Conference ESWC 2025 will take place, starting on Sunday, June 1st, 2025. I'm looking forward to meeting dear colleagues as well as old and new friends, listening to exciting keynotes, great presentations, and many more activities.

New Orleans takes a big step towards reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions with new benchmarking program for large buildings. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Inside New Orleans’ plan to fix its energy-hogging buildings
After a 10-year delay, the city passed an ordinance to benchmark its largest buildings in hopes of lowering bills and cutting emissions.

Things you see in Prague but not in Budapest: A tram in yellow and blue, branded "Stand with Ukraine".
I have joked that it might be easy to confuse the two cities after a few years in your memories: both have a large river in the middle, both have trams, both have a castle on a hill on the more hilly western side, both have lots of late 1800s–early 1900s buildings.
(Not my photo, I didn't have time to fiddle with my phone when the tram passed me.)

WBD's Superman opens to $122M in domestic ticket sales, a strong start for the relaunched DC Universe under new DC Studios co-heads James Gunn and Peter Safran (Rebecca Rubin/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/box-office/superman-box-office-op…

Superman Opening Weekend: James Gunn Reboot Opens to $124 Million
Superman can lift up collapsing buildings, Godzilla-sized monsters and, now, the box office.

Do you need to go to a hospital? How about this one?
#GazaGenocide
https://maps.app.goo.gl/JVXUAtMZsm9Edp4G9

Strolling the streets of Dublin.

LAURON VI: A Six-Legged Robot for Dynamic Walking
Christian Eichmann (FZI Research Center for Information Technology), Sabine Bellmann (FZI Research Center for Information Technology), Nicolas H\"ugel (FZI Research Center for Information Technology), Louis-Elias Enslin (FZI Research Center for Information Technology), Carsten Plasberg (FZI Research Center for Information Technology), Georg Heppner (FZI Research Center for Information Technology), Arne Roennau (FZI Research Center …

LAURON VI: A Six-Legged Robot for Dynamic Walking
Legged locomotion enables robotic systems to traverse extremely challenging terrains. In many real-world scenarios, the terrain is not that difficult and these mixed terrain types introduce the need for flexible use of different walking strategies to achieve mission goals in a fast, reliable, and energy-efficient way. Six-legged robots have a high degree of flexibility and inherent stability that aids them in traversing even some of the most difficult terrains, such as collapsed buildings. Howe…

Close up of the facade of Upson Hall for #AbstractAug
#photo #photography #buildings

Fuck yeah #CongestionPricing!

I biked on a street similar to this in Vancouver! Could tell from the younger trees on the outside that the cycle track was a recent addition. We can do this here too
https://mastodon.online/@BrentToderian/114808060180884076

Brent Toderian (@BrentToderian@mastodon.online)
Attached: 1 image This is really important. The main thing that makes it hard to achieve integrated nature and green in cities isn’t density of buildings or density of people — it's density of cars. And the more well-designed and integrated density of people & buildings you achieve, the fewer cars you need or want.

You know how WWII destroyed most of Europe's beautiful architechture from 100 years ago?
It makes me wonder if buildings in another 100 years are going to be even uglier than what we are building today.

De trias energetica leidt niet alleen in Nederland tot tegenvallende resultaten... Tijd voor een nieuwe versie: fossiel (aardolie, aardgas en kolen) vervangen door electrificatie en warmte. Isoleren: tot het Pareto optimale niveau. Daar zou KGG/EZK met z'n economische achtergrond toch heel erg warm voor moeten lopen...

The "Fabric First" Trap: Decades Of Studies Show Electrification Wins Every Time - CleanTechnica
Over-insulating buildings through “fabric first” wastes money and delays decarbonization; electrification with moderate insulation gets much bigger results.

Gotta love Norway. Even on a rainy day.

Man, I'm a sucker for history but this was *fascinating*.
It's shocking how far things fall in America from their apogee. This is close to Gary, Indiana which at one point was the world's biggest manufacturing hub, and now has literal trees growing out of the gorgeous old buildings.
Next time I'm passing that way I'm gonna see if I can find this.

When gunfire pelted the Atlanta-based headquarters of the CDC yesterday, hundreds of employees were inside the campus’s buildings.
The experience was terrifying.
But some of the employees were not particularly shocked.
“I’m actually surprised it didn’t happen sooner,”
a nearly 20-year veteran of the agency told me.
(She, like others I spoke with for this article, requested anonymity out of fear of losing her job.)
This was, in one sense, the first attack o…

CDC Staffers Saw the Violence Coming
CDC staffers saw the violence coming.

When you plot the locations of "listed" buildings in England, there's a conspicuous bald spot north of Newbury. Is there nothing worth preserving there?

🚨 New paper alert 🚨
Together with my co-authors, we compare two different diagnostic clinics of Moorfields Eye Hospital in London regarding their spatial designs and effective patient flows
We highlight the importance of line of sight relationships between diagnostic test stations to ease patient flow and coordination and suggest an ideal clinic configuration based on queuing models
Published

Lanes, clusters, sightlines: modelling patient flow in medical clinics | Buildings & Cities

2020 > 2025
#Utrecht

National Guard stages at federal buildings in L.A. after Trump order to intervene in protests (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/07/la-ice-arrests-protests-national-gaurd/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250608/p54#a250608p54

What, my family actually expects me to act "normal"? What kind of backwards sorcery is that? I’m an anarchist at heart and a syndicalist by choice, no apologies, no compromises.
https://nsf-iaa.org

🥠China's abandoned buildings draw urban explorers despite risks
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/06/asia-pacific/china-abandoned-buildings/
🆓

China's abandoned buildings draw urban explorers despite risks
Urban exploration is growing in popularity in China, where a yearslong property sector crisis has left many cities dotted with empty buildings.

Life on Different Paths 🚶🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️
生活诸多路径 🚶🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️
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'You think the end has come' — as Russian attacks on Ukraine escalate, Kyiv grapples with terrifying new normal: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/you-think-the-end-has.html

Finally got to ride a double-decker bus! The people, they look like ants down there. #BusStuff

For now the federalized troops appeared to have limited authority.
They will be able to protect ICE agents and federal buildings against attacks by protesters
but not to carry out immigration raids or police the city’s streets in general.
https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/156-f…

156. Federalizing the California National Guard
President Trump's Saturday night "memorandum" federalizing 2000 California National Guard troops is a tentative step toward abusing authorities for domestic use of the military, but a dangerous one.

Energy consumption optimization and self-powered environmental monitoring design for low-carbon smart buildings
Yuhan Dai, Mingtong Chen, Zhengbao Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15169

Energy consumption optimization and self-powered environmental monitoring design for low-carbon smart buildings
Despite the growing emphasis on intelligent buildings as a cornerstone of sustainable urban development, significant energy inefficiencies persist due to suboptimal design, material choices, and user behavior. The applicability of integrated Building Information Modeling (BIM) and solarpowered environmental monitoring systems for energy optimization in low-carbon smart buildings remains underexplored. Can BIM-driven design improvements, combined with photovoltaic systems, achieve substantial en…

🐘 Inspired by elephant ears, new wall design could help buildings stay cool and cut energy use
#buildings

Inspired by elephant ears, new wall design could help buildings stay cool and cut energy use
Drawing inspiration from the venous ears of jackrabbits and elephants, Drexel University researchers have come up with a new approach to passive heating and cooling that could one day make buildings more energy efficient. Their concept, recently published in the Journal of Building Engineering, embeds a vascular network within cement-based building materials that, when filled with paraffin-based material, can help passively regulate the surface temperature of walls, floors and ceilings.

Russia targets Kyiv, western Ukraine with mass attack second night in a row: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/russia-targets-kyiv-western-ukraine.html

#SilentSunday

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Netanyahu suggested that new plans for the forced relocation of refugees to other countries would give Palestinians
the “freedom” to choose.
But what Palestinians actually want is “the freedom to return to the places from which their families were expelled,”
says Peter Beinart, editor-at-large at Jewish Currents. “
"What kind of freedom is it when you have an area where most of the buildings and the hospitals and the schools and the bakeries and the agriculture …

“Freedom to Choose”?: Peter Beinart Slams Trump-Netanyahu Plan for Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump this week in Washington, D.C. Trump and Netanyahu are discussing Israel’s war in Gaza, with Netanyahu suggesting that new plans for the forced relocation of refugees to other countries would give Palestinians the “freedom” to choose. But what Palestinians actually want is “the freedom to return to the places from which their families were expelled,” says Peter Beinart, editor-at-large at Jewish Curre…

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🪇 Engineers shake tallest steel-framed building ever tested on an earthquake simulator
#buildings

Engineers shake tallest steel-framed building ever tested on an earthquake simulator
The tallest steel-framed building ever tested on an earthquake simulator started moving slowly, swaying and twisting. The 10-story, 100-foot structure was experiencing simulations of real earthquakes, including the 6.9 magnitude, 1989 Loma Prieta temblor, as part of an effort to determine if height limits for buildings made of cold-formed steel could be increased.

As Russia wages its full-scale war against Ukraine, one of its most important missile plants is quietly expanding -- bypassing international sanctions.
The Votkinsk Plant, also known as the Votkinskiy Plant,
— a strategic, state-owned facility serving Russia’s nuclear forces
— has hired thousands of new workers,
added new buildings,
and brought in advanced machinery to significantly increase its missile production.
Ukrainians have felt it firsthand.
Is…

Investigation: Russia expands strategic plant producing ICBMs — with China’s help
Key findings: * Despite international sanctions, Russia's strategic missile plant was able to import complex machinery to dramatically increase missile production. * The Kyiv Independent has identified the equipment supplied to the plant, as well as the supply chains, mostly from China. * We located the plant's new premises, built to house the new machinery. * We obtained a document confirming that the plant received an order to produce intercontinental missiles capable of reaching the U.S.

City Snaps - Chengdu / Freeze Frame II ⌛️
城市抓拍 - 成都 / 静帧 II ⌛️
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Ty Segall:
🎵 Buildings
#TySegall
https://tysegall.bandcamp.com/track/buildings-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/76OFo5N9D8SHaHzGnISea5

This bridge connects the new CS building to Gates Hall which has been the home of the CS department for years
#photo #photography #buildings

Urban Composition III 🫟
都市构图 III 🫟
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Urban Diaspora VIII ♾️
城市放逐 VIII ♾️
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Peek 🔲
窥 🔲
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🏗️ Tear it down they said... but he kept on building
(looks like China has an answer to the Watts Towers!)
#buildings #housing #china

Tear It Down, They Said. He Just Kept Building.
Defying demolition orders, a Chinese man turned his home into a rickety 11-story tower. Now tourists are coming.

🤦🏻 Trump administration dashes hopes of anti-pollution plan for JD Vance’s home town
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/15/pollution-ohio-trump-administration

Raining Aria 🎶
雨咏叹调 🎶
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Urban Snaps II 📸
城市抓拍 II 📸
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View of Gates Hall from the Plaza of the New Computer and Information Science Building
#cornell #photo #photography

Urban Composition 🫟
都市构图 🫟
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Urban Snaps 📸
城市抓拍 📸
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City Snaps - Chengdu 🌠
城市抓拍 - 成都 🌠
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Natura Urbana VIII 🏡
城市自然 VIII 🏡
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