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@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-07-27 22:15:23

🏗️ 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.

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-09-26 02:04:36

Atrium of New Computing and Information Science Building With Workers Still Finishing Up
#photo #photography #buildings

We're on the ground floor of a building with a wood floor, to the left is a large-looking black framed door with a man riding a scissors lift to do finish work, a glass-fronted room and a row of video signs are on the far wall as well as a hallway leading back, to the right is an exit, above there's a hole in the ceiling showing a triangle of yellow lit ceiling bounded by a stairway spiralling around, the near ceiling has numerous bright lights, the closest one of which has a glorious 10-p…
@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-07-20 18:00:52

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

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.

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-07-24 01:13:12

People are already moving stuff into office while workmen are completing finish working inside
#cornell #photo #photography

Interior of a building with barricades erected to keep visitors out of areas where construction is still ongoing, on side there is a wood slat ceiling, on the other side you can still see a lot of HVAC stuff above.
@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-08-27 01:53:55

Row of townhouse apartments at the Maplewood complex on Veterans Place Rd, Ithaca NY
#photo #photography #buildings

9 crenelations of a long apartment buildings go from the distance in the far left off the right side of the frame, most of these are yellow but some are grey, some look like they're made of brick, others look like wood siding, there are always three rows of windows but the designs are mixed up to keep it interesting, close cropped grass is in front, one tree is visible behind the building and one big cumulus cloud in blue sky
@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-07-16 02:30:30

Construction workers are putting in the landscaping for the new Computer Science building across the street from my office
#photo #photography #building

A baby excavator is working together with men on foot in front of a bunch of trees ready to plant in front of a steel and glass building where you can still see dirt with lots of track marks in front of it.
@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-07-29 02:31:35

Interior of the fourth floor of the new CS building
#cornell #photo #photography #buildings

A Hallweigh with beige carpet and a white dropped ceiling with numerous dark lines, on the right find a white wall punctuated twith doors, on the left you can get a good look of two doors with windows into an office and then the corridors narrows with a blue segment of walls and then more doors and windows continue until at the far end of the hallway there is a light blue wall.
@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-08-19 01:24:31

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

A building that would be L-shaped except the angle is more than 90 degrees, maybe more like 135 degrees, and there's a plaza of mostly gree grass with a few trees except for some concrete sidewalks and a concrete round area.
@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-08-30 17:08:32

Petunias in front of the public library in Newark Valley, NY
#photo #photography #buildings #architecture

A huge clump of petunias mostly fills the lower left 1/4 of the frame, a similar clump can be seen further away and behind both of those a flagpole with an American and POW/MIA flag and a small historic brick building with a square footprint seen corner-on. Behind it all a blue sky with high-altitude clouds with power lines that don't quite meet at a 90 degree angle because I used a wide angle lens and I was looking up from the ground.
@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-09-12 23:53:46

🪝 Researchers develop hook-and-loop fastener for building components
#buildings

Researchers develop hook-and-loop fastener for building components
An interdisciplinary research team at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) has developed a hook-and-loop fastening system for buildings in the ReCon project together with company partners. This allows different parts of a building to be resiliently connected and, if necessary, easily separated from each other.

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-07-24 01:22:31

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

A rectangular bridge with three levels that connects silver-colored buildings on the right and left.
@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-09-02 02:23:24

Driving back from Newark Valley I came across this old train station now called the Tioga Transportation Museum
#photo #photography #building

A mostly teal building with a light brown roof and dark brown trim has a sign in front that reads TIOGA TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM with railroad track running from left to right and a little bit of a signal tower at the left, a matching colored building behind and to the left and some trees and a white building to the right. There's some grass on the lower right.
@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-08-08 00:47:08

View of Gates Hall from the Plaza of the New Computer and Information Science Building
#cornell #photo #photography

A glass and steel building is on the right of the frame with a prism jutting out of it with an orange bottom, to the right is an old building with visible fire escapes, above it all a blue sky with a few cumulus clouds and to the bottom a mostly concrete plaza with a triangular and rectangular planters
@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-08-05 01:40:43

🪇 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.

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-09-21 09:30:19

🧊 Novel cement lets buildings cool themselves
#materials

Novel cement lets buildings cool themselves
When temperatures get too hot to handle, most of us crank up the air conditioning to keep cool. It does the job, but it's expensive and uses a significant amount of energy. But now an innovation by scientists, primarily from Southeast University in China, could help us cut our reliance on AC. They've developed a new type of cement that allows buildings to stay cool on their own. Their research is published in the journal Science Advances.

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-08-05 01:01:56

Conference room on the top floor of the new Computer Science building with a floor plan taped to the glass
#photo #photography #cornell

A conference room with a front wall made of glass and a table already installed and an open door on the back wall that opens into a room that has outside windows, taped to the glass find the floor plans for a building with sections shaded in blue and yellow
@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-08-31 21:37:37

The Ports of New York Winery looks like it was part of the set for a cowboy movie
#photo #photography #buildings #ithaca

A tall (relative to it's width) building with faded wood siding made of thin boards has elaborate details on the edge of a flat roof and doors that look like they came out of cowboy movies with a single light above it hanging from below a set of three windows with a flat bottom and curved top, each divided into many panes, matching the curve of the windows are the words PORTS of NEW YORK and the woed WINERY is above the doors which have the street number 163 on them. The building is connecte…
@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-08-01 13:24:11

🐘 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.

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-07-20 02:19:06

Antique store I found in McLean
#photo #photography #building #architecture

A beige building surrounded by power lines on both side with a sign that says 5 STOP SHOP and lots of plants and knick-knacks out front
@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-09-05 03:05:36

You can't say Ithaca isn't building housing: here are (left to right) Harolds Square and Asteri looming in the background with murals on the side of the Press Bay Alley retail development
#ithaca #buildings

In front of a dark blue and prefectly blue sky find two gray and white apartment buildings, the one on the left a bit smaller than the one on the right but both about the same height if you take perspective into account. Below those a row of light brown brick buildings and a white wall with murals that say: Ithaca is amusing, CIRCUS CULTURE and TACOS COMX with some vegetation in silhoutte in the foreground of that.
@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-08-05 22:05:32

Workmen finishing the first floor of the new computer science building
#photo #photography #building #architecture

Equipment including ladders and barricades and workmen spread out in a new building with a bare concrete floor and a slanted ceiling (with two angles with doors to the left and windows to the right)
@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-08-31 21:42:19

The Cherry Arthaus in Ithaca by the Inlet seen from a nearby footbridge
#photo #photography #buildings #architecture

In the far distance there is a striking five story high building in two-point perspective on the side of a straight river-like body of water. The building is surrounded by trees on both sides. In the near frame are the rusted steel beams of a bridge, two small guardraials running horizontally near the bottom and vertical and diagonal beams attach to the arch that supports the bridge, most importantly the building is framed by a vertical and diagonal beam.
@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-09-04 02:28:46

Another crane at work in Downtown Ithaca behind Gateway Commons
#photo #photography #buildings #architecture

A yellow crane is rotated so the boom is almost horizontal in the frame and below it is a 7 story building which looks small thanks to the wide angle effect, a row of cars below it is in deep shadow, to the right can be seen part of a temporary building for the construction site and above most of the frame is full of a blue sky with mainly cirrus clouds.
@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-09-12 01:24:57

The Front of the Newark Valley Central School in Newark Valley, NY
#photo #photography #buildings #architecture

Two-story brick building with marble-looking classical columns in the center with a sign at top that reads NEWARK VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL and a set of yellow scaffolding around the roof.