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@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
2025-08-05 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
@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
2025-08-01 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
2025-07-16 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
2025-07-27 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
2025-08-05 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
2025-07-24 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
2025-07-24 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
2025-06-17 14:57:38

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

Deveral cars surround a building with an octagonal top and large windows with red trim and a sign that says DANDY and a faded WYSOX GENRAL STORE
@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
2025-07-29 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.