"Urban" and "green" lead the way in Cincinnati home design, say local architectural leaders
Soapbox Cincinnati
Local architects, their clients, contractors and builders will celebrate the best of Greater Cincinnati residential architecture Sept. 8 when the local chapter of the American Institute of Architecture — the nation's second oldest — hosts the eighth …

"Urban" and "green" lead the way in Cincinnati home design, say local architectural leaders
Soapbox Cincinnati
Local architects, their clients, contractors and builders will celebrate the best of Greater Cincinnati residential architecture Sept. 8 when the local chapter of the American Institute of Architecture — the nation's second oldest — hosts the eighth …

Chunky concrete outbuilding for a house in Argentina
Dezeen
Moarqs and Ottolenghi Architects previously worked together on the design of another concrete house in Buenos Aires Province. The home is wrapped by a broad concrete screen that blinkers bedroom windows from the street and directs views into a planted …

People favour expressive, communicative robots over efficient and effective ones
Science Daily
The aim of the study was to investigate how a robot may recover a users' trust when it makes a mistake and how it can communicate its erroneous behaviour to somebody who is working with it, either at home or at work. The study suggests that a …

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The Green Cars You Never Hear About
Popular Mechanics
You'd hardly know it as little as automakers talk about it, but you don't need to buy a car with an electrical plug or one that runs on home-brewed bio-diesel to drastically cut emissions. You can buy a normal car with a normal internal-combustion …