An curved arrow pointing right. Mylyn Nguyen is an artist who creates scale models of buildings from around her hometown. These replicas are made out of paper and boxboard. More from Real Estate Mylyn ...

Miniatures are full of bite-sized portions of our world and lives. By transcending spatial norms, models envision and measure real-world size and performance. They help to understand the cultural and ...

A pair of scale model structures subjected to simulated storm conditions in an lab responded like real wood-frame homes during recent hurricanes, suggesting model buildings can yield important design ...

Miniaturists are memorializing the architecture of quickly changing cities with meticulous renderings of corner stores, restaurants and even dumpsters. From left: a Brooklyn dumpster (five inches tall ...

Decarbonization of the electricity grid and the electrification of transport, heat, and industry related energy consumption are at the heart of many governments’ policies to reach ambitious targets to ...

EHDD, a design firm in the bay area, has announced a new software for analyzing building carbon data. (Saad Salim/Unsplash) Using machine learning models, the new platform sorts and analyzes carbon ...

In the introduction of Cities for People, Jan Gehl stated clearly that most cities have neglected the human aspect when planning the built space. While technologies have allowed us to build large, our ...

Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have become essential technologies across industries, automating tasks at a speed and scale far beyond human capabilities. However, building ...

Smiles come easy to the leadership of the Hawkeye Model Railroad Club these days. That’s because the group of local die-hard train lovers will soon move into their own new 3,200-square-foot building ...

John Mellberg spent 17 years meticulously scratch-building a 1:36 scale model of the LZ-130 Graf Zeppelin II, completing it in 1989. The impressive 8.5-pound model, designed for helium lift, required ...