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Design group Circular Economy Manufacturing has created a small factory that uses solar energy to convert plastic waste into household items and city infrastructure on Governors Island. Named MicroFactory, the portable facility was designed to turn household consumer plastic waste into usable objects within communities. Created by New York sustainability start-up Circular Economy Manufacturing (CEMfg),

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AI should be embraced by architects rather than met with scepticism or fear, writes Zaha Hadid Architects principal Patrik Schumacher. Since Open AI’s DALL-E 2 became available to early adopters – including Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) – about 18 months ago, this and similar artificial intelligence (AI) systems have taken the world of architecture by

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This month’s Dezeen In Depth newsletter looks at the environmental cost of artificial intelligence and features an interview with Wolf Prix about working on The Line in Saudi Arabia. Subscribe to Dezeen in Depth now. The growth of artificial intelligence (AI) has prompted academics to discuss the increased environmental implications that it will have on the planet.

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Over-reliance on AI tools for architecture like floor-plan generators could result in boring buildings, Online Lab of Architecture co-founder Daniel Escobar tells Dezeen in this interview. While the most popular use of artificial intelligence (AI) in architecture and design today is for creating visualisations with text-to-image models such as Midjourney, building configurators such as LookX

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Artificial intelligence could give rise to a “neoclassical futurist” architecture style and will become “an everyday tool of necessity”, says designer Tim Fu in this interview for our AItopia series. Architectural designer Fu, who works extensively in artificial intelligence (AI), showed his project The AI Stone Carver – a collaboration with stone mason Till Apfel

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This month’s Dezeen In Depth newsletter looks at whether architects could lose their jobs to artificial intelligence and features an interview with Bjarke Ingels. Subscribe to Dezeen in Depth now. As part of our AItopia series exploring how artificial intelligence (AI) will impact architecture and design, Dezeen examined whether the technology could end up taking architects’ jobs. As part of the piece,

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