Discover China's most breathtaking opera house, designed to resemble a giant seashell — the largest of its kind in the world.

A heart cockle shell has been found to let in light through a design that resembles fiber optic cables. This could inspire everything from helping coral survive to designing new camera lenses.

Researchers from Skoltech and the University of Granada have found a way to speed up the architectural design of vaults and ...

Better understanding the structure and properties of beetle exoskeletons could help scientists engineer lighter, stronger materials. Such materials could, for example, reduce gas-guzzling drag in ...

Instead, the multilayer structure exhibits a complex zig-zag-like architecture with the multilayer surface normal spanning an angle θ′ of about 16°–18° with respect to the overall shell ...

Courtesy of Tonkin Liu. The Shell Lace Structure technique represents an adaptive approach to architecture that allows for enhanced means of expression as well as additional opportunities to ...

Tonkin and Liu, founders of London-based architecture studio Tonkin Liu, adapted the design of their single surface structural technology – called the shell lace structure – to create the stent.

A three-member jury called the projects “extraordinary examples ... Wood Innovation Design Center (WIDC) / Michael Green Architecture. ... One Fold's self-supporting thin shell structure ...

Scientists have proven it’s old, but it’s also one of the very last surviving examples of French Colonial architecture in the United States, Deputy State Preservation Officer Ken P’Pool told ...

Better understanding the structure and properties of beetle exoskeletons could help scientists engineer lighter, stronger materials.Such materials could, for example, reduce gas-guzzling drag in ...