Hacker News with Generative AI: Architecture

'Passive house' survives fire in California (yahoo.com)
The California wildfires are still ravaging the Los Angeles area a week after they started. The stories of residents who live in the area and have lost everything are heartbreaking.
California Wildfires, Housing, Architecture, Climate Change, Disaster
33 points by tehnub 2 days ago | 61 comments
Antarctic bases went from wooden huts to sci-fi chic(2017) (bbc.com)
How do you build in the most isolated place on Earth? For decades Antarctica - the only continent with no indigenous population - hosted only the simplest huts as human shelters. But, as Matthew Teller finds out, architecture in the coldest, driest, windiest reaches of our planet is getting snazzier.
Antarctica, Architecture, History, Climate, Design
20 points by Willingham 3 days ago | 1 comments
Homes Withstood the LA Fires. Architects Explain Why (bloomberg.com)
More than 12,000 structures have been consumed by the wildfires raging across Los Angeles this week, many of them single-family homes that have stood for decades.
Wildfires, Architecture, California, Los Angeles
39 points by JumpCrisscross 4 days ago | 77 comments
Why Skyscrapers Became Glass Boxes (construction-physics.com)
The most common style for skyscrapers in the US (and probably the world) is the glass box — a structural skeleton of steel or concrete, with a skin of non-load bearing curtain wall made of glass and metal (typically aluminum), and without much in the way of decoration or ornament.
Architecture, Design, Building Materials, History, Urban Planning
125 points by chmaynard 5 days ago | 89 comments
A well designed ski jump (dezeen.com)
Zaha Hadid's Bergisel Ski Jump was her first completed major building.
Architecture, Design, Sports
35 points by HR01 5 days ago | 3 comments
Kubernetes Security Architecture Cheatsheet (github.com/lars-solberg)
Kubernetes, Security, Architecture, Cheatsheets
18 points by xeor 7 days ago | 6 comments
House designed on Passive House principles survives Cali wildfire (reddit.com)
Architecture, Sustainability, California, Wildfires
14 points by dasKrokodil 8 days ago | 6 comments
It's Official: Boring Cities Are Bad for Your Health (wired.com)
Oppressive, unstimulating urban architecture isn’t just about eyesores; there’s evidence that it can cause actual harm to its residents. To fix this in 2025, we must start building for joy.
Urban Design, Health, Architecture, City Planning
7 points by botanicals6 12 days ago | 2 comments
Why the Empire State Building Has a Working Airship Dock [video] (youtube.com)
Architecture, History, Videos
5 points by neom 17 days ago | 0 comments
Epic Construction Site in the Saudi Desert Is a Hazard for Workers (wsj.com)
Billed as a futuristic city-state with dazzling architecture including parallel 106-mile-long skyscrapers taller than the Empire State Building, Neom is the centerpiece of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s plans to transform his oil-rich country into a modern diversified economy.
Saudi Arabia, Construction, Architecture, Labor, Economy
5 points by Jimmc414 20 days ago | 0 comments
3D-printed neighborhood nears completion in Texas (yahoo.com)
GEORGETOWN, Texas (Reuters) - As with any desktop 3D printer, the Vulcan printer pipes layer by layer to build an object – except this printer is more than 45 feet (13.7 m) wide, weighs 4.75 tons and prints residential homes.
3D Printing, Architecture, Construction, Texas
81 points by whoisstan 21 days ago | 117 comments
Building a Self-Hostable Product (fusionauth.io)
In this article, you’ll learn about the architecture, business model, and software design choices necessary to create a self-hostable developer tool.
Software Design, Self-Hosting, Developer Tools, Business Models, Architecture
24 points by mooreds 21 days ago | 7 comments
The last Inca bridge master (bbc.com)
Nearly 500 years after the collapse of the largest empire in the Americas, a single bridge remains from the Inca's extraordinary road system – and it's rewoven every year from grass.
History, Culture, South America, Architecture
146 points by andsoitis 22 days ago | 51 comments
A sneak peek at Notre-Dame's new stained glass designs (smithsonianmag.com)
The French government has revealed modern designs to replace six of Notre-Dame’s windows with new stained glass, which commemorate the cathedral's successful restoration after it was nearly burned down.
Architecture, Art, France, History, Restoration
46 points by prismatic 23 days ago | 40 comments
Robert De Niro Creates the First Vertical Film Studio (secretnyc.co)
Back in July 2019 it was reported that actor Robert De Niro and his son Raphael had entered a contract for five acres in Astoria with plans to build NYC’s first ground-up, purpose-built production studio, Wildflower Studios. Now complete, the studio has become the first-ever vertical film studio in the world.
Film Industry, New York, Architecture, Entertainment
4 points by geox 24 days ago | 0 comments
Converting shopping malls into apartments [video] (youtube.com)
Urban Planning, Real Estate, Architecture, Video
46 points by debo_ 25 days ago | 61 comments
'It's pure beauty' – Italy's largest medieval mosaics restored (bbc.com)
On a hill overlooking the city of Palermo, in Sicily, sits a lesser-known gem of Italian art: the cathedral of Monreale.
Art, History, Italy, Architecture, Restoration
9 points by pseudolus 25 days ago | 4 comments
Communal Luxury: The Public Bathhouse (lowtechmagazine.com)
Throughout history, people have bathed in public rather than in private. Should we bring back the public bathhouse for the sake of sustainability?
Sustainability, Public Health, History, Architecture
27 points by harryday 27 days ago | 28 comments
The birth, life, and death of old Penn Station (2017) (curbed.com)
When Pennsylvania Station first opened in 1910, it was a far cry from the confusing maze of underground tunnels that it is today.
Architecture, History
59 points by ianrahman 29 days ago | 25 comments
Intel Abandons "X86S" Plans to Focus on the Regular x86-64 ISA Advisory Group (techpowerup.com)
Intel has announced it will not proceed with X86S, an experimental instruction set architecture that aims to simplify its processor design by removing legacy support for older 32-bit and 16-bit operating modes.
Intel, Processors, Architecture, Hardware, Industry News
4 points by ksec 29 days ago | 0 comments
How Boston City Hall was born (bostonglobe.com)
History, Boston, Architecture, City Planning
67 points by goles 31 days ago | 116 comments
The "Winkel" Bunker – Arcanum Urbex (arcanumurbex.de)
At the beginning of the 1930s, a German architect was concerned with the possibility of constructing an above-ground air defense tower in such a way that its shape alone would guarantee bomb safety.
Architecture, History, Germany, Urban Exploration
17 points by ZeljkoS 32 days ago | 2 comments
Kowloon Walled City: Heterotopia in a Space of Disappearance (2013) (mascontext.com)
The Kowloon Walled City is known by many as the informal settlement that once existed seemingly out of place within modern Hong Kong.
Architecture, Hong Kong, History, Urban Planning
238 points by hyperific 33 days ago | 100 comments
Ente Photo Storage – Reliability and Replication Architecture (ente.io)
The sibling of security is reliability.
Storage, Architecture, Reliability, Data Centers
4 points by nathan_phoenix 33 days ago | 0 comments
The tale of two Shanghais (arun.is)
Looking out from top of the Shanghai Tower, I realized that my appreciation for skyscrapers has changed since that visit nearly two decades prior. I was initially fascinated by the amount of engineering that goes into extreme buildings. That fascination shifted as I started to see skyscrapers as cultural markers, and the results of complex systems of economics and politics.
Architecture, China, Cultural Commentary
81 points by vrnvu 34 days ago | 18 comments
A cross-section illustration reveals the happenings of Kowloon Walled City (thisiscolossal.com)
At its height in the 1990s, Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong housed about 50,000 people.
Architecture, History, Hong Kong, Urban Planning
20 points by garycomtois 35 days ago | 5 comments
White House Reconstruction (wikipedia.org)
The White House Reconstruction, also known as the Truman Reconstruction, was a comprehensive dismantling and rebuilding of the interior of the White House from 1949 to 1952.
History, Architecture, Politics, US Government
24 points by benbreen 39 days ago | 7 comments
An Italian town that built its own sun (2021) (vice.com)
A town where the sun doesn’t rise for three months a year.
Renewable Energy, Italy, Architecture, Climate Change
143 points by Amorymeltzer 40 days ago | 42 comments
Notre Dame Cathedral reopens (apnews.com)
PARIS (AP) — Notre Dame is reopening its doors for the first time since a fire in 2019 nearly destroyed Paris’ beloved 12th-century cathedral.
Architecture, France, History, Reopening
219 points by chmaynard 41 days ago | 166 comments
Parkchester – The Bronx: Last Stop on the Orphan Train (theneighborhoods.substack.com)
I originally learned about Parkchester from my mother-in-law, who spent the first few years of her life in the recently opened enormous housing development that gives the neighborhood its name. Her only memory of living there was when her mother would say, “Time to air the children,” before taking her and her sister out to one of the development’s many green spaces.
History, Housing, Architecture
18 points by Thevet 42 days ago | 2 comments