Archive · September 2026
Torres Blancas: the concrete body that refused to be demolished
Sáenz de Oíza's 46-pillar monocoque tower in Madrid — 23,243 m² of concrete that couldn't be demolished. What its isotropic slabs teach a 2026 carbon desk.
Delete the retry wrapper — let Anthropic's API constrain the JSON shape
Structured output makes an LLM return data you can load, not prose you parse. Anthropic's output_config constrains the shape — then you check the values.
Two days, nine blocks: what our KI Back-2-Work agenda actually builds
Our KI Back-2-Work Camp agenda is public: two full days, nine blocks, 23–24 September in Zürich — from loop engineer to graph engineer, built not watched.
Switzerland Put a Price on Its Microsoft Dependency — $11M to Cut One Node
Switzerland is spending 9M francs to move 3,000 desks off Microsoft 365 to openDesk. Read it as topology — and draw your own dependency graph.
One shape, no repeat — and the bill for building it
How the hat monotile quietly needs two moulds, why the chiral Spectre needs one, and the two debugging lessons behind PAZ's verified tiling sketch.
The Riegel Problem: A Nature Cities Paper Prices the Cooling Zürich Already Legislates
A Nature Cities paper prices the cooling that arrives from upwind — and Canton Zürich already maps and legislates it at 5×5 m. Turn the building.
A fruit fly's 166,000-neuron wiring diagram is now a file you can query
Google and HHMI mapped 166,000 fruit-fly neurons into a downloadable graph. Why a connectome is not a mind — and what it teaches architects about querying BIM models.
One Casting, No Joints: The Geometry Under the Giga Press
How single-piece megacasting eliminates joints: the topology, the clamping-force maths, and what part consolidation teaches an AEC studio.
The SIA fee formula is gone. Now your office has to argue the number.
LHO:2026 withdraws the SIA fee-cost formula after a WEKO intervention. Swiss offices must now argue the number from their own effort data — here's how to start.
The School That Knows Its Own End Date — Kantonsschule Stadelhofen's Dübendorf Modules
Kantonsschule Stadelhofen's Dübendorf branch — ~250 timber modules, Minergie-Eco, built in 15 months and detailed to come apart at the end of the 2030s.
