Archive · October 2026
The Alpine water tower's 2026 statement: 5.5 % of Swiss ice, 2.2 km³ downhill
SCNAT and GLAMOS report 5.5 % Swiss glacier loss in 2026, second only to 2022. What 2.2 km³ of meltwater means for hydropower and Alpine design data.
Your Project Folder Gets a Librarian: Build Karpathy's LLM Wiki for Minutes, Specs and RFIs
A hands-on guide to Karpathy's LLM wiki pattern for architects: raw/ folder, schema, ingest, query and lint for minutes, specs and RFIs, versioned in git.
Dynamic Relaxation: How a 1965 Algorithm Lets Kangaroo Find the Shape Where Motion Stops
How A. S. Day's 1965 dynamic relaxation method finds equilibrium shapes, from Barnes' kinetic damping and Downland gridshell to Kangaroo in Grasshopper.
The 'Terminator' Had a Pilot, and the Best Fighter Was the Cage
The viral human-vs-robot cage fight was teleoperated. What that means for site robots: autonomy levels, stopping distance and a keep-out zone you can size.
BKG Architekten at 75: A New Zürich Address and the 15–20 Question
Zürich's BKG Architekten, founded 1951, marks 75 years at a new address. Its jubilee text names 15–20 staff as the optimal size. What is right for yours?
The Tower That Was Already There: TITLIS Turns a 1980s Antenna Into a Swiss Cross
At 3,020 m, Herzog & de Meuron kept a 1980s PTT antenna's rock anchorage, steel frame and tunnel, then added two glazed volumes in a Swiss cross.
Reading the Planet's Heat Ledger: ETH's Gergana Gyuleva Re-weighs the Climate Models
ETH Zurich's Gergana Gyuleva used satellite energy-imbalance data to re-weigh climate models: 3.25 °C by 2100. What it means for Swiss design weather files.
PAZ-Rhino on 6 October: Bring the Rhino Task You Repeat Every Week
PAZ Academy's PAZ-Rhino session on 6 October 2026: turn a repeated Rhino task into a readable Grasshopper rule that feeds Archicad. Who it is for and how.
Gemini 4 Argon: What a $2 Frontier Model Means for a Swiss Office Stack
Gemini 4 Argon arrives at $2/$10 per million tokens with a 1M output window. What it means for tender review, nDSG data routing and Swiss office AI stacks.
A Wall Is a List: Coding the Bond, the Overlap Rule and KCAP's Strasbourg Tower
A wall is a list: code the Eurocode 6 overlap rule, see stack bond fail and a 16 % offset lock, and follow it to the KCAP tower in Strasbourg.
