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Terafab: What It Would Feel Like to Be the Largest Building Ever Poured
Musk's 100M-sq-ft, $16.8B Terafab reads as the world's largest building — but at 1 TW of compute the heat load, not floor area, decides if it's even physical.
The Segmented Shell: How You Fake a Curve and Keep the Physics
How segmented shells keep membrane efficiency while deleting the mould — from Candela to BUGA's 376 timber segments to ETH's demountable concrete floors.
Remise Rosa: a CLT body that rose on a Zurich freight yard in five months
Hello Wood's 2,500 m² Remise Rosa stood up on a Zurich freight yard in five months via CNC-prefabricated CLT — and why the real win is the model, not the speed.
IFC in Notepad: reading a building with three lines of IfcOpenShell-python
IFC is a plain-text STEP graph you can open in Notepad. Read and edit a real building in three lines of IfcOpenShell-python — no licence, no vendor lock-in.
Held up by a service: what the Hielotron teaches the smart building
Prada Poole's 1976 Seville ice rink stood on air and vanished in one night — the honest ancestor of every smart building held up by a running BMS and a licence server.
The Singing Roof: What Sou Fujimoto's House of Music Feels When Freddie Moves In
Sou Fujimoto's House of Hungarian Music hosts a Freddie Mercury tribute — and shows why every hall is tuned to one number: reverberation time. A PAZ acoustics read.
Tor Alva: The White Tower That Grew Its Own Skeleton in Concrete
ETH Zurich's Tor Alva stands on 32 printed concrete columns in Mulegns. The real win is reinforced thin-walled printing — here's the lesson for your desk.
The Parthenon Just Got Two New Stones — and a Lesson in As-Built Memory
Two marble blocks close a 220-year gap on the Parthenon — and show why readable geometry, open protocols and re-scan discipline outlive any vendor cloud.
Design intent in BIM: where the parametric model stops being a toy
A PAZ foundation essay on parametric design — how design intent survives the handover from competition sketch to a governable, auditable BIM production model.
ABB Will Wake an Oerlikon Hall in 2031 — Who Owns Its Nervous System?
ABB's CHF 80m Zurich Oerlikon headquarters protects the listed fabric — but nothing protects the control stack. Write the open-protocol clause into the brief.
