Pop-up Book for Planners

Corporation to Build Full-Size City for Testing Anything

"The idea for The Center was born out of our own company’s challenges in trying to test new and emerging technologies beyond the confines of a sterile lab environment,” said Brumley. “The Center will allow private companies, not for profits, educational institutions and government agencies to test in a unique facility with real world infrastructure, allowing them to better understand the cost and potential limitations of new technologies prior to introduction."

For instance, he said, developers of solar technology would be able to assess exactly how their systems would be delivered and used in one house where the thermostat is set at 78, and another where it’s set at 68. The center could also help show how efficient it might be in an old building versus a new one.

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Via Gizmodo

Hypothetical Development Corporation

This group takes sites and comes up with wildly implausible redevelopment concepts, and then hangs a sign on the building itself like a real developer.

Not to this level, but we do this too.

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Via Boing Boing

Double Teardrop

It's a roundabout and an overpass, all smashed up together.

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Via Inhabitat

Hotel Room SCIF Tent

"We call them 99.9% infallible."
Interesting details about how the president sets up SCIFs when he's on the road.

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Via Kottke