Coop Himmelb(l)au design an energy-producing tower that treads lightly on planet Earth, and invisibly on radar screens. The building, which is meant to anchor a new development in the fringe ...

These are buildings whose reflective surfaces make them appear to blend into the landscape. They’re like the architectural equivalent of the scramble suits from Philip K. Dick’s novel A Scanner Darkly ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Earthquakes can be made to bypass buildings surrounded by seismic invisibility cloaks, claim researchers at the University of Liverpool. “Numerical simulations have been carried out ...

An inventive mathematician has a new idea for protecting buildings from earthquake damage: hide them. William Parnell, of the University of Manchester in England, suggests wrapping a building’s base, ...