When most people think of canoes, they probably envision a standard wooden canoe floating peacefully in a lake. However, students at BYU have done the impossible and built something completely ...

Concrete — though it seems conterintuitive — floats. And floats well. This summer, in the waters off western France, this rock-hard material — used for megaprojects from the ancient Roman dome of the ...

This June the waters of Lake Sammamish will see sailboats, Jet Skis and a fleet of unconventional watercraft — concrete canoes. The University of Washington will host the American Society of Civil ...

Most people assume concrete automatically means sinking. But floating has less to do with weight and more to do with density.

When McCormick junior Vivian Reilly attended McCormick’s organization fair her freshman year, one booth caught her eye: Concrete Canoe. “I saw this tank of water with floating cylinders of concrete, ...

Appearing cantilevered at first glance, hovering above the earth with all the heft of its concrete construction, House La Punta by Central de Arquitectura gets its seemingly gravity-defying appearance ...

1. Statoil's Hywind floating windfarm will employ cylindrical floats constructed out of steel and sand-water balast. They will share the same power lines and be tethered to the ocean floor. (Image ...

Some buildings aim to stand out as much as possible, rising from the Earth like alien spaceships and reveling in all their artificiality. Others use clever forms of camouflage to virtually disappear ...

Architect-developer Jonathan Segal’s 5,300-square-foot house, cast in concrete around a reflecting and swimming pool, has won the sole honor award by the American Institute of Architects’ local ...

TYLER, TX (KLTV) - Buildings seem to be popping up everywhere you look in East Texas, and a lot of those buildings are going with no flooring, just the concrete foundation. The smooth almost ...