Architect Dave Rowles transforms a concrete shell into a boat-inspired coastal house with cedar and oak interiors, built-in ...
Structural engineer John V. “Jack” Christiansen, a leader in the design of thin-shell concrete structures, died on Aug. 16 on Bainbridge Island, Wash. He would have turned 90 on Sept. 28. The most ...
Engineers at Princeton University have developed a cement composite inspired by the inner lining of oyster and abalone shells that, in laboratory tests on hardened cement paste specimens, proved about ...