Tag: BUILDING

Maybe you heard the (literally) big news yesterday that Mecca, the Islamic holy city in Saudi Arabia, has built a clock that will rival Greenwich's classically Euro-imperialist time standard. Putting aside our nation's ad nauseum demagoguery against the 1.57-billion-strong, worldwide faith of Islam, you have to admit that the new clock is quite an awesome achievement. Islam as a religion is a ...

James May's idea to build a two-story, functional LEGO house might seem ambitious, but taking the plastic blocks to another level has been a practice since their invention. Building with the blocks requires patience, a technical mind, and a love for the toy. Here is a look at some of the most tech-savvy LEGO-made projects around, from iPhones to the Darth Vader. ...

As we learned from 'Wall-E,' people with half a mind for themselves probably won't be kosher with living with 1.1 million or so other inhabitants within a pyramid. That being said, there's always the brainwash approach to getting 'em in there, and if hordes of people were ever filed into the conceptual Ziggurat, Mother Earth would surely appreciate it. The 2.3-square kilometer building would ...