Amsterdam canal house built with 3-D printer
Friday, March 14, 2014 - 08:31
in Mathematics & Economics
Hundreds of years after wealthy merchants began building the tall, narrow brick houses that have come to define Amsterdam's skyline, Dutch architects are updating the process for the 21st century: fabricating pieces of a canal house out of plastic with a giant 3-D printer and slotting them together like oversized Lego blocks.