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17 Top 3D Printing Themes of 2017

2017 has been, by any measure, an eventful year, and as always the end of December brings us to a retrospective season as we look back on all that has…

3D Printing News Briefs: December 8, 2017

We’re throwing a lot of business news at you in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, starting with a recap of the largest 3D printing construction conference recently held in Copenhagen….

3D Printing Completed on 3D Printhuset’s Building On Demand

3D Printhuset works fast – or it may be more accurate to say the company’s 3D printers work fast. In early September, 3D Printhuset began construction on what would be…

3D Printing News Briefs: September 12, 2017

We’ve got a lot of 3D printing business news for you today in 3D Printing News Briefs – CollPlant has signed an agreement with a US investor, while the Hobs…

3D Printhuset Breaks Ground on 3D Printed Building in Copenhagen

By now, there have been many 3D printed houses and other buildings appearing across the world, but you may have noticed one thing about them: they tend to be constructed…

DFAB House Brings ETH Zurich 3D Printing and Digital Construction Techniques from Research Lab to Construction Site

Most people, by now, have at least heard about 3D printed houses and other structures. They’re not exactly commonplace, yet, and they’re still amazing to think about and to see,…

CyBe Construction Announces That 3D Printing is Complete for Dubai’s R&Drone Laboratory

It’s hard to believe that it’s been a year since Dubai opened the doors of the first 3D printed office building. The United Arab Emirates city state recognizes the necessity for…

Live Entirely Off the Grid in a 3D Printed PassivDom Smart House

I’ve often dreamed about living “off the grid.” Particularly when I’m stressed, I fantasize about building a cabin in the woods, far from other humans, and just living a quiet,…

Tiny 3D Printed Structures from Simulated Martian Soil Could Be a Preview of Bigger Things to Come

Mars is a big topic of conversation right now among aerospace agencies, tech companies, governments, and just about anyone with any interest in space – which is most people, as…

Europe Looks to Take the Lead in 3D Printed Construction Disruption

It’s hard to find a topic these days that lies outside of the conversation surrounding 3D printing. So it comes as no surprise that countries around the world are making efforts…

Dubai and Cazza Construction Technologies Announce Plans to Build World’s First 3D Printed Skyscraper

Is it any surprise anymore when Dubai announces plans to 3D print something new? Yes and no, I’d say – we’ve grown used to frequent announcements from the city-state about…

Apis Cor 3D Prints a House in 24 Hours and Creates a Technological Showcase

From above, the newest house in the Russian town of Stupino resembles the symbol often used on weather maps to denote the presence of a hurricane. It’s a fitting shape,…

WinSun 3D Prints Build Garden Villas in Suzhou Within One Week

Shanghai-based WinSun, an engineering and architecture firm, has recently 3D printed garden villas as a part of an initiative to promote low-carbon construction. WinSun garnered mainstream media coverage and attraction…

Fifth Grader Spends Summer Vacation Designing and 3D Printing a Model of His School

The other day, I was talking to a friend about the arts and crafts projects we were assigned back in elementary school. It seems that some types of projects are…

Where is Lewis Yakich? The Man Behind the World’s First 3D Printed Hotel Suite Vanished a Year Ago Without a Trace

On November 6th, 2015 an entrepreneur, hotel owner and American expat living in the Philippines named Lewis Yakich left the Penthouse Hotel where he was living with his girlfriend to…

Russian Construction Company Builds Game of Thrones’ Winterfell with Cement 3D Printer

As many of us fellow Game of Thrones fans can certainly attest to, the worst part about the fantastical and expressively gory HBO television show is when a season ends….

The WASP BigDelta Takes Starring Role in Building Shamballa, 3D Printed DIY Village with New Economic Vision

The first 3D printed village is underway. And while some may have been wondering exactly how such a massive project was actually going to happen, as work begins, that seems…

3D Printed, Livable Tiny House Built in Only 24 Hours by the Vesta V2 Concrete Printer

There’s something very alluring about the tiny house movement currently growing in the United States. I can’t imagine living long-term in one of the miniature structures, which tend to measure…

Chinese Construction Company 3D Prints an Entire Two-Story House On-Site in 45 Days

How long does it take to build a house? Obviously it depends on the size of the house and other factors, but somewhere around six or seven months is a…

Syska Hennessy Group Continues Involvement in Dubai’s 3D Printed Office Building

The United Arab Emirates is like the cool kid in a Disney movie, if you can ignore a series of societal problems that it represents, you can’t help but be…

The Landscape House Now Underway, 3D Printed by Massive Free-Form Robotic 3D Builder

For nearly every relevant application, the benefit of using robots is that they will do tirelessly do things that we can’t—or just really really don’t want to—do. From the most…

To Infinity and Beyond: Dutch Architect Plans to 3D Print a House in an Infinite Loop

A Möbius strip may look simple, but it’s a mind-boggling mathematical phenomenon. It’s easy to make one – cut a strip of paper or ribbon, give it a little twist, then…

Dubai Inaugurates First 3D Printed Office Building, Constructed in 17 Days

On hearing mention of Dubai, most of us envision celebrated and extravagant lifestyles featuring piles of gold and private jets, lavish spreads of wealth, and unfathomable luxury, prominently on display for all…

Chopsticks & Glue: Japanese Researchers Unveil Unique 3D Printing Method

In a recent paper by researcher Hironori Yoshida and his colleagues, titled ‘Architecture-Scale Human-Assisted Additive Manufacturing,’ the authors outline how they physically tackled a combination of relevant subjects and issues, regarding the…