Chuck Hoberman's Buildings Adapt to the Environment

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Image Courtesy of Foster + Partners

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Image Courtesy of Foster + Partners

Design guru Chuck Hoberman's latest venture: buildings that can adapt to the environment

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You could reasonably argue that in Chuck Hoberman's book of virtues, flexibility would be number one. The latest mission for the transformable-design guru -- who has created everything from huge collapsible domes to a giant expandable video screen for U2 -- is the Adaptive Building Initiative (ABI), an effort to equip big buildings...