A Zipper Patent Sat in a Garage for 40 Years. Now It’s Real.
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Most architects look at ocean plastic and see a crisis. Yufeng Tu saw a building material. Ocean Vortex, the speculative floating parliament he conceived, does exactly that — and in doing so, reimagines what civic architecture can mean when the crisis it addresses becomes the material it’s built from.

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