A company called Apis Cor has 3D printed a (tiny) house in 24 hours for $10,000, which comes out to about $275/m2.
Reconstructing Buckingham Palace at 77,000 m2 this way would cost only about $21 million. According to a 2010 estimate in The Guardian: "you could build a new energy-efficient replica of the palace for a knock-down £320m", which translates to $552 million.
So: 3D printing the palace would save over a HALF BILLION DOLLARS! Muahahaha (pinkies up!).
Video of the building process.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Tuesday April 25 2017, @06:21AM
Architecture got bad reputation because all too often they design houses that look like concrete boxes and is hostile to their inhabitants. Complete lack of reality connect (just like some other professions).