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The future of architecture is in for some spectacularly cool buildings. The World Architecture Festival (WAF) recently announced the 338 projects that are on its annual design awards shortlist.

Owners of the big buildings are responding to the “creative office” wave with a campaign intended to prove they are not stuck in the hierarchical cube-farm motif of the 1990s.

A Boston professor created an invention that reflects the heat off of rooftops and even sucks the heat out of homes and buildings — and the real kicker is that it is 100 percent recyclable.