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As The Climate Changes, Architects And Engineers Need To Design Buildings Differently
In the past seven years, four major disasters have caused serious disruptions in the Northeast and Midwest United…
A Month After The Fire: Rebuilding The Notre-Dame Cathedral
It’s been a month since the Notre Dame cathedral was razed by flames last April 15, 2019, leaving…
The Best Way To Brand A City? With Architecture And Food
Berlin is big beers and the Fernsehturm TV tower. Paris is the Eiffel Tower, croissants, and baguettes. New…
An Intriguing Sci-Fi Vision Of A Megacity
Artist Olalekan Jeyifous creates fantastical, futuristic images of Lagos, Nigeria, to get people thinking about how we live…
How To Make Creative Cities — From Buildings To Buses
“I am in love with cities,” says British designer and architect Thomas Heatherwick (TED Talk: Building the seed cathedral). “It’s just…
What Would Cities Look Like If They Were Designed By Mothers?
Architecture’s lack of diversity shows in environments created by people who never need step-free access or to take…
The World’s 18 Strangest Bridges
Some bridges are engineered with nothing but utility in mind—for these, aesthetic design is secondary to safety and…
The Secret Solution To Urban Heat As Taught By Termites
How do you cool a building without air conditioning? In nature, termites build skyscraper-like mounds that are ventilated…
What Makes Housing Great? Here’s New York City’s Guide
Anyone can use the city’s new guide to affordable housing–and eventually, it could go global. Who gets to…
A Playful Solution To The Housing Crisis
Frustrated by her lack of self-determination in the housing market, Sarah Murray created a computer game that allows…
We Need Bigger Cities, But We Also Need Unique Cities
“If you don’t want processed food, why do you want processed cities?” asks architect Vishaan Chakrabarti. Think of…
Life Imitating Art, Architectures Imitating Nature
“These biomimetic designs reflect the natural world.” Architects have long been inspired by nature. Evidence of its influence…
The Immigrant Architects Who Built New York City
The common wisdom is that New York is a city built by immigrants, its spirit and populace formed…
The 14 Epic Must-See Libraries Of The World
A cab driver once told me that, at the age of eight, he walked 10 miles from his…
Smart Cities That Are Bastions For Tech Jobs, 2018
Smart city growth is at a tipping point, and there are plenty of jobs in security, analytics,…
Why Are Cities Full Of Uncomfortable Benches
It’s not just you, city benches are actually designed to be uncomfortable. This video is created by…
How The ‘Queen Of The Curve’ Redefined Our Cities Around The World
From Beirut to Beijing, Zaha Hadid’s distinctive buildings have transformed skylines around the world. Nicknamed the “Queen of…
What 5,000 Americans Think About Urban Design
Park benches, well-maintained lots, planters full of bright flowers, lamp posts — these are public space design features…
Chinese Architecture: Spectacular, Or Eccentric?
China is no stranger to contemporary architecture that boggles the mind or appears to side-step common sense, from…
Smart And Green Real Estate Makes Money Sense, Really
Improved light, ventilation and heat control can boost workers’ productivity by thousands of dollars a year and reduce…
Singapore Island’s Smallness Drives The Bigness Of Its Ambitions
Jurong Island, a man-made smear of sand, lies just off the southern coast of Singapore. A quarter the…
The Flowering Of Macau City
An hour West of Hong Kong across the Zhu jang (Pearl River) Estuary lies a bicultural gem known…
Amsterdam’s Game Of Thrones Is A Masterpiece
Historical videos inspired by “Game of Thrones,” photos of long-lost neighborhoods, and maps of the best old buildings…
The 10 Maps Of Exquisite Beauty And Elegance
During much of history, maps were designed as much for beauty and display as for accuracy. When maps…
Why Culture Should Drive City Planning
In my view, while infrastructure and services are necessary for environmental health, it is culture that provides identity,…
From Architect Of The Built Environment To Architect Of Nature
Why are some architects scared to use vegetation at the heart of their façade design? Is it the…
Even The Ancients Cared About Heritage Buildings Before Reinventing Them
In any debate on new construction in our urban centres you are likely to hear phrases like sustainable…
We Are Missing Some Crucial City Quality Metrics
Cultural amenities like parks and museums attract young talent to big cities. But how do they work for…
Skyview: Above Hong Kong’s Urban Beehive Jungle
Hong Kong based photographer, Andy Yeung, shows us how densely populated his city is by flying a drone…
How Cities Can Evolve Through Architecture
“What we’ve learned about modern cities in China was always from the West. But after 30 years of…
Why Dark Glass Giants Rule Our Cities
Slick, glassy skyscrapers cast their shadows over the streets and spaces of cities all over the world. These…
Shelters That Saved Londoners In War, Still Serves Peacetime
When the Second World broke out in Europe, and London became the prime bombing target, people began to…
The New Temple Of Art That You Maybe Stepping Underneath
“There were very few people outside the water system who knew this massive space was there.” It took…
The Smartest Schools In The World Are Also Beautifully Smart
Design — it is probably the last thing on parents’ list of considerations when choosing which school they…
High Tech Forest? In A Hotel? Only In Dubai.
Dubai is to embark on another ambitious project — this time building a 7,000 square meter rainforest in…
How Modern Luxury Meets Traditional Sensibilities
Looking at the image above, one would think it came off of a sci-fi movie or a very…
Experiencing Biblical Noah’s Ark, Brought To Kentucky
A creationist group called “Answers in Genesis” who describe themselves as “a fundamentalist Christian apologetics organization” has opened…
Our Modern Grid Design For Cities, Not So Modern After All
The ruins of Timgad lies on the slopes of the Aures Massif, about 35 km east of the…
Edmonton : When Your City Being Destroyed Becomes A Privilege
Forget New York, let alone Tokyo: as reader Greg Whistance-Smith points out, the wildly popular Japanese anime show…
Utopia’s British Brutalist Architecture, In [Re]view
A new project by photographer Rory Gardiner and studio esinam highlights the subtle beauties hidden beneath the hard…
Before We Destroyed Cities, We Destroyed Its Soul First
What caused the war in Syria? Oppression, drought and religious differences all played key roles, but Marwa Al-Sabouni…
The World’s Largest Adobe City In Chan Chan
Located near the Pacific coast in the Peruvian region of La Libertad, 5 km west of Trujillo, Chan…
A Most Stark & Beautiful Take On A Brutalist World
Peter Chadwick’s new book collates some striking examples of this enduringly popular architectural genre – from the infamous…
Discover A Tale Of Cities, We Missed & Unheard
To complement our 50-part series on the history of urbanisation, our readers shared fascinating stories of the cities…
Sci-Fi Cities & Mega Cities Of The Future, As Imagined Or Not?
Will we live in buildings made out of waste, heavily surveilled smart cities, or maybe floating communities designed…
Top 10 Urban Projects Made For People, By Its People
Take a close look at 10 of the Best Urban Projects in the World. I’ve always been fond of…
A 1987 Dream In Barcelona Reclaiming Its City For Its People
The Catalan capital’s radical new strategy will restrict traffic to a number of big roads, drastically reducing pollution…
Why Life Imitating Art & Vis-A-Vis, Now Extends To Gaming
Do computer games influence landscape architecture; the art of arrangement of elements in a given space? When talking…
Amazing Discovery Of A Well-Preserved 2,000-Year-Old Wooden Road
Long ago, a large part of north-western Europe, particularly Ireland and Great Britain, were covered in bogs. These…
Portugal’s Bordalo II Keeps Proving Trash Can Be Beautiful
Portuguese street artist Artur Bordalo, known in the art world as Bordalo II, uses trash as his medium…