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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…
Amsterdam’s Key To Survival In The Past Among Its Heritage
The immense firepower of modern artillery witnessed during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 caused great concern among the…
When Most Markets Are Smelly & Filthy, Rotterdam’s Is Beautiful
At Rotterdam’s historic Binnenrotte Square, next to Blaak Station, is an eleven-stories-tall arched building that huddles over an…
Canberra’s Tug & Pull Between The Ideal & The Mediocre
Chicago pacifist Walter Griffin’s design for Australia’s new capital promised so much – even German beer gardens. But…
Where Citizens Doing DIY Knows It Is Not Built In A Day
Armed with shovels and sacks of cold asphalt, Rome’s residents fill potholes. Defying rats, they yank weeds and…
The Truly Godly Treasures Hidden In Quito Ecuador
The historic city of Quito, Ecuador, is remarkable for its many beautiful churches, especially the 17th Jesuit church…
The Top 10 Grandest American Dams To See
Reservoir creating. Electricity producing. Flood preventing. To tweak a song title from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “South Pacific,” there…
In Copenhagen, An Art Gallery That Was Once A Cistern Of Hope & Life
Buried beneath Frederiksberg Hill in the heart of Søndermarken Park, in Copenhagen, is a massive underground space that…
In Mexico, Turning Art Into Architecture & Architecture Into Art
The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), located in downtown Mexico, is the largest university in Latin America,…
Making Your Cities More Beautiful With Living Heritage
Architects, urban planners and government policymakers often aspire to make Australian cities more like Copenhagen. But, for issues…
Bringing Back Medieval Medicinal Gardens To The Future
It’s full of lush medicinal plants—and no, marijuana is not one of them. While some people swear by…
From West To East And Back For Architecture’s Leading Light
Will American cities learn to love China’s best homegrown architect? Ready or not, here he comes. At just…
Housing For South Texas, Delivered In Shipping Containers
San Antonio, Texas-based firms Development Strategies, Inc and Alamo Architects recently completed the first phase of a shipping…
At Last, Las Vegas’ Glitz Shines More With Solar & Foot Power
Cities consume a considerable amount of energy per year on lighting. And if that city happens to be…
Give London’s Citizen The Freedom To Live Well
A city will struggle if it can no longer house the people who teach, clean, nurse, cook, police,…
Discover How The Future Of Urban Farms Produces More Than Food
Most urban centers have a bad rap for pollution and energy consumption, but the cities of the future…
From Ocean Trash To Designer City Attraction In Singapore
Did you know that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is twice the size of France? The amount of…
The Future Of London’s Garden Bridge Project Going Dry?
Jane Duncan calls for review of procurement process amid claims Thomas Heatherwick design was chosen unfairly. The project…
The Best Way To Map Cities We People Can Truly Understand
A roundup of the best stories on cities and urbanism we’ve come across in the past seven days.…
A Vision Of Transforming Industrial Bareness To Eco-Villages
A landscape architect proposes exurban shipping districts you’d actually want to visit (or live in). Environmentalists have been…
Why Your Dutch Holiday May Just Become More Than About Mills & Tulips
The new Waterline Museum near Utrecht reveals another side to the Netherlands’ mastery of waterways and coastlines. For…
Rome Was Not Built In A Day, Then & In The Future
The Italian capital has a logistical nightmare: juggling ambitious restoration projects at the Colosseum and the Porta Maggiore…
A Pavilion From Out Of This World Looks Like A Sea Shell
Brooklyn, NYC-based StudioKCA has constructed an interesting pavilion that reflects the trajectory of satellites orbiting the Earth. Commissioned…
No Surprise! World Building Of The Year 2015 In Singapore
A vertical village in Singapore has been name the World Building of the Year 2015 at the World…
The Force Awakens With Beautiful Architecture In Chicago
Following a lawsuit, a significant redesign, and not a little controversy, the Chicago City Council has finally succumbed…
Why Modern Cities Kills Nightingale’s Song
The Commons apartment building in the inner Melbourne suburb of Brunswick has won swags of awards, including the…
BIG’s Cool, Green, Mountainous Apartments Set In National Park
Designing a building to be sympathetic to its surroundings can be tricky, especially when the building is to…
You Will Be Inspired By (Or Envy) This Small & Beautiful Home In Netherlands
Dutch designer and tiny house enthusiast Daniel Venneman, who previously bought us the DIY Hermit House, has recently…
How To Turn Bland Infra To Something Beautifully Good
Infrastructure can be wielded as a means of promoting the common good or as an institutional weapon of…
It Is Obvious! Climate Change Needs Broadest Collaboration
To achieve the kind of environmentally sustainable future we will want our grandchildren to inherit, we need everyone…
The 10 Best City Gardens Of The World
“City Gardens have environmental benefits. It provides a sense of connectivity and connection to the environment.” Gardens may…
Why We Must Learn From Sunken Cities Or Suffer Their Fate
The British Museum’s Sunken Cities exhibition is a reminder of our future. If we accept that climate change…
Why Following The Signs Is Both Quirky & Fun
Civic startup aims to get more people to walk and cities to invest in bike and pedestrian infrastructure.…
The Hidden Secret Adventures Underneath Downtown L.A.
This network of concrete passageways has an eerie past. Downtown Los Angeles is synonymous with a kind of…
Why We Should Slow Down Pedestrian Cities Now
Everyone has experienced it. Striding along in a purposeful hurry, your progress is thwarted by a slow-moving pedestrian,…
How Street Art Sold Out & Gentrified Our Cities
Street art – as well as its artistic forebear graffiti – are often thought of as radical, rebellious…
What A City Would Look Like If It Were Designed For Only Bikes (No Cars Allowed!)
Coasting down from your apartment on your personal bike ramp will be so fun. The more that bike…
Why Lego Is For Both Fun Play And Serious Work
MIT wants to make transportation planning more transparent—and a bit more fun. MIT researchers unveiled something earlier this…
The 10 Most Extravagant Mansions On Earth
For most people, the goals in life boil down to a functional car, a stable job, some savings…
Halls Of Power : The Laying Of The White House Cornerstone
The cornerstone is laid for a presidential residence in the newly designated capital city of Washington. In 1800,…
THE 10 MOST BEAUTIFUL CITIES IN THE WORLD
Need some travel inspiration? Can’t decide where to go? How about one of the world’s most beautiful cities?…
The Museum That Majestically Sits Atop A Mountain
The recently inaugurated MMM Corones is a new museum about mountain culture that majestically sits atop of Mount…
The Strange And Beautiful World Of Soviet Bus Stops In Pictures
Behind the iron curtain, the roadside was where architects could really let rip … photographer Christopher Herwig has…
15 Unique Experiences Washington D.C. Offers
Everyone knows we have a magnificent display of cherry blossoms that lasts as long as most DC relationships…
Cruelty Makes Cities Ugly
“Cruelty Makes Cities Uglier Than Problems They Try To Solve” The spikes installed outside Selfridges in Manchester are…