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5 Things That Make Norfolk, Virginia A Hidden Gem
Your Uber driver’s demeanor can tell you a lot about a city. If he’s a bit steely and…
The Top 10 Cities Of The Future
If you think about it, human settlements tend to have their own gravitational pull. Like stars and planets…
Why Innovation Doesn’t Have To Be Hi-Tech
When you think of innovation in the built environment, what comes to mind? Perhaps you picture a state-of-the-art…
Why Are We Not Making The Most Of Buildings In Cities?
Urban residents around the world have different daily routines, but they share something in common that often goes…
How American Cities Can Learn From Italian Piazzas
When the paradigm of modernist architecture crumbled, urbanists began a quest for credible alternatives that often took them to…
How Future Cities May Look More Like Natural Forest And Why It Matters
With its broad strokes of thinking and long-term implementation, urban planning isn’t the most exciting thing. But planning…
Spin Yourself Dizzy With The Great Spiral Stairs Of The World
Recently the Loretto Chapel was entered into the Atlas. The Santa Fe chapel is known for a very…
7 Amazing Ancient And Natural Wonders Redux Through Lego
Ancient, natural and modern wonders from around the world have been painstakingly built from Lego for a new…
Are We Building Skyscrapers Upside Down?
In a traditional skyscraper, the widest part of the building is at its base, and as the building…
The 25 Must-See Libraries In The World
“True, knowledge is power. But we forget, knowledge is also beautiful in the abstract and in real.” These…
Enjoy The Fun Of Wild Swimming In The City
With David Walliams leading the way and plans for a floating lido on the Thames, the desire to…
How Unpopular Buildings Came Back In Fashion
Post-war concrete architecture was decried by many as ugly – but now Brutalist buildings are back in fashion,…
DIY Guide : How To Build A City From Scratch
From Songdo, South Korea to Lavasa, India via Egypt’s unnamed new capital, everywhere you look it seems someone’s…
New Visions Of The City Through The Arts
David Banks was one of two winners of our Active by Design IdeasTap competition with his proposal for…
8 Amazing Artificial Arbors Across The World
For years, humans have been making weird trees out of bottles, stoplights, padlocks, and all manner of other…
How Uppsala’s Rainbow Powerplant Warms The Community’s Hearts
The city of Uppsala invited BIG to design a biomass cogeneration plant that would offset its peak energy…
Why Top Executives Insist On Sustainable Buildings
In 2000, sustainable building practices were thought of as “nice to have” policies that were largely relegated to…
Cities’ Past, Its Undoing Or Its Foundation For The Future?
In the last 50 years, the preservationist movement has become powerful—maybe too powerful in a place like New…
Why Building With Wood In The Future, Has A Future
Vancouver-based architect Michael Green was unequivocal at a conference at which I heard him speak a while ago:…
Are Vertical Villages Bad For Cities
The modern skyscraper is being designed with an ever-increasing range of features – from shops and offices to…
Why Cities Raced To Build Skyscrapers
Dubai’s Burj Khalifa is the tallest building in the world, but it may be eclipsed soon. What’s behind…
World Class Sustainable And Unique Building Designs
The 12 world class sustainable building designs are featured in a new infographic created by Classic Window Replacements…
How To Make Infrastructure Sexy
INFRASTRUCTURE IS VITAL, BUT TOTALLY BORING. ONE CHICAGO AGENCY TRIES TO SPICE THINGS UP WITH DATA VIZ. Infrastructure…
Designing Google’s HQ Like Designing Software
Designed by Thomas Heatherwick and Bjarke Ingels, the company’s new California headquarters are glass domes set in a…
When Public Spaces Are Only Possible With Private Wealth
It’s no picnic to run a public park these days. Look at Manhattan’s Pier 54. Once the…
Can Visionary Design Renew City Living
By the middle of this century, our cities are likely to be hotter, experience more dramatic changes in…
How High Can You Build A Skyscraper?
“What will be the world’s tallest building is actually shorter than originally planned. What’s stopping us from going…
How 3D-Printing Cities Can Be The Future
Hailed as a housing solution for slums and a rapid response to disaster-stricken communities, 3D-printed architecture holds a…
What Makes A City Attractive?
Is there an “art of making attractive cities”? London-based alternative education group The School of Life (founded by…
How To Overhaul A City With Prototypes
Next month, the 250,000 daily travelers along Market Street — San Francisco’s three-mile-long central artery — will discover…
Discover Art That’s Meant To Be Touched
New art installations dot Brooklyn Bridge Park, and they’re designed specifically to be touched or used by parkgoers.…
City In The Sky In The Middle Of The Desert
Four helipads will cluster around one of the largest domes in the world, like sideplates awaiting the unveiling…
Will We Ever …. Live In Underground Homes
As cities get more crowded, why not build down? In many respects, Bernadette Roberts’ three-bedroom house is like…
These 10 Sliced Houses Are Residential Architectural Illusions
From suburbs to children’s toys, the iconic image of the simple five-sided section of a house is ubiquitous,…
7 Remarkable Modern Marketplaces
Urban marketplaces have thrived for centuries: from the Agora of ancient Greece to the Forum in Rome, people…
Futuristic Smart City Models of Paris
Inhabitat favorite Vincent Callebaut just unveiled plans to transform Paris into a futuristic “smart” city that looks more…
Step Inside The 10 Best Green Buildings of 2015
When the American Institute of Architects first started handing out annual awards for sustainable architecture 19 years ago,…
How Cities Would Look Without Their Famous Tourist Landmarks?
There’s not really any reason to go to Paris if you’re not going to see the Arc de…
How Universities Affect The Urban Fabric Of U.S. Cities
Beyond the rioting gear, police, looting, and violence, the images of the recent demonstrations in Baltimore depict a…
Build Stadiums To Last
In the end, all buildings are temporary. A poorly conceived or badly constructed building will quickly need…
Design For Our Acoustics
Design briefs hardly ever include a description of the acoustic experience that should be achieved. Yet acoustics…
Reflexive Urbanism : A City Alive
For some early twentieth century commentators, the twenty-first century was going to be about electronic mediation of space.…
Births And Rebirths Of Cities
I’m writing this from Belgrade – a city that, [13+] years ago, was the target of a NATO bombing…
Urban Environment Design And Bad Guys
Whose job is it to prevent crime? The police? The courts? Certainly. However, I’d argue that crime prevention…
Architecture Gets All To Live At The Top
One designer’s solution to class conflict caused by blocked views. The biggest class conflict for coming generations will…
The Golden Gate Bridge Is Under Attack By The Elements
Nature wants to turn this American icon to rust. Chad Allan won’t let that happen. The…
On The Future Of Architecture – Bjarke Ingels
The puckish Danish architect Bjarke Ingels has built his career on defying convention and distancing himself from his…
Can Of Ham : London And Another Food-Inspired Architecture
Is there any urban skyline as hunger-inducing as London’s? The city already has a tower nicknamed the Gherkin…
Architects And Second-Tier Cities, Partners For Progress
Ambitious architects tend to cluster in the same metropolises: New York, Chicago, L.A. (not to mention Beijing and…
7 Ways Architecture Can Tackle Global Warming
Architecture is one of the key drivers of climate change. Between construction and the energy required to keep…