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11 Essential Things To See In Singapore
Even travellers who have ventured to Singapore in the past might not recognise the island today: the city-state…
VeloCity : Cycling Paths Around The World
From Calgary’s space-age Peace bridge to Eindhoven’s floating roundabout and the Copenhagen apartments with a cycle path straight…
Stunning Cities In Hyperlapse
Witness the urban life of five stunning metropolises through the lens of Rob Whitworth with these hyperlapse videos. From the unexplored urban life of…
10 Towering Facts About The Eiffel Tower
This towering iron-lattice tower is no doubt one of the most iconic symbols of Paris and France, in…
Alejandro Aravena : My Architectural Philosophy? Bring The Community Into The Process
When asked to build housing for 100 families in Chile ten years ago, Alejandro Aravena looked to an…
Engineers And The Poetics Of Space
Who really designs buildings? Although both engineers and architects regard the mysterious activity we call ‘design’ as their…
Bridging Nations : Redesigning Border Crossings
Crossing international borders is rarely an experience of breathtaking architectural significance. Driving through one of the world’s busiest…
Floating On The Dock Of The Bay : A Waterfront Revival
The small-scale, DIY nature of Izmir’s modular docks won the project a silver medal in our World Cities…
New York’s New Endangered Resource
‘Supertall’ buildings are sprouting like beanstalks in central New York, costing its citizens precious sunshine and air, and…
How Are Women Changing Our Cities?
‘Urbanistas’ explores the work of women innovators in architecture and urban design. Curator Lucy Bullivant explains why the…
If Women Built Cities, What Would Our Urban Landscape Look Like?
The number of women in UK architecture firms is falling, and many urbanists are worried by the ‘very,…
Designing For Daylight
Embracing daylight is critical to sustainable urban development. In our increasingly urbanised world, planning regulations and tools should…
For The Best U.S. Architecture Per Square Mile, Head To Dallas
New York has the nation’s tallest skyscraper. Chicago has some fancy buildings. But one city wins when it…
The Unlikely Ascent Of Palestine’s Green Architects
One of the first thoughts Danna Masad had about the importance of architecture occurred to her in early…
How To Build A Fairer City
Four leading academics propose the ‘grounded city’ – where sustainable transport, accessible broadband and modest housing take precedence…
What Goes Up Does Not Come Down
We all know what architecture critic Banksy thinks about 1 World Trade Center. He infamously called it a…
What Washington, D.C., Would Look Like With Skyscrapers
Washington, D.C., has a height problem. For almost its entire history, builders in the nation’s capital have faced…
Rethinking High-Rise Living In New York City
Behind every great apartment building is a structural system, and in cities, it’s usually steel or concrete. But…
The Next-Generation Airport Is A Destination In Its Own Right
Why the new Indianapolis terminal will be a model for others to come. INDIANAPOLIS—Robert Chicas is old enough…
The Network City
“Only connect,” the writer E. M. Forster said famously — and modern scientists working with network structures are…
The Next Frontier In Urban Design Will Send You Underground
Twenty feet under Delancey Street in Manhattan is a trolley terminal that hasn’t been used in 65 years—a…
Concrete Building Material May Not Be As Concrete As We Think
Climate change may cause reinforced concrete structures to deteriorate quicker than expected, a new study finds. Some of…
James Kunstler: How Bad Architecture Wrecked Cities
In James Howard Kunstler’s view, public spaces should be inspired centres of civic life and the physical manifestation…
“We Have Designed Cities To Make People Ill”
“We are all suffering from the bad design in the world,” Thomas Fisher, an architecture professor and dean…
Alastair Parvin: Architecture For The People By The People
Designer Alastair Parvin presents a simple but provocative idea: what if, instead of architects creating buildings for those…
Weapons, Bribes, And Dictators: Where Architects Draw The Line
Zaha Hadid says it’s not her job to pay attention to how many migrant workers die in the…
Kent Larson: Brilliant Designs To Fit More People In Every City
How can we fit more people into cities without overcrowding? Kent Larson shows off folding cars, quick-change apartments…
Amanda Burden: How Public Spaces Make Cities Work
More than 8 million people are crowded together to live in New York City. What makes it possible?…
Has the Time Come for Floating Cities?
From schools at sea to a city that perpetually sails the oceans, is climate change creating a bold…
China’s Obsession With Vertical Cities
By the end of next year one-in-three of the world’s 100m+ skyscrapers will be in China, as its…
Green Walls For Cooling Buildings
There’s a reason that green walls show up most often in high-end office buildings and trendy condo developments:…
Our Urban Past, Present and Future
We are bombarded with statistics about the future of cities these days, as fast as the cities themselves…
The Micro-Dwellings of Hong Kong
Designers are working to make the city’s tiniest spaces liveable. Gary Chang, is a Hong Kong architect who gained a…
World’s Best Cities for Architecture Lovers
Florence, Barcelona, Dubai, Seattle—these and ten other cities contain some of the world’s best examples of design and…
What Makes a City a City?
In the dizzying world of tech cities, garden cities and smart cities, perhaps it’s time to redefine what…