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Design
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The World’s Best Museums & Galleries To See Now
10. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands About 900,000 objects fill the Rijksmuseum, the largest collection of art and history in…
2016-05-16
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…
2016-05-13
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…
2016-05-11
How A City’s Identity Is Shaped By Its Fonts
Most city dwellers speed-walk along crowded streets each day, barely taking notice of the typography that adorns everything…
2016-05-04
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…
2016-05-02
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,…
2016-04-12
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…
2016-03-31
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…
2016-03-28
How Resilience Grows From The Roots Of Urban Design
In this article, inspired by the movement of open spaces in cities across the world and resilience theory,…
2016-03-18
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…
2016-03-11
In Malaysia, The Future Of Cities Are Forests
Sasaki Associates recently unveiled some preliminary details regarding an ambitious mixed-use development in Malaysia, that’s expected to run…
2016-03-10
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…
2016-03-07
10 Cities That Are Shaping The Future Of Urban Living
Cities are frequently at the front line of innovation when it comes to addressing the changing problems of…
2016-03-03
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…
2016-02-10
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.…
2016-02-06
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…
2016-02-05
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…
2016-01-29
Beautiful Cities With Gardens Or Lovely Gardens With Cities
The government is investing more than £300m in building what George Osborne has described as the first “proper”…
2016-01-26
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…
2016-01-20
To Get Less Drunken Violence, Design Better Cities
Tragically, another young life has been lost in an alleged one-punch assault, this time in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley.…
2016-01-15
Discover The Next Design Capital Of Asia
In a worldwide economy that’s increasingly idea-driven, design has found its place as an important enabler to promote…
2016-01-13
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…
2016-01-13
Zimbabwean Women Weave Their Own Beautiful Future
Seventy-seven-year-old Grace Ngwenya has an eye for detail. You will never catch her squinting as she effortlessly weaves…
2015-11-25
The Most Beautiful Schools Of The World
They are buildings in which to teach and learn – but they can be magnificent too. Jonathan Glancey…
2015-11-21
How Street Art Sold Out & Gentrified Our Cities
Street art – as well as its artistic forebear graffiti – are often thought of as radical, rebellious…
2015-11-18
Vilnius, Lithuania : An Insider’s Guide
From investigative journalism to post-punk anthems, tattoo start-ups to pulled pork, Vilnius isn’t just tower blocks and snow.…
2015-11-10
Sublime Photography With iPhone And Herman’s Brilliance
For decades, Robert Herman shot street photography mainly in New York and primarily on Kodachrome film. Mr. Herman…
2015-11-05
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…
2015-10-21
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…
2015-10-19
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…
2015-09-11
11 Radical Muralists Transforming Cities Around The World
1. Dissection of a Whale by Nychos (New York, New York) Born to a family hunters, Austrian…
2015-09-10
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…
2015-09-07
Train Buffs Will Love This Atlas of Railway Photography
The map, created by a self-professed rail geek, plots geotagged train-related Flickr images. Nick Benson is a self-professed…
2015-08-31
Stay Cool Or Warm With The Best Hotel Pools In The World
In case you hadn’t noticed, hotel pools have moved up a notch from the kinds of places we…
2015-08-26
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…
2015-08-25
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…
2015-08-24
8 Inspiring Ascensions Through Nature
Generally speaking, when humans go mucking about in nature, installing fences, signs, and observation towers to make trekking…
2015-08-19
Why San Francisco Will Make You Crave Veggies
Can “resetting” corner stores change the way people eat? What happens when there is food everywhere, but nothing…
2015-08-18
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…
2015-07-29
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…
2015-07-28
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…
2015-07-23
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…
2015-07-22
Are We Building Skyscrapers Upside Down?
In a traditional skyscraper, the widest part of the building is at its base, and as the building…
2015-07-13
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…
2015-07-07
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,…
2015-07-07
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…
2015-07-03