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Design
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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
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…
2015-07-01
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…
2015-06-30
How The Right Signs Point To The Right Way To Success
Street signs, airport signs, signs in shopping malls and railway stations: they’re all around us, but we only…
2015-06-22
How Public Feedback Transformed Auckland’s Bus Shelters
Auckland bus shelters are set for a new design following public feedback. During July and August 2014 Auckland…
2015-06-13
New Design Makes Its Way To Antarctic Research
The Halley VI Antarctic Research Station, the first fully-relocatable research station, was designed by Hugh Broughton Architects with…
2015-06-11
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…
2015-06-10
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…
2015-06-09
How 3D Colorful Pathways Transform Tokyo Transit
At the personal level, your daily commute might seem tedious, even mind-numbing. But on a macroscopic scale, public…
2015-06-08
How Boomers Will Shape The Future Of Our Cities
The principal of CannonDesign predicts that his generation will be active participants in making our urban environments healthier.…
2015-06-05
Can Visionary Design Renew City Living
By the middle of this century, our cities are likely to be hotter, experience more dramatic changes in…
2015-06-04
What Makes A City Attractive?
Is there an “art of making attractive cities”? London-based alternative education group The School of Life (founded by…
2015-05-30
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…
2015-05-28
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.…
2015-05-27
How Ecocapsules Can Become Our Micro Homes
Ecocapsule is a small, egg-shaped abode that could be the perfect home for someone who wants to let…
2015-05-26
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,…
2015-05-21
The Best Active Designs That Help People Live Healthier Lives
Design influences our health and quality of life, for better or worse and in ways we might not…
2015-05-19
Futuristic Smart City Models of Paris
Inhabitat favorite Vincent Callebaut just unveiled plans to transform Paris into a futuristic “smart” city that looks more…
2015-05-18
Are tiny homes the next big thing for cities?
As urban populations swell, as the number of singles increases — and as city officials try to make…
2015-05-15
A Sky Portal From Subway Depths
The centerpiece of New York’s New Fulton Center, the Sky-Reflector Net recalls an era when transit design aspired…
2015-05-11
Design For Our Acoustics
Design briefs hardly ever include a description of the acoustic experience that should be achieved. Yet acoustics…
2015-05-09
Urban Design == Service Design
High-speed data and mobile communications technology is allowing us to think differently about how we plan and develop…
2015-05-09
Better Design Needed For Drinking Fountains
People would rather pay two bucks for a sealed, clean drink than stoop over a dirty-looking public trough.…
2015-05-06
What Will A Smart City Look Like In The Future?
By 2050 there will be five billion urbanites, but, with pressure on resources and climate disruption, how will…
2015-05-06
Reflexive Urbanism : A City Alive
For some early twentieth century commentators, the twenty-first century was going to be about electronic mediation of space.…
2015-05-04
Births And Rebirths Of Cities
I’m writing this from Belgrade – a city that, [13+] years ago, was the target of a NATO bombing…
2015-05-04
From Hell To Electropolis: How Comics Depict Cities
Delirius, the planet-sized city. William Gull shaking his bloody fists at the NatWest tower. The gentle Julius Knipl,…
2015-05-02
Projecting City Realities In Comics
Raised in New York, fed by newspapers and nourished by urban life, comics tell the secrets of cities…
2015-05-02
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…
2015-05-02
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…
2015-04-30
NYC Underrated Basic Human Right, Public Drinking Water
Water as a liquid has no shape. It acquires definition from its surroundings, providing boundaries and edges to…
2015-04-23
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…
2015-04-23
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…
2015-04-23
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…
2015-04-17
Smart Is As Smart Does. Stupid Just Does Nothing.
[infobox]I never realised how dumb our cities are until I saw what a smart one looks like.[/infobox] There’s…
2015-04-11
Ikea : 7 Predictions For What Your Home Will Look Like In 2020
From silicon furniture to the death of storage, Marcus Engman of Ikea Sweden talks about the near-future of…
2015-04-10
Engineers And The Poetics Of Space
Who really designs buildings? Although both engineers and architects regard the mysterious activity we call ‘design’ as their…
2015-03-26
We Need Agile Cities
If we are to make cities work for people in the future, to enable economic growth without depleting…
2015-03-19
Making Darkness Visible
“Rather than looking to turn night into day, we should embrace the darkness.” Today’s 24/7 economy is made…
2015-03-16
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…
2015-03-13
A Top-down Approach To Flood Prevention
Gravity offers a simple and cheap way to attenuate stormwater flows – by storing water temporarily on a…
2015-03-12
How Are Women Changing Our Cities?
‘Urbanistas’ explores the work of women innovators in architecture and urban design. Curator Lucy Bullivant explains why the…
2015-03-06
Evolving Cities And Culture
Innovation is critical to economic growth, progress, and the fate of the planet. Although innovation may seem to…
2015-03-06
Science For Designers: Scaling And Fractals
With apologies to real estate agents, we’d like to say that the three most important factors in design…
2015-02-28
Science For Designers: The Meaning Of Complexity
Today’s designers seem to love using new ideas coming from science. They embrace them as analogies, metaphors, and…
2015-02-24
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…
2015-02-17