On land, by sea, in the air (and in one case: outer space), these winning entries are daring and visionary, defying convention, technology and at times even gravity.

From timeless architectural insights to new building technologies, watch these videos and you will never see built environments in the same way again.

The winners of Architizer's first annual A+ Awards architectural design contest prove that modern architecture is for everyone, not exclusively for elites.

Dutch architects DUS plan to build the first 3D-printed house alongside a canal in Amsterdam using a mobile 3D printer in a shipping container.

An incredible tentacle-like mirrored steel slide swirls and twists through four stories of a bright white, modern penthouse in Manhattan.

These 14 creative bookcases, three-dimensional typefaces, architecture concepts, chairs and illustrations are a typography lover's dream.

Context - that is the key to taking the ordinary and making it amazing in this series of displaced homes soaring up from forgotten streets of Paris.

Since the only thing rapid about “snail mail” is the speed it's fading away, no one should be surprised at the growing number of abandoned post offices.

These 11 unfinished, abandoned, canceled, mothballed and/or suspended nuclear power plants will, for better or worse, never know the warmth of split atoms.

An abandoned factory complex in Spain has been transformed into a massive office for an architecture firm, leaving much of the old machinery intact.