Windows Zero: 9 Telecom Infrastructure Buildings
They may not have windows, workers or office space yet blankly mysterious telecom infrastructure buildings are an essential part of the urban megalopolis.
Incredible Shrinking Building: Top-Down Demolition in Style
A remarkably subtle and deferential structure-destroying process with many levels of conscientious thought behind it (not to mention a brilliant visual effect).
Trouble Brewing: 12 De-alcoholized Abandoned Breweries
These dozen decrepit, decommissioned and de-alcoholized breweries are the drunk dry victims of changing times, changing tastes and changing fortunes.
Monastic Marvels: 12 Cliffside & Mountaintop Monasteries
Precariously perched on mountain tops and into the sides of sheer cliffs, these dramatic monasteries are difficult to reach, but offer incredible views.
Augmented 3D Printing: Architectural Model Overlay App
Augmented reality meets architectural modeling in a remarkable best-of-both-worlds hybridization for architecture designers, builders and clients.
Pirated Architecture: Chinese Copies of Famous Buildings
First it was a small town in Austria, copied in exacting detail and replicated in China. Now: a complex by a famous architect that may be done before the original is built.
The ABC of Architects: 26 Famous Buildings in 100 Seconds
26 architectural greats from the last 100 years have their works come to life in less than two minutes as animated iconic buildings in this well-worth-watching video.
Crossed Up: 9 Twisted Swastika-Shaped Buildings
Though most modern architects avoid using swastikas in their blueprints, a few swastika-shaped buildings are out there, twisting in the winds of change.
Penny Wise: 12 Cool Copper-Clad Buildings
Urban designers far and wide have warmed to copper's practical beauty, employing it to clad buildings of all sizes and why not: it makes perfect cents.
Architecture Meets Fashion: Shoes by Hadid, Gehry & More
Shoes are much more than just protective gear for our feet, especially when they're designed by architects, who see them in an entirely different light.


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