Architecture is the art we live in, from individual houses, apartments and condos to the broader urban context, skyscrapers and parks of the cities around us. From unique historical homes to stunning conceptual towers, here are some of the most amazing, creative and inspiring structures and spires of our times.
A highly unusual houseboat bobs on the surface of the River Beaulieu in Hampshire, UK. 'Exbury Egg' is a floating, mobile live-in laboratory used to study the wildlife of the estuary. Made of ...
Sometimes, the setting of a film is almost more important than the plot itself, and that's particularly true with abandoned places. Crumbling ruins of hospitals, prisons, houses, schools and ...
Like the last episode of M*A*S*H, the choppers won't be back. These abandoned heliports and helipads stand in silent contrast with their past buzzing busy-ness. ...
The best of both worlds: guests at this hotel get to enjoy skyscraper-high views and still experience layers of intensive greenery on virtually all levels. A series of sleek towers rises ...
Times of emergency call for quick action to get victims into safe shelters. Plenty of easily-assembled emergency structures have been designed over the years, but Australian architecture firm BVN ...
One of Philadelphia's most intriguing buildings stands at a prominent intersection on the north side of the city, a Victorian beauty that once housed wealthy residents and later served as a ...
Architects go to elaborate lengths to hide the passage of water from the walls and roofs of buildings, but in this case, an interactive and artistic facade features the process prominently ...
These 11 abandoned liquor stores are hangovers, as it were, from an era when Mom & Pop stores sold the kind of products Mom & Pop forbade you from buying. ...
In a sleepy suburb of Sydney, Australia, long since taken over by mainly-one-story houses, sat a disused metal-sided shed. An ad hod affair, it was a rare leftover of what was once an industrial ...
Skyscrapers are the traditional small-footprint solution for growing square footage in big cities, but what are developers to do in growing places like Mexico City where new building construction ...
