Urban Human Habitats: 13 Compact Concepts for Growing Cities
How will various cities around the world adapt to rapid population growth while maintaining quality of life and responding to their unique environments and cultural context? In some ...
Category: Architecture
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.
World’s Biggest Indoor Vertical Farm Near NYC to Use 95% Less Water
AeroFarms is on track to produce 2 million pounds of food per year in its 70,000-square-foot facility in Newark, under construction less than an hour outside of Manhattan. Their efficient ...
Diverging Diamond: Novel Highway Design Eliminates Hazardous Left Turns
The diverging diamond interchange has been heralded as the new cloverleaf and condemned as pedestrian unfriendly, but it does do at least one thing remarkably well: it eliminates dangerous ...
Armadillo Vault: Delicate Stone Canopy Held Together by Compression
Not a drop of glue or any other adhesive holds together the delicate, 2-inch-thick limestone tiles that make up this airy canopy, which billows into the vaulted ceilings of the Arsenale di ...
Fresh & Modern Showcase: 15 Strikingly Beautiful Geometric Home Designs
These real-life residences go beyond the cool-looking-concept phase to prove how diverse, innovative and unexpected houses can be when architects tailor each one to specific needs and ...
Pier 55 Park: Undulating Landscape to Hover Over Hudson River in NYC
Following the success of the hovering High Line, an elevated park set on re-purposed rail tracks, New York City aims to pull off another park space in an unused space, this time at Pier 55 ...
We Are Not Amused: 15 Creepy Abandoned Theme Parks
Once delightful domains of sight and sound, these creepy abandoned theme parks now moulder away in silence attended only by shadows and memories. ...
World’s First 3D-Printed Office Building Unveiled in Dubai
Printed layer by layer from the ground up using a special cement mixture, this rapidly-produced curvilinear structure is a functional example as well as proof of concept, illustrating the ...
Off-Grid & Self-Sufficient: ReGen Villages with Vertical Farms
Presented at the 2016 Venice Architecture Bienalle, these new communities are designed to be entirely self-reliant, recycling their own waste, generating their own energy and producing their own ...
Urban Superblocks: Barcelona Redesign to Reclaim Streets from Cars
Could ‘superblocks’ help Barcelona return to its late-19th-century vision of urban utopia, clearing out the snarled streets so mini neighborhood blocks can literally breathe? The rapidly ...
