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.
Designed to break records held by the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the Superconducting Super Collider built (and abandoned) in Texas features fourteen miles of unseen and unused underground ...
Even the world's most famous architects, from Zaha Hadid to Frank Gehry, get rejected sometimes. When Norman Foster's visionary proposal for a new London airport built right in the middle of the ...
After a huge and lengthy legal battle fought on various fronts by developers, municipalities and the Council of State, the Turkish government has ordered the partial destruction or total ...
The Olympics have a long history of leaving a mixed legacy in their wake but the story of Sochi is particularly strange - it was never completely finished in the first place, and is already ...
How do you fit an entire new neighborhood for 65,000 people, complete with offices, schools and streets, into the already congested and overdeveloped island of Manhattan without knocking anything ...
As urban populations flourish, cities typically expand outward into suburbia or suffer growing pains with static infrastructure that just can't keep up. What if, instead, cities were based upon ...
The ultimate fixer-upper, real estate rarely looks so unpromising as this London dump did - thankfully, one architect saw potential beyond these potties, despite the place truly looking like ...
As the disconnect between the meat we eat and the places it's processed grows, so does the number of urban and suburban abandoned meat packing plants. Take the former Swift and Company ...
Only the uppermost portion of this ambitious five-level home is visible when approaching from land, preserving the views for others and making for one dramatic way to live adjacent to the sea. ...
Shipping container shelters combine the appeal of ultimate portability with rugged durability, but these structures add another dimension lacking in the default configuration: three times as ...
