Permanent Parklets: São Paulo Turns Street Parking to Parks
In a bold bid to change its urban landscape for good, Brazil's biggest city has given a green light to citizen proposals to transform car parking spots into perpetual park ...
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.
Abandoned Alien Homestead: Forsaken UFO House in Florida
Painted pink and encrusted with graffiti, the abandoned UFO house in Homestead, Florida, has a backstory as mysterious as its otherworldly architecture. Lions & Tigers & Bears, Oh ...
Dubai to Build New 50 Million Sq Ft Climate-Controlled City
Always pushing the limits of posh possibility, this latest endeavor aims to put an entire urban center in a temperature-controlled bubble of indoor spaces, centered around a vast Mall of the ...
Living in a Bubble: 15 Privacy-Free Transparent Houses
Sometimes, beautiful views of your surroundings simply trump the need for privacy. Living in a bubble isn't so bad when you're in a remote location gazing at the sea or the forest, but some ...
Floating Beach: Recreational River Barge Campaign for NYC
Manhattan is packed full of world-class restaurants, a vast array of shops, a beautiful nature preserve and virtually everything else required to satisfy the modern urbanite - except for a beach. ...
Retractable Stairs Open to Reveal Secret Urban Wheelchair Lifts
Getting around the city in a wheelchair can be challenging, but a British company called Allgood Trio has devised an interesting way to help wheelchair users get into and out of buildings with ...
Experimental Architecture: 14 Boundary-Pushing Pavilions
Before a new form of architecture can be executed on a large scale, it has to be demonstrated through smaller structures, making temporary pavilions an ideal way to experiment. These 14 pavilions ...
No Clowning Around: 11 Sad Abandoned Circuses & Carnivals
The crowds have dispersed, the animal cages are empty and the striped Big Top is eerily silent... there's no clowning around when the circus leaves town. Moldering Away In ...
Nature’s Architects: 6 Incredible Animal-Built Structures
Of all the architectural greats we've come to admire - Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Henri Sullivan, Le Corbusier, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe , to name a few - they all have one unflinchingly ...
Pop-Up Apartments: Post-Disaster Housing Prototype for NYC
New York City residents could have a stylish and safe place to live in less than 15 hours after a catastrophic natural or manmade disaster with these modular 'pop-up' apartments. Developed by ...
