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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.

Linking Past and Present: Modern Architecture Made of Reclaimed Materials

Recycled architecture is more than just novelty structures and offbeat buildings made from bottles, cans and tires - though those can be pretty cool in their own right. It’s a way to put ...

Project Bunker Makes a Tiny Home out of a Diesel Oil Tank

People convert all kinds of unlikely objects into homes: sheds, shipping containers, school buses and even decommissioned wartime bunkers. These creative reclaimed homes can range from tiny to ...

Universal Design: Creating Better Buildings & Cities for All

Conventional design only welcomes a certain type of person: the one arbitrarily deemed "normal." It’s easy for designers, or even the casual observer, to define the most typical user of a space ...

Underwater Hotel in a Formerly Abandoned Quarry Now Open to Guests

The concept renderings for this wildly unusual hotel design in an abandoned Chinese quarry debuted on the internet over a decade ago, and now the finished complex is welcoming guests. The ...

How Smart Home Technology Could Change Architecture

Whether you're an early adopter or believe smart technology could invite a host of new headaches into our most private spaces, connectivity and automation are coming for us all. We’re still in ...

Vanishing Beauty: A Photographic Tour of Almost-Abandonments

There's something extra eerie about places that are not quite abandoned just yet, but edging closer and closer to a prolonged death process. Relics of another time, these architectural remnants ...

Buckingham Palace Redesigned as Co-Housing for 50,000

Buckingham Palace could be transformed to convert its luxurious 775 rooms and rooftop space into a solution for London’s housing crisis. At least, that’s the idea behind “Affordable ...

Art of the Chinese Courtyard: Respectful Renovations Keep Hutongs Alive

Building booms around the world can render entire neighborhoods unrecognizable in a matter of days, demolishing historic structures to make way for new developments. In cities like Beijing, where ...

A Multi-Layered House Becomes a Landscape of its Own in Dense Osaka

When cities are so dense and plots of land so small it seems like you don't have room for a yard, maybe it's time to reconsider what a yard can look like. Presented with the challenge of ...

Catskill Keep: An Abandoned Cursed Castle In Upstate NY

Abandoned Dundas Castle in upstate New York is said to be cursed: its builder died and his family were committed to asylums before they could even move in. Ralph Wurts-Dundas (1871-1921) ...

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