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Zig-Zagging Cantilevered Shipping Containers Create a Dynamic Pavilion

Recognizable in their original form, twelve shipping containers form a two-story recreational pavilion for the Chinese city of Shanxi, stacked and set at an angle with the top units cantilevered ...

Diagonal Crosswalk: Walk Any Way in LA’s Safe Scramble Intersection

When visitors approach the intersection in front of Seattle's famous Pike Place Market in the heart of downtown, the surprise is palpable when they realize that a 'go' for pedestrians lets people ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pipe Dreams: 15 Totally Tubular Scaffolding Creations

Scaffolding usually helps prevent people from getting hurt on the job. If someone is hurt while working on a construction site then they may want to see a lawyer to see if they can get ...

Blue Light Special: Colored Streetlamps Precede Decline in Crime

In the early 2000s, the city of Glasgow, Scotland, changed over to blue street lighting in an effort to improve the appearance of the city, but areas with the newly blue lights saw an unexpected ...

World’s Tallest Tower: Dubai Superstructure by Santiago Calatrava

Edging out the record-holding Burj Khalifa by just a hair, the world’s tallest tower is set to rise into the Dubai skies by 2020 as the crown jewel of a new waterfront development. Neofuturist ...

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