From classic ideas of city construction to suburban sprawl and urban renewal, these articles cover everything from landscape and new urbanism to forms not yet fully defined – click through to see the cities of our past, present and future.
Legendary Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill may be most widely known for his dystopian-looking postmodern housing estate Le Palacio d'Abraxas as well as his own reclaimed cement factory home, but ...
Pluck these structures out of their environments and photoshop them onto a Martian landscape and you’d never know they're real, physical buildings interplaying with ordinary scenery in cities ...
Key cutting shops may be circling the retail store drain but their doom isn't quite locked in, as these 15 classic key cutting shops and signs illustrate. Key cutters occupy a cluttered ...
Surely a contender for the title of 'World's Most Beautiful Skatepark,' this stunning urban park project by Constructo Skatepark Architecture incorporates design elements abstracted from an ...
Brutalism may be concrete architecture's highest historic form, but the material is as versatile as we make it, and it's got a lot more tricks up its sleeves. Though we may think of it as cold, ...
Sure, Brutalist architecture is divisive, but does that mean we should be wiping it all off the face of the planet? It’s true that these structures are rarely beloved by the residents of their ...
Central yet unused, the central median of New York City's Park Avenue is the subject of a series of spectacular and speculative redesigns -- from rock-climbing walls and waterfalls to kayak ...
Built at and launched from a local boatyard, this mobile park prototype (or: "parkipelago") is the first of a series of floating platforms designed to provide recreational space for kayakers, ...
4,500 3D-printed ceramic tiles cover the facade of the ‘Cabin of Curiosities’ in Oakland, an experimental structure showing off how beautiful additive manufacturing can be. The facade ...
As studies proving the strength and fire-resistance of timber construction loosen building codes around the globe, a new class of towers emerges, each of them angling to set records for the ...
