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Try to Contain Yourself: 12 Shipping Container Projects Play with Modularity

Taking advantage of the affordability, accessibility and modularity of shipping containers, these architectural projects envision radical new ways to expand houses, elevate slums off the streets, ...

Pop-Up Pavilions: 15 Playful Temporary Architecture Installations

Pavilions are like playgrounds for architects and designers, allowing them to show off what they can do when they really set their imaginations free. Unfettered by the typical limitations of a ...

Cooling Cities: L.A. is Painting Streets White to Combat Heat Island Effects

Thanks in part to heat-absorbing materials and colors, cities tend to be warmer than their natural surroundings, and in hot places with lots of dark roads like Los Angeles that can prove a ...

Cellular Urbanism: Analyzing the Anatomy of Functional City Block Designs

We all understand intuitively that different urban layouts lead to different kinds of cities, but a new book analyzes these on a block-to-block basis to illustrate how this civic anatomy works on ...

Compact CityTree: Vertical Micro-Garden Packs a Forest’s Worth of Green Benefits

Packing the environmental impact of as many as 275 actual urban trees, these multi-functional CityTree units are dense and efficient fighters of urban air pollution (the single largest ...

Rethinking the Refugee Camp: 8 Architectural Proposals for Asylum Seekers

Refugees fleeing the worst humanitarian crises of our time don't just need tents - they need safe and stable long-term housing, a sense of community, access to transitional resources and plans ...

Revitalizing the L.A. River: 7 Architects Envision Fresh Uses for Old Waterway

The Los Angeles river changes dramatically as it snakes into and through the city, and these different design proposals carry that legacy forward while envisioning new, user-friendly, flexible ...

Siberia Space: Russian Town Tints Its White Winter World

The tiny Siberian town of Ust-Yansk counters the pervasive whiteness of long & snowy winters by cladding its buildings in a rainbow of contrasting colors. To say Ust-Yansk is isolated ...

Radbahn Berlin: 6-Mile Sheltered Bike Path to Run Under City Train Line

A long unused strip of space weaving through Berlin is set to become a bicycling boulevard, sheltered by the tracks above and lined with bike service stations, recreation areas and food ...

Brutalist Victory: Concrete Skylines Dominate Radical Retro-Future Cities

Architectural trends come and go, but some visions are more persistent than others, and Brutalism could have been among them. This artist asks and answers the question: what if concrete ...

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