Wrap It Up! 10 Creative Building Scrims & Scaffolds
These artistic wraps, scrims and scaffolds creatively conceal the ugly truth of building construction, remediation and restoration. ...
Category: Cities & Urbanism
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.
Jungle in the City: Wild Urban Biome Skyscraper Design
Suspended aquariums, snowy landscapes, jungles and caves can all be found in the heart of the city, steps away from dense urban housing, in the middle of this wild skyscraper concept. Winner of ...
PlantLab: Urban Farms 40 Times More Productive than Open Fields
A Dutch firm on the cutting edge of indoor agriculture estimates that producing food for the entire world could take place in a space far smaller than the area occupied by Holland, using just ...
Oil Rigs Reclaimed: 7 Ways to Reuse Obsolete Platforms
Thousands of decommissioned oil rigs rotting in waters all over the globe could get a new sense of purpose as diving resorts, cruise ship port-of-calls, recreation destinations, bio-habitats or ...
Hole in the Ground: 5 Ideas to Fill Downtown Chicago Spire Void
Designed by a world-famous architect, the Chicago Spire was set to be the second-tallest building in the world, but now that plans for its construction have been abandoned local firms are ...
The Dryline: BIG Plan Fights NYC Floods with Waterfront Park
A huge infrastructure project designed to prevent future Hurricane Sandy-style devastation, the Dryline is a perfectly-named solution for a city already sporting a successful High Line and an ...
The Capital: Egypt Plans Largest From-Scratch City in History
Slated to be constructed in just 7 years and cost $300 billion (more than the GDP of Egypt), this ambitious design for a brand new capital city of 5 million people is unprecedented - if ...
Sustainable Food in the City: 10 Smart Urban Farm Designs
The world's largest indoor farm has already proven just how amazingly successful food production can be outside of standard agricultural setups, and these 10 urban farm designs and concepts take ...
Sunny Disposition: Computer-Aided Skyscraper Casts No Shadow
With downtown densification usually comes a lack of light in surrounding spaces, leading one architecture firm to develop the world's first algorithm-driven strategy to allow a tower to fully ...
Mobile Pop-Up Libraries: 12 Temporary & Traveling Book Lenders
Peruse the waterproofed selections at Minnesota's Floating Library, renew your library card at a bus stop in Bogota, or select a volume from the shelves mounted to a tank-shaped 'Weapon of Mass ...
