Adapting Aging Architecture: Modern Plug-Ins for Beijing
Cold, dilapidated and lacking modern amenities like bathrooms, Beijing's historic architecture in the Hutong districts becomes livable again with sleek modern plug-ins that make them more ...
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.
Capital Idea: Bridge to Elevated Park for Washington D.C.
A freeway bridge linking historically divided sides of Washington, D.C. on either side of the Anacostia River is set to become a vibrant, High-Line-style elevated park. OMA + OLIN have been ...
Urban Subversion: 13 Radical Examples of Guerrilla Housing
Vacant lots, billboards, rooftops and even dumpsters are hacked into inhabitable spaces in these examples of often-illegal guerrilla housing. All manner of urban surfaces can be subverted into ...
Aerial Urbanism: Hyper-Dense ‘Cloud City’ Redefines Skylines
A complex spanning in seemingly all directions, this sky-oriented, cloud-shaped, forward-thinking design has just won the Shenzhen Super City Competition in China. It represents a critical way ...
Rebel Architecture: 6-Part Series on Global Guerilla Urbanism
In a series of six superb videos, Al Jazeera explores the gritty reality of architects and urban designers as activists in destinations from Vietnam and Nigeria to Pakistan and Brazil. Five of ...
Istanbul Demolishing 3 Skyscrapers to Preserve City Skyline
After a huge and lengthy legal battle fought on various fronts by developers, municipalities and the Council of State, the Turkish government has ordered the partial destruction or total ...
Floating Neighborhood for NYC: How to Hover a Whole Megablock
How do you fit an entire new neighborhood for 65,000 people, complete with offices, schools and streets, into the already congested and overdeveloped island of Manhattan without knocking anything ...
Modular Cities: 13 Expandable Solutions for Urban Growth
As urban populations flourish, cities typically expand outward into suburbia or suffer growing pains with static infrastructure that just can't keep up. What if, instead, cities were based upon ...
Over Board: Sink or Skate on This Amazing Floating Ramp
It's hard to imagine a more idyllic place to practice skate tricks than a sculptural wooden ramp floating on the crystalline waters of Lake Tahoe. In some of the photos, it almost doesn't look ...
Under London: Disused Tunnel Now a Subterranean Skate Park
The infamous Old Vic Tunnels under London's Waterloo Station are now home to the city's first subterranean skate park with the opening of House of Vans, a cultural complex taking up the entire ...
