Bubbletecture: Poppable Building Made of Soap Bubbles
Is this the most temporary architecture of all time? Fragile and tenuous but undeniably beautiful, these bubble buildings rise for just moments at a time before they pop. To create the ...
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.
Migrant Skyscrapers Roll Up City Streets Inside Giant Wheels
Skip all practical considerations for a second and suspend any disbelief - now imagine what a truly nomadic urban society might look like, devoid of concerns of safety and perhaps some laws of ...
Conceptual Construction: 14 Improbable Tower Designs
Apartment buildings as thin as blades, towers topped with wind turbines, sky-high viewing platforms that gather energy from visitors' movements: are these unlikely-seeming designs a glimpse at ...
Robot Workshop: Contest Winners Envision Futuristic Innovation Space
What should an innovation space for work in robotics look like? The winners of the Robot Workshop competition by suckerPUNCH have illustrated incredible ideas that leave no doubt as to the ...
Sci-Fi Fortress of Skyscrapers to Surround & Defend Japan
This is a conceptual project with a breathtaking scope: to create a perimeter of citadels surrounding Japan, protecting the island nation above, on and below the ground. ...
Spatial Gymnastics: Environments for Tomorrow Exhibition
What does the future of humanity look like? 28 architects and artists from 14 countries came together to answer that question from both creative and practical standpoints for an exhibition ...
Tower with a Twist: Very Top-Heavy Vancouver Skyscraper
This is what creative design is all about: taking a familiar typology and turning (or twisting) it around ... not merely to show off something new and unique, but to critically respond and adapt ...
Container Urbanism: Reclaimed Pop-Up Structures
When urban populations outgrow the pace of new construction, and suitable homes and offices spaces are difficult to find, what are property hunters to do? Perhaps more of them will start coming ...
Housing for the Homeless: 14 Smart & Sensitive Solutions
City officials spend a lot of time and energy worrying about how to keep homeless people off public furniture and out of certain common areas, when they should be considering how to better manage ...
City Seats: 14 Examples of Unconventional Urban Furniture
The boring benches installed in urban areas around the world are purely functional: you take a seat for a little while, and then you leave. But why shouldn't public furniture be visually ...
