Secret City: Illegal Architectural Interventions in Tawian
Beyond the 'official city' of Taipei, where modernization and beautification efforts are glossing over the city's natural and historical origins, there is Instant City. Using Taipei's ...
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.
Refuge of Refuse: Garbage City, the Trashiest Place on Earth
Most of us view trash as something that should remain unseen, whisked away in the most sanitary manner possible so that we don't have to think about it too much. But outside Cairo is an informal ...
Power Houses: Toronto Hydro’s Camouflaged Substations
Hiding in plain sight to provide energy and light! That's not Toronto Hydro's motto but it could be – for the better part of a century, the Canadian utility's policy was to design hundreds of ...
Mirror, Mirror: Playground Pavilion Gets Funhouse Treatment
Children in Copenhagen have a little extra whimsy and fun added to their playground experience with the Mirror House, a pavilion and learning space used by kindergarten glasses. The gabled ends ...
Drive-Thru Office: Osaka Japan’s Gate Tower Building
What happens when an irresistible force (the Hanshin Expressway) meets an immovable object (stubborn landowners)? You get the Gate Tower Building in Osaka, Japan, a hybrid highway-cum-skyscraper ...
Concrete Islands? An Incredible Vision for Venice
Venice is sinking, and the city of canals is in dire need of solutions that can help it survive. This isn't one of them. Architecture firm Bam! has envisioned a fantasy future in which residents ...
Urban Reuse Goes Underground: Subterranean Community Park
With the recent expansion of the High Line Park and the growing popularity of urban reuse projects, city dwellers have come to appreciate the potential in unused spaces. One of New York City's ...
The Future is a Beach: 5 Artificial Floating Island Cities
According to futurists, the likelihood that humans will one day have to move off of the land and into the oceans at some point is high. Population growth, climate change and limited resources ...
High Hopes Turn Man-Made Structure into Green City Retreat
A project that has been over 12 years in the making added an impressive accomplishment to its history on June 8th, 2011. The High Line, a New York City public park that was built on the remains ...
Desperate Times: Abandoned Skyscraper Becomes Squatter Town
On the Caracas skyline, the Tower of David stands tall and proud. It was once a sign of Venezula's position in the economic marketplace. Today, the 45-story skyscraper has earned a very different ...
