The future of urban living (at least for the wealthy) is looking pretty lush, with residential towers finding new and creative ways to incorporate greenery, maximize views and give residents the ...
We’ve seen lots of dazzling concepts by Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut, most of which seem far too fanciful to ever actually materialize, but his twisting high-rise tower in Taipei is ...
Not every radical home makeover turns an ugly duckling into a beautiful swan, but they sure can render the original structures completely unrecognizable, for better or worse. Sometimes no more ...
Honoring the historic significance of deteriorating buildings while reinventing them for modern contexts and usage, these architectural interventions don’t try to erase signs of aging and ...
As robotic cars take to the streets, designers are beginning to see possibilities for urban mobility that go beyond human and cargo transport. What if plants, for instance, could be moved around ...
A few years back, one man in Saudi Arabia was hailed as a hero for putting leftover food from his restaurant in a refrigerator along the street for anyone to take; since then, an ongoing effort ...
Even without the threat of rising sea levels, we've got land scarcity issues in nearly every major city, prompting engineers and architects to look towards the rivers and seas as settings for ...
How will various cities around the world adapt to rapid population growth while maintaining quality of life and responding to their unique environments and cultural context? In some ...
The living play karaoke among headstones, hang their laundry from mausoleums, put on plays in crypts and golf right on top of graves in multipurpose cemeteries around the world, where the dead ...
Stretching out of the original structures like alien growths, these modern additions don't even bother trying to blend in with their traditional architectural settings - but somehow, it works. ...
