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Dementia Villages: The Delicate Art of Designing to Deceive

You take a stroll down a sunny street, wave to the smiling vendor at the flower stall on the corner, chat with a friend by the fountain at the center of the town square and head back to your ...

Rendering Trends: Decoding Tired Tropes of Flashy Architectural Graphics

Look at architectural renderings on a regular basis and soon you’ll start to spot stylized elements that pop up often enough to be called cliches, every one of them inserted into the image for ...

VTN Architects Gives Modern Architecture a Fresh Spin with Bamboo

In countries like Vietnam and Thailand, bamboo is taking on more complex forms than ever before, playing an integral role in the future of modern sustainable architecture. One of the firms at the ...

World’s Most Colorful Neighborhoods: 11 Bright Spots in Urban Landscapes

Cities around the world are feeling increasingly homogenous and gray, so it's nice to know there are still colorful locales where you can stumble along a hidden cobblestoned alley and take in a ...

Innovation & Collaboration: 13 Cool Office Designs Spark Creativity

Wouldn't you rather work in a lush jungle, a surrealist space that transforms before your eyes, a space that looks like the set of a sci-fi movie or an office with a speakeasy hidden under the ...

Open Sesame: Wheelchair-Friendly Elevator Entrance Hiding Under the Stairs

Stoops across the UK and Europe are hiding a secret: the ability to zoom right into the front door on wheels even though it’s located several steps above the sidewalk. And it’s about time. At ...

Art Everywhere: 12 Projects Transform Public Spaces into Guerrilla Galleries

Street artists turn entire cities into open-air galleries, but there are countless ways to carry out urban art interventions, and they're at their most fun when they subvert existing structures. ...

Cool Concrete: 10 Structures Taking a Refreshing Approach to This Raw Material

Brutalism may be concrete architecture's highest historic form, but the material is as versatile as we make it, and it's got a lot more tricks up its sleeves. Though we may think of it as cold, ...

Graphic Design on Steroids: MurOne’s Murals Splash the Streets with Color

Whenever street artist MurOne comes to town, you know your city is about to get a whole lot brighter. Vivid, graphic and often surreal, his murals are an “acid mix of pop and design elements,” ...

Stitches in Space: Giant-Sized Doilies Domesticate a Wild Array of Places

Spanning interiors, wrapping trees and adorning facades, these big bright red doilies are somehow both conventional and ominous, somewhere between knit holiday sweaters and huge spider ...

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