Will the cities of tomorrow be filled with intelligent kinetic architecture that moves and transforms of its own accord, as if it has a life of its own? The designers of these 16 structures seem ...
To people of 100 or even 50 years ago, the metropolises of today would look utterly foreign. Our elevated highways, massive airports, high population density and huge skyscrapers would be ...
Addressing noise and visual pollution associated with wind energy generation in urban contexts, these new trunk-style towers support suspended leaf-shaped turbine housings, hung from ...
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 ...
With their inefficient terminals and bloated footprints, today's airports are typically ill-equipped to adapt to sharp increases in demand, scarce land availability or new flight technologies. ...
Subterranean spaces now silent, dank and cobwebbed once bustled with activity - often of the illicit variety - housing secret speakeasies, opium dens, bootlegging operations and hubs for human ...
The city of the future addresses problems like overpopulation, pollution and sprawl by building high-density vertical neighborhoods that are interconnected at all levels so residents can move ...
These parasitic buildings commandeer wasted urban space, often siphoning utilities from their host buildings. Some are additions that make no attempt to blend into the original structures, some ...
Producing power used to be so simple when it seemed like fossil fuel would last forever. But since we've wised up and realized that finding and developing viable alternatives is a rather urgent ...
Should architecture be used as a punishment in itself, made as harsh and cruel as possible in a bid to make inmates sorry for what they've done, or should it uplift and rehabilitate them, showing ...
