Dense City: Mixed-Use ‘Urban Alloy’ Transit Hub for New York
Taking advantage of air rights above existing an transportation nexus, this design integrates elevated train lines, apartments, offices and shops to create a nodal point within ...
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Architecture as Landscape: 15 Terrain-Inspired Buildings
These skyscrapers, homes and city concepts eschew typical architectural silhouettes, taking inspiration from cliffs, mountains and hills to create artificial landscape features of their own. ...
City vs. Suburb: Walking One Mile in Streets or Culs-de-sac
A tale of two neighborhoods, these graphics (and their hybrid) stunningly illustrate how much further you can get on foot when you take a walk through an urban grid versus the suburban sprawl ...
Transforming Furniture: Fitting 5 Rooms into 640 Square Feet
With a mostly-open floor plan tucked into 60 square meters of space, the design challenge was to effectively fit the functionality of five rooms into the footprint of two. The De Rotterdam ...
Reading Room (Dividers): 13 Creative Bookshelf Designs
Books make everything better, especially when you're looking to divide a large loft or studio apartment into smaller, more functional spaces. Bookshelf room dividers go far beyond the standard ...
Railroaded: 9 Nifty Abandoned Train Car Graveyards
Where do obsolete trains go when they die? Many end up in railroad graveyards where these former station-stopping locomotives stay stopped and stationary. ...
Algorithmic Architecture: 14 Complex Math-Based Structures
Mathematics are more integral to architecture than ever before, and as the methods of designing structures grow more complex, so do the calculations. As these fractal and parametric designs - ...
Modern Tree Houses: 14 Awesome Arboreal Dwelling Designs
Some tree houses are crafted in organic shapes and materials to blend into their environments or designed as veritable castles in the sky, but these 14 are as modern as arboreal dwellings get. ...
LEGO Architecture Studio: Boldly Monochromatic Block Set
A colorless LEGO kit may sound boring at first blush, but consider the spatial advantages of letting form, line and shadow stand apart from the profusion of colors normally associated with their ...
Decay Down Under: 7 Abandoned Wonders of Australia
Whether covered in colorful graffiti or slowly disappearing under a profusion of moss and vines, Australia's most intriguing abandoned places share the same sense of mournful decay as landmarks ...
