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Slow-Motion Demolition: Expanding Agent Cracks Concrete from Within

Going forward, buildings may not need to go out with a bang if this "non-explosive cracking agent" takes off. The destructive action is quieter and potentially cleaner way to take out structures, ...

Buildings as Backdrops: Playful Photography Humanizes Built Environments

People often play a small part in architectural photography and renderings - not so in this series of travel photographs, which would lovely but otherwise unremarkable without clever human ...

Underground Illusions: Anamorphic Parking Lot Turns Flat Paint into Sculpture

You’re driving through an underground parking garage when suddenly, the colorful geometric shapes splashed all over every surface pop out into three dimensions. Try not to crash your car! When ...

Optical Illusion Architecture: These 11 Buildings Are Not What They Seem

Pinched, warped, rippled, steeply angled and mirrored until they disappear into the sky, these buildings are not quite what they seem at first glance. Sometimes, it takes a nice long look at ...

Future-Proof Parking Garages: Autonomous Vehicles Drive Reusable Designs

As driverless vehicles hit the streets and shared car usage grows, forward-thinking architects, developers and urban planners are working on adaptable designs to future-proof parking garage ...

Visionary High-Rises: Winners of the 2017 eVolo Skyscraper Competition

The way we design and engage with our built environments will rapidly change as we grapple with climate change and develop new technological innovations, and in some cases, radical new ideas will ...

World’s Sexiest Parking Garage Has a New Competitor For the Crown

It may not be as jaw-dropping and awe-inspiring as Detroit’s decaying Michigan Theater parking garage, nor quite as multifunctional as the stunning Herzog de Meuron structure at 1111 Lincoln ...

Urban Off-Grid: 12 Creative Solutions For Self-Sustainability in the City

Off-grid housing is almost always relegated to remote areas due to strict urban building codes and access to affordable land, but sometimes self-contained structures pop up in parks, on rooftops ...

Green House: 17 Residential Designs Intertwined With Nature

Replicating parks in the middle of largely-concrete cities or merely connecting tropical homes to the lush vegetation that's already growing right beyond the walls, these homes integrate living ...

Sort of Subterranean: 15 Partially Underground Modern Home Designs

While fully subterranean homes can feel like grim bunkers, homes built partially into hills, cliffs and bluffs peek out from underground through glassy 'eyes' to gain daylight access and views of ...

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