Wearable Architecture: 29 Structural Silhouettes in Fashion
Textiles take the place of building materials in the dramatic swooping shapes, angular folds and oversized proportions of architecturally influenced fashion, whether on a highly ...
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Retrofuturistic Urbanism: 6 Cities as they Could Have Become
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 ...
Future Materials: Lightweight Carbon Fiber Architecture
The buildings of the future might just look as lightweight as a spiderweb, seeming as if they could blow away at any moment, while actually being incredibly strong. In the past, architects had to ...
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. ...
12 Worthy Winners: 2013 World Architecture Festival Awards
Dynamic, surprising and visually stunning, the winners of the 2013 World Architecture Festival awards represent the very best in recent architecture across a range of categories, from hotels and ...
Digital Grotesque: Intricate Full-Scale 3D Printed Room
Stacked sections of intricate 3D-printed columns of the most baroque nature imaginable make up a cube-shaped, full-scale room. Designers Michael Hansmeyer and Benjamin Dillenburger made 'Digital ...
Crawling Cities: 3D-Printed Shells for Hermit Crabs
Hermit crabs carry crystal-clear cityscapes on their backs, thanks to a series of 3D-printed shells by Aki Inomata. The artist scans the insides of hermit crab shells to ensure a perfect fit, and ...
Learn Modern Architecture Principles with New LEGO Kit
If you've always wanted to design modern buildings, but don't have any plans to attend architecture school, LEGO has just the tool you're looking for. The toy company has revealed a LEGO ...
A+ Architecture: The World’s Most Dazzling Designs
Can modern architecture be accessible - and even alluring - to everyone in the world? Architizer believes that it already is, and the 87 winners of its first annual A+ Awards prove that assertion ...
Architecture Meets Fashion: Shoes by Hadid, Gehry & More
How would the architectural styles of Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry and Santiago Calatrava translate to shoes? As these 6 collaborations prove, sometimes the results are just as you'd imagine, and ...
