Blobitecture: 11 Cool Ways Architecture Gets a Round
Blob Architecture - sometimes referred to as Blobitecture, Blobism or even Blobismus is a exceedingly organic type of architecture that exhibits profoundly soft, rounded and curved dimensions. ...
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Crafty Beetle-Inspired Tiny Treehouse by Terunobu Fujimori
Looking like a prop from a Tim Burton film, the little structure lives up to its name: Beetle's House. It stands on four slightly off-kilter legs presenting its charred pine wood exterior, like ...
Now and When: The Radical Future of Urban Australia
Many futurists and future-minded laypeople believe that the future of civilization lies in the water. If the global climate continues to get warmer and the water level rises, land will become a ...
Is it Real or is it Roman? Fascinating CGI Architecture
Regardless of our amazingly advanced CGI technology, it's rare to see a piece of CGI artistry that's so masterful it makes one stop and question whether it's actually real footage. The short film ...
Life’s A Gas: Vienna’s Recycled, Repurposed Gasometers
Vienna's Gaswerk Simmering is a mixed-use community comprised of four upcycled gasometers built in the 1890s. Originally built to store Town Gas for the city's stoves, street lights and furnaces, ...
Futuretecture: From Sea Cities to Space Colonies
Are we on the brink of a new era in construction? With commercial space travel finally within our reach, will we see space colonies within our lifetime? And with Earth's resources running low, ...
Down Towns: 6 Unbelievable Spaces Gone Underground
The above-ground world that we can see is only a small part of what's actually there. In cities around the world, subterranean passageways, hidden histories and underground complexes crisscross ...
Shrink Your Footprint: 10 Little Examples of Tiny Houses
Tiny houses have never truly gone out of style. From the very early days of home building, when the construction was done by hand and usually by the people who would be occupying the home, small ...
Narrower Towers: 20 Of Japan’s Thinnest Buildings
When land is expensive or in short supply - or both, as is the case in Japan's major metropolises - smart real estate developers don't get down, they look up. These 20 tall thin Japanese ...
Amazing Architecture: 15 (More!) World’s Weirdest Buildings
Reflecting their creators’ desire to step far, far away from the sheepish architectural clones that our culture has grown to accept as “normal”, these outstanding structures are among the ...
