Ephemeral Architecture: 27 Paper Buildings & Pavilions
A study in opposites, paper architecture renders what is normally solid and durable in delicate, temporary form, whether recreating intricate silhouettes of miniature cities or building ...
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Assembled in 3 Days: Biggest Cargo Container Restaurant in US
Comprised of 19 shipping containers, this record-breaking restaurant has reclaimed a riverside wasteland in the River Arts District of Asheville, North Carolina, turning a brownfield site into an ...
Collaborative Construction: Aerial Drone-Built Architecture
Unmanned aerial vehicles can do more than just take pictures, pick up and drop off objects - they can also work together to create solid structures, built brick by brick or even woven in ...
Mini Sky City: 57-Story Chinese Skyscraper Built in 19 Days
The world's tallest prefab building has just been constructed at a rate of 3 stories per day, showcasing the power of modular design and industrial prefabrication operating at scale. Located in ...
Sunny Disposition: Computer-Aided Skyscraper Casts No Shadow
With downtown densification usually comes a lack of light in surrounding spaces, leading one architecture firm to develop the world's first algorithm-driven strategy to allow a tower to fully ...
Up in Flames: Dubai ‘Torch’ Tower Catches Fire, Extinguished
A multistory fire raged up the side of this 1,105-foot skyscraper last night, one of the tallest in Dubai, exacerbated by high winds and casting molten glass and charred masonry from ...
Aerial Urbex: 7 Difficult Deserted Places Filmed with Drones
Drones have changed the landscape of urban exploration and building infiltration, allowing their navigators access to toxic, irradiated, forbidden and structurally unsound places. These haunting ...
New Frank Gehry Building So Ugly it Has to Wear a Paper Bag
Featuring over 300,000 custom-designed bricks, the latest work of one of the world's most famous architects is an impressive feat of engineering, but hard not to compare to a crumpled grocery ...
Made in China: World’s First 3D-Printed Apartment Complex
The same company known for printing 10 home in less than 24 hours is back with a new record-breaking construction project: a multistory apartment structure built using recycled building materials ...
Town in a Tower: 14-Floor High-Rise Houses Whole Alaskan Hamlet
High-minded Modernists of the mid-1900s envisioned futuristic all-in-one cities in the sky where we would work, place, live and love, but would have been surprised to learn that their ideal has ...
