Endless City: Skyscraper Wraps Upward with Walkable Ramps
An urban pedestrian paradise, this conceptual design proposes to turn cities skyward with a system of flexible open spaces that gradually rise as floor plates curve up around its ...
Tag: building
City-Sized Artwork: Huge Building Mural Spans 99 Structures
In his most ambitious and large-scale work to date, Felice Varini has created a perspectival piece that wraps around the entire historic core of Hasselt, Belgium, and can only be fully seen from ...
Photocatalytic Concrete: Air-Cleaning Building Absorbs Smog
Featuring 100,000 square feet of smog-filtering surface area, this structural facade will break down harmful oxides in sunlight to improve air quality all around it. The building, designed ...
Smart Bricks: Life-Size LEGO-Style Blocks for Human Habitats
Aiming to revolutionize the most basic material units of construction, these building blocks snap together like LEGO bricks while leaving space for insulation and infrastructure inside and ...
Perspectival Street Artist Pierces People in New Photo Shoot
Known for his geometric art installations, Aakash Nihalani is back with a mind-bending sequence of shots that show humans interacting with his reality-warping work. In ...
Hydraulic Lift to Save House on Stilts from Future Flooding
A Modernist classic, the famous Farnsworth House by Mies van der Rohe was originally built with a raised platform but that has not managed to save it from floods, leading its custodians to an ...
5 Preservation Puzzles: Famous Architecture Facing Threats
This year alone we have learned that a Frank Lloyd Wright house must be moved 1,000 miles to protect it from floodwater, a Le Corbusier chapel has been vandalized and a seminal structure by ...
Figure & Ground: Surreal Animated Walking City Shifts Shape
Mesmerizing as it morphs forms like some kind of architectural mutant, this latest take on the Walking City is a freshly-animated and anthropomorphic twist on a fifty-year-old ...
Subtractive Street Art: Sculptural Murals Cut into City Walls
Vhils is adept at carving, cutting and peeling to reveal art inside solid surfaces, but his artistic experiments also include carefully-calculated explosions to create pictures and phrases when ...
20-Hour House: How to 3D-Print 2,500 Square Feet in 1 Day
Combining ancient earthen-architecture approaches and cutting-edge robotic technologies, this contour crafting process promises a revolution in how we address one of our most basic and universal ...
