Mountain-Shaped Residences with Walkable Green Rooftops
Beyond any inherent beauty or formal references to surrounding mountains, there is a more profound proposition in this series of structures about the way we walk into, through and above ...
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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 ...
Civic Secrets: Urban Patterns Revealed in Street-Side Snow
Ingenious and contagious, the idea is spreading: after it snows, document where cars do not go, then use that to understand where sidewalks and other public areas can be expanded without any ...
Guerrilla Upcycling: Public Furniture Made of Parisian Trash
As darkness descends these guerrilla activists hit the streets, not to protest or graffiti but to build and install community infrastructure from the discarded roadside scraps of Paris, ...
Swim the Thames: Pair of Pools for London’s Polluted River
Inspired by planned Super Sewer that will reduce pollution in London's central waterway by 96%, this audacious design aims to take advantage of a future in which it is finally safe again to swim ...
Hopscotch Intersection: 4 Artists Hack 16 Public Crosswalks
Sixteen crosswalks at four intersections in Baltimore are the subject of a street-spanning public art project that re-imagines white-on-black zebra striping, each with a unique ...
Urban Carousel: Merry-Go-Round Made of Shopping Cars
Subverting the shopping cart, this urban installation is a play on consumer culture and its cyclical nature. Of course, it is also a lot of fun to play with, too. Set in a public plaza ...
Magic Cement: Hidden Concrete Patterns Appear with Water
The writing is on the walls, but only when they get wet - that is when the secret messages or hidden designs appear in these seemingly innocuous concrete surfaces, like a durable and built-in ...
Sucking Smog: Electronic Vacuum Cleaner Clears City Skies
It sounds so preposterous and yet is sufficiently plausible that its designer is now talking to the mayor of Beijing about how to develop for urban use in this notoriously congested capital of ...
Urban Nest: New Round Amphitheater Section for High Line
New York's elevated park is expanding in new directions both physically and proverbially, its new addition a stark circular shift from the overall linear nature of the existing ...
