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Shipping Manifesto: An Introductory Guide to Building Cargo Container Architecture

In the 1950s, Malcolm McLean developed a modular design that would simplify the loading and offloading of ships, boxing up goods for easier loading and unloading between trains, trucks and boats ...

Retail Turnover: Suburban Megastores Remade into Libraries, Schools & Shelters

Years ago in McAllen, Texas, an old abandoned 124,500-square-foot Walmart superstore was renovated and put to new use as the largest single-floor public library in the United States. Across ...

Domino Effect: Sweet Playground At Old NYC Sugar Refinery

Sweetwater playground at the former Domino Sugar Refinery in Brooklyn, New York is a colorful children's fun park that's dandy as old-fashioned candy. A park with good taste? It's more ...

Retrofitting Ruins: Designer Turns 6 Abandonments into Modern Dwellings

The question of what to do with ruins is as old as architecture, and answers range from demolition to meticulous reconstruction, or: cleverly combining what's there with something new and ...

Adaptive Architecture: Curved House Wraps Old Well, Reuses Stone Cistern

A contemporary home in Spain was designed to wrap a surface well and sits on the associated subterranean cistern, creatively converting it into the solid foundation and habitable basement of ...

A New Spin: 125-Year-Old Windmill Turned into a Towering Guest House

From barns and sheds to windmills, rural farm structures have a habit of falling into disrepair when they cease to serve their old functions. In Suffolk, England, one such old structure has found ...

Future-Proof Parking Garages: Autonomous Vehicles Drive Reusable Designs

As driverless vehicles hit the streets and shared car usage grows, forward-thinking architects, developers and urban planners are working on adaptable designs to future-proof parking garage ...

Reclaiming Urban Food Production: 12 Smart Designs for Farms & Gardens

Most urban environments aren’t lacking in sunlight - it’s a lack of square footage and healthy soil that makes it hard to use these spaces to grow food. While many a high-tech concept design ...

Banksy’s Dismaland to be Reused as Refugee Housing in France

The dystopian bemusement pop-up theme park known Dismaland, a project of UK artist Banksy, is now closed but its dismantled pieces and parts will find second lives as architecture and ...

Underwater Homes: Deserted Basements as Stormwater Cisterns

In a dual effort to address urban blight and ailing infrastructure, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is piloting a new program to turn the basements of abandoned houses slated for demolition into ...

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