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Architecture for Animals: 13 Structures Designed with Non-Human Use in Mind

If we’re going to keep animals in artificial environments to make money off gawking at them, you’d hope we’d at least design these structures sensitively, hiring top architects to give them ...

Recycling Rockets: Ixion Will Turn Orbital Space Junk into Spacious Habitats

As part of their NextSTEP program, NASA has contracted a space company to turn trash into treasure, converting used rocket sections already being sent into orbit into habitation units rather than ...

Haul For One: U-Haul Adapts & Reuses Abandoned Buildings

U-Haul company's commitment to renovate and reuse abandoned buildings is not only economical, it also serves to revitalize post-industrial neighborhoods. One of U-Haul's most noteworthy ...

Optical Illusion Architecture: These 11 Buildings Are Not What They Seem

Pinched, warped, rippled, steeply angled and mirrored until they disappear into the sky, these buildings are not quite what they seem at first glance. Sometimes, it takes a nice long look at ...

Modular Remix: Parking Garage Picked Apart, Reassembled Like LEGO

As autonomous vehicles begin to roll out on city streets, adaptive reuse projects like this one could help old parking structures readily find new and productive urban purposes. This ...

Bamboo Architecture: 14 Sustainable and Spectacular Organic Structures

Extraordinarily flexible yet strong, the fast-growing grass known as bamboo serves as a versatile medium for architectural projects with sculptural flair, especially when it's bent or woven. ...

Pillars of Green: 85,000 Plants on World’s Largest Vertical Garden Facade

An extensive living facade system in Bogota, Columbia, represents growth in the right direction, away from unrealistic tree-covered skyscrapers toward more sustainable and useful vertical ...

Emoji Facade: Dutch Architects Decorate Brick Building with 22 Smiley Faces

Instead of gargoyles, grotesques or ornate decorative details, this somewhat silly facade expresses an array of emotions through circular icons familiar to anyone with a smartphone or social ...

Beyond Brutalism: Cutting-Edge North Korean Architecture

The infamous Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang may have stolen the spotlight but North Korea can boast many other examples of unusual cutting-edge architecture. The Korea Central Zoo (also ...

World’s Sexiest Parking Garage Has a New Competitor For the Crown

It may not be as jaw-dropping and awe-inspiring as Detroit’s decaying Michigan Theater parking garage, nor quite as multifunctional as the stunning Herzog de Meuron structure at 1111 Lincoln ...

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