City-Shaped Design: 13 Urban-Inspired Objects
Despite the crowded sidewalks, the cacophony of traffic and the sky-high cost of living, there's no denying the romanticism and sheer energy of big cities like New York, Paris, London and Tokyo. ...
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High Hopes Turn Man-Made Structure into Green City Retreat
A project that has been over 12 years in the making added an impressive accomplishment to its history on June 8th, 2011. The High Line, a New York City public park that was built on the remains ...
Modern Metro: 14 of the World’s Coolest Subway Stations
Dark, smelly, filthy and crawling with rats – while this may be an accurate description of many subway stations and tunnels around the world, it definitely doesn't apply to Barcelona's ...
Stop, Look and Love: 8 Redesigns of Classic Traffic Lights
We all gaze upon the humble traffic light nearly every time we climb into a car and take a journey, whether it's down the street for a jug of milk or across the country for a great adventure. ...
Prefab Pod Hotels to Offer Tiny Travel Lodging in Spain
In Japan, the rooms aren't much larger than coffins – tiny stacked pods with beds, a television, a radio and little else. But one company is seeking to take that 'capsule hotel' concept and ...
Betaville: Crowdsourcing Urban Design with Online Gaming
How can urban planners allow city officials, architects, builders and neighborhood residents to collaborate equally on new development projects? Online gaming. An unprecedented new program ...
Will It Blend? Stealth Architecture That Really Stands Out
Sometimes standing out can be less than outstanding, while blending in can compliment and enhance any distinctive community. These 12 supremely stealthy structures speak softly of the need to ...
Retro-Futurism: 13 Failed Urban Design Ideas & Concepts
Many an architect has dreamed up visionary plans for city centers, but few have actually seen their designs come to fruition in a real live urban setting. And while many such unbuilt concepts are ...
Blobitecture: 11 Cool Ways Architecture Gets a Round
Blob Architecture - sometimes referred to as Blobitecture, Blobism or even Blobismus is a exceedingly organic type of architecture that exhibits profoundly soft, rounded and curved dimensions. ...
Amazing Architecture: 15 (More!) World’s Weirdest Buildings
Reflecting their creators’ desire to step far, far away from the sheepish architectural clones that our culture has grown to accept as “normal”, these outstanding structures are among the ...
