Nathan Berman has helped rescue Manhattan’s financial district from a “doom loop” by carving attractive living spaces from hulking buildings that once housed fields of cubicles ~design architecture Article 5879 words, published Apr 29 2024 16 votes
The methodical plan to erase Chicago ~design urban planning architecture.hierarchical mesh Video 14:47 5 votes
Saudi Arabia’s 105-mile long Line city has been cut a little short – by 103.5 miles ~design architecture urban planning Article 645 words 28 votes
Copenhagen and Paris mayors exchange lessons learned after huge fires destroy landmarks ~design architecture Article 479 words 12 votes
Volvo is celebrating its 97th birthday with the opening of what it calls "World of Volvo" in the company's hometown of Gothenburg, Sweden ~transport Article 666 words, published Apr 11 2024 7 votes
SubTropolis – The "world's largest underground business complex," a 55,000,000-square-foot city underneath Missouri ~engineering Article 246 words 13 votes
How Jim Heimann got crazy for California architecture ~design architecture.mimetic architecture.programmatic advertising Article 1620 words, published Mar 25 2022 3 votes
Muji has a prescription for the loneliness epidemic in Japan ~design architecture Article 77 words 10 votes
Crooked House: Owners of wonky pub ordered to rebuild ~design architecture Article 792 words 22 votes
London's BT Tower to be turned into a hotel after £275m sale ~design architecture Article 577 words 10 votes
Why we can’t build family-sized apartments in North America ~design architecture Article 4684 words 33 votes
Finnish sauna that was gifted to the UK after the 1948 Olympic Games has been granted Grade II-listed status ~design architecture Article 523 words 4 votes
Every year since 1989, a hotel built out of snow and ice is constructed anew, and welcomes guests in the Swedish village of Jukkasjärvi ~travel Article 102 words, published Jan 9 2024 17 votes
Inside the world's highest tech prison - HMP Fosse Way ~tech security Video 20:42, published Nov 21 2023 12 votes
Give us something to look at: Why ornament matters in architecture ~design architecture Article 4762 words, published Dec 21 2023 15 votes
Hive cities: Reality or fiction? ~design architecture.metabolism architecture.parasitic Video 14:58 7 votes
Mark Zuckerberg is building a top-secret compound in Hawai'i ~life housing Article 4416 words, published Dec 14 2023 32 votes
The Masterplan vision for Gelephu Mindfulness City unveiled ~design urban planning architecture Link 15 votes
Exploring Art Deco architecture's evolution from its 1920s roots to its modern resurgence in Art Deco 2.0 ~design fashion architecture urban planning Video 14:07 5 votes
The old new way to provide cheap housing ~design urban planning architecture Article 1078 words 18 votes
Review: A Field Guide to American Houses, by Virginia Savage McAlester ~design architecture Article 3860 words 12 votes
Windowless skyscrapers. These often misunderstood structures play mysterious roles in our urban landscape. In this video we explore the purposes and intriguing stories of these architectural anomalies ~design architecture Video 13:50, published Nov 30 2023 12 votes
Bamboo rising: Lari Octa Green shelters by Yasmeen Lari in Sindh province, Pakistan ~design architecture Link 4 votes
Campaigners seek listed status for Finnish sauna from 1948 Olympics – wooden hut is Britain's oldest operating sauna and ‘hugely important’ piece of sporting history ~design architecture Article 738 words 9 votes
The New Jersey Hindu temple covered with 10,000 sculptures, marble elephants, ample parking, and a federal investigation into how it all got built ~humanities religion Article 3096 words, published Nov 9 2023 12 votes
Join me on an exclusive tour of two remarkable fire stations in Columbus, Indiana ~design architecture Video 13:04 3 votes
Architecture lovers can spend the night in a modernist masterpiece designed by Alvar Aalto – former TB sanatorium is now Finland's most unusual holiday let ~design architecture Article 1224 words 10 votes
Why everyone hates this concrete building, and why brutalism dominates US college campuses ~design architecture Video 8:03 18 votes
SolarPunk vs CyberPunk: Our cities' last hope? ~design architecture urban planning Video 18:35 14 votes
How the Blitz enhanced London’s economy (2018) ~design urban planning architecture Article 936 words, published Jun 25 2018 6 votes
Nakatomi Space - Moving through a city differently (2010) ~design architecture Article 1994 words, published Jan 11 2010 5 votes
How AI art reduces the world to stereotypes ~arts art.generative Article 3363 words, published Oct 10 2023 33 votes
Analyzing Frank Herbert's Dune from an architectural perspective ~design architecture Video 17:52 10 votes
UK government accused of ‘suppressing’ report into safety of modular building ~design architecture Article 526 words 7 votes
Ten churches around the world that have been repurposed in interesting and creative ways ~design architecture Article 634 words 42 votes
San Francisco considers lifting the Ferry Building by seven feet to save it from the sea ~enviro climate change Article 1042 words 15 votes
Tech billionaires launch California ‘utopia’ website ~design urban planning architecture Article 1298 words, published Aug 20 2023 55 votes
The world’s oldest cat door has been letting working cats enter the cathedral since the 14th Century ~design architecture Article 548 words 44 votes
The Baťa Skyscraper in Zlín, Czechia is a landmark of architecture. And inside it, the office of Jan Antonín Baťa... is an elevator. ~design architecture Video 4:15 13 votes
A movement known as Architectural Uprising is pushing back against Scandinavian design trends – and sometimes forcing architects back to the drawing board ~design architecture Article 25 votes
This building nearly broke Taipei. The Taipei Performing Arts Center; Over budget, a decade under construction, and one of Asia's most important cultural buildings. ~design architecture Video 10:40 18 votes
So you want to turn an office building into a home? ~design architecture Article 2045 words, published Mar 11 2023 41 votes
The ground is deforming, and buildings aren't ready. First study to quantify effects of subsurface climate change on civil infrastructure ~engineering Article 1229 words 23 votes
Process of making beautiful Korean-style house ~engineering Video 16:00, published May 24 2023 18 votes
Architects trying to make Denmark carbon-neutral – Copenhagen hosts 2023 World Congress of Architects, displaying experimental structures that could decarbonise housing ~design architecture Article 290 words 9 votes
Urban development company Atrium Ljungberg has unveiled plans to construct the world's largest wooden neighbourhood in Stockholm ~design urban planning architecture Link 10 votes
Buzludzha was the pinnacle of Bulgaria’s communist-era monuments and drew international visitors as a modern ruin. Now, it’s poised to be the country’s first monument presented like a museum. ~design architecture Article 3082 words 10 votes
Doomsday prep for the super-rich ~design architecture Article 8195 words, published Jan 23 2017 21 votes
Why is everything so ugly? The mid in fake midcentury modern ~design architecture urban planning Article 3959 words, published Nov 29 2022 26 votes
Intricate tunnels of termite mounds could be key to energy efficient buildings ~design architecture Article 773 words 5 votes
Building a cathedral without science or mathematics: The engineering method explained ~engineering Video 11:54 4 votes
Czechia's incredible 1960s supervillain-lair hotel (and why its architect got banned by the regime) ~design architecture Video 13:39 8 votes
Inside the lab that tests elevator free-falls – we sent Fred down the world's deepest elevator test shaft in Tytyri, Finland ~engineering Article 1723 words 2 votes
So you want to turn an office building into a home? ~design architecture Article 2045 words, published Mar 11 2023 10 votes
Engineering the world’s most complex office building, in Antwerp, Belgium ~engineering Video 11:04 5 votes
The unfathomable scale of the Brussels Palace of Justice ~design architecture Article 3659 words 9 votes
The forgotten story of Modulex – Lego's lost cousin ~design architecture Video 31:33, published Feb 3 2023 7 votes
A Swedish town is on the move, one building at a time – subsidence from the world's biggest iron ore mine threatens to swallow up the Arctic town of Kiruna ~life Article 1005 words 6 votes
Megacities: Reality or fiction? Architecture in sci-fi ~design urban planning architecture Video 16:42, published Nov 11 2022 4 votes
Your city is full of fake buildings, here's why ~design urban planning architecture Video 12:05, published Oct 7 2022 5 votes
Archaeologists with the Nordjyske Museer in Denmark have found the remains of a large, thousand-year-old homestead, which they believe may have been a Viking hall ~humanities.history Article 299 words 6 votes
This video tells the story of the Nakagin Capsule Tower, its design, construction, life, and ultimate demise ~design architecture.metabolism Video 12:34, published Nov 17 2022 4 votes
Is Helsinki city centre's new neighbourhood, Wood City, the future of building? Developers are increasingly swapping out concrete and steel in favour of wood ~design urban planning architecture Article 1369 words, published Sep 26 2022 8 votes
A Twitter thread on Alfred Loos, one of the founders of modern architecture, and why modern housing looks so plain ~design architecture Tweet 11 votes
Gothenburg is on a $100bn building spree ~design urban planning architecture Article 1521 words 6 votes
Known as "torfbæir", these ingeniously designed Icelandic homes helped settle one of Europe's least-hospitable environments ~design architecture Article 1402 words 8 votes
Why Chicago's skyline is insanely well designed ~design urban planning architecture Video 13:15, published Sep 8 2022 3 votes
Architecture in video games: Designing for impact ~games Article 4334 words, published Oct 12 2015 7 votes