Helsinki's new flagship library Oodi has been voted winner of the 2019 Public Library of the Year award by the IFLA ~design architecture Article 437 words 6 votes
A Welsh town will install anti-sex toilets that could spray users with water ~design architecture.hostile Article 12 votes
IKEA and the Queen of Sweden are designing homes for people with dementia ~design architecture Article 5 votes
Concrete Utopia: An art exhibition on Yugoslavia documents an extraordinary architectural legacy that has been neglected by mainstream historians ~design architecture Article 3232 words, published Nov 6 2018 7 votes
A warped, aluminium cuboid, The Twist art museum doubles as a gravity-defying bridge which spans a river in Norway ~design architecture Article 485 words 7 votes
Shade: It’s a civic resource, an index of inequality, and a requirement for public health. Shade should be a mandate for urban designers ~design urban planning architecture Article 6427 words, published Apr 1 2019 11 votes
The man who’s going to save your neighborhood grocery store ~food Article 7913 words, published Apr 23 2019 7 votes
Europe’s cities weren’t built for this kind of heat ~design urban planning architecture Article 21 votes
Monolithic concrete forms associated with brutalist architecture inspired the interiors of Axel Arigato's Copenhagen flagship store ~design architecture Article 413 words 4 votes
New hotel at Preikestolen designed to hang over cliff edge in Norway ~design architecture Article 273 words 3 votes
Home elevators have killed and injured kids for decades. Safety regulators won’t order a simple fix. ~design architecture Article 4217 words 8 votes
Notre-Dame came far closer to collapsing than people knew. This is how it was saved. ~design architecture Article 3383 words 14 votes
Elliðaárdalur Valley – WilkinsonEyre designs biodome complex for Iceland ~design architecture Article 385 words 3 votes
Using pre-fab datacentres to meet Norway's growing demand for colocation space ~tech Article 1380 words 4 votes
Danish architecture firm COBE has won an international competition for a new science museum in Lund ~design architecture Article 648 words 5 votes
IKEA is bringing its low-cost modular housing units to the UK ~design architecture Article 487 words 6 votes
Notre Dame: Time to call in the French builders with medieval skills ~design architecture Article 1141 words 11 votes
After overthrowing its government and changing its name, North Macedonia faces up to the urban crisis in Skopje ~design architecture urban planning Link 8 votes
To build the cities of the future, we must get out of our cars ~design architecture urban planning Article 5424 words, published Mar 14 2019 13 votes
Skyscrapers are killing up to 1bn birds a year in US, scientists estimate ~enviro conservation Article 875 words 4 votes
What termites can teach us about cooling our buildings ~design architecture urban planning Article 1030 words 9 votes
Neri Oxman's new glass printing technique could lead to 3D-printed glass building facades ~design architecture Article 526 words, published Aug 26 2015 7 votes
Top ten books about building cities. From Mary Beard’s Roman history to Kim Stanley Robinson’s science fiction, Jonathan Carr chooses the best writing about citizens’ eternal challenges ~books fiction Article 480 words 3 votes
'Re-Imagining Paradise' — Making plans to rebuild a town destroyed by wildfire ~enviro Article 1028 words 4 votes
Can post-revolution Yerevan get to grips with its informal architecture epidemic? ~design urban planning architecture Link 10 votes
The International Building Code is changing to recommend gender neutral bathrooms ~lgbt transgender Article 417 words 28 votes
Super-tall, super-skinny, super-expensive: The 'pencil towers' of New York's super-rich ~design architecture urban planning Article 3673 words 14 votes
Taking back Taksim: Everyday life vs. top-down redevelopment ~design architecture urban planning Article 1853 words 6 votes
What should America do with its empty church buildings? ~humanities religion Article 1450 words, published Nov 25 2018 13 votes
Point of view matters: The scourge of modelitis ~design architecture urban planning Article 1745 words 9 votes
A 23-year-old designer has won a top £50,000 ($64,385) prize after creating a low-cost bamboo housing unit to address the Philippines' slum crisis ~design architecture Article 388 words 8 votes
The all-white house: Where did the trend come from and will it last? ~creative Article 1054 words 7 votes
Bursts of stylized flowers by ‘Ouizi’ transform buildings into floral canvases ~arts art.public Article 249 words, published Nov 8 2018 4 votes