Concrete stamp from Swiss Post
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The world’s oldest cat door has been letting working cats enter the cathedral since the 14th Century
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The Baťa Skyscraper in Zlín, Czechia is a landmark of architecture. And inside it, the office of Jan Antonín Baťa... is an elevator.
13 votes -
A movement known as Architectural Uprising is pushing back against Scandinavian design trends – and sometimes forcing architects back to the drawing board
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.
18 votes -
The bewildering architecture of skybridges
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So you want to turn an office building into a home?
41 votes -
Who really wants megastructure cites?
3 votes -
Architects trying to make Denmark carbon-neutral – Copenhagen hosts 2023 World Congress of Architects, displaying experimental structures that could decarbonise housing
9 votes -
Urban development company Atrium Ljungberg has unveiled plans to construct the world's largest wooden neighbourhood in Stockholm
10 votes -
Is it time to do away with “good taste?”
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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.
10 votes -
Doomsday prep for the super-rich
21 votes -
Why is everything so ugly? The mid in fake midcentury modern
26 votes -
Intricate tunnels of termite mounds could be key to energy efficient buildings
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Munger Hall: A billionaire's bizarre social experiment
4 votes -
Czechia's incredible 1960s supervillain-lair hotel (and why its architect got banned by the regime)
8 votes -
AI vs. architects
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In defense of Shattuck: Housing in downtown Berkeley
4 votes -
The age of average
8 votes -
So you want to turn an office building into a home?
10 votes -
The unfathomable scale of the Brussels Palace of Justice
9 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
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Potash buildings
4 votes -
Megacities: Reality or fiction? Architecture in sci-fi.
4 votes -
Your city is full of fake buildings, here's why
5 votes -
Inside one of Japan's tiniest houses
6 votes -
Why Norway's churches look weird
6 votes -
This video tells the story of the Nakagin Capsule Tower, its design, construction, life, and ultimate demise
4 votes -
Why India doesn’t build skyscrapers
9 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
8 votes -
A Twitter thread on Alfred Loos, one of the founders of modern architecture, and why modern housing looks so plain
11 votes -
Gothenburg is on a $100bn building spree
6 votes -
Known as "torfbæir", these ingeniously designed Icelandic homes helped settle one of Europe's least-hospitable environments
8 votes -
Why Chicago's skyline is insanely well designed
3 votes -
How “dementia villages” work
6 votes -
Is the open-plan office heading to the grave?
5 votes -
Why Paris looks weird
6 votes -
Inside Toronto's skyscraper boom
4 votes -
Museum dedicated to Danish fairytale author Hans Christian Andersen, designed as an experiential fantasy world, has officially opened in Odense
6 votes -
CF Møller's kaleidoscopic Lego campus debuts in Denmark
4 votes -
Drawing pictures of cities
4 votes -
Why people thought steel houses were a good idea
2 votes -
Casino design and why there are no ninety degree turns in most casinos
4 votes -
Why Barcelona looks weird
5 votes -
Why everywhere in the US is starting to look the same
14 votes -
The bewildering architecture of indoor cities
6 votes -
The giant chainmail box that stops a house dissolving
22 votes -
Why New York’s Billionaires’ Row is half empty
8 votes -
For centuries, indigenous groups in north-east India have crafted intricate bridges from living fig trees. Now this ancient skill is making its way to European cities.
5 votes