Copenhagen is just one city among many around the world taking a novel approach to prevent repeated flooding. It is becoming a sponge. urban planning Article 912 words 8 votes
Urban development company Atrium Ljungberg has unveiled plans to construct the world's largest wooden neighbourhood in Stockholm urban planning architecture Link 10 votes
This video tells the story of the Nakagin Capsule Tower, its design, construction, life, and ultimate demise 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 urban planning architecture Article 1369 words, published Sep 26 2022 8 votes
Copenhagen is great… but it’s not Amsterdam urban planning Video 10:16, published Mar 23 2020 8 votes
The Scandinavian way to zero-carbon construction – cities like Oslo, Helsinki and Copenhagen are working to clean up one of the world's most high-emission industries architecture Article 1949 words 4 votes
Plans for an artificial island to house 35,000 people and protect the port of Copenhagen from rising sea levels have been approved by Danish MPs urban planning Article 441 words 8 votes
Facing a housing crunch almost a century ago, Stockholm built 'barnrikehus' for low-income families – today they are some of the city's more sought-after properties architecture urban planning Article 9 votes
Swedish officials have joined Danish critics in registering concerns that an island-building plan, a signature test of Copenhagen's development model, could have risks urban planning Article 6 votes
How Reykjavik's sheet-metal homes beat the Icelandic winter – they may be unorthodox, but the innovative buildings have kept residents warm and dry for more than a century architecture Article 13 votes
Transparent public toilets unveiled in Tokyo parks — but they also offer privacy architecture Article 404 words 8 votes
The Tokyo Toilet - Public toilets in seventeen locations in Shibuya will be given unique redesigns by renowned designers and architects architecture Link 11 votes
Amid protests, Norway's government has begun tearing down a landmark building adorned with giant murals by Pablo Picasso architecture Article 435 words 5 votes
Five Picasso murals in Oslo are at the center of a major controversy – the murals are scheduled to be moved in the name of preservation architecture Article 674 words 5 votes
How Berlin's Mietskaserne tenements became coveted urban housing urban planning architecture Article 7 votes
Copenhagen-based firm Henning Larsen Architects has proposed a low-rise neighborhood south of central Copenhagen using all-timber construction architecture Article 332 words 4 votes
How Helsinki built book heaven – Finland's most ambitious library is a kind of monument to the Nordic model of civic engagement architecture urban planning Article 7 votes
We replaced sixty-eight Tube adverts with cats advertising Article 460 words, published Sep 11 2016 13 votes
Helsinki's new flagship library Oodi has been voted winner of the 2019 Public Library of the Year award by the IFLA architecture Article 437 words 6 votes
Indonesia will build its new capital city in Borneo as Jakarta sinks into the Java Sea urban planning Article 335 words 11 votes
Want safe, bikeable streets? Get rid of free parking, as Amsterdam did urban planning Article 916 words 14 votes
How a new logo saved the city of Oslo $5 million a year typography Article 546 words, published Jun 28 2019 8 votes
Indonesia plans to move its capital out of Jakarta, a city that's sinking urban planning Article 594 words 9 votes
Can post-revolution Yerevan get to grips with its informal architecture epidemic? urban planning architecture Link 10 votes
Taking back Taksim: Everyday life vs. top-down redevelopment architecture urban planning Article 1853 words 6 votes