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Read the best architecture articles from around the internet, or watch the most insightful architecture videos from platforms like Youtube, Vimeo or leading architecture publishers like Dezeen, Designboom, ArchDaily and Architectural Digest.

Every Room Is A Battlefield In Fort Irwin

Every Room Is A Battlefield In Fort Irwin

Architecture Politics

Fort Irwin is a U.S. Army base the size of Rhode Island, roughly three hours outside Los Angeles in the Mojave Desert. Its scale and isolation make it an ideal setting for immersive military training exercises, which are staged in a series of 14 simulated towns and cities.

Is This A Chinese City In Malaysia?

Is This A Chinese City In Malaysia?

Architecture Cities Videos World

Forest City is being built in the Malaysian state of Johor in the southern part of the country. Here, the Johore Strait acts as a natural border between Malaysia and the independent city-state Singapore. It is one of the most ambitious urban development projects currently underway. An entire new city built from scratch.

Prefab Needs To Be Fixed Before It Can Save Housing

Prefab Needs To Be Fixed Before It Can Save Housing

Architecture

Today, prefabrication in the United States is stunted. The small manufacturers that exist cannot invest in research and therefore cannot produce the more sophisticated projects that are needed today. Plus, in many cases, it can be less costly to ship a project over from a more experienced or innovative fabricator.

What If We Automated Construction?

What If We Automated Construction?

Architecture Innovation Videos

The rise of technology is a huge opportunity for the construction industry; enabling it to overcome many of its challenges while broadening its appeal to young talent. From predictive design to 3D printing and even autonomous machines on site, this is what the future could look like if we automated construction.

Virginia Mori

Inspiration
Virginia Mori
Frank Lloyd Wright, Urban Visionary

Frank Lloyd Wright, Urban Visionary

Architecture Cities

For all his criticisms, America’s most celebrated architect wasn’t intrinsically opposed to cities. Instead, Frank Lloyd Wright urged us to examine what they had become and recognize that none of their failures were inevitable.

Wikkelhouse: Pick Your Modular Segments & Click Them Together

Wikkelhouse: Pick Your Modular Segments & Click Them Together

Architecture Innovation Videos

The “Wikkelhouse”, or “wrap house”, is a truly customizable home composed of 5-meter-square (53-square-foot) modules that click together to create any-sized structure. Once “printed”, the basic units can be customized: kitted out as a bathroom, a kitchen or combined bunk rooms can create larger rooms.

The Impossible Architecture Of Dreams

The Impossible Architecture Of Dreams

Architecture Art Design Innovation

Where do we go when we dream? This surreal territory has proved fertile ground for a new generation of contemporary artists working at the intersection of architecture, interior design, and technology. The dreamscapes of these creations offer an intriguing insight into a new movement in digital art.

How To Make An Attractive City

How To Make An Attractive City

Architecture Cities Videos

Cities are a big deal. We pretty much all have to live in them. We should try hard to get them right. So few cities are nice, very few out of many thousands are really beautiful; embarrassingly the more appealing ones tend to be old, which is weird because we’re mostly much better at making things now.

The Global Drive To Reclaim Routes For Cyclists & Pedestrians

The Global Drive To Reclaim Routes For Cyclists & Pedestrians

Architecture Cities

In many places, car-curbing efforts have begun to gain traction, driven in part by citizen activism. Cities like Paris have proclaimed car-free days. There are also plans to oust private vehicles from major metropolitan areas and there have even been proposals to create entirely new car-free cities from scratch.

Matt Rota

Inspiration
Matt Rota
The Rise And Rise Of New York's Billionaire's Row

The Rise And Rise Of New York's Billionaire's Row

Architecture Cities Videos

With breath-taking views, luxurious interiors, endless amenities and eye-watering price tags, this new wave of properties are strictly for those with a 10-figure bank balance. But how did this area come to be? What sparked its growth in this particular district? How were planning controls addressed?

Osaka's Gate Tower: Highway Through A Building

Osaka's Gate Tower: Highway Through A Building

Architecture Videos

The property was owned by a business since the early Meiji era but when business declined, so did the buildings in the 1970s. The property holder refused to give up the land, even though new building permits had been refused to him. The highway corporation and the property owner negotiated for 5 years and what you see today is their compromise.

Building Egypt's $58BN New City In The Sand

Building Egypt's $58BN New City In The Sand

Architecture Crime Videos World

Following a period of political instability that affected the progression of infrastructure projects, the country’s government took the decision to construct an entirely new capital in 2015. Located 45 kilometers east of the original Cairo, the as-yet-unnamed city has been under construction ever since.

A Dramatic And Organic Bamboo Basketball Court In Thailand

A Dramatic And Organic Bamboo Basketball Court In Thailand

Architecture Design

This remarkable bamboo basketball court in Thailand is designed by Chiangmai Life Architects. It’s a tasteful open-air venue meant for all manner of sports, events and gatherings. And despite its lightweight appearance, it’s been designed to withstand high-speed winds and earthquakes.

Floating Island System Imagines A Future For The People Of Kiribati

Floating Island System Imagines A Future For The People Of Kiribati

Architecture Innovation

Kiribati is in danger of being lost to rising sea levels. In response to this, YAC launched the ‘Kiribati floating houses’ competition to architects and designers across the globe. Marcin Kitala’s winning project comprises a system of pentagonal-shaped platforms, which can be easily connected or disconnected.

Joseph Ford

Inspiration
Joseph Ford
Shanghai's Underwater Quarry Hotel

Shanghai's Underwater Quarry Hotel

Architecture Cities Videos

Extending 90 meters down into an abandoned quarry the 18 storey, InterContinental Shanghai Wonderland is a structure like no other. Located in the Sheshan Mountain Range, the hotel was conceived by Atkins for the Shimao Group as a unique destination to rival the extravagant resorts of Singapore and Dubai.

A Mid-Century Modern Shipping Container Home

A Mid-Century Modern Shipping Container Home

Architecture Design

This midcentury-inspired container home is located in Salida, Colorado, on the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. The house was designed to serve as a vacation rental and you can check it out on Airbnb. The eye-catching structure with bright orange exterior contrasts with everything else around it.

Small Cities, Big Challenges

Small Cities, Big Challenges

Architecture Cities Videos

From building in a crowded capital threatened by rising sea levels to creating modern housing alongside historic landmarks, this is how small cities around the world are overcoming some remarkable challenges.

How To Borrow Natural Light

How To Borrow Natural Light

Architecture Explainers Videos

With an increasing focus on sustainable design practices, the smart use of natural daylight in our homes is no longer a luxury — it has become a necessity. At the heart of any good daylighting strategy is a concept of “borrowed” light: the capture of light falling on the exterior of a home and transporting it to the spaces where it’s needed.

3D Printed Housing For Those Who Need It Most

3D Printed Housing For Those Who Need It Most

Architecture Design Innovation Videos

New Story, ICON, and Échale have completed the first two printed homes in the world’s first 3D printed community in Mexico. The 3D printed homes feature two bedrooms, a living room, kitchen and bath. Co-designed with feedback from the families who will live in them, the homes have been created to meet the specific needs of the community.

Building Africa's City In The Sea

Building Africa's City In The Sea

Architecture Cities Videos

Nigeria is reclaiming 10 square kilometres of land from the ocean to create “Eko Atlantic” – a vast new city that is set to become the financial heart of Africa. 10 new city districts will then be constructed on this reclaimed land, providing commercial, residential and recreational amenities and homes to more than 250,000 residents.

How Public Housing Fails, And Why

How Public Housing Fails, And Why

Architecture Cities Politics

There was a time when public housing served a different purpose — that it served fairly well the people who lived in it, that it was safe and decent housing, and that it did help people as a sort of stepping stone. It was a different demographic that it was serving in that way.

Was The Millennium Dome Really So Bad? The Inside Story Of A (Not So) Total Disaster

Was The Millennium Dome Really So Bad? The Inside Story Of A (Not So) Total Disaster

Architecture Long Reads Politics

Twenty years later, it is still a byword for New Labour hubris, squandered resources and hideously bungled planning. In fact, it was a byword for all of these things before it even opened. It is clear that the prevailing narrative that the Dome was a total failure is not – or at least not quite – the full story.

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