A film producer is building one of the largest mansions in US history — and...
Will Smith may be the "Prince of Bel-Air," but Nile Niami is the king.The film producer and residential developer is building one of the largest homes in US history on a hilltop in Southern...
View ArticleI waited nearly 2 hours to visit the new skydeck atop One World Trade — and...
Thousands of New York City locals and tourists flooded One World Trade Center on Friday for the public opening of One World Observatory. The line to soak in the panoramic views was like waiting to ride...
View ArticleThe tallest building in China — a 2,000-foot skyscraper in Shanghai — is...
The 127-story Shanghai Tower is now the tallest building in China and the second tallest in the world. From breaking ground to completion, the building took almost seven years to complete.It stands...
View ArticleThe design for New York City’s tallest apartment building was inspired by a...
Pure, revolutionary, genuinely distinguished — these are all terms that architecture critics have used to describe Rafael Vinoly’s masterwork, the Western Hemisphere’s tallest residential tower, 432...
View ArticleThe makers of a hoverboard have a new plan to make your house hover in an...
Imagine if an earthquake hit, but before its tremors started shaking the buildings, the structures suddenly begin hovering, no longer touching the ground.For Greg Henderson, that's the vision of the...
View ArticleThe final building at the World Trade Center will look like a 'vertical...
The new design for Two World Trade Center will be a lot of things, but it will not be a twin to One World Trade Center, which recently opened for business in lower Manhattan.That is according to Bjark...
View ArticleWe just got our first look inside the new Two World Trade Center
BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group and Squint/Opera put together this video explaining and visualizing the design plans for the new Two World Trade Center building.Video courtesy of BIG - Bjarke Ingels...
View ArticleThis onetime 'house of the year' in Nevada just hit the market for $5.48...
Welcome to the Stremmel house, Nevada's most photographed home. An art-lover's dream house, Mark Mack custom-designed this architectural masterpiece for Reno-based art gallery owners Peter and Turkey...
View ArticleA simple design innovation let a Chinese entrepreneur build a 57-story...
Broad Sustainable Building, a Chinese architecture company, recently constructed a 57-story, 800 apartment building in 19 working days. It's called Mini Sky City. The man behind it is Zhang Yue, a...
View ArticleThis Swedish house was designed by two million people — and it's surprisingly...
Most people are familiar with Swedish design through IKEA. But the country has a new hot designer: Big Data.Between January and October of 2014, a Swedish online housing portal called Hemnet, collected...
View Article8 rooms where the world's most powerful people go to meet
Not everyone gains entrance into the meeting places of the world's most powerful leaders.In the interest of safety, meetings that take place in these eight rooms — located in tightly secured buildings,...
View ArticleThe architect of the original Twin Towers would hate the new World Trade Center
Made of concrete and featuring tiny, slit-shaped windows, the design of the original Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan reflected architect Minoru Yamasaki's penchant for gothic...
View ArticleFor just one euro a night — This entire house can be all yours
If you're pinching pennies in Berlin and don't have any claustrophobia issues, you might consider renting this tiny house for only one euro a night.At only one square meter, it's the smallest house in...
View ArticleAPPLY NOW: Business Insider is hiring a paid intern to write about...
Do you believe that good design can change the world? Business Insider is hiring a paid intern to cover the world of design innovation. It will be your job to find the most interesting angles on...
View Article27 of the coolest new buildings on the planet
The World Architecture Festival — held this year in Singapore — won't name 2015's Building of the Year until November, but the nominations are officially in. With 338 buildings in the running, we...
View ArticleJetBlue's new rooftop park will make you want to visit JFK Airport voluntarily
In a bid to make the airport experience less dreadful (and maybe even enjoyable), JetBlue has partnered with the architecture and design firm Gensler to create a rooftop deck at JFK International...
View ArticleParis is getting its first skyscraper in over 40 years — and it will be a...
Paris has approved its first tower in over 40 years; the city council has agreed to move forward with Herzog & de Meuron's 180-meter-tall "Triangle Tower" - or "Tour Triangle" - after initially...
View ArticleAn 82,000-square foot LEGO House is coming, and everything looks awesome
LEGO devotees will probably make a pilgrimage to Billund, Denmark next year.That's where the world's largest toy company, which had its humble beginnings in Billund, is constructing a full-sized LEGO...
View ArticleThis incredible glass house will be built into a cliff above the Aegean sea
In our article for this cliff-hanging project by Modscape published last year, we said that all it really needed was James Bond and an invisible Aston Martin in the garage.Well, the images presented by...
View ArticleThe US capital has a short buildings problem
Washington, DC is the capital of the mightiest empire the world has ever known.It is a curious fact that the seat of the government that invented the Internet, that sequenced the human genome, and that...
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