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Microsoft's new Denmark headquarters is inspired by a Bill Gates memo from 10...
Sure, you could take a trip to Washington to visit Microsoft's sprawling flagship campus. But wouldn't a trip to snowy Denmark be even better?Architecture firm Henning + Larsen built Microsoft...
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This school in Hong Kong has a kaleidoscopic gym and a track that winds...
The French International School’s (FIS) Tseung Kwan O campus, located in Hong Kong, won't open until 2018, but its attention to sustainability and playful design are already light years ahead of the...
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Meet the jet-setting architect who designed some of the world's most...
Sometimes the biggest power players are the ones who stay behind the scenes. Architect Brad Friemutter may not be a household name, but together with the firm he founded in 1992, the Friedmutter Group,...
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This architect designed a cityscape where everyone works in rooftop coworking...
People are flocking to live in cities and enduring hellish commutes in the process, and architect Clive Wilkinson is tired of it.Well, sort of.As part of a collaboration between his architecture firm...
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This architect designed a cityscape where everyone works in rooftop coworking...
People are flocking to live in cities and enduring hellish commutes in the process, and architect Clive Wilkinson is tired of it.Well, sort of.As part of a collaboration between his architecture firm...
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Inside NYC's first 'micro apartment' building, where 60,000 people have...
If you thought New York apartments were tiny before, you haven't seen anything yet. New York City's first "micro apartments" development — known as Carmel Place — is set to open in February, according...
View ArticleThis floating hotel can sail around the world thanks to its shapeshifting spine
This unique floating hotel stands to change the cruise industry. The MORPHotel is a vessel concept by engineer and architect Gianluca Santosuosso. The hotel is built around a flexible spine 1/2 mile...
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Melbourne's next skyscraper could be a series of 'stacked vases' that uses...
Zaha Hadid Architects has teamed up with Plus Architecture to design their first tower in Melbourne.The 54-story mixed use skyscraper is designed as a series of "stacked vases" supported by an "elegant...
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This apartment building could have a 1,000-foot ski slope on its roof
Imagine an apartment where you could whiz down a 1,000-foot ski slope from the roof to the sidewalk.This daredevil's dream building might eventually be a reality. Called House Slalom, the 21-story...
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Chinese villagers are building a gigantic golden statue to honor Chairman Mao
Between 1943 and 1969, communist China was ruled by a respected and forceful leader, Chairman Mao Zedong.Known by most simply as Chairman Mao, the leader single-handedly kickstarted contemporary China....
View ArticleArchitects plan on reconstructing one of the lost wonders of the ancient...
More than two thousand years after the original Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, was destroyed in an earthquake, a group of architects wants to build a 21st-century...
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Sweden is building massive 'floating' sidewalks in downtown Stockholm
Why have street-level sidewalks when you can have pathways that seem to float in the sky?Swedish architecture firm Anders Berensson Architects has released plans for Klarastaden ("clear town"), a set...
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This 'Inception'-style coffee table seems to warp reality
In case your mornings aren't disorienting enough, Cyprus-based designer Stelios Mousarris has created a bendy wooden coffee table that seems to warp reality itself.A lover of odd-seeming designs,...
View ArticleThis apartment building has a 1,000-foot ski slope on it
An apartment building with a 1,000-foot ski slope could be coming to Astana, Kazakhstan. A design for the building from Shokhan Mataibekov Architects was named a finalist at the World Architecture...
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New York's nightmarish Penn Station is getting a much-needed makeover
New York City's Penn Station is a transit nightmare. It's dismally gray, confusing to navigate, and frequently smells like a mix of Auntie Anne's pretzels and body odor.Traveling through Penn is a bit...
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A family in Japan built a giant basketball court in their living room
On the outside, this two-story suburban home looks pretty typical. A stoop leads to the doorway, and a table for two sits on the patio.But instead of shooting hoops in the driveway, this family plays...
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10 unique hotels to stay at before you die
Hotels are usually just a place to crash on a vacation, but sometimes they can be the attraction themselves.From ice manors in Sweden to al fresco wooden lodges in Botswana to hanging pods in Peru,...
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This portable micro-hotel may be the perfect housing solution for the next...
Imagine if, instead of schlepping back to a faraway hotel after the 2018 World Cup, you could just sleep in a ready-made hotel in the parking lot. Snoozebox, a pop-up hotel that takes under 48 hours to...
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11 memorable projects from this year's most innovative architect
The Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena just won this year's Pritzker Architecture Prize, architecture's equivalent to the Nobel Prize.Aravena focuses on designing architecture with a social...
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Bill Gates thinks this simple innovation could remake our cities
Since grade school, the "three Rs" have been held up as the best course of action for environmentally-conscious people: reduce, reuse, recycle. But as Bill Gates notes in a recent blog post, those Rs...
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