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You can now stay in a two-story 'human birdhouse' for SXSW
If you're flocking to the South by Southwest festival starting March 15, you don't have to settle for a boring hotel room. You could instead stay in an apartment that (sort of) looks like a birdhouse....
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New York City's $4 billion World Trade Center Transportation Hub is finally...
Nearly 15 years after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the World Trade Center Transportation Hub is now partially open to the public. It serves as a connection between New Jersey's Port Authority...
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Plans to build homes, shops and restaurants near the Grand Canyon have been...
(Reuters) - U.S. land managers on Friday rejected a plan that could have opened the way for housing and commercial expansion near the Grand Canyon’s celebrated South Rim, a surprise decision that was...
View ArticleThe world's coolest Starbucks has 2,000 wooden sticks jutting out of the walls
Dazaifu, Japan, is home to a Starbucks that puts your neighborhood coffee shop to shame. The store was designed by renowned architect Kengo Kuma, and incorporates a massive wooden lattice that's made...
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Starchitect Zaha Hadid designed an apartment building with robot valets and a...
A new futuristic apartment building by renowned architect Zaha Hadid will soon join the cluster of ultra-luxe apartments towering over the High Line, Manhattan's famed elevated park. The high-rise will...
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A Russian billionaire wants to build a massive tower that looks like a snake
Russian designer Vasily Klyukin has envisioned the "Asian Cobra Tower." Just as its name suggests, the gold-plated tower takes the shape of a snake, offering offices and apartments in its body and a...
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Cornell is building a super-high-tech school that it wants to be a home for...
An official hub for tech and innovation in New York City is one step closer to reality. On Roosevelt Island, a spit of land between Manhattan and Queens, a cluster of buildings commissioned by Cornell...
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These beautiful tiny homes cost less than $20,000 to build — take a look inside
A team of architecture students designed a seemingly impossible home.After more than a decade of designing, editing, and re-working, the students at Rural Studio, Auburn University 's architectural...
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The residents of a New York luxury building are suing the developer for...
Owners of apartments at the Atelier condominium on West 42nd Street have filed a $100 million lawsuit against Joseph Moinian’s Moinian Group, the developer of the property, alleging the company is...
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Starchitect Zaha Hadid built a luxury New York City apartment building with...
Unlike the rest of us common folk, those who can afford to live in Zaha Hadid's newest apartments will breathe the freshest air in Manhattan.The luxe units, which are selling from $5 to $50 million,...
View ArticleA designer invented purposely annoying furniture to make a point about laziness
For his master's thesis at the École Boulle in Paris, Benoît Malta designed a series of pieces that will challenge your perception of home décor.Each piece has something about it that turns a passive...
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A terrifying dystopian novel about class warfare in a 1970s high rise is now...
One of the most disturbing books I've read in recent memory is now a film.High Rise, JG Ballard's 1975 classic novel, features a young doctor who moves into a high rise building on the outskirts of...
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This mesmerizing bathroom has glass walls that frost over with the flip of a...
Everything in the new futuristic apartment complex designed by renowned architect Zaha Hadid will be top-of-the-line.Set to open by 2017, it will border Manhattan's aerial park, the High Line, and...
View ArticleArchitects plan on reconstructing one of the lost wonders of the ancient...
More than 2,000 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 version...
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This futuristic Chinese opera house looks like a spaceship
China may have recently put out a ban on "weird architecture," but this stunning opera house, recently opened in the northern city of Harbin, has evaded the ban.Following in the tradition of iconic...
View ArticleA woman quit her job as a lawyer to make tiny furniture
Emily Boutard used to be a corporate lawyer, but she realized she prefers making tiny things instead. So she quit her job and now she's studying architecture and making incredible historically accurate...
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Zaha Hadid just dropped a line of stunning jewelry inspired by her buildings
Zaha Hadid, the Pritzker Prize-winning architect known for her neofuturistic buildings, just unveiled photos of her newest work: sterling silver jewelry.Hadid created the collection for Danish design...
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6 brilliant ideas in Zaha Hadid's New York City apartment building
Architect Zaha Hadid's first high-rise apartment building in New York City will offer the best of everything.Set to open by early 2017, the apartments overlook the High Line and will come with a slew...
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Buckminster Fuller once designed aerodynamic homes powered by human waste
A book excerpt from You Belong to the Universe by Jonathon Keats.In 1914, the Swiss architect Le Corbusier attempted to design a house like a car chassis. Comprising horizontal slabs separated by...
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The top skyscraper design of 2016 looks like a 'Hunger Games' arena in the...
Every year, Evolo awards the top skyscraper concept out of nearly 500 entries.On March 24, the architecture and design magazine awarded the top prize to two American designers for their Hunger...
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