This stunning home concept is built into the side of a cliff
There are dream homes, and homes of your dreams — this one is the ladder. Casa Brutale is a home made of concrete, glass, and wood, built into the side of a cliff. Architects Open Platform for...
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America's oldest shopping mall has been turned into beautiful...
Providence, Rhode Island has a hot new development in an elegant old building. When it was built 188 years ago, the Arcade Providence was America's first shopping mall, hosting 48 different boutiques....
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24 photos that show North Korea's obsession with huge, weird buildings
The world's attitude toward North Korea tends to swing between playful mocking and genuine horror. Like dictatorships before it — namely, Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia — North Korea tends to embody...
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A pair of luxury twisting towers are going up next to New York’s High Line
New York’s High Line— the beloved elevated park built along abandoned train tracks on Manhattan’s west side — will soon offer visitors a walking tour of nearby buildings by some of the world’s best...
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Watch a 93-year-old bridge withstand a powerful explosion meant to destroy it
When the city of Little Rock, Arkansas deemed a 93-year-old bridge "structurally deficient" due to its age, the city council ordered its demolition.But when workers tried to destroy it, the bridge...
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Apple's new London headquarters is part of a $17 billion megadevelopment —...
Apple is moving its UK headquarters to the Battersea Power Station — London's iconic brick building that Pink Floyd portrayed on the cover of its 1977 album"Animals." The station's redevelopment is...
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Inside the new $133,000 tiny house that can be taken apart to move with its...
Moving usually means leaving your old house behind.But a new tiny house, called the Koda, is designed to move with you.A construction crew from Kodasema, the Estonia-based design firm that created the...
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The 19 most breathtaking buildings in the world, according to architects
Like paintings and sculptures, buildings can be beautiful works of art.We asked architects to tell us the one building that's a game-changer for building design, inspired them to become architects, or...
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A multi-billion-dollar futuristic city will host the 2017 World’s Expo — take...
Next year, approximately four million people from around the world will flock to Astana, Kazakhstan for the 2017 World's Expo. Taking place from June 10 to September 10, the international conference...
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Detroit is getting a neighborhood of tiny homes that homeless people rent to own
Tiny homes are being built around the country for a variety of reasons — some are designed for affordability, others are prefabricated to be constructed quickly, and some are made by people who simply...
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Dubai is building the world's tallest skyscraper — here's what it'll look like
Construction on the tallest skyscraper in the world is underway. On October 10, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the prime minister of Dubai, broke ground on the new building, called the Tower at...
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This timelapse video of five Manhattan buildings getting demolished is...
At 1,401 feet tall, One Vanderbilt tower will soon become the second tallest skyscraper in New York City.To make room for the tower, which celebrated its groundbreaking on October 18, five buildings in...
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These 6 beautiful buildings have been awarded for setting new standards of...
The Aga Khan Award for Architecture celebrates new structures around the world that successfully address the needs and aspirations of the societies they serve. The award originated in the Middle East...
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A $350 million skyscraper in San Francisco that's tilting and sinking has...
Pamela Buttery noticed something peculiar six years ago while practicing golf putting in her 57th-floor apartment at the luxurious Millennium Tower. The ball kept veering to the same corner of her...
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Public officials are trying to determine why a luxury apartment tower in San Francisco has been slowly sinking. The sinking has led to an unusual lean, earning the building’s nickname: “The leaning...
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Prince’s secretive $10 million estate is about to open as a museum
Paisley Park — Prince's famed and highly secretive studio complex — will officially be turned into a museum for his fans, following a unanimous vote by the Chanhassen City Council on October 24.Tours...
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This rejected design for a futuristic new Guggenheim museum would have been...
Over the weekend, the Association of Licensed Architects announced the winners of its prestigious design competition. A variety of buildings types — from homes to sportsplexes to museums — won gold and...
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Here's why airports are such an inefficient nightmare, according to an architect
The INSIDER Summary:For his master's degree in architecture, Radu Gidei re-invented the airport by designing a "distributed airport" where not everything is under one roof.During his research he found...
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14 houses built in seemingly impossible locations
Everyone needs some form of shelter, but not everyone is happy with urban or even suburban lifestyles.Some prefer to live as far away from other people as possible.In the most extreme cases, that means...
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A $2.4 billion twisting Chinese tower was just named the most beautiful...
Emporis, a real estate data mining company, just announced the winners of its 2015 Skyscraper Awards, which judges new skyscrapers based on design and functionality.The Shanghai Tower, located in the...
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