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Americans could be killing the McMansion for good
The McMansion became a symbol of prosperity leading up to the 2008 recession.Homebuyers today are emphasizing quality over quantity. The typical McMansion is not considered the sound investment it once...
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Zaha Hadid's final New York City apartment building has robot valets and a...
Zaha Hadid, one of the most visionary architects of our time, died at age 65 in March 2016.Over the span of her career, the controversial and uncompromising architect created award-winning museums,...
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China has built replica versions of these 17 landmarks — including Tower Bridge
Tower Bridge is arguably one of the capital's most impressive and well-known landmarks.However, a replica of the bridge exists in China — and it's twice the size.The structure, which spans a river in...
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Three architects you've probably never heard of just won the Nobel Prize of...
Catalonian architects Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem, and Ramon Vilalta just won the 2017 Pritzker Prize, often considered the Nobel Prize of architecture.The three architects come from RCR Arquitectes, a...
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Seoul is getting a $33 million 'sky garden' with over 24,000 plants
The South Korean capital of Seoul will soon get a massive urban garden that rivalsthe High Line, New York City's famed elevated park.Called the Skygarden, the project will turn an abandoned overpass...
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An American cultural revolution is killing cookie cutter homes — here’s what...
The cookie-cutter neighborhood is an iconic American symbol of suburbia — the architecture is uniform, the lawns manicured, the colors drawn from the same palate. Facades of the houses may vary, but...
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New York's tallest rental skyscraper will have a rock climbing wall, library,...
The area far west of midtown Manhattan was once a quiet part of town. Subway lines didn't stretch there, and many of the apartment buildings were modest in size.But in the last decade, developers have...
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China has built replica versions of these 17 landmarks — including Tower Bridge
Tower Bridge is arguably one of the capital's most impressive and well-known landmarks.However, a replica of the bridge exists in China — and it's twice the size.The structure, which spans a river in...
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The American dream of suburbia is evolving — here’s what it’ll be like to...
When Barb and Kevin Francella moved to New Rochelle, New York in 1990, the suburb radiated a sense of the American dream.Clusters of single-family homes boasted large driveways and green lawns....
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The 14 most expensive skyscrapers built in the last 20 years
Over the last few decades, skyscrapers' heights — and thus their costs — have continued to climb.Business Insider rounded up the most expensive towers built in the last 20 years, defining a skyscraper...
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Norway may build the world's first tunnel for ships
Stretching over 15 miles, Norway's Lærdal Tunnel has been the longest road tunnel in the world since it was built in the 1990s. Now, the country is trying to construct the world's first tunnel for...
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11 giant infrastructure projects that could reshape Europe
It might not get the attention Dubai and China get for their massive skyscrapers and cities, but there's still plenty of infrastructure coming Europe's way.They include enormous railway projects that...
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Inside San Francisco's 'Hack Temple,' where technology is a religion
Startup life can be a religious experience for those immersed in it. A shared passion brings people from all walks of life together. They evangelize their technologies.A Russian angel investor wants to...
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A Harvard researcher invented these $139,000 stackable homes that can be...
Jeff Wilson spent one of his two years as dean of Huston-Tillotson University in Texas living in a dumpster.The experience made him embrace minimalist living, and inspired him to launch a tiny housing...
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Take a rarely seen look inside New York's famed Woolworth Building, which is...
Once the tallest building in New York City, the Woolworth Building is a historic landmark. Completed in 1913, the building was equipped to maintain its own electricity, heat, subway entrance, and...
View ArticleThis is what Google’s incredible new campus will look like
Google has submitted plans to the town of Mountain View, California for a brand new campus called "Google Charleston East." This will be the first time Google has created a building from the ground up....
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The protests against Trump's travel ban could change how America designs...
In late January, tens of thousands of Americans in over 80 airports protested Trump's first travel ban, which would have temporarily barred refugees and immigrants from seven majority-Muslim countries....
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The richest 1% of New York City residents are living in multimillion-dollar...
When an apartment or penthouse isn't big enough for wealthy New Yorkers, they get creative.In recent years, several have combined multiple townhouses or building floors to create supersized homes — or...
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The 25 most beautiful 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 giant U-shaped skyscraper designed for New York City could be the longest...
Manhattan developers keep building skyscrapers taller and taller, but Greek architect Ioannis Oikonomou hopes to break a new kind of record.His firm, Oiio Studio, has designed a U-shaped tower called...
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