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8 of the craziest proposals for Trump's border wall
This fall, the Trump administration will ask Congress to give the green light on a federal budget that includes funding for a wall along the US-Mexico border.Not all Republican lawmakers are on board,...
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This luxury resort on a mountaintop would be completely powered by water
Resorts in remote locations may provide relaxing escapes, but such hotels can by costly for the environment and deplete water, land, and local resources, according to the Global Development Research...
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People in this Swedish town gather in a 'Solar Egg' sauna instead of having...
On the western border of Kiruna, Sweden, the state-owned mining company, LKAB, has been extracting iron ore from the Kirunavaara mountains for over a decade. But the long-term mining has caused...
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Britain's 15 best new buildings are eclectic masterpieces
The 2017 winners of the RIBA National Awards for architecture are eclectic and stunning. RIBA's 49 winners range from a state-of-the-art science lab to a 16th-century Abbey in St Albans.RIBA President...
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China is building a smog-eating 'forest city' filled with tree-covered...
The smog levels in the southern Chinese city of Liuzhou are not yet dire, but if the city fails to deal with its pollution, it will only get worse over time.Italian design firm Stefano Boeri Architetti...
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New York City is building its first monument to honor the LGBTQ community
The INSIDER Summary:New York City recently revealed what the official monument dedicated to the LGBTQ community will look like.It will be the state's first official monument of its kind.The project was...
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Ballet dancers took over a subway station in Russia and the photos are stunning
The INSIDER Summary:Dancers from the Kremlin Ballet in Moscow, Russia, turned a subway station into their stage.The performance was in honor of the FIFA Confederations Cup.Commuters were confused, but...
View ArticleChina wants to build a 'forest city' to tackle air pollution – here's how it...
A city covered in one million plants and 40,000 trees will soon be built in China. The "forest city" as it's been called is planned to be built in Liuzhou, in southern China by 2020.The idea is that...
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Hitler's 3-mile-long abandoned Nazi resort is transforming into a luxury getaway
Three years before Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Adolf Hitler ordered the construction of the world's largest tourist resort, located on a beachfront property on the island of Rügen.The Nazis called...
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This 150-year-old colonial mansion houses one of the world's fanciest...
"Fancy" and "McDonald's" usually don't belong in the same sentence.But this Mickey D's location in Freeport, Maine looks pretty classy, considering it was built inside a 150-year-old mansion.It's...
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The world's largest airport terminal will open in Beijing in 2019
The INSIDER Summary:Beijing's Daxing Airport will be home to the largest airport terminal in the world once it opens in 2019.The terminal will be 7.5 million square feet, and the airport is expected to...
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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 reworking, the students at Rural Studio — Auburn University 's...
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16 of the most beautiful schools in the world
Education is meant to enrich students, and part of that experience is ensuring that they learn in a quality environment.This year's shortlist for the World Architecture Festival, held over three days...
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This $130,000 self-deploying building can unfold in just eight minutes
Building a home or temporary shelter by hand can be both time-consuming and expensive.Ten Fold Engineering, a housing startup based in the UK, has created self-deploying buildings that can pop up in a...
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The world's first planned drive-through mall is now a prison — take a look at...
Amongst the small houses on a hill in Caracas, Venezuela, the massive Helicoide looks otherworldly — or at the very least, out of place.The spaceship-like building was originally planned as a...
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One of Zaha Hadid's final New York City apartment buildings has robot valets...
Zaha Hadid, one of the most visionary architects of our time, died at age 65 in 2016.Over the span of her career, the controversial and uncompromising architect created award-winning museums, condos,...
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16 prisons that have been transformed into luxury hotels
As crime rates continue to fall, countries around the world are realizing their abandoned jails and prisons could be better served to house a different kind of resident: tourists.Some facilities have...
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One of the world’s largest Nazi bunkers has been transformed into a museum —...
During World War II, about 200 concrete bunkers for Nazi soldiers were built along the Danish coast. Denmark's largest was the Tirpitz Bunker, which measured 7,500 square feet and was located in...
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A stunning new smog-eating 'vertical forest tower' will feature luxury...
A smog-eating tower will soon go up in the Netherlands city of Utrecht.On the outside, 10,000 trees and shrubs — nearly half the amount found in New York's Central Park — will fill the skyscraper's...
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11 of the most beautiful new homes around the world
Every year, the World Architecture Festival (WAF) celebrates the most incredible new buildings from around the world. The 2017 finalists in the housing category, located in cities from Tokyo to...
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