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Why Architects Should Design With Cyclists In Mind
If Henry Ford were reincarnated as a bike maker, Le Corbusier as an architect of buildings and cities for bikes, and Robert Moses as their bike-loving ally in government, today’s bike plans would be...
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Here's The Plan To Move An Entire Swedish Town Over Two Miles
Everyone is familiar with the stresses of moving to a new house, but the residents of Kiruna, a small town of 18,000 in Sweden, face a more daunting task: moving their entire city. For more than 100...
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Japan's Experimental 'Micro Apartments' Look Pretty Dilapidated After 41 Years
When it was built in 1972, architect Kisho Kurokawa’s Nakagin Capsule Tower was meant to be the housing structure of the future.Now in 2013, his "masterpiece" stands dilapidated and virtually...
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Undulating 'Blobitecture' Is The Latest Trend In Building Design
"Blob" buildings are taking over the world.That's according to Emporis, a database of construction projects, which has made a list of some of the most spectacular examples of blob architecture or...
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A New Zealand Art Gallery Is The 'Building Of The Year'
New Zealand's Auckland Art Gallery was named the World Building of the Year at last week's World Architecture Festival in Singapore. The building beat out competition from a shortlist of more than 300...
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The Best New Buildings Of The Year
Each year, more than 2,000 architects from 60 countries around the world gather to attend the World Architecture Festival, which features the largest and most prestigious annual awards ceremony for the...
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Yale Architecture Students Built A Modern Family Home In New Haven
Most architects have to wait years to see their first project realized – but if you’re an architecture student at Yale University, you may just have to get on campus.The Jim Vlock Project, established...
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A Restored Castle Won Britain's Top Architecture Award
Astley Castle, a 12th-century moated manor house that was recently transformed into a modern vacation residence, has won this year’s Stirling Prize.This annual prize recognizes the building that has...
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Architect Has Found The Key To Designing For Autistic Children
In 2002, Magda Mostafa, a then-PhD student at Cairo University, was given an exciting project: to design Egypt’s first educational centre for autism. The young architect set herself down to the task of...
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This Is The Only Beautiful Architecture Left In Crumbling Detroit
Though Detroit has recently been looking like it was hit by a convoy of mile-wide firenados, there remain signs of architectural grandeur illustrating why it was once known as the Paris of the Midwest....
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An Architect's Defense Of Kanye West
I may be in the minority among my peers, but I want Kanye West to keep talking. Despite the many who despise, disparage or dismiss him — unwilling or unable to properly digest what he’s saying,...
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The World's Most Jaw-Dropping Bank Headquarters
When most people think of a bank building, they think of a boring, non-descript glass and chrome structure devoid of any charm.Not so for these titans of finance. They have invested in billion dollar...
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The Disney Concert Hall Hasn't Had The Desired Effect On Downtown LA
On October 23rd, the Walt Disney concert hall, the project that almost never was, will celebrate its ten-year anniversary. Throughout these ten years it has had all manner of transformative power...
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World Famous Architects Designed These Bus Stops For A Tiny Austrian Village
Krumbach, a small Austrian village of 1000 inhabitants, is not the place you’d expect to find structures from a variety of architecture’s biggest names. But thanks to Verein Kultur Krumbach, a new...
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Portuguese Architects Want To Move A 136-Year-Old Bridge To Revive Their City
Ten years before starting construction on the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Gustave Eiffel built the Maria Pia Bridge in Porto, the second-largest city in Portugal. Although the railway bridge, which dates...
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The Most Amazing Unknown Buildings In The World
What makes a building world-famous?The answer is most likely some combination of magnificence, size, and historical importance. But it’s far from an exact science, and many of the world’s most...
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20 Incredible Dollhouses Built By Famous Architects
These dollhouses are a far cry from the traditional Victorian models many of us played with as kids. British property developers Cathedral Group commissioned 20 architects to build these miniature...
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These Two Buildings Show Why MIT Is One Of The Coolest College Campuses In...
This feature is a part of our Best Colleges In America series.We recently ranked the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as the best college in the country — but MIT is more than just an academic...
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This Movable City Design Could Actually Be A Great Idea
In a world where people live more mobile lifestyles than they have for centuries, cities are facing a problem they rarely planned for: their citizens move away. When jobs and resources start to...
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Dubai Dominates This List Of The World's Tallest Apartment Buildings
The sky's the limit for the people who live in these huge buildings. Construction database Emporis recently compiled a list of the 10 tallest residential buildings in the world. With each of the...
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