This McDonald's Was Just Named One Of The Best Buildings Of The Year
In one of the newly urbanized areas of Batumi, Georgia, on the Black Sea Coast, architect Giorgi Khmaladze built an award-winning McDonald's.Combined with a fuel station and recreational areas, this...
View ArticleThe People Have Voted: These Are The 14 Best New Buildings Of The Year
Some structures will take your breath away.Our friends at ArchDaily set out to determine the best buildings from around the world that blend beauty, intelligence, creativity, and service to the...
View ArticleBritain's New 'Model' Prison Is Disturbingly Violent, And Its Design Could Be...
By Yvonne Jewkes, University of Leicester and Dominique Moran, University of BirminghamIn the first few weeks of 2014, private security company G4S has repeatedly had to deny reports of full-scale...
View ArticleA Wal-Mart Corporate Office Was Just Named One Of The Best New Buildings Of...
The São Paulo, Brazil, headquarters of Walmart.com— full of beach chairs, game rooms and a rooftop golf course — recently won ArchDaily's Building of The Year award for best interior architecture.The...
View ArticleThe Hamptons' Hottest Homebuilder Tells Us What Wealthy People Want In Their...
The Hamptons' many hamlets have been a popular retreat for the wealthy for decades. The summertime months tend to bring well-heeled members of New York City's "it" crowd, who fill beautiful homes...
View ArticleHow America's New Tallest Apartment Building Will Stay Upright
432 Park Avenue is one of the most anticipated construction projects in New York City. When completed, it will soar 1,396 feet in the air, making it the tallest residential building in the Western...
View ArticleNew York Architects Are Using A Unique Technique To Squeeze More Space Out Of...
New York City’s notoriously space-hungry real estate market is converting the cantilever – perhaps made most famous in Frank Lloyd Wright’s floating Fallingwater residence of 1935 – from a mere move of...
View ArticleArtists Want To Wrap The World's Tallest Building In Translucent Fabric
How do you make the tallest building in the world even more noticeable? We may now have the answer.Athough the Burj Khalifa in Dubhai is already impressive as the tallest man-made structure on Earth (a...
View ArticleFrom Brick To ETFE, Here's How New Materials Have Revolutionized Architecture
by archdaily.Explore more infographics like this one on the web's largest information design community - Visually. Here's that Aquatics Center, clad in Teflon-like translucent plastic Ethylene...
View ArticleArchitect Bjarke Ingels Explains Why Every Office Should Function Like An...
A national library in Kazakhstan designed like a giant metallic doughnut, an apartment block in the Bahamas with a honeycomb facade that features swimming pools on every balcony, and an 11 million sq....
View ArticleThe World's Most Spectacular University Buildings
The world's most innovative and architecturally impressive university buildings can be found on campuses from Tokyo to upstate New York.International building database Emporis has just released a list...
View ArticleArchitect Reveals Amazing Plan To Make New York A Self-Reliant Garden City
“In an era of incompetent nation states and predatory transnationals, we must ratchet up local self-reliance, and the most logical increment of organisation (and resistance) is the city.”This is how...
View ArticleRANKED: The 13 Coolest Buildings By Starchitect Frank Gehry
Frank Gehry, one of the most prolific and famous architects on earth, turns 85 years old today.Chances are you've seen one of his undulating and mind-bending architectural marvels even if you didn't...
View ArticleThese Unbelievable Architectural Images Look Like Photos But Were Made...
Computers can make the impossible come to life — just watch any sci-fi movie with explosions in it to get an idea.But they can also show us what the possible might look like. Consider the following...
View Article6 Spectacular Sets From Wes Anderson's 'Grand Budapest Hotel'
Film director Wes Anderson’s familiar arsenal of A-list actors reunite in his latest movie, The Grand Budapest Hotel. Starring Ralph Fiennes, Jude Law, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Tilda Swinton, and...
View ArticleChina's Futuristic New Airport Terminal Looks Like A Manta Ray [PHOTOS]
A new terminal at the Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport in Shenzhen,which opened late last year, is helping to alleviate the problem of China's overcrowded airports. Terminal 3 mirrors the look of...
View ArticleA School Gymnasium In France Looks Like A Swanky Art Museum
Arch Daily recently featured photos of a school gymnasium in north-eastern France by architects Giovanni PACE architecte and abc-studio. From the angular exterior and meticulous landscaping, one could...
View ArticleA Philadelphia Skyscraper Is About To Become The World's Largest Game Of Tetris
Frank Lee likes to level up. So on April 4, the Drexel University game design professor will turn a Philadelphia skyscraper into a giant game of Tetris. Observers at the upcoming Philly Tech Week event...
View ArticleThis Stunning Woodland Office Is The Most Popular Building On ArchDaily
Leave it to a group of architects to do their work in a stunning office with an incredible design.The office of Selgas Cano, a firm based in Madrid, Spain, is the number one most-visited building on...
View ArticleAn Upside-Down House Is Being Built In An Old China Town
This upside-down house in an old canal town is set to become one of China's newest tourist attractions. (via NBC.)The house, in Fengjing Ancient Town south of Shanghai, has an upside-down exterior...
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