This Carbon-Negative Neighborhood in the Netherlands Is Rethinking Affordable Housing
Architecture has long been one of the planet’s most significant contributors to carbon emissions. ORGA, a Dutch studio, is challenging that reality head-on with a…
Architecture
The Hive Tower That Could Change How Cities Build Tall
Vancouver just opened a building that looks like it was sketched from a bee’s imagination. Ten stories of glulam diagonal bracing arranged in a cellular…
At 9.6 Metres, the Cabarita Might Be the Most Livable Tiny Home on Wheels
There’s a version of tiny home living that still feels like a proper home — not a camper van with aspirations, not a studio apartment…
This Floating Parliament Is Built From the Ocean’s Own Trash
Most architects look at ocean plastic and see a crisis. Yufeng Tu saw a building material. Ocean Vortex, the speculative floating parliament he conceived, does…
The World’s Longest Single-Mast Bridge Has Arrived
At the mouth of Taiwan’s Tamsui River, a new landmark has quietly redrawn the skyline. The Danjiang Bridge, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, has opened…
A House In London Where Floors Drop, Walls Vanish, and the Garden Moves In
Many homes treat the garden as something separate from daily life, something to look at through a window or visit when the weather is good….
The Surya Is the Tiny House That Finally Makes Single-Level Living Worth It
I love a home that fits everything you need into 256 square feet without making you feel like you’re compromising. The Surya tiny house by…
This Is What a Theater Looks Like When Architecture Gets Out of the Way
For decades, Hudson Valley Shakespeare performed under a simple tent — seasonal, transient, and entirely at the mercy of the elements. That changed this May…
90,300 Empty Offices Are Becoming Apartments Across the US. “Adaptive Reuse” Just Hit Critical Mass.
Across America, downtown office towers sit half lit and half leased, their elevators still running, their HVAC systems still humming, their floorplates waiting for people…
The Koala Bear Is the Tiny Home Built for People Who’d Rather Move Than Settle
There’s a certain kind of freedom that only comes when you stop trying to fit your life into more square footage than you actually need….
SoBA Stacks Color-Coded Blocks Into a Castle-Like Kindergarten That Defies Its Urban Surroundings
SoBA — the architecture and landscape practice led by Wang Ruo and Tang Haiyin — has completed Block Kindergarten in Kunshan, Jiangsu Province, a 21-class…
Africa’s Tallest Tower Was Worth the 40-Year Wait
Forty years is a long time to wait for a building. But when you see what’s rising in Abidjan, the delay starts to feel almost…