A 20-Meter Double Helix Tower Just Rose Over a Chinese Wetland
Most observation towers share the same quiet philosophy: get people up high, give them a view, and then get out of the way. The architecture…
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MVRDV Built a Mountain in the Middle of Rotterdam
What does a building look like when it’s designed for birds, insects, and plants just as much as people? According to MVRDV, it looks like…
A 28m² Bamboo Tower in China Makes You Bow to Get In
Not every piece of architecture asks something of you before you step inside. Most buildings are passive that way. You walk through a door, and…
Herzog & de Meuron Just Made a 1980s Antenna Tower the Most Exciting Building in the Alps
The Titlis Tower was never meant to be beautiful. That’s what makes what Herzog & de Meuron have done with it so compelling — a…
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…
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…
TRÆ Is the Timber Tower That Turns Waste Into Architecture
There’s a word in Danish, ‘træ’, that means three things at once: tree, timber, and three. It’s a fitting name for a building that refuses…
Four Meters by Four Meters: How Tadao Ando Made Constraint Beautiful
Perched on the coast of the Seto Inland Sea in Tarumi-ku, Kobe, the 4×4 House by Tadao Ando occupies a narrow coastal strip that Japanese…
UNStudio’s Wasl Tower Is Dubai’s Most Sculptural Skyscraper Yet
There’s a building rising on Sheikh Zayed Road that isn’t trying to be the tallest thing in the room — it’s trying to be the…
Morocco’s Mohammed VI Tower: The Rocket That Rewrote Africa’s Skyline
There are buildings, and then there are statements. The Mohammed VI Tower, inaugurated on April 23, 2026, in Salé, Morocco, belongs firmly in the second…
The World’s Tallest Timber Skyscraper Is in Sydney, and It Rises 600 Feet Into the Sky
Sydney is on the verge of claiming a significant architectural milestone. Atlassian Central, a 39-floor hybrid timber tower currently nearing completion, is set to become…
Michael Jantzen Just Turned Solar into a 16-Arm Moving Sculpture
Most renewable energy systems hide in plain sight. Rooftop solar panels blend into shingles, batteries sit in containers behind fences, and wind turbines spin in…