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7 ways to make city streets less deadly
As a part of its EMBARQ Sustainable Urban Mobility initiative, the WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities has created a global reference guide called Cities Safer by Design “to help cities save lives...
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This 2,000-year-old city in Yemen is known as the ‘Manhattan of the desert’
Walking through narrow chaotic alleys dwarfed by soaring towers, few would estimate the age of Yemen's city of Shibam at nearly 1,700 years.Located in Yemen's central Hadhramaut district, Shibam has...
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Melbourne's next skyscraper could be a series of 'stacked vases' that uses...
Zaha Hadid Architects has teamed up with Plus Architecture to design their first tower in Melbourne.The 54-story mixed use skyscraper is designed as a series of "stacked vases" supported by an "elegant...
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The 14 best new buildings on the planet, according to architecture fans
Architects continue to push boundaries with their designs.ArchDaily recently announced the winners of its annual Building of the Year Awards, determining 14 of the top buildings in categories that...
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A Russian billionaire wants to build a massive tower that looks like a snake
Russian designer Vasily Klyukin has envisioned the "Asian Cobra Tower." Just as its name suggests, the gold-plated tower takes the shape of a snake, offering offices and apartments in its body and a...
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15 awe-inspiring libraries that will make you want to read all day
From community meeting hubs to secluded refuges, places to learn and places to study, libraries can be so much more than just a place to a check out a book. With this in mind, we’ve rounded-up 15...
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6 buildings that were designed to save humanity from itself
On April 26th 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine suffered a catastrophic failure, resulting in a nuclear meltdown and a series of explosions which...
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See how architects built those wildly popular floating piers in Italy
The Floating Piers is the latest and last work of artist duo Christo and Jean-Claude. The floating dock extends over the water of Italy's Lake Iseo.The work consists of a three-kilometer walkway...
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This funky Y-shaped house will have a rooftop pool nestled on top
Design firm MVRDV, working with co-architects KAI Architects, has designed a new Y-shaped residence in Northeast Tainan, Taiwan.Known appropriately as Y House, the 3,552-square-foot villa will become a...
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The 16 most beautiful new buildings around the world
With two weeks of nominations and voting now complete, we are happy to present the winners of the 2017 ArchDaily Building of the Year Awards. As a peer-based, crowdsourced architecture award, these...
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This magical tape lets you build Legos on almost any surface
As any architect who has played with Legos can tell you (which, let’s face it, is nearly all of us), one of the most exciting yet struggling steps is just starting off on that tabula rasa of the...
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These crowdsourced maps reveal where hipsters and tourists are found in major...
Released this month, the website Hoodmaps offers a crowd-sourced mapping platform that gives users the ability to walk through a city like a local. By “painting” parts of the city using a palette of...
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Architectural masterpieces that are tough to find but worth the trip
Visiting architectural masterpieces by the greats can often feel like a pilgrimage of sorts, especially when they are far away and hard to find. Not everyone takes the time to visit these buildings...
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You can buy a $36,000 tiny house on Amazon — but you probably shouldn’t
Amazon has started delivering shipping container "tiny" homes that include a bedroom, shower, toilet, kitchenette, and sink.A home costs $36,000 with a flat shipping rate of $3754.49 and is delivered...
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The 10 most impressive houses of 2015
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) have announced the recipients of the 2015 Housing Awards. Currently in its 15th year, the awards are designed to “recognize the best in US housing design” and...
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Qatar reveals another curvy, futuristic soccer stadium for the 2022 World Cup
Qatar‘s Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy (SC) has unveiled the fifth proposed venue planned for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, this time designed by London-based Pattern Architects.Titled "Al...
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Guests can rent out private catamaran apartments in this incredible floating...
A winner of the Millennium Yacht Design Awards, Salt & Water‘s concept for a Floating Hotel aims to introduce tourism onto inland waters without disrupting the natural harmony of its...
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Paris is getting its first skyscraper in over 40 years — and it will be a...
Paris has approved its first tower in over 40 years; the city council has agreed to move forward with Herzog & de Meuron's 180-meter-tall "Triangle Tower" - or "Tour Triangle" - after initially...
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This incredible glass house will be built into a cliff above the Aegean sea
In our article for this cliff-hanging project by Modscape published last year, we said that all it really needed was James Bond and an invisible Aston Martin in the garage.Well, the images presented by...
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7 ways to make city streets less deadly
As a part of its EMBARQ Sustainable Urban Mobility initiative, the WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities has created a global reference guide called Cities Safer by Design “to help cities save lives...
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