Tag: Architecture
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Abandoned Gas Station Becomes a Restaurant
It used to be a gas station, and suddenly it's a (don't say pop-up) restaurant.
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Inside Northwestern's Off-the-Grid Tiny House
Northwestern's Tiny House Project shows how we can live smaller and more sustainable.
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Pop-Up Gardens, Other 'Urban Interventions' to be Showcased at Venice Architecture Biennale
Pop-up gardens, urban farms, guerrilla bike lanes, examples of crowdsourced city planning, and other urban interventions will be the focus of the official U.S. Pavilion at the world's most prestigious architecture event.
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Hand-Sculpted "Brick Biotopes" Turn Brick Walls Into Wildlife Habitats (Video)
Two designers show how new habitats for endangered birds can be made in the standard brick wall, using low-tech techniques.
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96 Sq. Foot Finnish Micro-Cabin Built Small To Forego Permits
Looking anything but a shack, this minimal but stylish lakeside cabin was built to be just small enough so that it wouldn't require a permit.
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Tiny, Rundown Attic Space Becomes Stunning Rooftop Apartment
This Barcelona apartment shows that a little vision can create luxury in the unlikeliest of spaces.
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The Music Box: Artists Turn Shanties into Musical Instruments in New Orleans (Video)
Nine ramshackle structures have been rigged by a team of musicians, artists, and inventors to create a musical shantytown.
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Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei Designs London Pavilion
It's a tradition; every summer famous architects design a pavilion for London's Serpentine Gallery.
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Recycled Factory Thrives As Social Center Supported by Brazil's Commerce Tax
SESC Pompeia is not only a beautifully recycled building, but also part of an interesting Brazilian program to finance social change through taxes on commercial activities.
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Novice Carpenter Builds a Secret, Illegal Tree House on Crown Land in Canada
The HemLoft is a self-funded secret creation built by Joel Allen on crown land in Whistler.
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Long House by Hopkins Architects is both Modern and Medieval
High tech meets old fashioned craft in this holiday house in the UK.
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Green Roofs Are Changing Architecture: Kowloon Rail Terminus
Aedas designs a railway station like a hill you can walk on.
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The Week in Pictures: Adding Land to Manhattan, Dumpster Photography, and More
A bold plan calls for creating more land in NYC, it would be "Lower Lower Manhattan." Plus garbage men turn dumpsters into pinhole cameras, bathing gets classy, and more.
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Glittering Metallic Pavilion Morphs Itself As Temperature Changes (Video)
Made out of thousands of pieces of temperature-reactive metal, this experimental canopy explores how existing materials could be used differently to reduce our reliance on mechanical systems of shading and cooling.
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Hostal Empúries, More Than Just the First Hotel in Europe with LEED Gold Certification (Photos)
This is not just a gorgeous hotel on the Spanish coast, it is also the first LEED certified Hotel in Europe. From water and energy saving to growing their own vegetable these guys are serious when it comes to protecting the environment and having a blast.
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Promising New Passive House Designs for Bulgaria
Passive-house design seems tailor-made for helping bring Bulgarian living standards up to those of their EU counterparts with little to no increase in energy consumption.
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Is It Time to Add Land to NYC? Introducing "Lower Lower Manhattan"
Idea to create land bridge to Gov's Island, make more land in NYC.
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The Week in Pictures: The Freaky Future of City Driving, "Supertrees" Take over Singapore, and More
The lightweight Renault Twizy could shake up the automotive world, 18 biometric "supertrees" are turning Singapore into a lively forest, and more.
