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We’ve often wondered just how small you can really go when designing a tiny living space and the Solo 01 might be the answer. Designed by India’s The Billboards Collective, the prototype project is a rickshaw-based micro-house that measures just 6 x 6 … Continue reading Rickshaw-based micro-house takes small living into the wild
Cox Architecture’s National Maritime Museum is an impressive new addition to the waterfront in Tianjin, China, that features an eye-catching curved design. The project boasts significant energy-efficient technology, including solar power and rainwater … Continue reading Massive maritime museum makes use of rain and shine
With so many skyscrapers in New York City – some locals might even say too many – how can a new residential tower possibly stand out? Extell Development Company aims to do so with One Manhattan Square by packing it with 100,000 sq ft (roughly 9,300 sq … Continue reading Amenities-packed skyscraper offers luxurious living in the Big Apple
One of the many challenges of downsizing to a tiny house is that there’s often nowhere for guests to stay, and the situation is even trickier in France where the tiny houses are usually smaller than in the US. The Mogote tiny house, by Baluchon, sleeps… Continue reading Compact tiny house has space for a sleepover
The ZeroCabin is a small off-grid cabin made by a team in Chile with no formal architecture training. It can be delivered as a finished turnkey home to locals but is also being sold as a kit for handy types to build their own.Continue ReadingCategory: … Continue reading ZeroCabin offers rustic off-grid living in kit form
The annual Pritzker Prize is architecture’s most prestigious honor and the list of previous winners include Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry and, more recently, Arata Isozaki and Balkrishna Doshi. The 2020 laureate has now been announced, and it’s actually not … Continue reading Grafton Architects’ concrete connoisseurs win 2020 Pritzker Prize
An imaginative new approach to bridge-building was demonstrated for the first time in Austria last week, where engineers have connected the opposing sides of two rivers with a novel construction method likened to opening an umbrella. These unfolding br… Continue reading Unfolding highway bridge unfurls like an umbrella
Concrete is the world’s most widely-used building material thanks to its incredible strength – but it doesn’t stand up well against bending. Now, researchers at Swinburne University have developed a new type of concrete that can not only bend better, b… Continue reading Bendable concrete goes cement-free to cut environmental footprint
3XN’s Cube Berlin is an ambitious new office building in Germany that takes the form of an eye-catching glass box. The futuristic building provides office staff with a remarkable amount of control over their surroundings using a smartphone app and is d… Continue reading 3XN thinks inside the box with futuristic app-controlled office
Following an architecture competition, Dialog, along with EllisDon and Smoke Architecture, has been commissioned to design the Centennial College A Block Expansion Building. Due for completion in 2023, it’s described by the architects as Canada’s first… Continue reading Zero carbon, timber college building offers lesson in sustainability