Whether sharp and angular or fluid and curved, we like to attribute character to our buildings, giving them nicknames like the Bird’s Nest (Beijing National Stadium) and the Gherkin (30 St Mary Axe) ...

A futuristic city incorporating renewable forms of energy has broken ground in Astana, Kazakhstan. The city is being built for the 2017 World Expo, a large global fair hosted by the International ...

Hybrid “bio-bricks” using bacteria could one day replace traditional construction materials such as sand and gravel. The innovation could help reduce carbon dioxide emissions from buildings, providing ...

North Williamsburg is getting yet another bizarre, futuristic development, and this time it’s a mixed-use office and retail tower planned for 87 Wythe Avenue. New York YIMBY spotted the rendering, ...

In many corners of a city, wrapping a squat two-story box with an illuminated metal skin would be too much. Too weird in the day, a frozen static of flat metal strands. Too gaudy at night, a hovering ...

Tokyo has an uncanny ability to make its visitors feel like they've stepped into some version of the future—at least, that’s how Australian photographer Tom Blachford felt when he first traveled there ...

When the funds were flowing freely, Dubai appeared to be a future mecca of innovative and extravagant architecture. But now that the well has gone dry, we’re left with the concept designs of the ...

Some of the most exciting architecture in the world comes out of Asia. But futuristic buildings with cutting-edge designs may be a thing of the past in China. A statement from China’s State Council ...

Living in a treehouse sounds like a childhood fantasy. But architecture firm Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners' new apartment building design, called the "Tree House," captures that floating, playful ...