Architecture

Inside Dubai Mall, The Biggest Shopping Mall On The Planet

09-19-2012 • businessinsider, Megan Willett and Kim Bhasin

This is the Dubai Mall — an absolutely massive shopping center in Dubai, UAE that's part of the $20 billion Burj Khalifa complex.

Architecture

Google, Brazilian tribe launch culture map project

06-17-2012 • http://chrisinmaryville.net/

Google on Saturday unveiled a cultural map of Brazil’ Surui indigenous people, a digital tool that will help the Amazonian tribe share their vast knowledge of the forest and fight illegal logging. The map, the result of a five-year partnership bet

Architecture

Interactive: New York's Roofscape Gets Climate Makeover

06-07-2012 • http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2012/06/new

Witness the evolution of NYC's billion-square-foot roofscape in the face of climate change.

Architecture

10 Gorgeous Buildings Made Out of Books

04-29-2012 • http://govtslaves.info, Emily Temple

Here at Flavorpill, we’re pretty big book nerds. We’re such big book nerds that what we’d really like, more than anything, is to live in a house made of books.

Architecture

At planned Sunny Isles Beach condo, cars and drivers ride elevator home

11-20-2011 • www.miamiherald.com

The latest twist on designer parking garages: a Jetsonesque elevator that whisks residents to their condos while they are still in the driver’s seat.

Architecture

A Look At 'Umka', The Domed Russian City Planned For Sub-Zero Arctic Temperatures

10-24-2011 • www.businessinsider.com

Russia is planning to further it's reach in the Arctic circle, according to a statement from Vladimir Putin's website. The country has already made a bold appeal to the UN to annex some 380,000 square miles of Arctic seabed due to oil and gas in the

Architecture

Why you should sell everything now and live in a tree

09-24-2011 • Terrence Aym

As what was once the proud nation of the United States of America slips into the status of a Third World nation, some economists are suggesting their wealthier clients consider moving themselves and their assets out of the country. What countries? Th

Architecture

Project Utopia breaks the naval architectural mould

09-21-2011 • www.gizmag.com/project-utopia-floating-island

The concept of a floating island is not new, having first surfaced in Homer's Odyssey and making countless appearances in literature from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, C. S. Lewis' science fiction trilogy Perelandra, Hugh Lofting's The Voyages

Architecture

Concrete Canvas

05-25-2011 • arclein

A bag weighing 230 kilograms (approximately 500 pounds) inflates into a shelter with 16 square meters (172 square feet) of floor space. Cost is estimated at £1,100 ($2,100), while an equivalent-size Portakabin (a type of portable building widely used

Architecture

Custom Furniture Made from Car Parts

02-20-2011 • Mega Machine

Remember those car beds you see advertised in a Sears catalogue for little kids, with the matching sheets and pillowcases? Jake's Chop Shop car beds are sort of like that but definitely for grown ups and you have to provide your own sheets.

Architecture

How to live in a house the size of a closet

12-19-2010 • Terrence Aym

Micro-houses, some, little more than six feet wide, are constructed to occupy tiny plots of land not much bigger than an American SUV. Designed the right way these amazing dwellings seem much bigger than they are...

Architecture

7 Amazing Castles from Around the World

11-14-2010 • 7CoolList

Although designed and built for the prominent purpose of defense, today the castles seem like somewhat unrealistic constructions straight from the fairytale world. From solid strongholds to oriental fortresses and highly decorative palaces, the castl

Architecture

Earthbag Buildings

09-17-2010 • SMCC

Earthbag, or sandbag buildings can be erected simply and quickly with readily available components, for very little money.

Architecture

Mitchell Joachim: Don't build your home, grow it!

07-05-2010 • TED.com

TED Fellow and urban designer Mitchell Joachim presents his vision for sustainable, organic architecture: eco-friendly abodes grown from plants and -- wait for it -- meat.

Architecture

Monsanto: The evil corporation in your refrigerator

02-04-2010 • walletpop.com

We all have our opinions on Obama. What we need to support him on this one.

Architecture

Penis Shadow Bridge: Westminster Bridge’s Manly Refurbishment

12-27-2009 • Mondo Frazier

Great moments in FAIL design #1: London's Westmister Bridge. Or, as it's becoming known, "The Penis Shadow Bridge".