The Beijing skyline will be the subject of many establishing shots during this summer's Olympics, but in the years to come all eyes might shift towards Tianjin. BoHai Bay in China's third largest urban area will be the future home…
Continue Reading →After enjoying a successful month-plus long run in the hills of L.A., The Storefront for Art and Architecture recently folded up the tents to its Pop-Up Store so they could sprout in another city. This time they're taking the show…
Continue Reading →You might be saying to yourself, "Hey, I live in a gravity defying home. It's called an apartment." And you'd be right. But, PointClickHome has a whole gallery full of slightly wackier concepts than your Upper East Side, white-pained-brick, 12'…
Continue Reading →There once was an old woman who lived in a shoe; unfortunately, it was extremely impractical in that it wasn't very spacious and always smelled of feet. We think she would've been much more at home in the U.S.'s first…
Continue Reading →Of the top three places architects look for inspiration, we'd say nature would be number one (two and three are always "art" and "the dumpster behind Frank Gehry's house"). For Orquideorama in Medellin, Colombia (yes, the same place where Pablo…
Continue Reading →In 1982, I was busy wandering around my house wearing kickass Spiderman pjs with footies and learning to put sentences together. Not far away in New York City, the Storefront for Art and Architecture, a not for profit organization 'committed…
Continue Reading →In 2008, for the first time in recorded history, fifty percent of the World's population will be inhabitants of the earth's urban environments. The dense population of these cities has created a great need for low-cost housing. The Design Indaba…
Continue Reading →A few years after its groundbreaking, the ace-looking Singapore Flyer has finally opened to vertigo challengers this week and I'm betting that Josh will be the lucky first among us here to ride it. A ferris wheel that wins the…
Continue Reading →While the most cities shudder at the potential of a major disaster and the impact it would have on the lives of its inhabitants, the majority urban infrastructure experts would probably agree that it never hurts to be prepared for…
Continue Reading →In the early 1900's England, if a tree fell in the woods or an oncoming enemy plane was approaching a military stronghold on the coast, chances are someone would know it. However, it wasn't due to the Brits bionic hearing.…
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