100-year-old Buda Mill & Grain Co. has new life as a community gathering spot
Often, culture and community are so intertwined that one defines the other, as is the case with a rural town in...
Green-roofed theater in Shenzhen raises the bar for civic architecture
When the Pingshan District government in Shenzhen, China tapped Beijing-based OPEN Architecture to design the district’s...
An award-winning forest tops the world’s first publicly accessible art depot
The Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, the first publicly accessible art depot in the world, has just completed construction...
Architects want to turn the Tiber River banks into a thriving piazza
In its ongoing efforts to introduce imaginative public spaces into cities, New York-based Ballman Khapalova has...
Tartu turns a major street into a car-free haven for a month
For the entire month of July, the Estonian city of Tartu transformed one of its main streets in the heart of the...
Midcentury warehouse becomes a community-building asset in Mexico City
In a bid to sustainably create more inclusive and connective space in Mexico City, local architecture practice...
BiodiverCity will transform Penang South Islands into an eco-tourism spot
In January 2020, the Penang State Government launched an international design competition centered on reinventing...
Third Nature imagines a zero-emission regenerative city district in Bergen
An old logistics port and ferry terminal in Bergen, Norway has been reimagined into an inspiring zero-emission...
Abu Dhabi Flamingo Visitor Center blends into the landscape
Prague-based architecture firm Petr Janda / brainwork studio has won an international competition with its design...
New Tokyo Toilet Project designs public restrooms to foster inclusivity
Japan-based Nippon Foundation has launched its Tokyo Toilet Project to design and build new, inclusive public toilets...
A small Swedish town becomes home to urban development experiments
Stockholm-based architecture firm Anders Berensson Architects has unveiled designs for the Tibro Train Tracks,...
A charming timber train station highlights nature and play in China
In the outskirts of Jiaxing, China, a nature reserve has been transformed into a multipurpose recreational zone...
A green roof naturally cools a bioclimatic mosque in Indonesia
Jakarta-based architecture firm RAD+ar (Research Artistic Design + architecture) has recently completed the Bioclimatic...
Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library to honor conservation and community
After the passing of his wife and mother, Theodore Roosevelt traveled to the Badlands of North Dakota. Journeying...
Reimagining Brooklyn Bridge winners want to bring a forest to NYC
The Van Alen Institute and the New York City Council have announced the winners of Reimagining Brooklyn Bridge....