The treacherous toilet.
Rebecca Boyd/flickr
Public ‘restroom’ is a euphemism of the highest order. We don’t find it restful.
Exterior of Light of the World Christian Church in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
Elizabeth Tunstall
‘I deeply believe that design will meet its true promise when designers engage in design for the sacred.’
Steve Crisp / Reuters
We can live comfortably and sustainably in hot places – but we’ll have to ditch the glassy skyscrapers.
Erwin Bolwidt/Flickr
Temperatures are set to rocket throughout the 21st century, but design lessons from history could help the gulf states stay cool.
Burntwood school.
© Rob Parrish
A school in south London has become the latest building to win the UK’s most prestigious architecture accolade, fuelling the debate as to the importance of architecture to learning.
Walter Frentz photographed Adolf Hitler strolling with German diplomat Walther Hewel in the Berchtesgaden Alps, near the dictator’s mountain home.
ww2gallery/flickr
The timing of Hitler’s home renovations coincided with his public makeover as a statesman and diplomat.
Satellite images have confirmed the destruction of the Temple of Bel.
Gustau Nacarino/Reuters
The ongoing destruction of Palmyra is a tragedy, a betrayal of the past and an impoverishment of the future.
London’s sprouting: how plans for 230 new skyscrapers could affect the skyline.
HayesDavidson
There was a time in the 1970s when the world of building design was taking psychological research findings seriously. It’s high time it started paying attention again.
Decaying buildings signify the inevitable process of history, to which we, too, will eventually succumb.
Freaktography
Porn. Few words come with as many pre-loaded connotations and assumptions. So what are we to make of the rise of “ruin porn”? Should photos of urban decay brighten or darken our day?
Metropolis: imagining the cities of the future.
www.brevestoriadelcinema.org/Flickr
A new form of research is needed to bring us the cities of the future.
Reality is brutal.
κύριαsity/Flickr
With Robin Hood Gardens in danger of being destroyed, it’s time to look beyond appearances and recognise its real value.
London’s famous Shard is one big window, but bricks and wood are more efficient.
Bill Smith
Air conditioning alone won’t make global warming more bearable – architects must reinvent the window.
Every time and MP coughs, a gargoyle dies.
Graeme Maclean
Some wild ideas have been put forward for the UK’s seat of power over the years.
Completed in 2009, Citi Field is the home of the New York Mets – and part of a recent wave of new ballparks.
Lucas Jackson/Reuters
TV ratings are down, but the rebirth of the ballpark could be a reason that the sport still boasts the highest total attendance of any in the world.
In cities like Nashville and Vancouver, home teardowns are on the rise.
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Home teardowns are often unnecessary and costly, in more ways than one.
Burntwood School is up for the prestigious architectural prize.
© Timothy Soar
A university building and a school are two of the six buildings shortlisted for the Stirling Prize.
Pots, pillars and electric bulb sockets at the Nek Chand Rock Garden in Chandigarh, India.
Giridhar Appaji Nag Y
The country lost two utterly different, and utterly compelling interpreters of India’s urban world this month. They left a legacy rich with beauty and meaning.
‘Here I am, the most intelligent robot in the galaxy, welding a bridge.’
Heijmans
3D printing robots are to create a new bridge in Amsterdam - would you walk on it?
Taking decisions.
Shutterstock
Architects should experiment with cues that encourage potential thieves to make unconscious decisions not to steal.
The 34-storey timber tower planned for Stockholm.
Berg | C.F. møller Architects
Until recently, tall wooden towers were an engineering impossibility. Following a breakthrough a few years ago, the sky is increasingly the limit.