New York City’s High Line elevated park has been such a success that the basic idea has been copied worldwide, with projects like MVRDV’s raised motorway park also reusing old transportation infrastructure to bring new green space to inner-city areas. A slice of the Big Apple is now coming to the Big Smoke with a new raised park for London […]

With its newest release, Nike focuses on respecting the outdoors from start to finish. This effort shows, with 85% of the pieces in the latest Nike ACG apparel collection containing more than 90% recycled content. Plus, each item is geared towards outdoor wear for use while hiking, backpacking and participating in other sports The collection serves as a capsule of sorts, […]

Architecture firm Foster + Partners has developed a proposal for repairing London‘s Hammersmith Bridge while reopening it by inserting a separate double-decker road raised over the original structure. An extra deck would allow vehicle traffic to drive over the top of a pedestrian and cycle path, freeing up space for workmen to carry out essential repairs. The temporary crossing, which […]

We’ve been following the developments of WobbleWorks since the first Kickstarter in 2013, even raising our doodles off the page on a number of occasions. The professional-grade Pro+ went on sale at the end of October, and we’ve been spent some time having creative fun and (mostly) making a mess. Essentially, the 3Doodler Pro+ works in a similar way to […]

Italian firm Carlo Ratti Associati serves a slice of bonkers blue sky architecture with its “Playscraper.” Also referred to as the Tennis Tower, the sporty skyscraper would stack eight tennis courts on top of each other to reach a height of 90 m (roughly 300 ft). The project was designed in association with Italo Rota and commissioned by the RCS […]

Following an international architecture competition, 3XN, B+H and Zhubo Design have been commissioned to co-design the Natural History Museum in Shenzhen, China. The building’s unusual form is likened to a river flowing over the delta by the architects and its green roof will slope downward into a ramp to allow visitors to stroll on top. Due to be located next […]

Dutch designer Richard Hutten worked with Lensvelt to create 27,000 new seats for Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport that make use of the building’s existing resources. Called Blink, the Dezeen Award shortlisted design looks like standard airport seating, with rows of ergonomically curved seats fixed to a horizontal supporting beam. But according to Hutten, this “radical new way to produce a product” […]

A Guide to Modernism in Metro-Land focuses on 200 modern buildings that were built in London’s northwestern suburbs, which sprung up in the 1920s and 30s along the route of the Metropolitan Railway, much of which became the Metropolitan London Underground line. Abbott began documenting the area’s architecture while studying at the Harrow campus of the University of Westminster, as he noticed that the […]

Architecture firm Olson Kundig has designed five pavilions with overhanging roofs to form this residence situated on a lava field in Hawaii. Hale Lana is a 17,200-square-foot (1,598-square-metre) house designed for a couple who wanted ample space to host large gatherings on Hawaii’s Big Island. Its name translates to “floating home” as each structure is lifted slightly above the lava […]

Neutelings Riedijk Architects and Bureau Bouwtechniek have converted a railway station in Brussels into a mixed-use development, which is the largest cross-laminated timber project in Europe. Within the former 20th-century railway shed the architecture studio has created 12 pavilions from 10,000 cubic metres of timber making it Europe’s largest cross-laminated timber (CLT) project according to developer Extensa. The goods railway sheds near Brussels’ docks have […]