Architecture

Designed as a solution to the unaffordable housing market, all(zone) has created semi-permanent houses which allow users to inhabit underutilized environments.

The Norman Foster Foundation has launched a plan to build droneports in parts of Africa that are inaccessible due to the lack of infrastructural or natural barriers.

Architects Tomaso Boano and Jonas Prišmontas want to address the lack of affordable space for London’s creative industry. They designed a plug-in studio module that could be part of a solution.

Though they are never meant as the finished product, architectural models are in themselves a work of art. ARCHI-DEPOT, Japan’s first museum dedicated to these delicate sculpture pieces just opened in Tokyo.

Three Dutch architecture students have bought a house in Detroit with the aim to rebuild it in a sustainable way, and to start an urban regeneration movement at the same time.

The city of Rotterdam has just unveiled a 29 metre staircase in the heart of the city to celebrate 75 years of innovative architecture. It is yet another architectural highlight of the city.

Last week we found out about the existence of a hidden underwater house — the so-called ‘Cockelbockel’ — in Amsterdam’s Sloterplas lake.

Dutch architecture firm Kraaijvanger comes up with a modular and demountable system that turns empty buildings into homes in a few days.

Architecture firm SOM comes up with a 3D-printed house-and-truck-combination for sustainable nomadic off-grid living.