In a corner of the Rijksmuseum hangs a seventeenth-century cityscape by the Dutch Golden Age painter Gerrit Berckheyde, “View of the Golden Bend in the Herengracht,” which depicts the construction of ...

Rising sea levels are threatening coastal cities worldwide, and some architects and urban planners are looking to floating and amphibious buildings as a way to adapt, NBC News reported. The may float ...

With space at such a premium in many modern cities, this project tackles the need for more new housing in an interesting way. Named Spoorweghaven, it's envisioned for a disused dock in the Netherlands ...

Can floating cities be the solution to rising sea levels? Can architecture prepare in advance for coastal changes? We explore a few ways that our cities are, or should be, interacting with water.

There are moments when time and place collapse. The past and present merge. Something new feels strangely familiar. The debut of the Floating Museum’s latest project, for Mecca, conjures the past and ...

Explore a historical journey through the pursuit of lightness in architecture and its psychological implications.

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) selected nine recipients of the 2016 Small Project Awards. Now in its 13 th year, the AIA Small Project Awards Program recognizes the work of small-project ...

Architects carefully calibrate their relationship to the earth, adjusting foundations to soil, groundwater, climate, risk, and culture. Driven timber piles, rammed-earth platforms, and poured concrete ...

Today in the coolest thing ever: designer Asif Khan has created a kind of generative architecture that actually floats. Helium-infused bubbles sprout from pods on the floor, float up towards the ...

Bermudian entrepreneur Dwayne Trott has a solution to the island’s overcrowding — build on the water. The owner of Clean ...