A real estate developer in Qingdao, China named its newest residential highrise Yichang Meijing, or “Beautiful Scenery”, even though many of its windows are painted fakes. Problem?
Architecture-with-a-capital-A isn’t always regarded as one of the more playful creative fields, but give the pros a good cause and they just might surprise you. London-based developers Cathedral Group enlisted the star-studded talents of 20 top UK architects and firms to make a custom dollhouse for an upcoming auction benefiting Kids, a charity dedicated to disabled kids and their families.
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Hey innovators! Do you have what it takes to create a modern-day fable
that intricately weaves into a piece of magical, mysterious and fun
construction? If you can wow the judges at Blank Space, you could earn
some treasure of your own…
Penn Station now? Gross, ew, there’s a Sbarro, and everything is ugly. But the original Penn Station was a marvelous piece of Beaux Arts design. Its story is also one of the most tragic tales in architecture—50 years ago today, it was torn down to make way for Madison Square Garden.
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A new week brings new questions. Like, how would one recreate the iOS 7 homescreen in Microsoft Word? Or should spires count toward a building’s total height? If you’ve found yourself pondering these things, you can find your answers within the most beautiful items of the week.
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A coalition of Japanese architects have said what everyone else was too polite to say: That Zaha Hadid-designed stadium is just too big, too expensive, and too impractical. Japanese officials have announced plans to scale back the design, which would cost $3.1 billion to build according to a recent budget update.
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An anything-goes approach to development is a time-honored tradition in New York (see: this plan to fill in the East River
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New York City was a different place in the 1940s. It was a time before video billboards and LED lights
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Think Apple’s forthcoming Cupertino headquarters
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