Articles by Alex Garkavenko

In an age of rapid technological development, the material prospects for architecture are truly fasc inating.

Here are some of the most interesting — and strangest — contenders in the worldwide mission to eradi cate pollution.

Although some form or other of this building type has existed since the paleolithic era, there has r ecently been a resurgence in the method.

Somewhere out there, there is an alternate universe where the Chrysler Building was topped with a do me and the Tribune Tower was a single enormous doric column. And you thought some of today's designs were flamboyant!

This beautiful animation takes us through the basics of Le Corbusier's principles, including a few o f his projects.

These photos of ice-engulfed lighthouses are sure to send shivers down your spine. Formed under very specific circumstances, these pasty kraken emerge annually on the shoreline of Lake Michigan each winter. Their alluring formations are enough to entice the hot-weather-loving photographer, Tom Gill, to photograph their sculptural encasings every year. To grow your very own…

Every designer desires to create something exceptional, something that will surprise the viewer and set the creation apart from the rest.

From burial sites and asylum tunnels to Cold War bunkers, you wouldn’t believe some of the secrets t hat go on behind closed doors of the architecture we thought we knew. What famous buildings are hiding something from us?

A collection of some rich images that architects have shared with us, taking us behind the scenes of the projects.