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If you are anything like me, you spent an unhealthy amount of time as a child playing SimCity — ther e was no greater satisfaction than assuming the role of all-powerful mayor, conjuring up the ultimate pixelated metropolis and watching it expand in all its axonometric glory. Now though, you can hold those objects of municipal…
The Mall of America is home to one of the largest indoor theme parks in the world, and, like any goo d theme park, it has a roller coaster. The tracks swoop and swirl around under an enormous space frame/skylight system that mimics the outdoors without the hassle of the harsh Minnesota winter. The coaster also…
Imagine if you could take Photoshop out into the streets and use it to change the world around you. Shrub, Linked by Air’s drawing app for iOS, lets you do precisely that, or at least part of that. The city (or landscape) becomes the material for a clone-stamp-like brush that grabs your surroundings and lets…
Did you know that pre-fab construction dates back as far as the pilgrims, who shipped a disassembled house from England to Cape Ann, Mass., so that the new settlers would have a well-constructed place to stay? Thanksgiving might have taken place in a pre-fab house that was assembled onsite. Today, the unhappy hipsters in Dwell…
About one year ago, a report surfaced that North Korea had successfully landed a man on the sun.  220;This just in: North Korea has landed a man on the Sunday. Seventeen-year-old Hung Il Gong started his journey at 3am this morning, traveling alone, to reach our nearest star, a journey that took him just 4…
What if the entire ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland melted?
Why is post-apocalyptic architectural photography so powerful? Is it because we subconsciously hate architecture, like Freudian self-loathing artists? Or is it because the apocalypse seems so imminent, for so many reasons? Probably a bit of both, but we are always reconsidering architecture’s role in both our world and the speculative world of post-apocalypse. If you’re…
As of today, a third state legalized marijuana. Say goodbye to not-so-discretely blacked-out windows . As the tide turns toward legalization, architects are increasingly tasked with creating well-designed dispensaries in Colorado, Washington, and now Alaska. We think this trend will continue as voters in Washington D.C. and Oregon have also approved legalization, and there are advocates…
After being freshly appointed with the Golden Lion award at last year’s Venice Architecture Biennale , South Korea has become one of the architecture scenes to keep an eye on. The politically ambitious project Crow’s Eye View, presented at the Korean Pavilion in Venice, aimed to ”demonstrate the potential of an unified Korea by bringing together…