Inspiration: Collections

Like a bridge over troubled water? Controversy surrounding a proposed Thames crossing.

LEED is great, but the real green fun comes when intricate energy-saving design features are achieve d by committing to some early-process design decisions that make your building more fundamentally eco-friendly. This includes southern orientation, integration of heat stacks, thermal masses, and exterior solar shading that doubles as ornament. Here are some of our favorite passive…

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. &#8 220;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…