Paolo Soleri, visionary architect and creator of Arcosanti, the urban laboratory (utopian community to some) in the Arizona desert, passed away peacefully on April 9, 2013. This was on the same day that Frank Lloyd Wright died, forty-six years ago. Photo by [...]

Parking garages are a fact of life, even in barely urban areas. This necessity is normally accommodated quickly and without much thought, resulting in uninspired, unhealthy, and often dangerous spaces. Historically, parking garages have been considered and dismissed, being called [...]

Oscar Niemeyer stood as part of an elite group of architects that changed the physical landscape of cities worldwide forever. Niemeyer and his contemporaries, the likes of Mies Van Der Rohe and Le Corbusier, pushed modernism into the forefront of [...]

Of the endless amenities afforded to the burghal dwellers of New York City, green space is one that comes at a premium. Urban planners the world over are having to consider new paradigms of metropolitan environmental integration. Two entrepreneurial architects [...]

Abu Dhabi is looking towards the future. Situated in the crossroads of three major continents this small island capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is considered as one of the fastest growing in the world today. A rich investment [...]

There has been much talk in recent years of the world’s growing population problem, an international issue that dances hand in hand with yet another – the housing problem. Luckily, architects like Nicolo Bini are developing innovative, low impact solutions [...]