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The Bilbao Effect: Can One Building Really Save a City’s Economy?
History & Theory · Updated July 2026 The Bilbao Effect: Can One Building Really Save a City's Economy? The Bilbao Effect describes the belief that a single, avant-garde building can ...
Urban Design: Streets, Blocks and the Public Realm
Urban design is the design of the spaces between buildings: the pattern of streets and blocks, how buildings meet the street, and the public spaces where people walk, meet and stay. Good urban design ...
CHYBÍK + KRIŠTOF Turns Aedes Gallery in Berlin into a Working Architecture Studio
The CHYBÍK + KRIŠTOF Aedes exhibition turns the Berlin gallery into a live studio where the practice develops four city proposals pro bono until December 3.
Indoor Swimming Pool for Sundbyberg | Urban Design
Indoor Swimming Pool for Sundbyberg, originally designed by Åke Östin in 1978 has now been expanded to accommodate the municipality’s growing population. The new addition includes a new 25-meter pool ...
Benghazi 2050 City Plan for Libya Unveiled by ZHA Team
A team led by ZHA has released its concept proposal for the Benghazi 2050 city plan, a framework meant to guide the growth of Libya's historic port city toward mid-century. The proposal, called the ...
TCDD Temporary Offices & Art Galleries | Erhan Vural Architecture + Urban Design
TCDD Temporary Offices & Art Galleries, located within the rear zone of Haydarpaşa Train Station, these five new buildings are positioned over the traces of existing, obsolete structures that had ...
The Ultimate Guide to Urban Analysis: 10 Must-Know Principles
Urban analysis is the systematic study of a city's or district's social, economic, environmental and infrastructural layers before any design or policy decision is made. This guide is for students ...
Hostile Architecture: 10 of the Most Inhumane Examples, and Why They Don’t Work
Hostile architecture is the use of physical design, such as spikes, segmented benches, boulders and fences, to stop people sleeping, sitting or lingering in public space. It is cheap and quiet, but ...
Beyond Traditional Zoning: Creating Community-Centered Multifunctional Spaces
American cities are broken. Look at any urban map and you'll see the problem: rigid lines separating homes from shops, offices from restaurants, creating dead zones where people drive between ...
Which City Will Have the Most Population in World by 2030?
Urban growth has exploded beyond anything architects imagined fifty years ago. When you look at what constitutes the largest city in the world, you're seeing humanity pack itself into spaces that ...
The Packer Collegiate Institute Garden House School | WXY Architecture + Urban Design
The Packer Collegiate Institute Garden House School is a light-filled, mass-timber hub for The Packer Collegiate Institute's Lower School, designed for the joy of its students and the ease of those ...
Art Deco Buildings That Changed Cities: 5 Things you Still don’t Know about Art Deco Architecture
Picture Manhattan in 1925. Jazz music flows from hidden speakeasies while construction crews work day and night. Above them, something remarkable takes shape—buildings that seem to reach for the ...
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