Sounds Sensible: Dutch Propose $300 Billion Man-Made Mountain
The Mountain Comes. That’s the translated name (original: Die Berg Komt Er) of a proposal to build a giant man-made mountain in the terminally-flat Netherlands. The proposal is headed up by the Dutch...
View Article“Low” Line Proposes an Underground Park for the Lower East Side
In the fifties, Lewis Mumford imagined a future where Americans would live in underground cities, hiding from the atomic bomb (among other things, like rock’n'roll and “youths”). Well, his predictions...
View ArticleTake a Tour of the Essex Street Trolley Terminal
You may be familiar with the Essex Street Trolley Terminal if you’ve taken any interest in the so-called Low Line project, covered here. Now, perhaps reacting to public interest stirred by the Low...
View ArticleAmphibianArc Designs Alien-Inspired Skyscrapers In China
If Elon Musk’s Red Planet City ever pans out, he should hire AmphibianArc to do the architecture. The quirky Los Angeles-based firm designs wacky towers that look like they belong on Mars–or at least...
View ArticleWelcome To The Dollhouse: Seven Mico-Living Proposals From The adAPT NYC...
My Micro NYC; image: nARCHITECTS On Tuesday we wrote about the new exhibition “Making Room: New Models for Housing New Yorkers,” which opened yesterday at the Museum of the City of New York (MCNY)....
View ArticleThis Week On Rendering Redux: Ice Cream Cones And Velveeta
This week on Rendering Redux, the weekly humorous examination of architectural images, we’ve got some wonderful (and wonderfully bad) examples lined up. Some of these are not that bad, but some really...
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