News
Kiruna, Sweden, must move or be destroyed. The state-run LKAB iron ore mine that was the impetus for the town in 1900 has dug so far below its streets, residents have to move or risk plunging into the earth.
News
At the 11th hour, a British heritage organization has renewed a bid to save a major Brutalist building from destruction.
Art
Futuristic pyramids and boxy concrete forms rose up with the modernist architecture of Africa in the 1960s and '70s, although beyond the continent the radical forms aren't widely recognized.
Books
In Caspar David Friedrich's “Frau vor untergehender Sonne” (“Woman before the Rising Sun”), a young woman is depicted facing the rising sun, which turns her almost completely, but not entirely, into a silhouette.
Art
MANAGUA — Most people will advise you, on touching down in Managua, to rent a car and drive as fast out of the Nicaraguan capital as you can.
Art
Fay Jones was still a boy in Arkansas when he first heard of Frank Lloyd Wright.
News
The influential German architect Frei Otto died Monday, one day before it was announced that he would be receiving the 2015 Pritzker Prize.
In Brief
Robot dogs, humanoid giants, holograms, and laser lights. That's what "the future" looks like, at least according to architectural renderings recently released by the United Arab Emirates for its impending Museum of the Future.
News
For centuries, tourists have flocked to Cairo to behold the Pyramids of Giza firsthand.
Art
Before the quarter-mile ramp of New York’s Guggenheim Museum, Frank Lloyd Wright envisioned a smaller slope on the West Coast.
Opinion
This past November, the US Army discreetly announced that it is looking to develop “a holding cell for one detainee during combat operations.”
Art
Set to open in the summer of 2016, a sleek museum designed by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor for a Norwegian zinc mine has been over a decade in the making, although parts of the attraction are already in place.