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Small Space, Big Impact: Steal Ideas From This Architect’s Home
To most people, a home that's a scant 15 feet wide would look like an impossible design challenge. To Los Angeles architect Simon Storey, it looked like an opportunity. Tucked into a tiny...
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Architect Jennifer Devlin on Building Great Buildings (Storyboard Podcast)
Architect Jennifer Devlin talks to Wired Senior Editor Adam Rogers about urban design on this week's Storyboard podcast.
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Kickstarter of the Week: Kickstarter of the Week: A Clock You Can Hang Anywhere
Architect Mark Ejnes was thinking about the standard clock placement when he realized that if positioned at an angle, a clock could be hung on or in a corner, or anywhere else he'd want. But how many...
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Meet the Man Who Built a 30-Story Building in 15 Days
Zhang Yue, founder and chairman of Broad Sustainable Building, is not a particularly humble man. A humble man would not have erected, on his firm's corporate campus in the Chinese province of Hunan, a...
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Floating Units Offer Emergency City Space for Slums
A project aiming to provide flexible floating city spaces in wet slums has won the 2012 Architecture & Sea Level Rise award. The floating urban structures are called City Apps and can plug gaps in...
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Out of the Factory, Into the Field: Robots Go to Work for Architects
Sigrid Brell-Cokcan and Johannes Braumann want you to make architecture with robot arms. For decades, robots have been used on assembly lines to do things like make cars and package food. Over a long...
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Architecture Pirates May Finish Copycat Building Before Original
A Beijing building project by London-based architect Zaha Hadid is proving so popular that the structure is being pirated elsewhere in the country.
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Study: School Design Can Significantly Affect Children’s Grades
A study of school design has discovered that school layouts can influence a child's development by as much as 25 percent — positively or negatively — over the course of an academic year.
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Dubai’s Underwater Hotel Promises Submersible Luxury
Dubai's fascination with overblown architecture has moved below sea level thanks to the announcement of The Water Discus — billed as the world's largest underwater hotel.
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Documenting the Never-Built Dreams of the City of Angels
Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin are creating an exhibition of Los Angeles' buildings that were never built.
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Nvidia Answers Apple Spaceship With Triangle Temple
Chip-maker Nvidia has released artist renditions of its new Santa Clara, California, headquarters, set to open up in July 2015.
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9 Stunning Next-Gen Airport Designs Cleared for Takeoff
Few of us will have the chance to visit an office designed by a world-class architect; an even smaller group will enjoy the luxury of living in a home designed by one. But for the price of a coach...
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Building of the Week | Chinese Game-Maker’s Labyrinthine HQ Fosters Chance...
Each week, Wired Design brings you a photo of one of our favorite buildings, showcasing boundary-pushing architecture and design involved in the unique structures that make the world's cityscapes...
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10-Foot-Tall Double-Sided Touchscreen Wins NYC’s Pay Phone Redesign Challenge
The service contracts for New York City's 11,186 payphones ends in 2014, prompting Mayor Bloomberg to send an emergency call to New York's creative community to help design a better solution. Today,...
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Exploring the Divergent Architecture of 2013 Pritzker Prize Winner Toyo Ito
Japanese architect Toyo Ito has been named the 2013 Pritzker Laureate, architecture's equivalent of the Nobel Prize, and joins the ranks of "Starchitects" like Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, and I.M. Pei.
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Designer Salutes Iconic Museum Architecture With Delightfully ‘Vintage’ Posters
Tourism boards have a tradition of using large, bold imagery in poster art to help their cities compete for the attention of travelers. Now, an architect-turned-artist is creating a series of prints...
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Vintage Breweries, Salvaged Wood: This Year’s ‘Greenest’ Buildings Are...
For nearly two decades the American Institute of Architects (AIA) has marked the occasion by celebrating the top 10 "green" projects built over the previous year.
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A Green, Ultra-Modern Makeover for America’s Busiest Train Station
"For us, this isn’t yet a question of cost. It is a question of our intended values and our collective will," says Roger Duffy, a partner at SOM.
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Video: Lego’s New Museum Will Be Q*bert’s Dream House
Countless designers say Lego bricks played a big part of their artistic development and brag about the impressive buildings they constructed as kids, but Danish architect Bjarke Ingels gets to make...
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How Hurricane Sandy Brought 21st Century Design to NYC’s Beaches
When Hurricane Sandy tore apart the New York City coastline last fall, it was hard to imagine that only six months later it would be business as (almost) usual at the beach. The city responded with a...
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