Photo: A computer rendered image of the S.A.T. Project running through an airport lounge.

According to the UN, by 2030 about 5 billion people are expected to live in cities. Together China, India, and Brazil are projected to have as many urban inhabitants as the entire developed world (Hinrichsen, 2002). …

Does your office environment get you down? Then you might want to consider working with Tom Hicks. A vice president at the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), which awards ratings to buildings that achieve environmentally friendly targets, Hicks has the fortune to work in a building that has achieved “gold” status, and on a floor that has gone platinum. …

Today, Monday 5 February, 2007 the ninth session of Europan is launched. The generic theme of Europan 9 – European urbanity, sustainable city and new public spaces - specifically involves collaboration with the cities and urban developers in the organizing countries. Indeed, the ultimate aim of the European vision of the city is to make society, in other words to bring together people of all conditions and origins. …

This is an interesting story. It shows one more time how we design spaces affect people’s behavior.

Robert Kilroy-Silk (on the photo) currently an independent MEP, has raised the issue in the European Parliament of intentionally distorting mirrors in clothes stores, specifically Marks & Spencer. …

Don’t you like digital cameras? Take a photo, look at it, if you don’t like it, delete and re-take! Here are some tips for capturing good photos!

When framing a landscape shot one of the types of environmental features that many photographers look for an like to incorporate in their shots is converging lines. …

This volume, now also available in paperback, inaugurates a new Electaarchitecture series on residential architecture and presents an illustrated portfolio of 20 innovative, talked-about houses built around the world during the past decade by both celebrated architects and emerging young designers. …

Nakheel invited architects to make a concept master plan design for Palm Jebel Ali, just off the coast of Dubai. The winning design submitted by Royal Haskoning and D103 International consists of a surface area of 300,000m² to be used for sports activities, residential housing, a retail sector, and office buildings. …

Istanbul is a city of youthful dynamism with its eye on the high-tech future and the profits and innovations. The 261 meter tower will be one of the highest structures in the central business district of Istanbul. Rising upward, the building gets slightly thinner. At the fourth level, it slightly broadens downwards and the glass covering the surface of the building earns a curve and then extends horizontally at the skirt of the building, which covers the restaurants, cinemas and stores designed especially for high-quality brand shopping. …

This a cool design for cat lovers, like me!

It’s zebra wood and an aluminum base for great looking furniture that your cat will actually enjoy. It’s from James Owen Design. You may have seen his stuff before, he won the Michelin Design Challenge in 2006. …

First published in 1943 this novel, by Ayn Rand, became an instant classic. It is the story of a brilliant young architect whose unwavering integrity results in a violent battle against conventional standards, and his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who struggles to defeat him. If you haven’ read it yet, you should fix that problem. …

While green roofs may be universally accepted as wonderfully sustainable landscapes for a myriad reasons, the thought of installing one atop your own home may nevertheless seem daunting, expensive, and difficult to maintain. …