The Climate Tile by Tredje Natur aims to stop cities flooding
A new type of modular tile promises to help reduce flooding in cities hit by increased rainfall due to climate change. More
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Amanda Levete's firm proposes multi-storey football pitches for central London
Stackable football pitches could be erected on disused or temporarily empty plots across London, according to Amanda Levete and her London-based studio AL_A. More
Bouroullec brothers explore urban development in utopian diorama series
Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have created models exploring better ways for nature and cities to interact, which they are showing in an exhibition at the Zaha Hadid-designed Vitra Fire Station. More
Büro North proposes ground-level traffic lights to prevent pedestrian accidents
Prompted by accidents involving players of Pokémon GO, Australian firm Büro North has devised a concept for in-ground traffic lights to prevent pedestrians using smartphones from walking out onto the road (+ movie). More
Kiku Obata leads revival of historic district in a rural Illinois town
London and St Louis-based design studio Kiku Obata & Company is overseeing the redevelopment of an ageing downtown district in the US heartland, in a rural town where big-box stores have taken over (+ slideshow). More
"Smart technology is a solution looking for a problem," says Rotterdam Biennale curator
Technologies like driverless cars and smart heating systems could end up making cities dysfunctional according to Maarten Hajer, chief curator of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam 2016 (+ interview). More
Interactive dancing traffic lights make waiting more entertaining
An interactive installation in Lisbon aims to encourage pedestrians to wait until it's safe to cross the road by making the traffic lights "dance" using motion capture technology (+ movie). More
Floating City concept by AT Design Office features underwater roads and submarines
Cities that float on water could offer an alternative to destroying the earth's valuable countryside according to architecture studio AT Design Office, who has developed a concept for an ocean metropolis (+ slideshow). More
OMA and Foster to work alongside Hollywood duo on Miami Beach
Design Miami 2013: architects OMA and Foster + Partners will work alongside Hollywood power-couple Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin to create a new ocean-side cultural quarter at Miami Beach in Florida, it was unveiled during Design Miami earlier this month (+ slideshow). More
Great City by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
News: work is about to start on a high-density, car-free "satellite city" for 80,000 people that will be built from scratch in a rural location close to Chengdu and later replicated in other parts of China. More
The Zebra Crossing Project by Eduard Čehovin
This pedestrian crossing in Serbia jumbles up the usual arrangement of black and white stripes. More
Landhausplatz by LAAC Architekten and Stiefel Kramer Architecture
Austrian design studio LAAC Architekten and Stiefel Kramer Architecture have completed this public plaza in Innsbruck, Austria, with an undulating concrete surface. More
Golden Hills Masterplan by SOM
Architects Skidmore, Owings & Merrill have produced these images to illustrate their masterplan for a 375 hectare site in Danang, Vietnam, that is prone to frequent flooding. More
Stockholmsporten masterplan by BIG
Danish architects Bjarke Ingels Group have won a competition to masterplan a new gateway to Stockholm at the intersection of two motorways. More
A Rolling Masterplan by Jagnefalt Milton
Buildings roll through the city on railway tracks in this masterplan by Swedish architects Jagnefalt Milton for Åndalsnes in Norway. More
Masdar Institute campus by Foster + Partners
Foster + Partners have completed the first of a cluster of buildings entirely powered by solar energy at Masdar City, a sustainable urban quarter in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. More
Ready. Steady. Go! by Sandra Janser and Elisabeth Koller
Austrian architects Sandra Janser and Elisabeth Koller have painted streets in Graz, Austria to resemble a running track as part of a regeneration project More
Central Business District Wenzhou by Henn Architekten
Henn StudioB, the Berlin design and research studio of Henn Architekten, have won a competition to design a new business district in Wenzhou, China. More
West Kowloon Cultural District by Foster + Partners
UK architects Foster + Partners have also announced their proposed masterplan for the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong. More
Masdar City Centre by LAVA
Laboratory for Visionary Architecture (LAVA) have won a competition to design the urban centre of Masdar, a zero-carbon, zero-waste city to be built in the desert near Abu Dhabi. More