While other billionaires are jockeying to get into space, Marc Lore has his eyes on planet Earth: The former Walmart exec has announced plans to create a new utopian city in the American desert, featuring self-driving cars and energy-efficient skyscrapers.

Constructed using natural materials, Yemeni high-rises are superbly sustainable and perfectly suited to the hot and dry Arabian desert climate.

The cleanliness of Tokyo, the diversity of New York and the social services of Stockholm: Billionaire Marc Lore has outlined his vision for a 5-million-person "new city in America" and appointed a world-famous architect to design it.

This year’s contenders include a violin-shaped church and a ‘welcome to hell’ glass bridge joining two mountains

Infrastructure that wasn't built to handle warmer, wetter climate is increasingly risky.

American entrepreneur Marc Lore has revealed an incredibly ambitious plan to create a new city from scratch in the United States. Named Telosa, the project is designed by the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and, if built – which is by no means certain at this stage – would be located on an unoccupied site somewhere in the US, with the first residents moving in by 2030.

Titled Telosa, the project aims to create a new city in America that sets a global standard for urban living and becomes a blueprint for future generations.

The world’s largest astronomy museum has just opened in Shanghai, China. Designed by Ennead Architects, this contemporary cultural center acts as the new astronomy branch of the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum. This proposal for the Shanghai Astronomy Museum won the design competition for its dynamic form that represents the movement of celestial bodies which is made up of an oculus, an inverted dome, and a sphere...

Houses built into the earth were all the rage during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Now, with global warming, they might be the ideal solution.

Since Cyclone Pam devastated Vanuatu, locals are returning to the saeklon haos, made from vines, palm fronds and grasses

Promise Robotics is using AI to build homes more quickly and help address the housing shortage

Imagine a world in which nature is intertwined with the industrial: giant lotus flowers replace concrete skyscrapers; an urban forest forms a city constantly in shift through a tree’s life cycle. This is the imaginarium of Belgian architect Luc Schuiten. To discover his work is to fall under the spe

Through pioneering projects in Mexico, China, Texas and elsewhere, we're starting to see how 3D printing can make building construction a whole lot more cost effective. An affordable housing venture in Africa named 14Trees has now leveraged the technology to produce the world's first 3D-printed school in Malawi, where students started taking their first lessons late last month.

The Miami condo collapse is a devastating reminder of America's artificial land problem

North Korea tallest abandoned Ryugyong Hotel - the 'Hotel of Doom'. It was supposed to become the world's tallest hotel. Instead, it became the world's tallest abandoned building. The pyramid-shaped Ryugyong Hotel is 330 meters (1,080 ft) tall and one of the most prominent features of Pyongyang's skyline.

For decades, the only sign of the lost village of Curon was the curious appearance of a 14th century church spire rising out of the middle of a lake.

The most magnificent, environmentally mindful buildings from all over the globe.

‘Bills are a design flaw,’ says property guru Humayun Khan, and his 13 high-tech eco-homes in Newhaven are proving just that, writes Sam Brooke. But the journey here took him all over the world – and almost to ruin

A Dutch couple have become Europe’s first tenants of a fully 3D printed house in a development that its backers believe will open up a world of choice in the shape and style of the homes of the future.