In Pontevedra, the usual soundtrack of a Spanish city has been replaced by the tweeting of birds and the chatter of humans

Even Magic Kingdoms need urban planners.

The New York Times has reconstructed how the disaster happened, from beginning to end.

A few years back, I moved into a Sears building — no, not that famous skyscraper in Chicago, or one of those department stores in the suburbs, but a city block-sized brick behemoth just south of downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Wood and bamboo homes, low-slung with lightweight roofs of thatch or woven coconut leaves, move with earthquakes while concrete homes can crack or collapse

The shopping mall, the office block, suburbs, museums, Hollywood, the Gulf cities – air conditioning powered them all. But has the time come to turn it off?

It's the end of the world as we know it, and Best Products is having a sale.

Filippo Brunelleschi left no detailed blueprints for how he built his famous structure.

Feuding brothers, thwarted lovers, and a lot of spoiled views: ‘spite buildings’ are our smallest human pettiness made manifest in bricks and mortar. Here are some of the best/worst

The cement industry has little reason to improve its material’s enormous environmental impact.

The fast-growing capital is not all Zaha Hadid’s, as this seaside metropolis is a dizzying blend of 19th-century charm and 21st-century over-the-top-ness.

Toward a Concrete Utopia focuses on the period of intense construction in Yugoslavia between 1948 and 1980

Hard to mix and mingle when you live in an auto-dependent suburban castle.

It seems counterintuitive, but there’s evidence that getting rid of signals, signs and barriers might actually make streets a lot safer. Towns all over Europe are starting to experiment with streets where cars, buses, bikes and pedestrians can travel freely in the same space.

There are fewer than 1,000 wet plate collodion artists practicing around the world, and as far as I know, I am the only one in the state of North Dakota. 5 years ago, I didn’t own a camera and knew nothing about photography. I saw a wet plate online and I was immediately drawn to it, and thus my journey began.

Millennials, don't give up your smashed avo just yet. Hadrian the WA bricklaying robot is about to make construction of houses safer, faster and cheaper.

A lot of so-called “defensive design” is explicit and easy to spot, like sloped benches or anti-homeless spikes to prevent rough sleeping. But in some cases, the designs are more subtle, masquerading as aesthetic improvements or even other kinds of public infrastructure — sprinklers, for instance.

The long read: A decade after it was scuppered by the financial crash, the fantasy archipelago of 300 artificial island ‘countries’ is back in business. Has anybody learned anything?

The $5.6bn cost of the 70-storey W350 Project is expected to be twice that of a conventional building

The new hotel will be the world’s first ‘Powerhouse’ hotel in the Arctic circle, producing its own energy while simultaneously reducing its energy needs.

Bridges would be easier, but it doesn't want to disturb the surroundings.

Burh Becc at Beacon Springs, outside Ann Arbor, is just the second home in the world to meet the Living Building Challenge.

The undulating structure creates a transition from outdoors to in, holding 150 trees that absorb close to 200,000 liters of carbon dioxide an hour. This natural absorption brings pollution protection to its residents, helping to eliminate harmful gasses caused by cars and harsh sounds from the bustling streets outside. The trees’ seasonal progression also creates the ideal microclimate inside the building, steadying temperature extremes during the cold and warmer months. The plants’ full foliage block rays of sun during the summer while letting in warm light during the winter.

These 7 bridges show how far we've come in the past few thousand years.

Park Güell is the reflection of Gaudí's artistic plenitude, which belongs to his naturalist phase.

Asia is growing. Literally. From Malaysia to Dubai, luxury developments are rising on artificial islands and coastlines. Everybody wins – except the local sea life and the fishermen who depend on it

California is about to become the only state in the nation mandating that virtually every new home have solar panels by 2020.

Photographer Robert Dawson criss-crossed the continent to document its libraries.

A massive high-tech, sphere-shaped venue that will host concerts and other events while engaging multiple senses will break ground this summer in Las Vegas, officials announced Friday. The New York-based Madison Square Garden Company revealed details of the 18,000-seat, futuristic-looking facility it is developing in partnership with Las Vegas Sands, which operates two casino-resorts on the Las Vegas Strip adjacent to the planned arena.

This photographer traveled to the far corners of the former Soviet Union to document a new era in design.

Paris-based architect Vincent Callebaut wants his buildings to be more than your average tower block. His vision is ambitious: create an energy-saving, carbon-absorbing civilization to fight global warming. "I want to give hope for a better tomorrow," he says. One of his eco-friendly ideas is taking root right now in Taipei, Taiwan's capital city. When Tao Zhu Yin Yuan -- meaning "The Retreat of Tao Zhu" -- is completed later this year, the residential complex will be covered in 23,000 trees and shrubs.

Developers are taking on residential building challenges by extending the concept of prefabricated housing to manufacture entire apartment buildings.

Scientists from the University of Tartu and the Estonian University of Life Sciences have created a construction material consisting primarily of peat and oil shale ash that could reduce the construction costs of a private house nearly tenfold. The aim was to create a self-supporting construction material based on local natural resources and waste that could be used to 3-D print houses up to two-storeys high directly at the construction site.

The studio would foot the bill for the project, which it hopes will relieve traffic congestion in the neighborhoods near the sign.