Graduate architect students at the University of Calgary designed habitats for Mars explorers in a Mars Studio course.

Seoul’s ambitious Skygarden – which revives a disused elevated 1970s highway with 24,000 plants – is opening

The Shaolin Flying Monks Theater has a massive wind tunnel running through that allows for the mystifying spectacle in China.

The home of past-century wonders like the Brooklyn Bridge returns to building cable-stayed bridges, which are designed to “stand the test of time.”

The emotive faces from our keyboards are now literally plastered across a building in the city of Amersfoort in central Netherlands. The 22 circles relay 22 different expressions, from a smiling face to a grimacing face to a cool face with sunglasses.

The Department of Homeland Security's call for proposals for a wall to be built along the Mexico–US border elicited hundreds of designs. Here are six of them.

The long and varied history of life along Hadrian’s Wall

The grim prefab Khrushchyovkas helped solve the USSR’s housing crisis after World War II. Now, Moscow plans to demolish 8,000 of them, displacing more than 1.5 million people. Should any be preserved for posterity? By Mark Byrnes.

Created in 2006 by multidisciplinary artist Kimsooja, he transformed the Palacio de Cristal into a multisensory sound and light experience. Outside light filters through the glass of the pavilion and reflects off the diffraction film. It diffuses into rainbow spectrums, transforming the external panorama seen from within the palace. The resulting effect is that the entire structure as well as the rays of colour reflecting off the mirrored floor.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

Some of these marvels of engineering curl, tilt and even breathe fire. Explore the world's strangest bridges.

In the Northeast suburbs of central Osaka stands a curious train station unlike any other. Kayashima Station features a rectangular hole cut into the roof of the elevated platform and, from inside, a giant tree pokes its head out like a stalk of broccoli. It’s almost like a railway version of Laputa.

The history of Bukhara stretches back millennia. It is now the capital of Bukhara Region (viloyat) of Uzbekistan. Located on the Silk Road, the city has long been a center of trade, scholarship, culture, and religion. During the golden age of the Samanids, Bukhara became a major intellectual center of the Islamic world, second only to Baghdad.

Preservationists at the enigmatic mansion have located a boarded-up room in the attic

The world’s first rotating skyscraper is set to be built in Dubai by 2020. The Dynamic Tower Hotel has been planned since 2008, having been proposed by Israeli-Italian architect David Fisher. It will stand at 1,375 feet tall, with each of its 80 storeys capable of rotating individually around a concrete core, offering 360-degree views of Dubai.  Residents will be able to control rotation speeds and stop their apartment from spinning with voice commands.

Beneath the streets of Beijing, people live in an underground universe constructed during the Cold War era.

Mazes are in vogue at the moment, from NBO's Westworld, to the return of the British cult TV series, The Crystal Maze. But mazes have been around for millennia and one of the most famous mazes, the Labyrinth home of the Minotaur, plays a starring role in Greek mythology.

The designer of a new landmark building is suing over copyright infringement, describing an entrenched system where power can trump sanctity of law.

There’s lots of competition for the title of world’s tallest skyscraper, but does anyone care about the world’s longest – even when it extends vertically into an upside-down U shape? If you w…

Cacti and solar panels: Quiet strategies for slowing down the bidding process for a border wall. By Andrew Becker.

Matthias Hollwich wants to upend the way we think about getting old, starting with the design of our homes and cities.

The Caiyuanba Bridge is a arch bridge which crosses the Yangtze River in Chongqing, China. Completed in 2007, the arch spans 420 metres (1,380 ft) ranking among the longest arch bridges in the world. The bridges carries 6 lanes of traffic and two track of Chongqing Rail Transit Line 3 between the Nan'an District south of the Yangtze River and the Yuzhong District to the north.

Chinese architecture will now officially be less weird. A statement from China's State Council Sunday, says new guidelines on urban planning will forbid the construction of "bizarre" and "odd-shaped" buildings that are devoid of character or cultural heritage. Instead, the directive calls for buildings that are "economic, green and beautiful." China's economic boom over the past several decades has coincided with a boom in the construction of unique...

A group of University of Tokyo students overseen by Kengo Kuma have developed a 3D-printing pen that can be used to create complex architectural structures

We live in a world made for people who hear.

The Pogue family in McKinney, Texas, is the owner of two of the world's most amazing bardominiums - unique houses that look like ordinary barns but are actually luxury homes.

Lack of plumbing aside, I could spend a weekend up here, definitely.

High in northern Italy's rugged Dolomite mountain range, mountain lodge retreat firm Rifugio Col Gallina has installed a novel tiny cabin. Dubbed Starlight Room, it boasts few amenities, but this is mitigated by the promise of an unbeatable Alpine view. Starlight Room is constructed mostly from wood The interior is tiny and includes a TV with DVD player and USB stick input for ... A portable heating system is controlled by thermostat and the double bed is adjustable...

When Architect Matthias Hollwich was approaching 40, he wondered what the next 40 years of his life might look like. He looked into the architecture that serves older adults, places like retirement communities and assisted living facilities, and didn't like what he saw. But what if we changed our habits earlier in life so we could stay in the communities we already live in?

Balanced on swaying poles, scaffolders in Hong Kong cling to Tinkertoy-like constructions of bamboo sticks. This is how the city's tallest skyscrapers are built.

Nice work, Reddit user.

Think your city doesn’t like you? You’re right.

Construction is underway in Vancouver for the world’s tallest timber tower by Acton Ostry Architects. The 18-story Brock Commons Student Residence at the University of British Columbia, which began construction in November 2015, will be completed in the summer of 2017. At 53 meters tall, with housing for 404 students, it will be the tallest mass wood hybrid building in the world. The structure’s two freestanding concrete cores will be completed by the end of May...

These California students engineered cost-effective housing for local homeless people.

Big-box stores promise convenience and jobs for suburbs and small towns, but have a mixed reputation with designers and citizens. Many see big boxes as icons of unsustainable sprawl, reinforcing car culture with highway-oriented access and expansive parking lots. These boxy buildings not only take up vast amounts of land but often also require infrastructure around them to be overhauled. Later, when their super-sized occupants leave: a giant empty structure is left in their wake, which can be difficult to reuse unless a similar retailer takes its place.