Graffiti artist Blu has released his biggest and most ambitious film to date.
“The Metamorphosis of Our Town ... It Happened Cheek By Jowl”
The future for architects is not the future of architecture.
“If all you can say is ‘fresh from the wholesale market’ then you have to be cheap and open all hours”
Illustrations and musings on the unbuilt expressways of Manhattan, the ubiquity of Google maps and the legacy of Robert Moses.
The implications of Pig City by MVRDV are a sensory and ethical challenge - architecture that tests the fine line between social criticism and gritty realism. If meat consumption was to stay…
An exploration of the Wrangelkiez neighborhood in Kreuzberg.
Holism and the case for utopian imagination in architecture.
Not only the end of a decade, but the 20th anniversary of a monumental political event. Eye Magazine 74 is a focus on the graphic output from Berlin.
In the corporate zones of redevelopment, the juxtaposition of architecture stands-out because it is really the juxtaposition of utterly disparate world-views
How can we close the perceptional gap that lies between two dimensional maps and the surrounding three dimensional reality? Enkin is a technology aimed at the Google Android platform that…
BLDGBLOG talks to Michael Cook, the author and photographer behind the Vanishing Point. Michael's spectacular images of tunnel systems and urban decay are a must-see. He views the city as…
A novel solution to the lack of space for food cultivation in modern cities.
Using design to provoke public debate about the future of cities.
There was only one language that everyone in the Tower of Babel spoke... that of money.
Beau from one of the top Berlin crews, Urban Idiots, explains the difference between Parkour and Freerunning.
The Italian government has reversed a 20 year policy against building nuclear power plants, and has announced that they plan to return to nuclear power. Unlike New Zealand's strange and fascinating…