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A distorted kazoo from Belarus. A gentle three-chord keyboard progression from France. A throaty growl from Brazil. These disparate sounds from far...
Offices are notoriously loud and distracting places, and the noise of others has long been a chief complaint among employees. The key to a quieter...
Knowing where people are in a building at any moment is valuable information, and a variety of technologies now exist to make it easy to turn a home...
Like many downtown business districts across the U.S., Newark, New Jersey’s central business area is full of restaurants catering to the office...
Across Ukraine, the war zone has become disturbingly civilian. Missiles have struck residential buildings—most certainly on purpose—leaving deadly...
This story is part of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business 2022. Explore the full list of innovators who broke through this year—and...
When the owners of the New England Patriots football team decided to add a new office to an unused piece of land next to their stadium, the project...
Saudi Arabia’s proposal for a 105-mile-long building called the Line has all the stuff of a science fiction paperback. The stark desert setting. The...
The cost of building continues to soar. Across North America, construction costs are up between 5% and 11% from last year, according to a new...
When the need arises for specialized healthcare, like a complicated brain surgery or pediatric cancer treatment, the only option for most people...
From the installation of a 25-mile-long fence in California to the wrapping of the Arc de Triomphe in fabric, the monumental artworks of the late...
When the Vancouver-based grocer Nada set out to open its first store, founders Brianne Miller and Alison Carr knew the design couldn’t just be...
The Federal Reserve recently announced a 0.75% increase in its benchmark interest rate, which is about to make an already bad housing situation worse....
The perfect garbage can is surprisingly hard to find, and Beth Rubenstein has spent a lot of time looking. As deputy director of policy and...
It’s an unmistakable and shocking sight: a human body falling from the top of a tall building. On a clear October day, tourists and commuters moving...
Outside Toronto, in a field surrounded by farmland, the seeds of a seemingly implausible high-density, transit-oriented community are taking root. The...
When the first batch of images from the James Webb Space Telescope were released to the public last week, people around the world were treated to a...
The pedestrian death toll on American roads is rising. In 2020, more than 6,500 people were struck and killed while walking along roads in the U.S.,...
The pandemic threw up a barrier for the research of Laura Mauldin. A sociology professor at the University of Connecticut who studies disability and...
In a tiny hilltop Italian village two hours from Rome but a world away, a team of design students recently moved into an empty building and began...
There’s an almost invisible ease by which companies have transitioned to e-commerce. Simple website templates and apps that handle payments and...
Children’s Hospital New Orleans (CHNOLA) had an aging problem. The largest pediatric health services provider in Louisiana, it was operating out of...
Across the country—from Moro, Oregon, to Chelmsford, Massachusetts—projects are being built that aim to make life better for older adults. They...
Eleven stories up, on a rooftop at the corporate campus of one of America’s biggest banks, grown adults are playing miniature golf. They may have a...
The $588 million bridge opening this weekend in Los Angeles is a landmark piece of architectural infrastructure that’s becoming a signature part of...
The video game Fortnite Creative has gathered a global audience of millions with a simple proposition: The game enables players to build virtual...
The north branch of the Chicago River, just outside of the city’s downtown, was once lined with smoke-spewing factories, occupied by barges, and...
In late 2020, Jesslyn Guntur started seeing crafts everywhere. People around the world were stuck inside and had discovered or rediscovered the...
A large-scale work by sculptor Richard Serra has just been put on display in a very specific space. Designed in conjunction with the artist himself, a...
Like thousands of buildings around the world, there was a brick-walled storefront on a major boulevard in Detroit that easily could have been ignored....
When COVID-19 drained offices around the world, many wondered if we were facing the end of the office. Now as the pandemic evolves from a hurricane to...
There’s a hole cut into the middle of the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture in Riverside, California. Built inside a former library, the...
Like many companies, manufacturing technology firm Augury ditched its New York City office during the pandemic. With few people coming in, and most...
There’s no way Milan could have known what was coming, but in the years leading up to the pandemic, the city was preparing as if it had seen the...
The world is getting older. By 2050, the global population of people in their 80s will be three times what it is today. According to the Stanford...
A bright red elevated walkway is the centerpiece of an innovative new development in Beijing. Winding half a mile and linking a series of gardens,...
Soaring above a forest outside of Oslo, Randselva Bridge is remarkably unremarkable. A straightforward viaduct for cars and trucks, the gently curving...
If you haven’t received a fishy email from a foreign prince offering untold fortunes lately, that may be because online scammers have found a new...
Black-founded startups have seen record amounts of investment recently, with quarterly funding commitments nearing or even topping $1 billion. But...
Swedish design brand Baux has a seemingly straightforward goal for its products. Instead of combining many raw materials to make its acoustic panels...
As a company that specializes in tests and measurements, NI is used to figuring out how to gauge things. From oscilloscopes that track changes in...
On a corner in a historic district in downtown Portland, Oregon, a new office building has just started what could be a very long tenure. If its...
On April 15, 2019, when the Notre-Dame cathedral in central Paris caught on fire, a certain subset of people around the world couldn’t help but...
Gardens, as anyone who’s blown a weekend tending an overgrown and weed-filled yard can attest, do not take care of themselves. At least not usually....
On the grounds of the Serpentine art gallery in London’s Kensington Gardens public park, the latest iteration of an architectural spectacle has just...
When a president invokes the Defense Production Act, it’s one of the rare moments the executive branch orders the private market to act. In the...
Though the new Vestre furniture factory outside Oslo claims to be the world’s most sustainable factory, a more defendable title is that it’s the...
Sun Ra, the trailblazing jazz musician, poet, and pioneer of the Afrofuturism movement, was also a utopian—both in outer space and here on earth....