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Amid ferns and fronds, in the drip of a rainforest or the humid stickiness of a jungle, the hulking gray mass of concrete is increasingly present. One...
The questionnaire is part of ¡Reclamo!, a digital tool for screening and filing wage theft complaints with the government. Written at a 7th grade...
A giant trapezoidal building with a donut hole in the middle rises from the flatlands of a former ranch outside Tampa, Florida. Clad in shiny metal,...
Buildings can stand for centuries, or even millennia. But for many buildings in the modern world—particularly the big office towers that make up...
For refugees and people displaced from their homes by wars and conflicts, resettlement is often preceded by a long period of limbo. The camps that are...
Toilet paper, in its current form, has too much air, according to Roy Shihor. He’s the founder of the box-based bamboo toilet paper company Bambox,...
In a single day in early May, one 10-story building survived the brunt of some of the biggest earthquakes in recent history. Standing in a clearing...
Look closely at the front of almost any pair of eyeglasses and one constant will emerge: whether on dollar store readers, prescription bifocals, or...
For people with dexterity and grip issues, the act of holding a thin toothbrush and carefully brushing their teeth can be a challenge, a pain, or an...
The decorative ponds surrounding the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam have been taken over by a massive floating structure. Looking like an oversized...
One day earlier this year, Kimberly Silver noticed something unexpected happening in her Brooklyn neighborhood of Red Hook. Scores of young men were...
Standing beneath 6,000 shimmering pieces of stained glass that have been immaculately formed into a dome, it’s hard to imagine that this opulent...
Artificial intelligence has leaped from the nerdiest of technological fringes to the mass market of pop culture memes. The classic dystopian worry...
When talking (or writing) about buildings, a favored and useful analogy is the skeleton. Buildings are often said to have “good bones”—the...
A hulking 120-year-old brick building on the shore of the Harlem River in the South Bronx was once a centerpiece of the New York City economy. Its...
Sasaki is one of the winners of Fast Company’s 2023 World Changing Ideas Awards. Explore the full list of projects we’re honoring for making...
Inside the refreshed shell of an 87-year-old building in Detroit that’s been wracked by fire, tragedy, and more than 30 years of abandonment, a new...
In one of the latest songs from Brazilian rap star Rincon Sapiência, streetwise lyrics take an unexpected turn to legalese. Sapiência starts out...
The new folded concrete roof that swoops across the center of the sprawling Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts (AMFA) in Little Rock is the rare expressive...
The story of Minerva Parker Nichols is finally being told. A trailblazing architect, she was the first woman in the U.S. to practice architecture...
VR95 is new virtual reality experience that transports users to a world many rarely see or consider. It’s not some fantasy land or extraordinary...
When The Super Mario Bros. Movie opened in theaters worldwide earlier this month to blockbuster ticket sales, the studio behind it let out a big...
The birds of San Antonio will soon have nicer homes than you do. Ten new birdhouses designed by some of the top architecture firms in the U.S. are set...
Next to the Fruitvale BART station in Oakland, California, a new tech space opened recently. With desks for coding, hardware for robotics, and a wall...
It should not surprise anyone that Bark, the company behind the dog toy and treat subscription service BarkBox, has a very liberal policy when it...
For nearly three decades, the experience of walking into a Chipotle fast-casual restaurant was defined by the sizzling sound of meat cooking on a gas...
Polaroid has a new color film. But not full color. Reclaimed Blue 600 is, as the name suggests, a blue-color instant film from the company that...
Slides and swings are the bread and butter of the American playground. Whether a tiny neighborhood park or a grand, multimillion-dollar Amazon-size...
Baseball’s slow era may be over. In recent years, the duration of the average nine-inning baseball game has stretched the patience of both fans and...
Behind the thick wooden walls of a small school in northern Denmark are two wholly uncommon materials: One is often burned to run the country’s...
At the end of a typical meal, uneaten bits of food head to one of two places: into a bin to be landfilled or composted, or down the drain of the...
A delicate outline of a house has materialized in the icy darkness of Antarctica. Like a child’s line drawing built at full scale, stainless steel...
For most of the relatively few people who ditch the conventional residential world of apartments and homes for the rolling nomadism of #vanlife, the...
As gas stations lurch towards obsolescence in the age of electric vehicles, the land they use is becoming a widely distributed real estate development...
The typical Girl Scout meeting happens wherever it can. It might be in a borrowed room in a church or community center, the home of a volunteer scout...
It’s time to admit it: Most empty office buildings are not turning into housing. That simple recipe for pandemic lemonade—offices people no longer...
Sizzler patrons know what to expect. The restaurant chain, with about 70 locations across the U.S., offers a casual dining experience, modest prices...
In the disposable shaving razor industry, building a better razor has been a numbers game. First there was the single-blade, then the double blade,...
The stage can’t be completely to blame for what happened at last year’s Academy Awards ceremony, but it was arguably an accomplice. When Will...
The familiar silver torpedo design of the Airstream trailer is as recognizable as it is revered. The company has been churning out travel trailers for...
As the company behind the imagery and design software Photoshop, Adobe has a special sensitivity to color. Humans do, too, with color being able to...
Shopping malls, you may have heard, are dying. These suburban staples of retail and elderly loafing have been hit hard by the rise of e-commerce, and...
David Chipperfield, a British architect known for his subdued and contextual buildings, has been named the latest laureate of the Pritzker...
As buildings designed to hold tens of thousands of people, sports stadiums don’t exactly blend into most urban settings. Feeling more like...
A new humanoid walks among us. Robotics startup Figure, which launched in 2022, has spent the last half year quietly developing a bipedal humanoid...
Daniel Arsham resists categorization. In a word, he’s an artist, but his work fans out across such a wide spectrum that the description is almost...
Calling the top of a typical baby bottle a “nipple” is a convenient, if imprecise, shorthand. Yes, the rubber tip has the familiar form of a...
When the owners of Baltimore’s CFG Bank Arena decided it was time to bring the 1960s-era basketball and concert venue into the 21st century, they...
The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) is the nation’s largest landlord of public housing, which also means it has the potential to be the...
In March 2022, barely a month into the war in Ukraine, Nikita Bielokopytov learned that the home of his grandparents had been destroyed. Its roof and...