At this school in Tokyo, five-year-olds cause traffic jams and windows are for Santa to climb into. Meet: the world’s cutest kindergarten, designed by architect Takaharu Tezuka. In this charming talk, he […]

French climber Alain Robert, a.k.a. ‘Spiderman’, scales Dubai’s Cayan tower.

He designed London’s The Shard, was an integral part of the team working on the Pompidou Centre in Paris, and in 2006 Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential […]

On this date in 1956, the Capitol Records Building, also known as the Capitol Records Tower completed construction and was open for business. The building design was based upon the graduate school […]

Inside architect and Balmain store outfitter, Joseph Dirand’s minimalist Parisian apartment.

Residents of Hamburg’s nightclub district of St. Pauli were getting tired of having drunken revelers urinating al fresco. They found an unusual solution: walls that pee back. The walls were recently covered […]

Catalan art world hero Xavier Corbero invites director Albert Moya into his labyrinthine, post-industrial home in Barcelona.

Filmmaker Anthony Chen turns the lens on architecture’s go-to photographer Iwan Baan as they take in the New York skyline.

Since it was set up in 1968, Austrian architects Coop Himmelb(l)au has grown into a successful international company with clients in Europe, the USA and Asia. Shortly before Christmas, Coop Himmelb(l)au released […]

The architect Frank Gehry talks about his asymmetrical design for the planned 450,000-square-foot Guggenheim Abu Dhabi and his inspiration for the museum’s huge, cooling cones.