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The world’s 8 most beautiful skyscrapers

9 October 2015
Sam RigbyFeatures correspondent
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Chrysler Building, New York City
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Chicago Architecture Biennial

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Should we all live in '15-minute cities'?

We explore a different model of city life, where everything is on your doorstep.

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Inside the stunning 'new Athens' of Central Europe

Jože Plečnik transformed the city of Ljubljana into a 'Slovenian Acropolis'.

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How an 'erotic' body part inspires a legendary designer

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A close look at the highest railway bridge in the world

The Chenab Rail Bridge is a scenic bridge 35m (114ft) higher than the Eiffel Tower.

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Can redesigning aeroplanes save the planet?

Discover some radical solutions that could make air travel more sustainable and environmentally friendly.

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The utopian town built by 8,000 people in the desert

The utopian town built by 8,000 people in the desert

The utopian town built by 8,000 people in the high desert of Arizona.

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The Japanese project rethinking society through its toilets

This Tokyo project is reimagining the city though its public toilets.

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Could you live in Norway’s most extreme town?

Longyearbyen is the world’s northernmost permanent settlement.

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Art in the age of social distancing

Online festival celebrates arts affected by Covid-19

Playwright Nick Green launched the Social Distancing Festival to shine a spotlight on lost projects.

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Why humanity should embrace its ‘inevitable’ extinction

The end is nigh. Can design save our planet?

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'Should we create new life if we can't protect what exists?'

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg explores the human impulse to 'better' the world.

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How incredible ‘living homes’ could save the climate

Combining living systems with architecture can create more sustainable ways to design and build cities.

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The extreme homes of maximalists and minimalists

In a world obsessed with decluttering, some people find beauty in an overstuffed apartment.

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Could Earth’s entire population live in one mega-city?

Can architecture help us prepare for the future?

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Are we living in a man's world?

Parts of modern Barcelona show what a city designed by women, rather than men, might look like.

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The glass house designed for the desert

The miraculous house in the middle of the desert

Could innovative design help us live in more extreme conditions in the future?

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The garden of six qualities

The garden of six qualities

The expansive park-like garden of Kenroku-en is Japan’s perfectly imperfect version of nature.

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Building an island to solve a housing crisis

Can an island solve a Nordic housing crisis?

A bold solution for a Scandinavian housing shortage

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LEGO: the invention of the legendary brick

LEGO: the invention of the legendary brick

The son of the inventor Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen talks about his family's extraordinary business.

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Norway’s dramatic underwater restaurant

The world’s largest undersea restaurant

Along with gastronomy, it showcases what lies in the Nordic Seas.

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