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Anyone exploring a new city uses digital platforms. We decide where we want to drink coffee with Yelp, we find our way with Google Maps and a place to sleep with Airbnb.

By Birgit Baustädter Urban designer Aglaée Degros explores rural and urban in-between spaces and what happens in them.

Do changing prices in the US housing market mean similar shifts will be seen in house prices in the Netherlands?

Students at ETH used innovative technology to create an extremely lightweight and filigree pavilion using bamboo.

For his thesis project at EPFL, Armel Kemajou studied the peri-urban areas of Lomé, Togo, and Yaoundé, Cameroon, where populations are expected to double in 20 years.

Roberto Gargiani, an architectural historian and professor at EPFL, has penned a new history of concrete in the United States from 1940 to 1970.

PhD candidate Annamaria Dall'Anese shares how the Introductory Programme prompted her to think about what our academic spaces say about UCL's past, and how we can shape their future.

On Tuesday, 1 September, part of the canal wall along the Grimburgwal collapsed. The wall in question is outside building BG2 (Binnengasthuis premises), which houses the Education Desk of the Faculty of Humanities and the Art History Department.

EPFL's first-year architecture students usually have the chance to build full-scale versions of their designs.

Students from EPFL's EAST laboratory have installed recycled lights and restrooms at the Bex & Arts sculpture triennial - set to run from 22 June to 18 October - and repurposed parts of a disused tram depot in Bern.

By Susanne Eigner Architecture students at Graz University of Technology have designed a travelling exhibition that reconstructs traces of the resistance to the Nazi regime in Styria on the basis of four case studies.

Disease has often driven change in architecture and design. Cities cleared slums and opened up public spaces in response to the bubonic plague, and widened boulevards and added indoor plumbing due to yellow fever and cholera.

What happens when COVID-19 means architecture students have to get by without a workshop, electrical engineers without high-voltage laboratories and environmental scientists without field trips.

Associate professor of architecture Rafi Segal creates projects meant to enhance a sense of community.

The global lockdown caused by the coronavirus has brought the shortcomings and social inequality inherent in modern housing into stark relief.

This slideshow requires JavaScript. Sifting through the over 1,000 pieces of paper notes and hand-sketched drawings from the Julia Morgan collection at the Environmental Design Archives at UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design (CED), curator Chris Marino found an interesting trend.

Claudia Breidbach was born without a left forearm. She now wears a powered prosthesis, which she will be using for the powered prosthetic arm race at Cybathlon 2020.

Tyler Sprague is an assistant professor of architecture who studies and teaches structural design and architectural history.

A five-story mixed-use structure in Roxbury represents a new kind of net-zero-energy building, made from wood.

Students create innovative concepts for a hospice People receiving end-of-life care are usually cut off from the outside world in their hospice rooms.

It's the year 2020, and where two or more are gathered, it seems, there is a podcast. Given the level of creativity among University of Washington faculty and staff, it's no surprise that many high-quality podcasts are now being produced on campus.

The Ark of Return is installed at the United Nations Plaza in New York City. It is a permanent memorial that honors the African victims of enslavement during the transatlantic slave trade.

Model tags road features based on satellite images, to improve GPS navigation in places with limited map data.