City building designs
City building designs and architects
e-architect select new city building designs from around the world. Discover urban architectural images, plus background on master plan architects. Source information about new masterplans for cities around the globe.
The website features a selection of the best new urban building designs around the world, by respected designers.
In addition, we post information and images of significant contemporary city architecture projects on this international website. Our focus is on internationally-significant architectural works.
Finally, you can find a strong grouping of city architectural posts on our site.
Reduce, re-use, re-imagine: compact neighborhoods
Reduce, re-use, re-imagine: how to slow climate change by slowing urban sprawl – the case for compact, vertical, walkable urban neighborhoods. As we’ve ‘stretched out’ it’s come at the cost of the environment and a comfortable future
Innovative architecture redefining modern cities
Explore cutting-edge architectural designs transforming urban landscapes, making cities more livable, sustainable, and beautiful. Urban transformation — innovative architecture redefining modern cities
Coop Himmelb(l)au Architects Vienna
COOP HIMMELB(L)AU architecture news: Wolf D. Prix appointed as Norman R. Foster visiting professor of Architectural Design at the Yale School of Architecture, New Haven, CT, USA, for the spring semester of 2015-2016 academic year.
Rethinking urban mobility, city transport systems
Rethinking urban mobility “for living, not working.” James Berry on how changing behaviour, technology and customer expectations will change our transport systems, and cities, for good
Kharkiv City rebuilding: Norman Foster Foundation
The Norman Foster Foundation announce winners of Kharkiv Housing Challenge architecture competition. To improve housing and residential neighbourhoods in Ukraine
Mastering the intersection of design and urban planning
Imagine strolling through a city where every corner tells a story, where buildings seamlessly blend with green spaces, and where the urban landscape feels like a work of art. Mastering the intersection of design and urban planning: top online degrees in 2024
Daily torture of the disabled & elderly, USA
“Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing” — US football legend Vince Lombardi. The 1865 building is the most important building in the City of Williamsport, PA, USA – 192 immeasurable miles from New York City
Architects must help with deadly eviction crisis
Architects must help with deadly eviction crisis in USA which is killing our poor children, writes Joel Solkoff. There is a member of Congress who is doing God’s work when all around her are not
Build a city of 100,000 in rural Central Pennsylvania
Build a city of 100,000 in rural Central Pennsylvania, USA. Civics as an art has to do, not with imagining an impossible [utopia] where all is well, but with making the most and best of each place
Brasília Cerrado-city by Carlos M Teixeira
Brasília Cerrado-city by architect Carlos M Teixeira: what if Brasília was taken over by the Cerrado that it once destroyed? This article describes an imaginary capital now integrated into this biome in Brazil
Planet Smart City Aquiraz, Brasil
Planet Smart City Aquiraz, Brazil, to be home to 18,000 residents on 200-hectare site: sustainable and socially inclusive communities with easy access to public transport.
New Andean Architecture of Freddy Mamani
New Andean Architecture of Freddy Mamani increase colors in Bolivian city – this famous Bolivian architect imbues colour, personality, and culture into El Alto’s monochrome city with buildings based on ancient craft and architecture.
The Power of Lines, Architecture Article
The Power of Lines, article by Dr. Peter Magyar, Kansas State University, USA, drawings range from Villa La Rotonda drawn on a small screen iPhone to ‘The Nerd Cat’ drawn by a six year old.