Vincent Laforet documents New York with aerial photographs
New York City's skyscraper clusters and strict street grid are illustrated in these images taken from a helicopter by French-American photographer Vincent Laforet (+ slideshow). More
New York City's skyscraper clusters and strict street grid are illustrated in these images taken from a helicopter by French-American photographer Vincent Laforet (+ slideshow). More
News: a team led by 64North Architecture has won a competition to design a pedestrian and cyclist bridge connecting the San Francisco Bay waterfront and Palo Alto – home to some of the world's leading technology companies. More
Spindly orange walkways are raised above the waters and meadows of this wetland park designed by landscape architects Turenscape on a neglected river in China (+ slideshow). More
Divooe Zein Architects has installed an arced structure covered in nets to shelter a woodland glade near the Taiwanese capital, Taipei (+ slideshow). More
This wooden observation platform by architects Javier Mera, Jorge Andrade and Daniel Moreno sits high above a three-kilometre-wide lake inside an active volcano in the Ecuadorian Andes (+ slideshow). More
News: landscape architecture studio James Corner Field Operations, who collaborated on New York's High Line, has been selected to create a huge public park bordering the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. More
News: BIG's competition-winning design for a new public square at London's Battersea Power Station has been revealed. More
News: Melbourne surfers could ride 1.5-metre-high waves within a heated salt-water pool in plans set out by local firm Damian Rogers Architecture for the city's docklands. More
World Architecture Festival 2014: Australian landscape architect Perry Lethlean explains the concept behind the Canberra park named World Landscape of the Year 2014 in our next movie from World Architecture Festival. More
Danish studios CEBRA and Glifberg+Lykke have created an igloo-shaped street sports centre and a skate park on the harbour front of Haderslev, Denmark (+ slideshow). More
The domed and curving rooftops of this science museum in Komatsu, Japan, are covered in grass, creating a series of rolling hills that visitors can clamber across (+ slideshow). More
Following the unveiling of a floating cycle path proposed for the River Thames, we've collected together 13 controversial projects from the pages of Dezeen that could transform London. More
World Architecture Festival 2014: Australian firm Taylor Cullity Lethlean has won the World Landscape of the Year prize for the second year in a row for the new National Arboretum on the outskirts of the Australian capital, Canberra (+ slideshow). More
British firm Knight Architects and structural engineers AKT II have completed a moving footbridge in Paddington, London, that opens and closes like the blades of a traditional hand-held fan. More
News: Bjarke Ingels has unveiled a vision to transform the harbour of Denmark's second largest city into a public plaza featuring a waterside theatre, swimming baths, beach huts and maritime allotments. More
News: this week marks the opening of the High Line at the Rail Yards, the third and final phase of New York's popular elevated park on a disused railway line (+ slideshow). More
A small town on the Danish island of Bornholm has become another destination for harbour swimming facilities, thanks to a series of new walkways and structures by Swedish firm White Arkitekter (+ slideshow). More