AD App Guide: Morpholio Trace

ArchDaily’s Architecture App Guide will introduce you to web and mobile apps that can help you as an architect: productivity, inspiration, drafting, and more. By Arch Daily

Zaha Hadid Races To Finish A Building

A group of Chinese developers are copy-and-pasting a replica of a Zaha Hadid shopping complex that hasn't even been completed yet. By Fast Company

Bjarke Ingels, Architect

Bjarke Ingels, Architect
Bjarke Ingels is a Danish architect who heads the Bjarke Ingels Group. He is committed to ‘pragmatic utopian architecture’ and views his work as a way to give back to society and re-imagine the future. His designs can be seen around the world from Asia to the Manhattan skyline.

How Twitter And Facebook Helped Bing Thom Design A Public Library

Where most architects would rely on town-hall meetings and focus groups to learn what the community wanted, Bing Thom had to rely on Facebook and Twitter to meet an exacting deadline. By Linda Tischler

The Tower of Droplets by Sir Peter Cook and Gavin Robotham

The project, a conceptual design for Taichung in Taiwan, features a tower with a series of steel cages attached that will be covered in algae to produce biofuel. By Dezeen

One fantastical technology campus

Those architecture masters over at UNStudio have their work cut out for them, and they’ve got the knives to do it. By Yanko Design

Can Architecture Help the Elderly Age Gracefully?

Matthias Hollwich thinks so, and he's set up a new program at the University of Pennsylvania to explore how. By Jenara Nerenberg

Award: Chicago Central Area Decarbonization Plan

By now, most architects realize that in order to mitigate global warming, we need not only build more efficient new buildings, but also retrofit the existing building stock so that it meets modern standards of efficiency. By Katie Gerfen

The Beauty of Fiber Optic Concrete, Yes, Fiber Optic Concrete

Architect Kengo Kuma experiments with a new type of concrete, with tantalizing possibilities and "Unknown Pleasures." By Cliff Kuang

Networking for architects, minus the idle chatter

For architects looking to network online in a serious way, the options have been limited. LinkedIn consigns designers to text-based profiles, making it difficult to convey a firm’s essence. By John Gendall

The creative space

At Lehrer Architects, time spent pursuing art and design for personal development is an essential aspect of office life. By Edward Keegan