Renzo Piano unveils replacement for collapsed motorway bridge in Genoa
Renzo Piano's Genoa San Giorgio Bridge, which is the replacement for the Morandi Bridge that collapsed in a storm almost two years ago, has opened in Italy. More
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Wuchazi Bridge creates "infinite meandering path" over river in Chengdu
Berlin-based architects Tom Wünschmann, Achim Kaufer, Wei Cai and Philipp Buschmeyer and Chinese design institutes SADI and JDTM have created a bridge that offers a variety of routes across a river in Chengdu, China. More
Grimshaw unveils design for HS2 ventilation shaft disguised as barn
A ventilation shaft for the UK's new HS2 high-speed railway has been designed by British architecture practice Grimshaw to resemble a barn clad in zinc and bronze. More
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Proteus is an underwater habitat with a greenhouse designed by Yves Behar
Swiss designer Yves Behar has unveiled his design for French ocean conservationist Fabien Cousteau's underwater pressurised research station that will be "the ocean's equivalent to the International Space Station". More
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MoDus Architects builds curving concrete tunnel entrances in South Tyrol
A road tunnelling through mountains in South Tyrol has been given undulating concrete portals and sculptural chimneys of weathering steel by MoDus Architects. More
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Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes designs gently curving timber bridge over train tracks in Angers
Architecture studio Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes has built a curving wood and steel bridge for pedestrians and cyclists over railway tracks in Angers, France. More
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CallisonRTKL unveils Guadalajara airport terminal informed by Mexico's canyons
US firm CallisonRTKL has designed a terminal building for the airport in Guadalajara topped with a perforated wooden ceiling to filter sunlight. More
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Flying-taxi startup Lilium reveals design for urban vertiports
German aerial-taxi company Lilium has unveiled its design guidelines for modular vertiports that could be placed on top of office blocks, car parks or shopping centres. More
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Goldsmith unveils design for urban floating chicken farm in Rotterdam
Architecture studio Goldsmith has revealed the design for its floating chicken and cress farm, which is set to be built alongside its existing waterborne dairy farm in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. More
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Curved pedestrian bridge links two riverfront parks in Providence
US architecture firm Inform Studio and Buro Happold have designed a curved and stepped wood-covered pedestrian bridge to link two parks in Providence, Rhode Island. More
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Cobe and Arup unveil elevated Metro station in Copenhagen docklands
Architecture studio Cobe and engineering firm Arup have designed the elevated Orienktaj and underground Nordhavn Metro stations as part of a docklands development in Copenhagen. More
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Microscape uses stone-filled cages to update Italian cemetery
Cemetery Castel San Gimignano has been renovated by Italian architecture studio Microscape using local limestone stacked in metal baskets. More
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Happel Cornelisse Verhoeven builds bright red fire station in Antwerp
Dutch studio Happel Cornelisse Verhoeven has used red glazed bricks to make a new Antwerp fire station stand out. More
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Rozana Montiel builds Mexican incinerators from corrugated-concrete
Mexican architect Rozana Montiel has developed a "new kind of folded concrete" that is being used to build prefabricated solid-waste furnaces across Mexico. More
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"Instagram-ready" Dubai Creek Footbridge to be built beside world's tallest structure
IJP Architects and structural engineer AKT II have unveiled visuals for a two-storey bridge that will be built beside Santiago Calatrava's Dubai Creek Tower in the UAE. More
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Paul Cocksedge to install CLT bridge over Cape Town river
British designer Paul Cocksedge has unveiled plans to build a cross-laminated timber bridge across the Liesbeek River in Cape Town. More
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Waste heat from London Underground begins warming capital's homes
The Bunhill 2 Energy Centre has started capturing excess heat from the London Underground to help warm over 1,000 buildings in the UK capital. More
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Common Accounts designs an eco-friendly funeral for the digital age
Design studio Common Accounts imagines the funeral of the future, where liquefied bodies are used to fertilise plants and flowers, and social media accounts generate a virtual afterlife. More
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Grimshaw's Heathrow airport expansion in jeopardy as third runway ruled illegal
Plans to expand UK's Heathrow airport by architecture firm Grimshaw are in disarray as a court has deemed a third runway illegal due to climate change implications. More
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Waterloo International Terminal was "made to fit the cleaning machine" says Nicholas Grimshaw
We continue our high-tech architecture series with this exclusive video interview in which British architect Nicholas Grimshaw describes the painstaking level of detail required of his landmark station project. More
