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  • Hayley Eichenbaum captures the "punchy absurdity" of Route 66 roadside architecture

    Photographer Hayley Eichenbaum has created a series of images documenting the roadside architecture of America's Route 66 that takes its cues from the often uncanny appearance of film stills. More

    Jane Englefield | 22 November 2021 | Leave a comment
  • The Butterfly Effect is a bridge to help insects cross the road

    VenhoevenCS, DS Landschapsarchitecten and Studio Solarix have designed the Butterfly Effect, a proposal to stretch a treetop-level web over a Dutch motorway to provide insects with cleaner air above roads. More

    Jane Englefield | 8 July 2021 | Leave a comment
  • 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

    India Block | 21 July 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Recycled tyres form pavement that self-repairs when it rains

    Rain would repair rather than damage roads if they were made of the tyre-based pavement invented by Israel Antonio Briseño Carmona, a Mexican student and winner of the nation's James Dyson Award. More

    Rima Sabina Aouf | 5 November 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Carlo Ratti imagines how Boulevard Périphérique in Paris will look in 2050

    Paris' famous Périphérique ring road could have its car lanes slashed by half and replaced by a playground in the switch to driverless cars, says Carlo Ratti. More

    Rima Sabina Aouf | 14 June 2019 | Leave a comment
  • BIG unveils park-covered highway for Brooklyn's waterfront

    Architecture firm BIG has unveiled a proposal to overhaul a portion of New York City's Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, known as the BQE, with a public park that covers a subterranean roadway. More

    Bridget Cogley | 3 April 2019 | Leave a comment
  • EU will require all new cars to be fitted with speed-limiting technology by 2022

    A raft of safety technologies that could help reduce accidents on the roads, including speed-limiting systems, will become mandatory in all new European cars. More

    Augusta Pownall | 29 March 2019 | Leave a comment
  • London's first 3D zebra crossing encourages drivers to slow down

    The first 3D zebra crossing in the UK has been painted on a road in north-west London in an effort to improve road safety in the area.  More

    Gunseli Yalcinkaya | 24 March 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Scrapping plans for car-free Oxford Street is a "betrayal of Londoners" says city mayor

    London mayor Sadiq Khan has denounced Westminster Council for blocking a proposal to pedestrianise Oxford Street. More

    India Block | 12 June 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Plans unveiled to pedestrianise London's Oxford Street in 2018

    The western section of London's main shopping street is to be transformed into a pedestrian zone filled with public art, it was announced today. More

    India Block | 6 November 2017 | 18 comments
  • Loop NYC driverless-car proposal offers Manhattanites more time and green space

    New York studio Edg has proposed converting some of Manhattan's major roads into public-transit highways for driverless vehicles, in order to reduce travel times and turn the island's central thoroughfares into landscaped parks. More

    Dan Howarth | 19 July 2017 | 9 comments
  • Amazon patents highway network to stop self-driving cars crashing

    Amazon has been awarded a patent for a technology that would enable driverless cars and trucks to navigate reversible lanes. More

    Alice Morby | 18 January 2017 | 1 comment
  • Camille Walala creates multicoloured pedestrian crossing for London street

    London Design Festival 2016: artist Camille Walala has applied her signature graphic style to a pedestrian crossing in south London (+ slideshow). More

    Alice Morby | 23 September 2016 | 2 comments
  • Smart Highway by Studio Roosegaarde

    Design Indaba 2013: glow-in-the-dark roads and responsive street lamps were among the concepts to make highways safer while saving money and energy presented by Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde at the Design Indaba conference in Cape Town earlier this month. More

    Emilie Chalcraft | 21 March 2013 | 5 comments
  • The Zebra Crossing Project by Eduard Čehovin

    This pedestrian crossing in Serbia jumbles up the usual arrangement of black and white stripes. More

    Emilie Chalcraft | 21 June 2012 | 10 comments
  • Stockholmsporten masterplan by BIG

    Danish architects Bjarke Ingels Group have won a competition to masterplan a new gateway to Stockholm at the intersection of two motorways.  More

    Rose Etherington | 22 March 2011 | 17 comments
  • Pearl River Necklace by NL Architects

    NL Architects have designed a conceptual bridge for the Hong Kong border, featuring roads that would loop over each other to allow for the fact that traffic must drive on the left in Hong Kong but on the right in China. More

    Rose Etherington | 8 June 2010 | 24 comments

Berlin set to build car-free housing and technology district on former Tegel Airport

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OEO Studio uses materials in a "playful way" for Designmuseum Denmark cafe and shop

Tables, design chairs and stone floors at Designmuseum cafe

Tom Kundig designs Truckee home with metal "treehouse" for Faulkner Architects founder

Concrete and steel buildings through the trees

Studio Other Spaces creates colourful conical glass pavilion for Californian winery

Image of the interior of the glass pavilion
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