You typically don't think of water towers as being a particularly interesting outlet for architectural design, but that's not always the case. Photographer Jamie Young has been documenting the water towers of Ireland, and they are awesome. Read More >>

At over 240,000 square feet Ski Dubai is currently the largest indoor skiing facility in the world. But a Danish architectural firm believes that record should belong to Denmark, and so has designed and proposed an indoor ski facility for the city of Randers that will safely snatch the title of world's biggest from Dubai. Read More >>

The Hotel CasAnus is a hotel shaped like an anus. It's real, it's in Belgium, and you can spend the night in it if you have some kind of scatological thing going on. Read More >>

We've all seen our fair share of crooked gingerbread houses, daubed with frosting to the point where they look less like a building and more like a bomb site. Johan von Konow has a solution to that problem, though: design the building using CAD and manufacture it using laser cutters. Read More >>

Normally you might consider a smokestack to be something of an eye-sore, but this "Sky Stack" Is very much the opposite. With parts of it seemingly missing, the whole thing turns into an awesome fixture. Read More >>

Had she access to this useful online calculator, the wicked witch in that Hansel and Gretel fairytale wouldn't have had to settle for just a tiny cottage in the woods. She could have built herself a sprawling McMansion with proper planning, complete with a dedicated bakery just for kids. Read More >>

Every building material has a theoretical limit which it can't be used beyond: at some point, the weight of material above is enough to crush what's below. Now, a team of engineers has worked out that limit for Lego — and it's surprisingly high. Read More >>

Steel beams are pretty uniformly strong, but they're all run of the mill, literally. If you start 3D-printing custom beams for the exact purpose they're intended to serve though, you've got a regular space-age material on your hands. It's lighter than steel and orders of magnitude stronger. Read More >>

Take the blood of a freshly slaughtered animal. Mix thoroughly with preservatives and sand, pour into square molds, and bake for one hour. Allow to cool — then build your home from the result. No, really. Read More >>

If nothing unfortunate happens, China will have the tallest skyscraper in the world in Changsha city, by the Xiangjiang river at the end of March of 2013. Its name is Sky City and it will be 2,749 feet high (838 metres) and have 220 floors. Read More >>

Not happy with building mysterious gigantic structures in the desert, the Chinese are now building inter-dimensional portals in the middle of their cities. I mean, come on, what the hell is this 157 metre high metal structure in the the city of Fushun, in northeast China's Liaoning province? Read More >>

Up until now, secret underground lairs have been the preserve of Batman, Blofeld, and Bond (in Skyfall). Ex-property-mogul John Hunt is setting out to change that, though, by leading the charge for a rush of new TOTALLY AWESOME Batcave-esque basements being built under the roads of London. Read More >>

I love this house, built in Rotterdam by Dutch architectural firm Shift. What a wonderful and perfectly executed idea: to build an entire four-story-high house around a gigantic bookshelf that goes across all floors. It really looks beautiful—and useful too. Read More >>

To tie in with Design Week, the last Shooting Challenge was all about Modern Architecture and many of you took the opportunity to photograph buildings around you. What was great about this challenge was that some of you chose to shoot using mobile phones -- with some great results. Read More >>

Remember the project for the thinnest house in the world, designed by Polish architect Jakub Szczesny? Well, it's finished. And it looks quite cool and livable inside. Read More >>