Architecture

Our busy, modern crowded cities are the perfect places for viruses to spread (Credit: Getty Images)
Health
How to pandemic-proof a city
By Harriet Constable
Dubai's Museum of the Future is slated to open in October 2020 (Credit: Dubai Future Foundation)
Architecture
The building designed by an algorithm
By Elizabeth Bains
Many modern offices are built for function rather than how they make the people who use them feel (Credit: Getty Images)
Architecture
Why some buildings sound wrong
By Lakshmi Sandhana
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Deep Civilisation
A simple rule for predicting the future
By Tom Chatfield
The Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, nestled inside a mountain, can only be rarely visited (Credit: Getty Images)
Deep Civilisation
How to build to last 10,000 years
By Alexander Rose
Locals wanted traditional-looking homes in Hueyapan, so Siembra Arquitectura designed rectangular suberadobe buildings (Credit: Mallika Vora)
Earthquake
What is ‘superadobe’?
By Megan Frye
Cemetery of San Cataldo in Modena (Credit: Alamy)
Architecture
The buildings made to house the dead
By Zaria Gorvett
Artist's impression of the proposed HSB tower (Credit:C.F. Møller / Dinell Johansson)
Architecture
The rise of wooden skyscrapers
By Zaria Gorvett
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Architecture
Will skyscrapers outlast the pyramids?
By Zaria Gorvett
(Credit: Bibliotèque National de France/ Public Domain)
Architecture
The ‘eighth wonder’ designed for Newton
By Adam Proctor and William Park
The Shimao Wonderland Intercontinental hotel, in Songjiang, Shanghai (Credit: Atkins)
Will We Ever?
The upside of living underground
By Kieran Nash
(Credit: Thinkstock)
BBC Campus
Can cities become too big?
By Molly Crain
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How to make a mile-high building
By Robert Cottrell
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Fighting fires in the skies
By Matt Novak
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Space Station
Inside spaceships of the future
By Richard Hollingham
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