Infrastructure
Loop NYC driverless-car proposal offers Manhattanites more time and green space
Burkina Faso’s new parliament building “responds to needs of the people” says Diébédo Francis Kéré
STGM wraps rural Quebec fire station in black aluminium
Trump touts solar-panelled Mexico border wall as cost-saving solution
Santiago Calatrava’s World Trade Center Oculus continues to leak
Zaha Hadid Architects completes first phase of high-speed rail station in Naples
Metal cube by SOM houses emergency call centre for New York City
Archi-Union’s Qiandao cable car station features stacked forms that lean out towards a lake
London mayor pulls plug on Garden Bridge
Nordic doubles the size of Oslo Airport with curved extension
Ennead Lab proposes electric car charging tower as “the future of roadside architecture”
“Architects may, heaven save their mortal souls, have to work on Trump’s wall”
Fortunen completes toilet block with views of a Norwegian waterfall
Qingdao Cruise Terminal’s angular facade references boats’ sails
Gardens separate rooms wrapped in brick, stone and wood at Mexican courthouse
Sewage plant by Padilla Nicás Arquitectos features asymmetric pitched roofs
China proposes modern-day Silk Road with transcontinental infrastructure project
MVRDV transforms 1970s highway into “plant village” in Seoul
Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital combines concrete and brick with colourful details and big windows
Elon Musk’s Boring Company plans to beat traffic with underground “car skates”
Sasaki designs hydroponic vertical farm for Shanghai
Latticed bamboo bridge by Mimesis Architecture Studio references Jiangsu’s craft traditions
Architects and contractors defend ethical decision to bid for Trump wall