The Netherlands is the European Union’s largest exporter of pig meat. But how can this pork production line be streamlined and modernized? MVRDV, a firm known for their emphasis on intensive research and presentation, created Pig City as a means of demonstrating the high rise’s potential as a tool for solving problems of density, simultaneously [...]

Bill Dunster Architects Zedfactory Limited has been successfully demonstrated that the environmentally friendly skyscraper is no longer an oxymoron. Office towers by Ken Yeang and Norman Foster, among others, have shown that building tall can be energy efficient. However, there are currently few, if any, residential equivalents. Bill Dunster, architect of the low-energy BedZed development [...]

De Kamp, Amsterdam-Buitenveldert Apartments by Tangram Architekten
Penthouses are not the most democratic of urban spaces, yet their lofty perch enables them to conjure up light-filled, airy interiors that belie their central location and the high density of the surrounding housing. Amsterdam-based firm Tangram Architekten has taken two of the penthouse’s most enviable characteristics ? the [...]

The Skyhouse is a residential concept from Marks Barfield Architects, best known as the creators of the London Eye. There is continual pressure from the central government for new housing initiatives, but little official encouragement for new high-density schemes, and Skyhouse was developed as a means of demonstrating that living in towers needs not [...]