This July, the American Institute of Architects forecasted steep declines in nonresidential construction spending through 2010. Spending is projected to decrease by 16 percent this year and another 12 ...

The world is full of exotic buildings, and a good many of them are right here in the good ol' U.S. Florida, Nevada, Tennessee, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Texas, Colorado, California, Alaska, North ...

BOSTON (WHDH) - A strange odor prompted the evacuation of three buildings in Boston’s Beacon Hill section on Tuesday morning, officials said. Firefighters conducting a hazmat response in the area of ...

China doesn't exactly do anything half way. Whether it’s building gigantic golden Chairman Mao sculptures or creating huge traffic jams, the world’s most populous country likes to do it up big. And ...

Communist architecture is often monumental, sometimes minimalist, and always imposing. But in the latter years of most European communist states, traditional Brutalist architecture gave way to ...

Unnaturally tall, mysterious, obelisk-like buildings are inherently freaky. Especially when they’re in video games. Think of the Oldest House in Control, that mystery box of anomalies contained within ...

Recent reform in China has doubled down on strict construction and architecture rules as first demanded by leader Xi Jinping. Though Jinping's initial complaints about the "weird" buildings began ...

Abstract architects, beware: President Xi Jinping isn’t a fan of your strange-looking buildings. During a two-hour speech at a literary symposium in Beijing earlier this week – a rare attendance for a ...

How It's Strange: Buildings are not usually this gaudy. "It's fantastical," says Toby Israel, a design psychologist and author of Some Place Like Home. Hundertwasser, known for his colorful, irregular ...