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Floating ArchitectureLatest Stories

a floating restaurant in hong kong
A Solstice Assemblage

Daily digest: A floating Hong Kong landmark capsizes, the latest Skyspace debuts in Colorado, and more

One Park Jax, a new park in jacksonville
Name In Steel

Daily digest: New York’s most active architects, Perkins&Will’s new Jacksonville park, and more

The new york city skyline at night
It's Electrifying

Daily digest: Electrifying New York’s new buildings, Renzo Piano’s new Moscow art center, and more

rendering of a floating city with floating housing modules form oceanix
Boat to Busan

Is OCEANIX’s prototype floating city coming to Busan?

a small, white-painted bungalow with picket fence redesigned by best practice
Quaint Up Front, Party in the Back

Best Practice transforms a landbound Seattle houseboat into a slyly spacious family home

Aerial rendering of the FloatLab in Philadelphia
Bob Away

Höweler + Yoon’s FloatLab will offer a new perspective of Philadelphia’s Schuylkill River

a barge-restaurant with a patinated roof as seen beneath a bridge
All a(cheese)board!

A restaurant barge devoted to cheese is now moored on a London canal

Photo of Point Counterpoint II
The Fat Lady Hasn't Sung Yet

Louis Kahn’s Point Counterpoint II finds a permanent home in Philadelphia

a floating church-boat with pop-up roof in london, genesis
Walking On Water

The accordion-like Genesis floating church drops anchor in East London

Artist Scott Bluedorn and his floating dwelling bonac blind
Hamptons Hideaway

Scott Bluedorn’s buoyant Bonac Blind comments on housing woes and a vanishing local culture in the Hamptons

A floating apple store dome in front of the singapore skyline
Oh Sphere

Apple unveils a spherical offshore retail outpost in Singapore

an arrangement of sharks!
Don't Go In The Water

2020 Antepavilion sharks stranded by local London council

Rendering of Copenhagen islands in harbor with people on them
Parchipelago

Public park archipelago will be set within Copenhagen’s postindustrial harbor

Rendering of three-story timber building accessible by bridge with green roof and solar panels
Working on Water

Rotterdam’s harbor will host a floating timber office building

A white hull-like structure mounted in a blue display area on a parking lot painted with pink shapes.
Ocean Motion

Architects rethink material and form with a new floating lab

Rendering of an island chain
Will We All Float on Alright?

OCEANIX and BIG unveil a floating city of the future at the United Nations

Photo of Point Counterpoint II
Do the Okeechobee

Louis Kahn’s floating concert hall finds a permanent home in Palm Beach County

Walking on water

Christo’s floating yellow walkway on Italy’s Lake Iseo under construction

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