The New York Public Library’s Massive Online Data Dump

The New York Public Library has just released more than 180,000 photographs, postcards, maps and other items from its collection to the digital world. The information dump—spearheaded by the library’s in-house technology division, NYPL Labs—is an effort to see how the public can re-envision ways to use its trove of information. “We don’t just want to put stuff online and say, ‘Here it is,’ but …

Highlights from China’s Massive Snow and Ice Festival

Each year, the northern city of Harbin, China hosts the International Snow Sculpture Art Expo—a spectacular exhibition showcasing the wonders of ice and snow as a building material. Officially opened on 5 January, this year’s event features the works of artists around the world and the crystalline castles, monstrous stark-white sculptures and frozen corridors they’ve spent weeks building. Head to the Atlantic to see some …

Architecture to Look Forward to in 2016

2016 is shaping up to be a promising year in architecture. Ambitious projects across the world are set to see completion in the new year, and Dezeen has rounded-up their top 12 to keep an eye on. Bjarke Ingels and his design firm BIG will kick things off with the opening of West 57th, a triangular residential tower in New York, followed up by other …