Facial recognition and intelligent vacuum cleaners: Welcome to the automated airport
Robots are taking their first steps to welcoming passengers, handling baggage, driving shuttles and carrying out airfield inspections
Defensive realms: protecting cities from terrorism
How can we secure our cities from the threat of terrorism without destroying what makes them liveable?
Biological and chemical attacks: should we lock the doors?
The risk of such attacks has increased, but there is no agreed strategy for how to respond
In praise of human error: why breaking the rules can be safer
Following security protocols to the letter can increase risk
Connected cities: Is smarter safer?
Intelligent systems make cities vulnerable to new threats
The Possible issue 03: human after all
This issue looks at nurturing human creativity in an increasingly automated world
Adapt or mitigate: the dilemma for cities
Do the two climate-change disciplines need to talk to each other more?
Could a computer design a building by itself?
AI is already supporting architects and engineers — but how far could it go?
Humans Rebooted: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence
The rise of the robots will make millions of jobs obsolete in the very near future. What are we going to do?
Power Politics: A global game on an urban stage
Cities are the new battleground of the global economy and infrastructure will be their secret weapon, writes Tom Cargill
Endangered Buildings Preserved in Virtual Reality
3D archive brings threatened heritage to a wider audience
The City Now Arriving at Platform One…
A railway interchange south of Stockholm is getting a new lease of life
Reals within reals: digital modelling technologies
The latest digital modelling technologies allow us to step inside building designs and conceive of places we never thought possible
Cyber blindness: a security alert
The smarter our lives, homes and cities become, the greater the risk that they could be taken over by hackers and used against us, says Peter Richards
Interview: Johan Edstav on Sweden’s New Cities
Johan Edstav is a Green politician in one of the world’s most sustainable countries. So why does he want to build a city on this field?
Gender equality: The Trouble with Brilliance
Architecture and engineering are both fixated on the idea of genius. Could this be the source of their gender imbalance, asks Andrei Cimpian
The Smartest Place I Know: Coor Service Management’s HQ
Architect and workplace strategist Kay Sargent on a smart office that skilfully balances the high-tech and the human
Blank Canvas: How to derive the greatest value from transport hubs?
Transport hubs play a key role in their communities as places to gather or pass through. How can we get the most out of them?
Alone Together in the 21st-Century City
More than ever we are leading solitary lives, isolated by changing social structures, digital networks and denser cities, writes David Symons
Five Thoughts on the All-Electric City
It could happen sooner than you think, says Barny Evans
The Dark Green City: AI’s Unintended Consequences
Smart urban technology has the potential to transform our cities — but not always for the better, warns Mark Bessoudo
Welcome to Virtual Chicago
WSP’s 3D model incorporates infrastructure and covers 450 square miles
Feelgood factor: how to define happiness?
Wellness is not a universal concept, it comes down to local factors and individual preferences
The pursuit of wellness: designing healthy buildings
It is a US$43bn market and growing. But is the focus of building developers and designers on wellness entirely healthy?
Interview: Bill Browning on health and wellbeing
The Terrapin Bright Green founder explains why natural light and views are so important to the health and productivity of building occupants
The rise of the co-working space
By 2030, co-working spaces could account for 30% of corporate office portfolios. If you can’t beat them, join them …
Interview: Aaron Taylor Harvey on Creative Offices
Aaron Taylor Harvey, creative director of Airbnb Environments, explains how the company’s app inspired its immersive office
The Future of the Workplace: Designing the Experience
Is this the end of the office, or the start of its finest hour?
The intelligent office: smart design in the era of Big Data
Goodbye “class A” office space, hello “class T”
Five Thoughts on the Future of Hospitals
BDP’s Neil Cadenhead considers comfort, mythology and hospital design in a post-antibiotic world
After The Dinosaurs: how to recruit digital natives
We need to start looking at the world from the next generation’s perspective, writes Steve Burrows — they’re the ones who will be solving the problems we’ve created
Blank Canvas: Can We Make A Totally Recyclable Building?
In a circular economy, how could we design a completely recyclable building?