The world's longest and highest glass-bottom bridge opens in China this year.

A calmness seems to come across people. There's a different quality about the light, the air, the acoustics that's hard to define.

Airport hotels can often be bland and dreary refurbished beehives with the one distinct advantage of proximity.

Kiwi architects' designs compete among world's best in Singapore.

A new art gallery out west and a Ponsonby block of shops were some of the Auckland buildings judged last night as being New Zealand's best.

The council is planning to redesign Freyberg Place. This is one of our most urban public places but the vision we've seen in the Herald is for a bush walk.

If Auckland has an architectural boy wonder, it's Nat Cheshire, who is the delineator behind two rural cabins that won the 2014 Home of the Year.

Auckland projects including a Titirangi art gallery and a Manukau campus building have been short-listed for architecture awards.

A pre-fabricated housing business, which built four new multimillion dollar Auckland houses aims to build new places within only four weeks.

A pocket of professional services that's in a state of change in Australia is the architectural practice, writes Bella Katz.

SkyCity's offer to build a convention centre of international scale in Auckland for no public outlay got off to a bad start when the price turned out to be more pokie machines at its casino.

Mercedes-Benz has teamed with Lufthansa to develop airline interiors for short and medium haul private aircraft.

A strong earthquake centred in Marlborough was felt as far away as Wellington this evening. GeoNet said the magnitude 4.6 quake happened 16km underground.

Some of the biggest buildings of the new-look Christchurch are being put together virtual piece by virtual piece, thanks to remarkable 3D technology.

As Wellington Airport's $58 million airport terminal extension rises out of the ground, more than 15,000 passengers continue to fly in and out each day.

Lovers of innovative architecture will get the chance to step inside some of Auckland's most stylish homes in two upcoming house tours.

Architect Frank Gehry says he'll never again design a building quite like the "crumpled paper bag" which officially opened at Sydney's University of Technology yesterday.

The historic former headquarters of lingerie company Berlei, standing in the way of the $500 million-plus SkyCity International Convention Centre, will be gutted and only its facade will remain.

Vo Van Duong's bamboo and coconut leaf house looks much like others deep in Vietnam's Mekong Delta.

A public memorial service for prominent architect Sir Ian Athfield will be held in central Wellington next month.

New Zealand's architecture community yesterday mourned a giant of a man.

Property owners say they can't be held responsible for a death-defying fad like the one where three youths took selfies off the roof of an Auckland building.

Nick Ferrier's residence was a good candidate to feature on My House, My Castle - not least because of this castle's three turrets.

Perhaps the balmy spring weather is lulling me into a false sense of optimism, but I am getting the feeling that the old Auckland City administration "skyscraper" might survive the wrecker's ball after all.