杂志
Girth of the walls at Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire, England, an exceptional manor built in the late 15th century—in what we now know as the Little Ice Age, when soldiers froze to death in the middle of the European summer—
Number of people who currently live in the metropolitan areas of Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital; Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh; and Tokyo: 112...
Share of the coastline of Jamaica that is accessible to the island's residents, as the state sold most of the 1,022-kilometer (635-mile)...
Years since the world’s longest running construction project, the Sagrada Família by Antoni Gaudí—now nearing completion, “in a sense,” in Barcelona—broke ground:...
Approximate area of the Guggenheim Museum Abu Dhabi, designed by the late Canadian-American architect Frank O. Gehry, announced in 2006 but not expected to be completed until 2026 after a series of delays, and consisting of
Minimum number of AI-powered design variants that were analyzed and evaluated against competing objectives by the architects at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) in their design of the West Bund Convention Center in Shanghai, a building
Number of Chinese companies among the ten largest construction firms worldwide: 6
Size of the Fractal Chapel, or Lukaskapelle, located in a state hospital in the Austrian city of Graz, designed by INNOCAD, and
Minimum factor by which prices of a property in one of more than forty Melbourne suburbs have surged in the last thirty years: 10
Number of years it took to construct and open the entire complex of the Grand Egyptian Museum close to Giza, spanning 500,000 square meters (5.4m sf), costing some $1.2bn (€1.1bn), and...
Number of American architects and designers tasked with advising on designs for major projects, such as the White House ballroom and the monumental “Arc de Trump,”
Price for an elevator ride to the 44th story of the Humble-Exxon Building in Houston—once the tallest building in Texas and considered elegant enough to be described as “Cary Grant as a skyscraper”—
Number of people who died, including the architect, in the collapse of a six-story building in Madrid that was erected in...
Estimated number of flats that have been demolished in Paris over the last 20 years: 200,000
Increase in per-square-meter price of a flat in the heart of Dubai, in US dollar terms over the past five years: 122%
Estimated number of new hotel rooms in India—"the hottest new travel destination for hotel brands"—expected to be ready by the end of...
Number of windows from homes destroyed in an earthquake in Nepal that the German collective Supertecture used to build an extension to a...
Dutch architect Stefan De Bever, who expanded Eindhoven Airport in 2013, cannot prevent its expansion by invoking moral rights, as the costs of a total...
Price range for studio and one-bedroom apartments with beach access to the Red Sea in Hurghada, Egypt: $15,000 to $45,000...
Estimated annual costs for fuel, crew salaries, maintenance and upkeep for Koru—the world’s largest sailing yacht, at 417 feet (127m)—owned by Amazon...
Number of nights fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019) stayed in his 600-m2 (6,450-sf) “Villa Louveciennes”...
Number of flats in China that stood dormant at the end of last year, even as the problem faced in the “tier-one” cities of Beijing, Shanghai,...
Minimum number of flats built in Lagos every year that are worth $1 million (€900,000) or more: 600
Asking price of a three-bedroom Boston-area International Style home designed by Bauhaus pioneers Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer: $1,050,000 (€922,000)
Estimated cost savings for a house in Belgium when assembled with prefabricated insulated LEGO-like wooden blocks produced by Belgian startup Gablok: 30%
Estimated area of Walmart's total retail space worldwide, encompassing all 10,784 stores and Sam's Clubs: 40 square miles (103.6 km2)
Number of high-rise buildings in Bangkok that collapsed during the March 28 earthquake, killing 89 of the 109 workers who were on site...
Number of apartment buildings Estonia has set the goal to renovate by 2050, and which their national pavilion at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale addresses: 14,000
Estimated number of saunas in Finland, the ancestral home of the sauna, for a population of 5.5 million: 3.5 million
Price to convert office buildings into flats—rearranging floor plans, plumbing, ventilation, and more: $250 to...
Time an inhabitant of a “coffin apartment,” or “coffin cubicle,” of 2 square meters (21.5 sf) in Hong Kong, paying €260 ($270) per month,
Estimated number of abandoned towns and villages in Spain, including those with just one inhabitant: 5,000
Number of English-language poems in the archive of the Poetry Foundation in Chicago containing the word “architect” or “architecture”: 146
Factor by which the number of unoccupied bedrooms in the United States has increased since 1970, reaching 31.9 million extra/guest bedrooms: 8