5 Popular Architecture and Design Sites/Magazines

1. Dezeen (short for design magazine)

2. Architectural Digest

3. Contemporist

4. A Daily Dose Of Architecture

5. Inhabitat

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Picture of the Week

The Basket Building (Ohio, United States)

The Basket Building is an interesting piece of architecture featuring heated handles that warm up during cold weather to prevent ice from forming. Providing space for 500 employees, the unofficial world's largest basket is organized around a 30,000 square foot atrium that floods the interior with natural light. This and 84 windows ensure that the least possible electricity has to be used during the day. Almost all the wood used for this construction was harvested in Hanover and then dried, milled, sawed and shaped in one mill.
See more at:
http://www.architravel.com/architravel/building/the-basket-building/

Greenland Group Suzhou Centre in Wuijang, China

At approximately 350 meters, Greenland Group Suzhou Center marks the Wujiang waterfront with an aerodynamic form that has a unique presence, with economy and efficiency of lines and space. The design incorporates passive ventilation techniques through a unique interior “lung,” creating an incredible “breathing” tower. With a total building area of more than 300,000 square meters and 78 stories, Greenland Group Suzhou Center will be the defining visual landmark for the new Wujiang lakefront development and, by extension, for the city as a whole, when it will be completed in 2017. Located along Lake Taihu in the Jiangsu province of China, the building will host a hotel, offices and residential abodes; the public areas and lobbies will be ventilated by the 30-story tall opening which is  quite amazing, allowing 60 percent savings in energy consumption as compared to a conventional American high-rise building. Talk about beauty and efficiency...

This beauty is designed by the American architecture firm SOM (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill).

See more at: http://www.som.com/projects/greenland_group_suzhou_center#sthash.9yMnIKcV.dpuf

Burj Khalifa, Dubai

The Burj Khalifa is the world's tallest building with a height of 2,717 ft. (828 meters). The Burj Khalifa skyscraper is a world-class destination and the magnificent centerpiece of Downtown Dubai, a true urban masterpiece. The world's tallest building is surrounded by hotels, stores and a world of entertainment. The construction of Burj Khalifa began on the 21th of September in 2004 and ended on January 4th, 2010, and it carries the signature of SOM  (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill), the famous Chicago-based architecture firm.

More about the Burj Khalifa at:

http://www.som.com/projects/burj_khalifa

http://www.burjkhalifa.ae/en/