Nate Berg

Recycled plastic from the automotive industry could become a new kind of building material that lowers architecture's carbon footprint.

Is the renovation of the Transamerica Pyramid a bet on risky real estate, or the much-needed rebirth of an icon?

The Las Vegas Aces training facility was designed to help the WNBA team's performance and forge post-playing careers.

From cramped cells to homes with Statue of Liberty views, a prison housing conversion is giving new life to a historic building.

Geriatric products, like pill containers and shower grab bars, are given a luxury redesign by this architect-founded company.

Cities are getting hotter. Designers and scientists are showing that wind design for buildings and neighborhoods can help.

An unexpected and utilitarian design move makes the humble headlight the star of the Lamborghini Temerario's design.

The new PDX terminal in Portland has an eye-popping roof and other unique elements that set a high bar for airport design.

The Intuit Dome's design uses passive temperature control. It's the unexpected highlight of the NBA's newest stadium.

Skyscraper landscapes are helping the world's tallest buildings become part of the city and not just the skyline.

Like a 3D printer with yarn, the prototype solid knitting machine is a new approach to reconfigurable manufacturing.

In the new SpringHill Co. office, focus and static became architectural metaphors for the way the company creates.

The new Oracle Jet provides just enough automation and guidance to put a high-quality cold brew within reach for even casual coffee drinkers.

The Ford Maverick Lobo's design owes its interior look to the shoes of NBA basketball stars like Kobe Bryant.

With an always-on microphone and a deep memory, Avi Schiffmann's wearable device Friend is a new kind of AI companion.

Urban waterways like rivers and canals have gone from essential travel and trading corridors to urban afterthoughts. They’re used by freighters or limited ferry services, but are otherwise mostly forgotten and largely untouched by the millions who live on their shores. A new autonomous urban boat design concept suggests a future where these urban rivers—from the Thames in London to the East River in New York to the canals of Amsterdam—can be reintegrated into the way people live in and move a…

The warehouses of the world are surprisingly empty spaces. These essential nodes of the intricate global goods movement system are packed with stuff, but they also include a significant amount of empty floor space between their racks. It’s there to accommodate the workhorse of the warehouse—the forklift—which needs room to maneuver as it lifts and carries pallets topped with hundreds or thousands of pounds worth of goods. The forklift gets a dumb and dangerous job done, but requires a lot of roo…

After the New York state’s parks department tapped design firm nArchitects to renovate a nature center on a Long Island beach, the architects learned that the Long Island Power Authority was planning to build its own educational facility right next door. “We said, hey, why not join forces and make one building?” says Eric Bunge, cofounder of nArchitects. The result is the new Jones Beach Energy & Nature Center, a long and low sawtooth-shaped building that runs parallel with the shoreline. The…

See all the honorees of Fast Company’s 2024 Innovation by Design Awards in the spaces and places category.

It only takes a few steps inside the doors of Newlab at Michigan Central to understand that this is not a typical office building. Huge concrete columns tower over an elegant reception desk, showing that this is indeed a very old industrial building, while a sleek new café a few steps away gives the space a modern, casual feel. Beyond the café, a big window looks in on a lab where a robotic arm stands like a futuristic giant. [Photo: Newlab] As a self-described innovation hub for entrepren…