There’s a giant 26-foot-tall Knife Angel sculpture in the UK, constructed entirely out of 100,000 knives that were donated. But besides the remarkable numbers, it’s also a monument constructed out of dire necessity to remember the victims fallen to the rising knife violence in the United Kingdom and also to finally admit that there’s really …

Famous architect Zaha Hadid’s most incredible buildings Bridge Pavilion, Zaragoza (2008) Constructed for the 2008 Expo, this 280-metre building crosses the Ebro river. Changsha Meixihu International Cultural Centre, China (TBC) The sinuous curves for which Hadid was renowned can be found at this arts centre on the banks of Meixi Lake in Changsha. Construction started …

Fantasy homes require architects with imagination and daring, qualities which French architect Cyril Lancelin clearly has in abundance. The young architect enjoys blowing up simple motifs such as spheres or arches to comically large proportions before unleashing them to overrun his pavilion-like houses. Practical? Perhaps not always; but fun? Most definitely. Sometimes architecture needs that. …