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Photography: Courtesy F.S.N.D Architects Reinstating the role of design as an influential tool - in the look, feel and mood of a space, F.S.N.D. Architects brandish it to carve a stylish home with a view...

Fort McMurray Airport (YMM), located 13km south-east of Fort McMurray, Alberta, is owned and operated by Fort McMurray Airport Authority

Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU) in Wake County, North Carolina, US, has had its modernised Terminal 1 opened, marking the end of several development projects at the facility over a 20-year period.

Three of the ten biggest power stations in China are hydro-based, including the gigantic Three Gorges Dam, while the other seven are coal-fired. Power-technology.com profiles the ten biggest Chinese power stations based on installed capacity. The Three Gorges power station located in Yichang in Hubei province is by far the world's biggest power generation facility.

Izmir Adnan Menderes International Airport is the fourth busiest airport in the country, serves Izmir, an important seaside metropolis of Turkey.

The global economic downturn has slowed growth at major airports in the US and Europe, paving the way for more Asian and Middle Eastern airports to break into the top ten for passenger traffic levels. Based on passenger traffic stats for the first five months of 2012, airport-technology.com presents the ten busiest airports in the world.

The smooth, staggered launch of Heathrow's new Terminal 2 applied lessons learned from the debacle of the T5 opening. The Queen's Terminal was opened with little fanfare and a gentle ramping up of operations, a strategy that lacks PR dazzle but has proven essential to an airport under pressure to get it right.

Oslo Airport's Terminal 2, also known as Central Building 2, in Norway, will increase the passenger handling capacity of the airport to 28 million travellers a year. The project was conceptualised in 2007, construction works are 50% completed as of mid-2014 and the new terminal is scheduled to open in April 2017.

Exceptional transparency and a unique, uninterrupted magnificent view characterises the Gurten Pavillion in Wabern, Switzerland. Check it out and leave us your views...

Latest technologies in plan create it possible to go for 2D and 3D imaging to supply a effective idea of any building and construction project even before the actual work starts. This system packs numerous profits for both the customer & the builder.

Interior design is a constant reinvention of materiality and composition. Check out this beautiful home and leave us your views…

It's easy to forget that urban design is not a new concept. Ancient examples of carefully-planned and designed cities exist in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas, and are particularly well-known within classical Chinese, Roman and Greek cultures. The pioneer of urban planning, Hippodamus of Miletus, planned ancient cities of Rhodes, Miletus and the harbour-town Piraeus at Athens as early as the fifth century BC.  In England, many ninth century towns were designed on a grid plan, and by the twelfth century, urbanisation was seen as a means of stimulating economic growth and generating revenue throughout Western Europe. One of the earliest international contributions made by Australia to urban planning theory and practice sprang from the international competition held between 1911 and 1912 to design Australia's new federal capital, Canberra.

Form follows function at the new Zaanstad-Zuid sports centre by UArchitects. Read here and leave us your views…

Is it becoming more and more difficult for us to remain rooted to basics, as we're progressing, as a society? Is cutting down on frills, a near impossibility? Share your views with us.

Working with a wide material palette is an art in itself. Check out this lavish home in Delhi and leave us your views…

Check out this traditionally nuanced contemporary home that makes a very distinctive creative statement of a simple but evolved lifestyle. Do leave us your views...

When an architect plays with volumes, it shows his passion for the innovative in the built form. Check out this beautiful juxtaposition of perpendicularity and leave us your views…

What solutions can architecture offer to those segments of the global population that currently has no access to a well-designed environment? Check out the ongoing exhibition at Bengaluru that tugs at some crucial issues and leave us your views…