Highways and Beltways: 5 Major Projects That Have Accelerated Urban Growth

Beltways, interchanges and highways don’t just reduce traffic congestion and improve transportation: from Venice to London’s M25, from Florida to Santiago de Chile, and on to Jakarta in Indonesia, dis...

Inside the Apennines

Deep in Liguria’s Apennine Mountains, the Terzo Valico dei Giovi has reached 96% of excavation: the new high-speed rail line — home to the longest railway tunnel in Italy — will link the port of Genoa...

From Egypt to Paraguay: 5 Territories Transformed by Major Dams

From Egypt’s Aswan High Dam to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and Yacyretá in Paraguay, five major dams have reshaped entire territories: they created vast artificial reservoirs, generated renewa...

Where Travel Meets Architecture: From Naples to New York’s Grand Central Terminal

From Naples-Afragola to Singapore, from Perth to New York, stations and airports are no longer just places of transit but have become experiences to be enjoyed: this is when architecture transforms mo...

From Milan Metro to Madrid Río: Tunnels Making Traffic Disappear Beneath the City

From Copenhagen to Madrid, from Milan to Boston and Seattle, large-scale underground infrastructure diverts traffic underground, reduces congestion on streets and highways, and frees up space on the c...

From Brenner Base Tunnel to Tibet: Mountain Railways Where Scenery Meets Engineering

From the Brenner Base Tunnel to the Terzo Valico dei Giovi, from the Bernina Railway to the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, up to the Bergen Railway: discover 5 lines that cross the Alps, the Apennines and per...

The River’s Lung

A symbol of urban sustainability, the Big Pipe is the tunnel that protects the Willamette River in Portland from combined sewer overflow (CSO): it captures wastewater and stormwater and sends them to ...

From the Chicago River to Singapore’s Port: How Infrastructure Reshapes Cities

From Milan’s M4 metro to Copenhagen’s Cityringen, from Atlanta’s commercial district to the reversal of the Chicago River, all the way to the port of Singapore: discover the infrastructure projects th...

From Ankara to the Shinkansen: High-Speed Rail Lines Bridging Territories

Major railways crossing mountains, tunnels and viaducts: from the Ankara-Istanbul high-speed rail line in Turkey to the Lyon-Turin link with the Mont Cenis Base Tunnel, from Spain's Madrid-Galicia AVE...