Welcome to the Building the Best website

Structures that we encounter daily can be purely functional or purely aesthetic, but most are a mixture of both. Each structure represents the culture from which it is born and sometimes even defines it.

This site looks at the cultures, styles and techniques that feed such developments around the globe – on land, on water and in the air.

World's Biggest Airliner

The Airbus 380 has raised the stakes and the technology in the battle for airspace dominance.

Building Britain

What does our architecture say about us?

Leonardo da Vinci

Find out if Leonardo's machines bear up to modern engineering scrutiny.

Supercities

What exactly makes a city and how have architects contributed?

Games

Put your new-found knowledge of structures to the test.