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Art & DesignSometimes, nature can influence design in the most unexpected ways. Would you ever think of looking to a calla…
Art & DesignOnce, they held grain, missiles or even sewage. But these 14 silos were transformed into incredibly creative…
Geography & TravelBerliners depressed by the city’s notoriously cold and gray winters need to travel mere minutes in order to…
Art & DesignNestle into a human-sized bird’s nest or stretch out on a suspended web 50 feet above the forest floor at the…
Art & DesignHow do you design the perfect turbine blade for use underwater, or build a fleet of vehicles that can pack tightly…
Art & DesignWelcome to the future of the urban ‘superblock’: massive mixed-use projects designed sustainably with…
Art & DesignThey’re beautiful and sinister, jutting up out of the landscape with a deceptive peace when inactive, but hiding…
Art & DesignSecondhand is one of the greenest ways to shop for books, so why shouldn’t bookstores themselves be secondhand,…
Art & DesignFaceted like an irregular crystal, this building in Bilbao, Spain wasn’t simply born of some stroke of artistic…
Art & DesignIn Buenos Aires, from a tiny man-made island that once held a landfill, may rise an unprecedented ‘vertical…
Art & DesignIt juts out of the landscape and into the clouds, covered in grass, butterflies flitting about – but it’s no…
Art & Design“In a hole in a ground lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy…
Art & DesignWhat’s greener than the highest possible LEED-certified building? A ‘Living Building’. The new Living…
Art & DesignGreen roofs are now a common sight on residential, commercial and public architecture around the world, but who…
Art & DesignThe economy has brought development to a grinding halt in cities around the world, leaving partially completed…
Art & DesignAll over the world, they stand in silent memorial to the pre-2008 construction boom: giant gaping pits that were…
Art & DesignFirst, it was a failed urban reservoir, closed after just twenty years due to its weak flow of less-than-sparkling…
Art & DesignIn the 21st century, humans are increasingly on the move, traveling across the globe and perhaps, sometime in the…
Art & DesignWhether it’s adventure or necessity that ultimately propels us to venture beyond our shores and build new…
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