Art & DesignIncredibly Leaf-Like: 12 Bio-Inspired Plant-Based Designs
Sometimes, nature can influence design in the most unexpected ways. Would you ever think of looking to a calla…
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Art & DesignArt & Design14 Smart Silo Conversions from High-Rises to Hidden Homes
Once, they held grain, missiles or even sewage. But these 14 silos were transformed into incredibly creative…
Geography & TravelGiant German Airship Hangar Transformed into Tropical Resort
Berliners depressed by the city’s notoriously cold and gray winters need to travel mere minutes in order to…
Art & DesignOut on a Limb at the Morris Arboretum Tree Adventure
Nestle into a human-sized bird’s nest or stretch out on a suspended web 50 feet above the forest floor at the…
Art & DesignOceanic Biomimicry: 13 Designs Inspired by the Sea
How do you design the perfect turbine blade for use underwater, or build a fleet of vehicles that can pack tightly…
Art & DesignLe Monolithe: Collaborative Mixed-Use Eco Complex by MVRDV
Welcome to the future of the urban ‘superblock’: massive mixed-use projects designed sustainably with…
Art & DesignExplosive Architecture: 10 Volcano-Inspired Structures
They’re beautiful and sinister, jutting up out of the landscape with a deceptive peace when inactive, but hiding…
Art & DesignApt Adaptation: 10 Cool Converted Bookstores
Secondhand is one of the greenest ways to shop for books, so why shouldn’t bookstores themselves be secondhand,…
Art & DesignBilbao Building Features Faceted Glass Facade
Faceted like an irregular crystal, this building in Bilbao, Spain wasn’t simply born of some stroke of artistic…
Art & DesignECO-CLIFF: Vertical Zoo Competition Proposal
In Buenos Aires, from a tiny man-made island that once held a landfill, may rise an unprecedented ‘vertical…
Art & DesignMan-Made Mountains: 12 Terrain-Inspired Buildings
It juts out of the landscape and into the clouds, covered in grass, butterflies flitting about – but it’s no…
Art & DesignHobbit Houses: 15 Grassy Hill-Shaped Dwellings
“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 & DesignLiving Buildings: The World’s Most Sustainable Structures
What’s greener than the highest possible LEED-certified building? A ‘Living Building’. The new Living…
Art & Design20 Crazy, Creative & Amazing Green Roofs
Green roofs are now a common sight on residential, commercial and public architecture around the world, but who…
Art & Design11 Unbuilt Visions for Stalled Urban Architecture Projects
The economy has brought development to a grinding halt in cities around the world, leaving partially completed…
Art & DesignInflatable Icebergs Beautify Stalled Construction Sites
All over the world, they stand in silent memorial to the pre-2008 construction boom: giant gaping pits that were…
Art & DesignFrom Reservoir Ruins to Stunning Urban Park in Sydney
First, it was a failed urban reservoir, closed after just twenty years due to its weak flow of less-than-sparkling…
Art & DesignMobile Cities: 11 Visionary Habitats Roaming Future Earth
In the 21st century, humans are increasingly on the move, traveling across the globe and perhaps, sometime in the…
Art & DesignUnderwater Cities: 12 Sci-Fi Visions & Real Design Ideas
Whether it’s adventure or necessity that ultimately propels us to venture beyond our shores and build new…
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