Green architecture comes in many forms though lately it seems like these forms are stranger than ever.

Each of the five projects listed here took their toll financially and were paid for in part with human lives.

Here are five of these remarkable architectural designs for sustainable (and stylish) urban farm towers that may revolutionize agriculture as we know it.

Who hasn't imagined living on their very own floating paradise?

This collection spans the extremes of design and brute-force ingenuity: from the obscenely luxurious to the absurdly simple.

Gehry is best known for his curvy, metalic wave-form museums in Bilbao, Seattle, Los Angeles and Minneapolis, but it all started with strange impulses in the 70s.

As impressive as those were, however, some modern examples have begun to rival them in terms of complexity, ingenuity and (of course) sustainability.

Here are three examples of socially-motivated projects designed to make a difference.

Humans burrow into the Earth out of anything from necessity to superstition, driven by coincidence or coerced by circumstance.

The dust has finally settled in the Black Rock Desert, both literally and otherwise.

Would it surprise you to learn that a number of houses around the world, from New York to Amsterdam and Brazil to Britain have various claims to being the skinniest house in the world?

More and more designers are developing nomadic alternatives to traditional models of static urban living.

An MIT SENSEable City Laboratory project, Wiki City Rome seeks to create a "Real Time Rome" from various data sources.

Surprisingly, neither is the art of constructing tall buildings, as evidenced by the city of Shibam.

Check out these urban abandonments of the modern world.