Urban Human Habitats: 13 Compact Concepts for Growing Cities
How will various cities around the world adapt to rapid population growth while maintaining quality of life and responding to their unique environments and cultural context? In some ...
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Sustainable Food in the City: 10 Smart Urban Farm Designs
The world's largest indoor farm has already proven just how amazingly successful food production can be outside of standard agricultural setups, and these 10 urban farm designs and concepts take ...
Recycled Skylines: 8 Green Urban Tower Typologies for 2050
Exploring eco-friendly strategies for cities, this series of conceptual 'Smart Tower' skyscrapers and mid-rise structures incorporates design elements to reduce pollution, create renewable energy ...
Urban Subversion: 13 Radical Examples of Guerrilla Housing
Vacant lots, billboards, rooftops and even dumpsters are hacked into inhabitable spaces in these examples of often-illegal guerrilla housing. All manner of urban surfaces can be subverted into ...
The Future Takes Flight: 13 Forward-Thinking Airport Ideas
With their inefficient terminals and bloated footprints, today's airports are typically ill-equipped to adapt to sharp increases in demand, scarce land availability or new flight technologies. ...
Walkability & Hyperdensity: 14 Concepts for Future Cities
The city of the future addresses problems like overpopulation, pollution and sprawl by building high-density vertical neighborhoods that are interconnected at all levels so residents can move ...
Parasitic Architecture: 15 Precariously Perched Structures
These parasitic buildings commandeer wasted urban space, often siphoning utilities from their host buildings. Some are additions that make no attempt to blend into the original structures, some ...
Powerhouse Ideas: 10 Futuristic Clean Power Concepts
Producing power used to be so simple when it seemed like fossil fuel would last forever. But since we've wised up and realized that finding and developing viable alternatives is a rather urgent ...
Amazing Architecture: 15 (More!) World’s Weirdest Buildings
Reflecting their creators’ desire to step far, far away from the sheepish architectural clones that our culture has grown to accept as “normal”, these outstanding structures are among the ...
Unbuilt Buildings: 12 Awesome Future Architectural Designs
Bold, bio-inspired, vertical and sustainable: those are the traits that architecture of the future will share, if you go by the trends in current cutting-edge concept designs. While some of these ...
