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Trinity River Park: Huge New 10,000 Acre Urban Nature District for Dallas

Designed to restore and augment the city's floodplain, this new green recreation space features thousands of acres of forest as well as playgrounds, lawns and trails. Upon completion, it will be ...

Noah’s Ark: Creationist Theme Park Opens Amidst Regional Flooding

A biblical theme park contained within a huge ark (the largest timber-framed structure in the world) has opened in Kentucky, just as the region was hit hard by heavy rains and flash floods. ...

Underwater Homes: Deserted Basements as Stormwater Cisterns

In a dual effort to address urban blight and ailing infrastructure, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is piloting a new program to turn the basements of abandoned houses slated for demolition into ...

Hoverboard Creators Patent Hovering Homes for Disaster Zones

The creators of the world's first working hoverboard have turned their sights toward larger-scale projects, patenting a three-part hovering foundation system to defend houses in earthquake- and ...

The Dryline: BIG Plan Fights NYC Floods with Waterfront Park

A huge infrastructure project designed to prevent future Hurricane Sandy-style devastation, the Dryline is a perfectly-named solution for a city already sporting a successful High Line and an ...

Lost & Found: Underwater Ghost Town Resurfaces 30 Years Later

Like a corroded time capsule, this submerged village has risen from the depths after being flooded decades ago when the local lake broke its banks and left Epecuen under dozens of feet of water. ...

Turning Tides: 10-Mile Park to Protect NYC from Flooding

Designed to shield the exposed edges of Lower Manhattan from increasingly-disastrous storms, this impressive system of parks and other public spaces is also designed to serve the everyday needs ...

Tsunami Ark: Handmade Flood-Proof Floating Wood Capsule

Former Facebook and PayPal employee Chris Robinson is two years into an epic backyard project rising behind his home in Palo Alto: a structure dubbed the Tsunamiball. A veteran of Silicon ...

Amphibious Architecture: Foundations Float Above Floods

Floodwaters rise, drench homes, then recede, leaving disaster in their wake - a temporary change renders many structures permanently uninhabitable. But what if houses could ride out the storms, ...

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