Photosynthetic Furniture: Living Fixtures Produce Light & Heat
Employing natural processes to illuminate and warm interior spaces, this series of algae-based furnishings combines beautiful glass vessels and organic matter to create lovely yet ...
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3D Farming: Trees Grown into Fully Shaped & Formed Furniture
Taking arborsculpture to new levels of efficiency and functionality, this furniture designer creates plastic molds in which his designs are grown without needing to be sawed and shaped after the ...
Travel Through Trees: Root-Like Wooden Tunnel Installation
You may have to crouch a little to take a journey through this system of tunnels, but it's worth it to feel as if you're traveling through the roots of an enormous tree. Artist Henrique Oliveira ...
12-Country Coalition: Building the Great Green Wall of Africa
The clock is ticking for the collaborative creation of a living green wall to span nearly 5,000 miles across the African continent, designed to slow or even stop the relentless spread of ...
Human Body Museum: Undulating Design Wins Competition
Its organic form fits its function as a Cité du Corps Humain (Museum of the Human Body) like a metaphorical glove - interlocked fingers were, in fact, part of the conceptual inspiration for ...
Rural Urbanism: Forest Community of One-Pole Tree Houses
Pristine nature versus urban development seem ever at war, but this designer proposes a low-impact, small-footprint approach for cross-kingdom co-habitation between people and ...
Mountaintop Museum: Underground Rooms Tunnel into Peak
In a bold yet beautifully contextual move, this embedded mountaintop museum structure is part of a series of buildings set high in the mountains of Tyrol, Italy, and designed by Zaha Hadid ...
Ground, Up! Curved Green Sky Gardens Wrap Tower Hotel
The best of both worlds: guests at this hotel get to enjoy skyscraper-high views and still experience layers of intensive greenery on virtually all levels. A series of sleek towers rises ...
Treehouse Taster: 3 Wildly Different Types of Tree Houses
Regular readers will know that this site love tree houses of all types, but in researching articles a few have slipped through the cracks, their stories and histories unknown, yet the images of ...
Deep Sea Mystery: Diving to Solve Underwater Crop Circles
At a depth of nearly 100 feet, what could possibly explain these radially-symmetrical patterns appearing on the ocean floor off the coast of Japan, like some kind of extra-terrestrial snow angel ...
