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Tree Church: Organic Arbortecture Grown from Living Branches

'Built' may not be the right word for this compelling hybrid of architectural and arborsculptural design (or: arbortecture), featuring a complete chapel with landscaped fences and carefully ...

Street Art Lives: 13 Installations that Interact with Nature

In cities where greenery can be scarce, these art installations call attention to everything from wall-climbing ivy to weeds growing out of sidewalk cracks, turning bushes into luscious manes or ...

Flowerworks: Pictures Capture Plants Exploding Like Fireworks

A novel take on a New Year's staple, crafty photography and flower power, these bright botanical arrangements (set against dark night-like) backgrounds seem to burst in ...

Hand-Grown Murals: Watch as Plant Paintings Take Over Walls

Some say art is as much about process as product - these time-lapse animations show just how true that can be, illustrating the evolution of green-themed graffiti as it creeps, crawls and ...

Vertical Forests: 2 Lush Urban Towers Support 16,000 Plants

Skeptics of improbably green skyscraper concepts might want to take a moment of silence to appreciate the successful construction of these two beautiful buildings now nearly ...

Urban Jungle Street View: 3D Hack Uses Hidden Depth Data

An explicitly illicit use of dimensional data buried in Google Street View, the Urban Jungle project adds eerie layers of post-apocalyptic green overgrowth to major cities around the ...

Living Staircase: Spiral Stairs Wrapped in Organic Greenery

Boldly curved and cantilevered into midair, these plant-wrapped stairs are designed to provide more than just a means of moving from one floor to another. Stepping onto them takes ...

Natural Lighting: Grow Your Own Glow-in-the-Dark Plants

Imagine the possibilities: cities illuminated at night not with carbon dioxide-producing energy sources, but with real glow-in-the-dark trees that light up streets and sidewalks ...

Brown to Green: Ashtray Doubles as an Urban Planner

Smoking is prohibited in plenty of public places these days, but for folks who just can't quit, why not do something positive for the environment with the product of that habit? The Cindy ashtray ...

Gone to Seed: 9 Green Plant-Sprouting Product Designs

Once a product's primary function has been served, most of us choose to either throw away or recycle whatever is left. An increasing number of products, though, are meant to be reincarnated as ...

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