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Photocatalytic Concrete: Air-Cleaning Building Absorbs Smog

Featuring 100,000 square feet of smog-filtering surface area, this structural facade will break down harmful oxides in sunlight to improve air quality all around it. The building, designed ...

Smart Bricks: Life-Size LEGO-Style Blocks for Human Habitats

Aiming to revolutionize the most basic material units of construction, these building blocks snap together like LEGO bricks while leaving space for insulation and infrastructure inside and ...

Rustic Ruins to Modern Residences: 3 Barn Renovations

Aging barns are often left to simply deteriorate, the stone crumbling, weathered wooden siding falling to the ground.  But in their dramatic A-frame silhouettes and wide-open simplicity, some ...

Ephemeral Entertainment: 13 Temporary Pavilions & Venues

Transitory shelters and venues for exhibitions, performances, festivals and other entertainment purposes are often an afterthought, little more than white fabric stretched across a metal frame. But ...

Eco Geek: 7 Near-Future Wonders of Modern Green Technology

Green architecture comes in many forms though lately it seems like these forms are stranger than ever. Urban skyscraper farms? Floating eco-cities? Glowing solar towers? Turbine-driven ...

3D City Farms: 5 Urban Design Proposals for Green Towers

(Check out our complete collection of Green Art, Design and Technology.) Imagine the world in 2050 with almost 80% of the planet's population living in urban centers and our fruit, vegetables and ...

10 Amazing Tree Houses: Plans, Pictures, Designs, Ideas & Kits

As a young child (or perhaps even an adult) who hasn't dreamed of living tree houses? Some structures are built on trees or hung from trees, but some unusual tree house building designs are even ...

Local Materials: Sustainable Clay-Fired Desert Architecture

Imagine a sustainable building system that requires only the skills of a potter to complete. A basic earthen structure is formed and finished by traditional clay-firing processes. This remarkable ...

8 Great Green Roofs: Brief History of Eco-Roofing Systems

(Check out our complete collection of Green Art, Design and Technology.) A green roof can be much more than just a lawn on a building, and the concept is much older than many people realize. ...

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