Megablock Microclimate: Urban Treehouse Apartment Complex
Shrouded in 150 trees that absorb 200,000 liters of carbon dioxide per hour, this massive five-story, block-spanning residential building occupies its own protected ...
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Form Follows Footprint: Forest Retreat Just Fits Local Codes
A creative response to a new legal loophole, this structure is designed specifically to test the limits of a Swedish planning law allowing buildings under a certain size to be constructed without ...
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 ...
Drawn & Quartered: Architect-Designed Log Wedge Birdhouses
Applying architectural logic to a bird's eye view, these natural-material dwellings utilize fallen trees to create familiar and eco-friendly habitats for your feathered friends. With ...
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 ...
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 ...
Invisible Barn: Mirrored Surfaces Create Camouflaged Folly
Like a mirage on the horizon, the structure seems to shimmer into and out of existence, playing tricks on the eye with a combination of see-through portals and reflective ...
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 ...
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 ...
Infinite Garden Multiplies Miniature Forest with Mirrors
Peering through a hole in the hovering white skin of an unusual installation at the 22nd International International Garden Festival of Chaumont Sur Loire, France, seems to transport the viewer ...
