Desert Cities: Modular Nodal Network Idea for the Middle East
A combination of contemporary regionalism and sustainable urbanism, this design strategy proposed by an Italian architecture firm involves a series of modules for living, working and ...
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Power Grows on Trees: Wind Energy via Leafy Green Turbines
Addressing noise and visual pollution associated with wind energy generation in urban contexts, these new trunk-style towers support suspended leaf-shaped turbine housings, hung from ...
Celestial Cityscapes: Photographing Dubai from Above the Fog
Home to the tallest building in the world, Dubai is a city rich in skyscrapers that seem almost otherworldly when seen piercing through seasonal layers of urban fog. Photographer ...
World’s Largest Indoor Farm is 100 Times More Productive
The statistics for this incredibly successful indoor farming endeavor in Japan are staggering: 25,000 square feet producing 10,000 heads of lettuce per day (100 times more per square foot than ...
Beware of Colour: Activists Highlight Decay with Pink Paint
Splashed with bright buckets of paint from roofs and windows, the colorfully defaced buildings of downtown Johannesburg have evoked different reactions from supports and detractors who variously ...
10 Vintage London Paintings Superimposed on Street View Images
Blending fiction and reality, art and history, this series of superimpositions takes 'then-and-now' imagery all the back to the 18th Century on the streets and rivers of England's capital city. ...
Project Sprawl: Mesmerizing Algo-Generated Game Architecture
Facing down the difficult challenge of creating an ever-changing urban gaming environment, this digital designer went with a cheap alternative that is aesthetically compelling and could have ...
Illegal Skyway: Chinese Homeowner Bridges 2 Highrise Condos
Sky bridges are a common sight in many cities, but are generally used to create a semi-public pathway from one building to the next, not to illicitly join two private highrise units 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 City Farming: Undulating Mixed-Use Urban Community
Designed to provide a spaces for public gardening as well as senior living, this hybrid complex has a rich array of green roofs, terraces and facades allowing for locally-grown produce as well as ...
