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- NYCs plant-filled Greenery Unlimited is worlds first Biophilic Design Store Fri, 1 Mar 19, 5:30amAn enormous green wall and a 12-foot ficus tree await visitors at Greenery Unlimited, a newly opened retail store that’s been billed by Greenery NYC owners Rebecca Bullene and Adam Besheer as the “world’s first Biophilic...
- Amazons incredible plant-filled biospheres open in Seattle Tue, 30 Jan 18, 9:50pmAmazon has finally opened its stunning new downtown Seattle office and it’s unlike any workspace we’ve seen before. Amazon Spheres, which celebrated its grand opening yesterday, is part greenhouse and part office housed...
- Fly through Ecuador’s cloud forest on a human-powered sky bike! Fri, 27 Feb 15, 9:21amThe Mashpi Lodge in Quito, Ecuador is a hideaway in the clouds. Tucked inside the 3,200 acre orchid-filled Mashpi Rainforest Biodiversity Reserve, is a glass-walled lodge. Guests to the lodge can now explore the Andean Cloudforest...
- Human-powered sky bike lets you fly through Ecuador’s cloud forest Wed, 25 Feb 15, 10:00pmThe Mashpi Lodge in Quito, Ecuador is a hideaway in the clouds. Tucked inside the 3,200 acre orchid-filled Mashpi Rainforest Biodiversity Reserve, is a glass-walled lodge. Guests to the lodge can now explore the Andean Cloudforest...
- Breathtaking Mashpi Lodge Retreat Wins the 2014 World Travel Award for Leading Green Hotel in Ecuador Fri, 15 Aug 14, 2:30amOpened in 2012, the eco-lodge is nestled at 3,116 feet high in the Ecuadorian Andes nature reserve, close to the capital city of Quito. Much of the structure was pre-assembled in Quito and transported to the site to minimize...
- PHOTOS: Walk Atop the Treetops at Singapore’s Gardens by the Bay Fri, 31 Jan 14, 1:37amDesigned by Grant Associates and Gustafson Porter, Gardens by the Bay is a public park built on 101 hectares of reclaimed land in Singapore. The gardens are located at 18 Marina Gardens Drive adjacent to the Marina Bay...
- Prefab Eco Resort Planned 356m Above Sea Level in the Mists of Peru’s Cloud Forest Fri, 20 Sep 13, 12:00amEach of the prefabricated buildings will be built on a 6m hexagonal base, utilizing a modular design in place of conventional pitched roof buildings that are normally erected in rain forests...
- Singapore’s Gardens by the Bay Feature the World’s Largest Climate-Controlled Greenhouses Thu, 17 Jan 13, 5:00pmRead the rest of Singapore’s Gardens by the Bay Feature the World’s Largest Climate-Controlled Greenhouses Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", climate controlled...