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New York City has just welcomed yet another gem to its growing number of waterfront parks — Pier 35, the long-awaited East River Waterfront project designed by Manhattan-based firm SHoP Architects in partnership with Ken...

A unique location and environmentally-friendly passive house design are what define this lovely home on the Czech Republic/German border. 750 meters above sea level and in the middle of a ridge within the Ore Mountains, it...

Imagine if your office was set in the middle of a forest—that’s the image Chybik + Kristof aims for in their competition-winning designs for the new Czech Forestry Headquarters...

Mexico’s stunning Riviera Maya looks nothing short of paradise, but its beauty has also proven a burden on ecological preservation. With the Yucatan Peninsula’s booming tourism and environmental degradation in mind, Zaha...

The built environment ensures that fauna and flora can flourish uninhibited by human presence, embracing the traditional modes of communal living and shared resources...

We’re talking about an enormous wall of plants in California, where a severe drought has robbed residents of much-needed water for several years. With that in mind, Heineman, SF Landscapes, Goldberg and her team at Planted...

If you think of the greenest building imaginable, then you are imagining what Phipps' CSL is like. It relies on numerous clean energy sources for its power, such as geothermal, wind, and solar, as well as a suite of brilliant...

Dutch firm Paul de Ruiter Architects has triumphed over 110 entries to win the highly-esteemed ARC13 architecture prize with their ecologically-minded Villa Kogelhof...

Read the rest of Terunobu Fujimori’s Otherworldly Tree Houses Defy the Laws of Gravity Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "natural materials", charred cedar wood, Ecological Design, green roof, house...

Read the rest of L’Observatoire by CLP Architects Is A Lookout Tower That Blends Into The Forest Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Alsace, Archi<20, architecture competitions, CLP Architects,...

In China, calling someone a caveman shouldn’t be taken as an insult – in fact, Mao Zedong lived in a cave before becoming the country’s leader...

Every design-minded citizen loves a coffee table book with glossy photography and eye-catching projects. But every now and then, it’s nice to see a book about green design that takes a more in-depth, perhaps even academic...

What would you create if your design brief was to craft an artistic installation that would not only be festive and playful, but also encourage dialogue on sustainability? The creative team at Tribe Studio transformed an...

We just saw this beautiful concept for a memorial park in Turkey at ArchDaily and were very excited to see a number of small-scale wind turbines incorporated into the lawn of the park...