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This futuristic skyscraper aims to provide sustainable housing while restoring the biodiversity lost during large forest fires that swept through south-central Chile in the last couple of years...

SOM recently just unveiled the first images of a spiraling mixed-use tower planned for China. The Hangzhou Wangchao Center features an undulating glass façade and eight mega-columns that slope outward at the corners. This...

Aedas has unveiled plans for a soaring 656-foot tower that’s broken into two pieces held together by a series of ‘floating’ sky gardens and glass boxes...

New York-based architecture firm DFA just unveiled plans for 19 cylindrical apartment towers that can survive six feet of sea level rise at Manhattan's Pier 40...

UNStudio just completed construction on London's Canaletto Tower, which functions as a cluster of vertical communities. In designing the structure, the architects applied an approach typically used for smaller private houses...

A brighter, solar-powered future is coming to Bijlmerbajes, a former prison complex in Amsterdam. The Dutch government tapped OMA to design a masterplan of the 7.5-hectare site, as well as a significant portion of the 135,000-square-meter...

New photos of Frank Gehry's tower at LUMA Arles show a mountainous, twisting structure taking shape on the 16-acre site in France. The tower will house a variety of functions, including research facilities, workshop and seminar...

New images of Santiago Calatrava's Dubai Creek Tower have emerged, showing construction progress on what is expected to become the world's tallest building...

This curvy new skyscraper envisioned for Tel Aviv is a lush oasis that combines modern, sustainable living with plenty of nature. The skyscraper is filled with Mediterranean and Dead Sea flora and features an automated car...

This green-roofed wooden tower planned for Lagos features a perforated envelope inspired by indigenous cultures of the area. Hermann Kamte & Associates designed the experimental structure as an alternative to the massive...

Design firm Arquitectónica transformed an 18-story tower in Quito, Ecuador into a slender urban sculpture that twists upwards to meet the sky. The building's animated exterior is matched by a deep green interior designed...

Philippe Starck is one of the most influential designers of modern times - and he's applied his signature style and environmental ethos to develop a striking new residential building in Ecuador...

This unusual medical center planned for Al Ain, the fourth largest city in the United Arab Emirates, includes a large tower wrapped in a transforming veil that helps balance the region's dramatic thermal fluctuations...

The tower will have a tapered, soft form and an amazing domed top meant to help reduce wind loads. This will be aided by the building's regularly placed facade apertures, which will also house window-washing systems and air...

Gran Mediterraneo combines different programs, including apartments, a hotel, an automated car park, public charging station, farming and public gardens, co-working spaces and spas...