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Created by architectural firm Encaixe Soluções Alternativas, the Ecocasa Atelier is located at the heart of the Brazilian Wine Route, or “Rota do Vinho” in Portuguese...

Luxury rainforest eco-lodge, off-grid sustainability and a chocolate farm … where do we sign up?! The La Loma Jungle Lodge and Farm offers a unique rainforest vacation experience in Bocas del Toro, Panama...

Mumbai based architecture and design firm, unTAG has just unveiled a stunning home built for a retired teacher looking to spend retirement in his home village of Dakivali, India...

There’s a good reason why this beautiful, natural wood treehouse blends in perfectly to its surroundings on the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica — the entire structure was built using the trees from the property site...

Much like the Guggenheim Museums around the world, a new art gallery founded by the great-grandson of Peggy Guggenheim is a true architectural showstopper...

Portland is a mecca of environmentally friendly design and the city’s new sculptural One North complex is keeping that green reputation alive. Holst Architecture recently completed the eye-catching office project that draws...

Spring, it seems, has come and gone in the temperate Northern Hemisphere, and with it, the ubiquitous dandelion. The tenacious "weed" provides one of the earliest food sources for bees emerging after winter's end and dots...

Andrea de Chirico recently showcased the SUPERLOCAL Hairdryer 1.0 project as part of the Design Academy of Eindhoven’s exhibit at Dutch Design Week 2015. In an artist’s statement, Chirico states his belief “that the...

Andrea de Chirico recently showcased the SUPERLOCAL Hairdryer 1.0 project as part of the Design Academy of Eindhoven’s exhibit at Dutch Design Week 2015. In an artist’s statement, Chirico states his belief “that the...

The studio is a masterpiece in warm ochre. Built from locally-sourced hoop pine, the studio is not the first cylinder Pritchard has designed. He admits to using the circular form in other projects, as he told Dezeen Magazine,...

  INHABITAT: Can you tell our readers a bit about how it all began? Elisabeth: I rented this space a year and a half ago to open a restaurant. I had a few ideas about the menu, in that I knew I wanted wild and foraged...

Choosing a cheap, recyclable cardboard to protect one of the world’s most expensive olive oils is not the most obvious of design choices, but Spanish multidisciplinary design studio CuldeSac™ packed a sleek white...

Designer Lies-Marie Hoffmann recently dropped a series of sculptural benches made from Elm-trunks throughout the streets of Stockholm. Dubbed “Homage to the Elm trees”, the project investigated how sculptural...

During last week’s London Design Festival, Hendzel & Hunt presented their latest project dubbed Made in Peckham. Made from discarded waste material collected in and around their own neighborhood in South London, the...

Formed in January of 2008, LA Box Collective is a group of professional furniture designers and makers that are committed to environmentally–conscious design and production...