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- The city council of Barcelona has laid out a plan that will transform some of the streets in the Eixample district into car-free zones. According to the city council, the plan entails restricting cars from one in every...
- Brussels train station transformed into wooden shopping and event center Wed, 18 Nov 20, 2:30amThe Gare Maritime railway station in Brussels has seen a huge transformation. The building, formerly one of Europe's largest railway stations for goods, has been renovated into a new city district shopping and event development...
- Architects propose a massive forest park to be the Green Lungs of Hanoi Sat, 31 Oct 20, 2:30amAir pollution has become a major problem in Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam, that was ranked the seventh capital city with the highest average annual PM 2.5 concentration by the 2019 World Air Report. In a bid to improve...
- This villa in India is made up of cascading floating terraces Fri, 18 Sep 20, 1:30amCurrently under construction in Hyderabad, India and designed by Studio Symbiosis, the Floating Terraces Villa will measure 11,840 square feet on one acre of natural landscape...
- Girl Scouts Camp Trivera combines STEM and sustainable architecture Thu, 10 Sep 20, 4:30amFocusing on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education, with an architectural emphasis on integral sustainability, Camp Trivera is the first Girl Scouts campground of its kind...
- ON-A wants to renature Barcelona by greening the Camp Nou stadium Thu, 27 Aug 20, 4:30amIn a bid to bring greater green space to Barcelona, local architecture firm ON-A has proposed converting the city’s Camp Nou football stadium into a 26-hectare forested park...
- Self-sustaining Shade House helps combat urban pollution Tue, 14 Apr 20, 12:30amBangkok-based architectural firm, Ayutt and Associates design, has unveiled a stunning self-sustaining home in the Thai capital. The Shade House is a three-story home covered in the firm's signature perforated...
- Vincent Callebaut unveils bioclimatic LEED-Gold timber tower Fri, 27 Mar 20, 3:30amKnown for their love of infusing modern structures with an abundance of greenery, the prolific Paris-based practice Vincent Callebaut Architectures has just unveiled their latest sustainable design...
- An old mall becomes an urban lagoon and public square in central Tainan Thu, 19 Mar 20, 2:30amIn downtown Tainan, Taiwan, MVRDV has transformed a former shopping mall into the Tainan Spring, an urban lagoon and park. Commissioned by the city government as part of an urban revitalization masterplan, the adaptive reuse...
- PAU unveils carbon-neutral Sunnyside Yard masterplan in NYC Sat, 14 Mar 20, 1:30amGlobal architecture firm Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU) has revealed a masterplan for transforming over 180 acres of underutilized land in Western Queens’ Sunnyside Railyard into a thriving mixed-use...
- The Garden House features greenery and bee-friendly landscapes Fri, 10 Jan 20, 5:30amThe Garden House by Christos Pavlou Architecture is a physical representation of the potential for urban gardens to create micro-climates that improve the living conditions of cities rather than contribute to climate change...
- Shmas Bangkok Green Link wants to add over 30 miles of greenways to Bangkok Sat, 7 Dec 19, 6:30amAt the 2019 Thai Urban Designers Association exhibition, landscape architecture studio Shma unveiled the Bangkok Green Link, an urban revitalization proposal for boosting the livability of the Thai capital with over 30 miles...
- A lush public park grows on the roof of a luxury Wuhan mall Thu, 21 Nov 19, 4:30amWhen Los Angeles-based design studio 5+design was tapped to create a high-end mall in Wuhan, China, the firm was also given the opportunity to create a publicly accessible green space — an amenity in decline in the city...
- San Francisco breaks ground on new "Tunnel Tops" national park Fri, 8 Nov 19, 5:30amToday, San Francisco has broken ground on “Tunnel Tops,” a new 14-acre national parkland that will span two sections across the top of the Presidio Parkway highway tunnels...
- Recycled botanical garden in Seattle brings visitors decades of joy Fri, 18 Oct 19, 2:30amWhen Wendy Morgan accepted a friend’s invitation to go see Elda Behm’s garden in the 1990s, she had no idea she would become entangled in a project for the next 25 years...