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Los Angeles-based architecture firm Newman Garrison + Partners has unveiled New Block, a patented “green building solution” for urban developers nationwide...

Like many countries around the world, Spain is struggling to address the problem of rural inhabitants abandoning villages to migrate to urban areas. However, there seems to be a light at the end of the tunnel for Fraguas....

Prolific landscape architecture firm James Corner Field Operations has managed to transform many desolate areas with its amazing park designs, but perhaps its crowning achievement will be Brooklyn's Domino Park...

Street lighting can impact bats' feeding patterns and internal compasses, as well as the activity of their insect prey, but a town in the Netherlands is taking steps to help the bats out...

In collaboration with Kristin Jarmund Architects and Rodeo Architects, C.F. Møller Architects has unveiled designs for a new urban space—comprising a square, a hotel and a high-rise tower—at Oslo Central Station. Located...

Leave it to the creative minds at the Parsons School of Design to renovate public seating for a more eco-friendly world. The school recently unveiled Street Seats, a sustainably-designed public seating area made from repurposed...

Stoss Landscape Urbanism has won a design competition for the Chouteau Greenway, with a proposal that will soon transform an uninhabited stretch of land into a thriving, nature-filled space connecting St...

Swedish multinational manufacturing company Volvo has revealed its two new electric truck models, designed with tasks such as delivery and refuse collection in mind...

When Arno Matis Architecture was tapped to help reshape the identity of Vancouver’s Cambie Street, they designed Aperture, a beautiful site-responsive residential development...

London officials met at City Hall this week to discuss the best way to move forward with a ban on cars in certain areas of the city on specific days of the year...

Noise pollution is “the new secondhand-smoke." Researchers at New York University are conducting a five-year study of noise in the City to better understand how the sounds that constantly surround us impact our health,...

Many large cities are struggling with severe housing issues, and one new startup is proposing an architectural solution. Developer Cube Haus - founded by Philip Bueno de Mesquita and Paul Tully - has commissioned four architects...

For the first time ever, after you're done partying on the strip, you'll be able to hail an autonomous ride with Lyft. The ride sharing company is bringing thirty self-driving cars to the streets of Las Vegas in partnership...

For the first time ever, after you're done partying on the strip, you'll be able to hail an autonomous ride with Lyft. The ride sharing company is bringing thirty self-driving cars to the streets of Las Vegas in partnership...

Vietnamese firm H&P Architects has created a unique "cave" fit for human habitation. Their "Brick Cave" townhouse has three levels of brick walls, each one with apertures that create a playful atmosphere of light and...