The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Winning the Merit Award for Un-built work at the 2010 AIA New York Design Awards, the design of the Chung-Nam Government Complex successfully combines traditionally divergent elements: nature and the built environment; and government and civic spaces. The complex, designed by H Associates, Haeahn Architecture, and EDAW is set in the heartland of South Korea [...]

by Bridgette Meinhold (*) Living in the city definitely has a lower environmental footprint, but families often miss out on having a backyard and a garden. The Spiral Tower, designed by Philipp von Bock, is a family friendly eco tower designed for Berlin. Apartments are stacked in opposite directions in a criss-cross pattern, leaving open [...]

From Ecogizmo By Jeff Salton You only have to watch a TV show in which the camera flies over any major city to realize the numbers of ugly, stark, gray, flat roofs that occupy millions of square feet but contribute nothing to the environment. It’s almost an ‘out of sight, out of mind’ attitude we [...]

Terragrams is a podcast series disseminating discussions about the landscape. As our societal conscience and appreciation of the landscape heightens, Terragrams provides a wide portal into landscape architecture and the lives and thoughts of the professionals who shape it. The project aims at capturing, distributing and archiving these voices. It is an easily accessible, open [...]

It is very hard to add some words after having seen this incredible presentation. “Danish architect Bjarke Ingels rockets through photo/video-mingled stories of his eco-flashy designs. His buildings not only look like nature — they act like nature: blocking the wind, collecting solar energy — and creating stunning views.” It is so inspiring and I [...]

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Dragonfly, A Metabolic Farm For Urban Agriculture New York City 2009 By Vincent Callebaut Architectures Excerpts from Vincent Callebaut Architectures: “Architecture has to serve a new agriculture and to design for the new social desire for ecologic mutation and food autonomy! The Dragonfly project suggests building a prototype of an urban farm offering a mixed [...]

Australian Architects launch free service to assist Victorian Bushfire victims. As part of the Victorian Bushire Reconstruction and Recovery Authority’s ‘We Will Rebuild’, 19 architectural firms – including Donnovan Hill and John Wardle – have come forward with a free service to Bushfire Victims rebuilding their homes. A joint initiative of the Australian Institute of [...]

Amazing project but they forgot to include Urban Farming. Anyway, it is already an amazing step from what we have got today, isn’t it? The future looks bright! By Karen Cilento (ArchDaily) The Zuidkas, an experimental project commissioned by the Government Building Agency, challenges architects with an imaginary office building of over 11,000 square meters [...]

by Mike Chino (*) Addressing the urgent need to green our built environment, Kjellgren Kaminsky Architects have conceived of a Super Sustainable City that re-envisions Gothenburg, Sweden as a future-forward ecotopia. Designed as a dense and interconnected urban area, the master plan incorporates everything from green rooftop gardens to water and energy harvesting roadways, towering [...]