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    This Will Be The First Floating City In The World

    With the global population projected to reach 9.7 billion people by 2050, seasteading—building cities on water—has emerged as one way to support a growing world. Though the concept of ocean communities has been around since the ’80s, San Francisco–based think ...
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    Parking space-sized micro-house is made for city life

    With space at a serious premium in many cities, some think that downsizing may be the answer to housing growing populations. Few homes come much smaller than the Tikku (which is Finnish for Stick), by architect Marco Casagrande. It has ...
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    These hurricane-proof floating homes are packed with green features

    These solar-powered, zero-emissions floating homes are packed with green goodness. Designed by Dutch architect Koen Olthuis with Waterstudio in collaboration with Arkup, an “avant-garde life on water” company based in Miami, the livable yachts operate 100% off the grid and feature waste management, rainwater harvesting and water purification ...
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    Solar Vertical City Is A Self-Contained, Green-Infused Tower Planted Into The Ocean Floor

    Resigned to the fact that rising sea levels are inevitable at this point, architects are starting to create feasible, water-based living solutions. Italian architect Luca Curci has just unveiled a design that envisions a soaring zero-energy tower infused with greenery on each level that will be ...
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    The Architecture of Utopia

    On my final night on Powder Mountain in Eden, Utah, I joined a yoga class in a window-walled lodge with dream catchers dangling from the rafters. The class’s attendees were blissed out from spending several days in late February skiing. ...
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    Designed Travel: Plans Matter Offers Designer Vacation Rentals

    Google is working on adding vacation rentals to its hotel search results and Airbnb is going to help you find national park-adjacent rentals, mansions and penthouses. But if those options are quite special enough for you, a website called Plans Matter might be up ...
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    All-pink Silent Room Creates Quiet Sanctuary Beside a Beirut Highway

    Lebanese designer Nathalie Harb created this pavilion for Beirut Design Week to give residents of the city access to silence.   It is intended to provide residents and visitors with a cocoon-like environment to escape the surrounding noise from traffic, construction sites, electronics and ...
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    Retreat in Finca Aguy

    From the architect. Dwell in productive landscapes Made to maximize new landscape experiences, Retreat in Finca Aguy was prefab-born in a factory near Montevideo and transported 200km to its final destination in Pueblo Edén on the edge of an olive ...
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    Futuristic Floating Skyscraper heals the Effects of Climate Change

    Climate change is rapidly affecting every corner of the earth. Heal-Berg is a proposal for a gigantic iceberg-shaped skyscraper designed to stop, heal and reverse the effects of climate change using some of the world’s most innovative green technology. The Heal-Berg ...