This Self-Sustaining Building in China Grows Food on Every Floor, And It Was Built On A Farmland Plot
China loses farmland to urbanization at a pace that makes most planners nervous, and the usual architectural response is to pour a slab and move…
Sustainable Design
These Solar Gazebos Have 4 Wind Turbines and Let You Charge Below
University campuses function like small cities. Students move between buildings, find outdoor spots to read or work, and constantly need power for phones and laptops….
Mexico Just Turned Corn Waste Into 3D-Printed Buildings
Most of us think of corn as food. Maybe fuel, if you’re feeling generous. But a building material? That’s the kind of idea that sounds…
OBRO Just Turned Leather Waste Into Luxury Material
There’s something quietly radical about a material that refuses to hide what it’s made from. OBRO, a new composite from Japanese manufacturer Sanyo Co., Ltd.,…
5 Products Made from Cardboard: The Bench Supports 300 Pounds
Cardboard was once seen as just packaging, but it is now becoming a design hero. As sustainability and cost efficiency drive modern innovation, this humble…
If Sci-fi Gardening met MC Escher: Meet The Holocene House’s Floating Jungle Canopy
The pool doesn’t sit beside the house. It doesn’t occupy the backyard. It runs straight through the middle of the living space, dark-tiled and creek-like,…
The Mile-High Tower That Grows Food, Harvests Clouds, and Heals Chicago
Imagine looking up at a city skyline and knowing that inside those towers, food is growing, water is being harvested from clouds, and entire communities…
The Thoughtful Shopping Cart That Organizes, Protects, and Moves With You
Some of the most meaningful design innovations begin with noticing small everyday frustrations. That is exactly what inspired Brisbane-based inventor Michelle Hildebrand to rethink the…
Sway’s Compostable Bags Rethink Plastic as a Temporary Material
Sway continues to evolve its compostable plastic bags made from seaweed, offering a clear alternative to traditional plastic packaging that has long dominated retail and…
5 Biomimicry-based Architectural Designs That Copy Nature’s Best Ideas
Designers working across product design and interior architecture view the Amazon not as a backdrop, but as a lesson in how materials, forms, and systems…
Lie Under This Solar Roof and Watch the Sun Move in Real-Time
Most solar infrastructure is treated as background hardware, panels on roofs or fields that quietly feed the grid while public life happens somewhere else. That…
Michael Jantzen Just Turned Solar into a 16-Arm Moving Sculpture
Most renewable energy systems hide in plain sight. Rooftop solar panels blend into shingles, batteries sit in containers behind fences, and wind turbines spin in…