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Wild Growth in Cities as a Rare Resource

A tour of the old city of Calcutta reveals that while biological growth can threaten to destroy buildings' structures, conservation and management of growth can also enhance the age-value and identity of the city.

2012 Awards: URBAN ANIMAL

URBAN ANIMAL; The 2012 Animal Architecture Awards. Animal Architecture wants your ideas about how synanthropic design can reshape, expand and redefine the context of urban thought and space.

Monist Kingdoms

This project comes to us from Max Hooper Schneider, a graduating landscape architecture student at the Harvard GSD. …

Harvest Green

image courtesy of ROMSES Architects Romses Architects recently won a competition for greener and denser development held by…

Agro-Housing

The Agro-Housing prefab concept is a modern housing solution recognized last year at the 2nd International Architecture Competition for Sustainable Housing that blends urban and rural living by creating vertical greenhouse space within high-rise apartments. Developed with concern for predictions that 50% of China's one billion people will soon be living in cities, a trend mirrored in many developing countries in the world, the design of Knafo Klimor Architects allows tenants to produce their own food.