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Istanbul’s First Disaster Prevention and Education Center

Natural disasters, time and again serve as reminders of the fact that despite the advancements that humans have made in terms of technology, the nature’s fury retains the power to reduce man made creations to rubble. The effect is even more pronounced in

The TRILET 2.0: How to efficiently use human waste

If you see how nature works, then you will notices that nothing is wasted in nature, apart from what is man made. Whatever is naturally produced, becomes one with the Earth after its life cycle is over. Similarly, after humans consume food the excrement

At ‘home’ with nature in a spatial singularity

The LOFT Vertical Farming competition of 2011 had some very interesting entries. One of them was what was termed as Vertical Symbiosis and it lay stress on a harmonic co-existence between humanity and its sustenance. It is a proposal for vertical farming.

Green skyscrpares for the urban people!

Sky is the limit and nobody ever touched the sky. It seems that architects and urban landscape designers are taking the idea seriously. At least, vertical green spaces on the high-rise towers are saying so. If you are living in any growing metropolis fo

Regeneration of Life through this TREE OF LIFE @ KLCC

The talented designer Koh Hau Yeow has come up with an exclusively green design for the proposed development at Kuala Lumpur City Center (KLCC) park in Malaysia. This is the design for an architectural wonder named TREE OF LIFE @ KLCC. The rich landscape

Green Megastructures: Algae green loop by Influx Studio

The mega structureThe concept design by Paris-based Influx-Studio seeks to reduce Chicago’s carbon footprint by exploiting the carbon capturing capacity of naturally available algae. Developed in accordance with the Chicago Action Plan, which aims at 80

Aspen Art Museum design encourages use of natural light

Shigeru Ban Architects a Tokyo-based organization have come up with the new design of Aspen Art Museum, replacing the original 9,000-square-foot facility. This new composition would be better fitted to have room for the visitors in excess of 35,000 who co

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