Proposed Apartments in Paris, France

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Boxitecture

To Live in a Greenhouse

Dutch stylist Helly Scholten is interested in living sustainably, so when the chance came to move herself and her family into an experimental sustainable house designed by Rotterdam University students and researchers, she jumped at it. Essentially an oversized greenhouse, the house was built to explore sustainable methods of living and will serve as the family's full-time home for three years.

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Chicago's new Tower Takes Inspiration From Crystals

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Can a Giant Sea Wall Save Swiftly Sinking Jakarta?

Standing on the banks of Jakarta Bay, Victor Coenen sees a row of flimsy houses with corrugated sheet metal roofs that rest on the city’s seawall. A girl wearing flip flops and a pink bow walks on the wall, only a couple feet off the ground.

The Dutch physical geographer points to cranes trying to clear waterways that are clogged with tons of garbage, plastic debris, and water hyacinth. Nearby, in the low-lying Pluit district, mopeds and bicycles ride through flooded streets.

“The city cannot keep up with the sinking,” says Coenen during a tour of this fast-growing capital, noting it’s dropping 3 inches (7.5 centimeters) each year on average and up to 10 inches in some neighborhoods—exponentially faster than Venice, the famous “City of Water.”

In fact, Jakarta could be the Titanic of the world’s metropoles, a place where children wade through waist-deep brackish water to get to school and nearly half of its 10 million people live with frequent flooding. Last Christmas, during high tide, water poured over the Pluit seawall. In 15 years, 80 percent of the northern city will lie below sea level—up from 40 percent now. In 50 years, current streets could be at least 10 feet below it..

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The Pond House, Louisiana

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2240 Market Street Rendering

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455 Fell Street Drawing

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300 & 350 Octavia Rendering

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Didn't an Oracle say This was a BAD IDEA?!

Towering over the ancient city like a watchful giant, the Colossus of Rhodes statue was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Now, over two millennia after it was felled by an earthquake, a group of architects and engineers hope to build its modern successor.

We don't know exactly what the Colossus of Rhodes looked like, nor its location in the town, but accounts describe a huge bronze statue depicting the Greek god Helios that rose over 30 m (98 ft) high, supported on a plinth. Constructed to honor the city's relief from a siege, the statue was completed in 280 BCE and fell in 226 BCE.

The Colossus Rhodes team imagines its modern successor to be even bigger. Bringing to mind the fictional Titan of Braavos from Game of Thrones, it would rise 150 m (492 ft) high and straddle Rhodes' Mandraki Harbour. Inside, the concept depicts a cultural center, library, an open-air observation point, and a revolving restaurant. It would be topped by a lighthouse.

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Jelly Fish Inspired Oceanscrapers

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Self Sufficient Houseboat

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Proposals for Istanbul's new Air Traffic Control Tower

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The Reconfigurable Tetris House Proposal

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240 Pacific Rendering

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Return of the 1950s

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1 Undershaft, London, Britain

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St Regis - Palm, Dubai, UAE

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240 Pacific Rendering

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St James Point Resort, Cayman Islands

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