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Video reveals 150-mile-long mirrored skyscraper The Line in Saudi Arabia

This video shows the design for The Line, a 550 yard-tall, mirror-clad skyscraper designed to house nine million desert-dwellers in  Saudi Arabia.

The Line has started construction, Bedouin protestors evicted sentenced to death

Drone footage of The Line underway. Meanwhile Bedouin who live there are sentenced to death for protesting eviction.

Learn earthen architecture of the Middle East

This one-month training course will use Al Ain, UAE as an open-air laboratory for participants to learn practical, hands-on methods for preserving earthen buildings and archaeological sites.

Trojena’s $500 billion ski resort for a planet on fire

Saudi Arabia has “won” the bid to host the 2029 Asian Winter Games at what will be called its Trojena resort

Lebanon’s abandoned Ottoman-era mansions

It’s not unusual for an intrepid foreign explorer to uncover hidden gems in Lebanon.

Advantages Of Turning Older Properties into Smart Office Buildings

As far as smart technology is concerned, most people wrongly believe that it only applies to newly built properties.

How to Make Your Property Landscaping More Eco-Friendly 

New landscaping tips, like xeroscaping to up your eco

How AI Is Making Buildings Smart and Intelligent

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Moshe Safdie's Habitat 67 is considered a sustainable dream design

The Line in Saudi Arabia invites you to live like a Borg

A cross between a sci-fi post-apocalyptic city and a Moshe Safdie rendition of Expo 67, Saudi Arabia’s crown prince Mohammed bin Salman shows off The Line.

Hemp solar house highlights vernacular building potential in Morocco

The Sunimplant team developed a concept for the preservation of the environment and cultural heritage in the rural region of the High Rif in north of Morocco.

Qanat, an eco-hotel in Iran’s desert, makes ancient tech new

When you go deep into a desert, whether it's Iran or Sinai, it has a similar effect of being in a forest. The stark nature of the planet holds you. Deserts may offer less distractions in your peripheral vision but the clouds and sand come to life as you feel yourself expanding within the expanse.

Lagoon Valley for living intentionally with nature and purpose in the Bay

So what are the options for Bay dwellers? A new planned community called Lagoon Valley is being built between the Bay Area and Sacramento, and the project developers believe they are doing their part for planet earth.

Super Adobe by Cal-Tech and Nader Khalili

Want to make a low cost home from natural, local materials that last? Try a Super Adobe invented by Nader Khalili.

DIY: building a garden room in your backyard

A small wooden structure in the garden is not just a part of landscape design, but a functional room that can be used for...

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Endangered sperm whale washes ashore in southern Israel

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Xcimer is the Denver-based startup that could put Saudi Arabia out of business

An American company can collapse OPEC if they can prove their approach to unlimited energy works.

The Saudi Startup Turning Desalination’s Toxic Waste Into Its Own Disinfectant

For millennia, the Middle East's water crisis seemed an immutable fact of geography — a region defined as much by what it lacked as by what lay beneath its sands. Today, a convergence of plummeting solar costs, advancing membrane technology, and hard-won engineering expertise is rewriting that story.
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