Architecture

Building Back Better Practices with Industrial Decarbonization Strategies

Green buildings refer to a structure that is resource-efficient and environmentally responsible throughout a building’s life-cycle, right from planning to designing, construction, operation, maintenance and so on.

Winter floods out Syria’s displaced

Taking cues from the tiny home movement, we are sure colleges and design schools around the world, along with architects, can start planning some better solutions for temporary shelter for the world's displaced – millions from the civil war with Syria, and millions more who end up in countries like Greece from Africa, seeking refuge or maybe just a better life. 

The Emirates plan to live on Mars

The UAE are looking far into the future and making to colonize Mars.

Superadobe Homes Built Of Sandbags Rise Around The Planet

The SuperAdobe technique for sustainable building with the most basic materials is in use around the world.

Human’s built mass equals planet’s biomass

We have created a concrete jungle, heavier than all the world's real, living jungles.

Seasteading: utopian floating cities or safe haven for western pirates?

The Seasteading Institute argue that the ocean can become home to sustainable new societies in cities that float.

This ancient Arab irrigation system invented before Rome’s aqueduct

An ancient water management system engineered 3000 years ago is still keeping farms and oases green in the UAE and Oman.

Dubai’s Sustainability Pavilion for Expo 2021 revealed in real

Dubai will host the World Expo 2020 in 2021. We show off first look of the Sustainability Pavilion.

Why Dubai’s man-made islands are still empty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riETCR7FnZE Dubai overspent and the real estate market crashed. A series of man-made mega projects are in danger of collapse and are now pretty much...

If there is lead in Parisian honey, imagine what’s polluting Beirut?

Years after the Notre Dame fire in Paris Parisians are still feeling the health effects whether they know it or not. According to a recent study reported in the Smithsonian local urban honeybees in Paris were collecting pollen with unhealthy amounts of lead in it. Imagine then how those suffering from the explosion in Beirut might deal with the immediate catastrophe.

Maraya the biggest mirrored building in the world

Maraya contains a total of 9740 square metres of mirrors reflecting the vast and stunning desert surroundings of AlUla. The building set a Guinness World Record for being the largest mirrored building in the world in 2019 with its 26-metre-high theatre. 

Moshe Safdie’s skywalk garden puts nature in China’s sky (VIDEO)

Moshe Safdie does it again: a stunning urban jungle and green tube high in the sky of a Chinese city.

Saudi activist killed trying to stop mega city Neom

Abdul-Rahim al-Howeiti, tribal activists allegedly shot dead by Saudi police for refusing to leave his home

Neom is Saudi’s mega-green Gotham city

A rendering of Neom, an intentional futuristic city breaking ground on the Red Sea of Saudi Arabia. Where robots outnumber people. A $500 Billion desert dream, funded by oil money.

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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

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