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Villa Minima #3 looks like a caterpillar on a rocky landscape in Turkey

There's something so compelling about this minimalistic villa shanghaied on the edge of a rocky Mediterranean landscape. One of five small villas conceptualized for varying landscapes by...

Cliche Arab references in Libyan bank design by Henning Larsen Architects

We don't mean to pick on any one firm here, but a string of repetitive competition proposals has culminated most recently in the Central Bank of Libya...

Toilet of the future? Holy crap, it’s here!

The 2012 winners of a competition with a cringe-inducing name teamed up with a powerhouse plumbing manufacturer to design a self-contained restroom that could be...

Tiny trash homes create humanity with salvaged waste

Artist Gregory Kloehn veered off course from a career creating large-scale sculptures, focusing his talents on making tiny buildings from garbage. He erects one-room houses...

Jameel prizewinner reinvents the iconic Middle Eastern rug

Green Prophet's brought you the story behind this year's winner of the Jameel Prize - 3, an international award for contemporary design inspired by...

3-D print your makeup for a gorgeous carbon footprint!

The $55 billion beauty industry may have been dealt a fatal blow by a brainy Harvard Business School beauty! Inventor Grace Choi has come up...

IRIS sea pods make energy and a social statement in Beirut

Remember the old days in Beirut when you could actually see the Mediterranean Sea? The crew over at Najjar & Najjar Architects remember, and...

Tires upcycled as Arabian stools

Rubber tires are pure nastiness, especially when they're no longer useful for cars. They languish in landfills, provide habitat for mosquitoes and rats, and often cause...

Ancient Egyptian secret cracked : how they moved massive stones through desert sand

It's one of the world's biggest mysteries: how did the ancient Egyptians transport massive stones across the desert to create the pyramids?  Scientist from...

Wow-alicious green gifts upcycled by Ex Libris Anonymous

Jacob Deatherage founded a clever company that saved my skin many times over a decade of holidays - letting me serve up clever gifts...

Desypher dispels stereotypes with exquisite Islamic Museum of Australia

Blogging makes a writer vulnerable to hyperbole - anything to capture a corner of the internet. But it's not hyperbole to say that Desypher's architectural expression vis-à-vis...

Trump Gadde: embracing the shipping container in Istanbul

GAD Architects stacked a series of recycled shipping containers on top of a fancy shopping mall in Istanbul to create this remarkable modern day...

Iran’s Hossein Zare captures our wildest dreams in surreal photographs

Iranian photographer Hossein Zare captures in photography what we can only see in our dreams - otherworldly land and cityscapes infused with an sense of eternal...

Saharan refugees learn how to spin old plastic bottles into gold

London’s Victoria & Albert Museum just wrapped a stunning show of Arab-influenced artwork from ten contemporary artists selected as finalists for year’s Jameel Prize...

An urban park that embraces its desert environment

How many times have you seen a big old patch of lawn in the middle of Abu Dhabi and cringed?  Lush green grass does not...

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