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10 refugee shelters we hate to love

Refugees spend on average twelve years in their temporary homes, which got us thinking: what makes a good shelter?

Stylin’ gel wristbands sniff out chemicals killing your body

Pack away the clunky radon-detectors and carbon monoxide alarms! Silicone wristbands have emerged as the simplest of environmental warning devices - cheap to manufacture...

How green is your abaya?

Designers from around the world will parade their latest collections in Abu Dhabi’s first-ever Eco Fashion Show, a five-day event featuring couture-with-a-conscience this April. ...

Shapeshifting shelters for refugees in hot and cold climates

With roughly 600 Syrian refugees crossing into Jordan every day, it's no surprise that local architects are designing various housing solutions for the devastating...

Reusable, stackable emergency shelters for Syrian refugees in need

Our breakaway story about collapsible woven shelters (click here) designed to restore dignity to refugees around the world was so popular, we decided to...

Egypt’s ghostly abandoned theater – litter writ large

On the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula, tucked in the dusty foothills of an Egyptian mountain range, sit hundreds of seats in an...

Collapsible woven refugee shelters powered by the sun

More than 40 million people worldwide have been displaced from their homes and left to find shelter in strange lands. Maybe they find a...

Living crop wall to showcase Israel’s agricultural genius at the 2015 Milan Expo

Israelis are renowned not only for their clean tech innovation, but also smart, savvy and water-efficient agriculture. This genius will be on display at the...

Casablanca’s ‘Gardens of Anfa’ are wrapped in bougainvilleas and jasmine

Maison Edouard François designed a colorful new mixed-used residential master plan for Casablanca, a cosmopolitan Moroccan city made famous by a movie with the...

Aganetha Dyck works with bees to create incredible honeycomb art

Canadian artist Aganetha Dyck knows honeybees not just as pollinators that ensure the rest of the world has food on the table, but as...

Alvaro Siza makes it easier to visit the spectacular Alhambra palace in Spain

The Alhambra palace and fortress in Granada, with its mesmerizing series of courtyards, gardens and vistas that turn light and shadow into toys, may...

Provocative Israeli art explores the fake and fraudulent – but why?

Israeli photographic duo Wyse + Gabriely concluded their first European exhibition at London’s Neu Gallery this month; an attention-grabbing presentation that purportedly explores “the...

Dubai’s Burj Al Arab earns green globe certification

Dubai’s iconic Burj Al Arab hotel has earned an international Green Globe Certification.  Not as news-worthy as when Tiger Woods teed off its rooftop,...

Desert Breath spirals on Red Sea remind us of troubled Egypt’s immense beauty

To many Egyptians, the desert is a hostile place: water is scarce, terror cells hide in its vast expanse, or land mines make crossing...

Burj residents sweat over developer threats to cut A/C and elevator services

Residents of the world's tallest building in Dubai are being punished over unpaid maintenance fees - some of them unjustly. In order to pressure...

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