Zaha Hadid Architects’ undulating riverside promenade doubles as a flood barrier in Hamburg
Zaha Hadid Architects has raised both the cultural cachet and the storm surge barriers in the German city of Hamburg...
New resilient waterfront park helps protect NYC from storm surges
Waterfront parks have been springing up all over New York City, including in Long Island City, where Hunter’s...
INHABITAT INTERVIEW: Water Architect Koen Olthuis on How to Embrace Rising Sea Levels
Sea levels are rising, floods are prevalent, and cities are at greater risk than ever due to climate change. Now...
New Orleans' $14.5 billion rebuilt levees won't fight a Category 5 hurricane
An often-repeated truth about Hurricane Katrina is that the events of August 29, 2005 were not a natural disaster...
Inhabitat's Top 9 Interviews of 2014
In the past year Inhabitat had the privilege of speaking with a variety of talented designers, architects and thinkers....
Sorg Architects’ Rockaways Water Dyke Concept Harnesses Surge Waters Themselves to Fight Flooding
Earlier this March, MoMA PS1 challenged designers to rebuild the Hurricane Sandy-battered Far Rockaways in a more...
Officials Worried About One World Trade Center Site's Vulnerability to Future Storm Surge Floods
[gallery_extend] The World Trade Center site, and all of Lower Manhattan for that matter, is poised on ground...
Study Finds Sea Levels Rising 60% Faster Than Expected, U.S. Coastal Towns at Risk
A recent scientific study has found that sea levels are rising60% faster than previously expected. Satellite data...
Could Giant Rotterdam-Style Floodgates Protect Lower Manhattan From Flooding in Future Superstorms?
[gallery_extend] Photo from "Weather of the Future" by Heidi Cullen, one of the world's foremost climatologists...
