Test Drive: Get happy about the EV future with a BMW i4 M50
I've been writing about EVs since I drove Elon Musk's personal first-gen Tesla Roadster for Inhabitat over 10 years...
This net-zero Big Sur home has enough power to charge EVs
Studio Schicketanz, led by Mary Ann Schicketanz, has designed a beautiful, net-zero home in Big Sur with views...
Passive House-certified residence frames ski resort views in Utah
When a family decided to relocate from Silicon Valley to the Utah ski town of Park City, they tapped local design...
New affordable housing in Silicon Valley boasts net-zero emissions
In one of the nation’s most expensive housing markets, a new multifamily community has sprung up to provide 66...
UNStudio envisions a “Garden City of the 21st Century” for India
UNStudio has unveiled designs for Karle Town Center (KTC), a new innovative tech campus in Bangalore, dubbed the...
Henning Larsen wins bid to design a sustainable business district for Shenzhen
Danish architectural firm Henning Larsen Architects has won an international competition for the design of the...
The ugly truth about the imperfect food movement
The imperfect food movement continues to rise in popularity as companies, like Imperfect Produce in Silicon Valley,...
Solar-powered home takes advantage of Silicon Valley’s mild climate
San Francisco-based architecture firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson recently completed the Los Altos Residence, a modernist...
Zaha Hadid Architects unveils Sberbank Technopark for Russia’s ‘Silicon Valley’
Zaha Hadid Architects has just received planning permission for their design of Sberbank Technopark at the Skolkovo...
Apple is now “globally powered by 100% renewable energy”
Silicon Valley's big tech companies are hopping on the clean power bandwagon — last week, Google said that it...
Intuit’s new green-roofed campus is an indoor/outdoor dream office
Intuit’s new Marine Way Building (MWB) in Mountain View, California, aims to become an antidote to the trend...
Swooping rooflines make this proposed Silicon Valley home a sculptural work of art
Cambridge-based design studio WOJR has proposed an unusual Silicon Valley home that stands out from the pack with...
Charred timber home perched above Silicon Valley takes cues from nature
High above Silicon Valley sits a striking home with a two-story volume clad in blackened cedar. Schwartz and Architecture...
Classic Eichler gets a tasteful renovation and expansion in the heart of Silicon Valley
Klopf Architecture has refurbished and expanded a classic Eichler home in the San Mateo highlands while keeping...
Silicon Valley start-up unveils world’s first modular self-driving car
Silicon Valley start-up OSVehicle just unveiled the world's first modular, open-source Self-Driving electric car....
Apple self-driving car spotted in California
Apple is full of surprises. Just last fall sources told Bloomberg the technology giant wasn't going to build a...
Remodeled Eichler house is an oasis of calm in the heart of Silicon Valley
The experts behind remodeling classic Eichler homes have done it again. This time, Klopf Architecture applied their...
Donald Trump selects Elon Musk to serve as strategic advisor
President-elect Donald Trump recently invited Tesla CEO Elon Musk to Trump Tower for a surprising reason: he wants...
Net-zero Silicon Valley office prioritizes water conservation in drought-stricken California
A Silicon Valley office building that produces all the energy it needs on-site is a leading example of smarter,...
Eco architect William McDonough unveils new language to end the war on carbon
“Climate change is the result of breakdowns in the carbon cycle caused by us: it is a design failure,” McDonough...
LEED Gold Hankook Tire R+D Centre harvests rainwater for cooling in Asia’s Silicon Valley
Developed to attract the industry’s top talent, the 96,328-square-meter research and development center aspires...
9 questions with eco architect William McDonough on the future of agriculture
We’re excited about urban farming here at Inhabitat, and we’ve been following the work of green architect William...
Denmark is building the “Silicon Valley of agriculture” near Aarhus
According to William McDonough + Partners, the agricultural food park first opened in 2009. It is owned by The...
This couple ditched their tech jobs for life and work on the road in a converted school bus
Many of the converted bus projects we feature are total eye candy and this one is no exception, but it's more nuts...
New pea-based milk uses 93 percent less water than dairy equivalent
A new dairy-free milk is blowing people away with its minimal eco-footprint, and a calcium content that puts cow’s...
Is this art? Photos capture moments when humans and light interact
All of the exhibition’s 20 installations are nature-themed and the most striking of them are those which respond...
Moffett Place High Garden is a one of Silicon Valley’s largest rooftop parks
The park is one of the central amenities to the Moffett Place campus, which was recently leased to Google as the...
U.S. marshals raid Chinese company’s hoverboard booth at CES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMsc-as6eYY The confiscated product, called the Trotter, isn’t like most hoverboards...
NBBJ-designed Samsung HQ in Silicon Valley aims at LEED Gold Certification
The new 1.1 million square foot complex, organized around an interior courtyard and floating, open-air gardens,...
Jaw-dropping scale of Apple’s spaceship campus revealed in new drone footage
[youtube =http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FqH02gN29o&w=537&h-302] Designed by Fosters + Partners, the...
