The Urb Garden Helps Urban Gardeners Grow Food at Home
Lately it seems that everyone is fixated on food -- its production, its enhancement, its delivery and consumption,...
Urban Umbrellas to Replace NYC Sidewalk Sheds
Another successful NYC design competition! New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg recently announced that Young-Hwan...
Eolic: A Foldable, Portable Wind Turbine
Sure, it's easy enough to find a quality portablesolar charger, but powerful, portable wind turbines are a different...
Three-Layered Snail Shell Inspires Better Body Armor
Biomimicry: is there anything it can't do? The latest example of science imitating nature comes from researchers...
Habitat for Humanity and NYC Team Up for LEED Certified Affordable Housing
41 families in the Brownsville neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York are celebrating the first weeks of the new year...
Architecture For Humanity and A Different Approach to Haiti
Inhabitat recently wrote about Emergency Shelters and Disaster Relief For The People of Haiti and how Shipping...
Britain Unveils Plans for 1,300 Square Miles of Wind Turbines
Take 100 billion pounds, a plan to create 60,000 jobs, and the urgent need to end an addition to fossil fuels,...
Portland to Get 250ft Vertical Garden With Vegetated Fins
Vertical gardens are nothing new -- avid readers of Inhabitat may even remember PNC Bank's announcement that it...
Green Roofed Suncheon Wetlands Center Flows With the Tides
Each year over 2.8 million people visit the Suncheon wetlands in Korea, which comprise world's 5th largest tidal...
Recycle Your Old Cell Phone to Help Quake Victims in Haiti!
Have an old cell phone just sitting in your electronics drawer? Consider putting it to good use and donating it...
UC Berkeley Students Imagine a New Life for Old Bay Bridge Span
San Francisco's Bay Bridge is undergoing some serious construction that will leave an ugly casualty behind: the...
Taking Stock of Stock House Plans
Go into any bookstore or search on words "Stock House Plans" and you will find thousands of them, mostly junk....
$130 Duron Solar System Powers Rural Indian Homes
If you only made between $400 and $4,000 a year in income and didn't have easy access to electricity, what would...
Soviet Fish Factory Retrofitted Into Beautiful Modern Home
Architect Zaigas Gailes Birojs has transformed an abandoned soviet fish factory in Kaltene, Latvia into a beautiful...
Cooper-Hewitt Receives 600K to Continue Design for the Other 90% Exhibit
The Rockefeller Foundation just awarded the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City $600,000 to make...
