California votes to protect Joshua trees
This week, the California State Fish and Game Commission unanimously voted to protect Western Joshua trees. In...
Award-winning solar home with spectacular desert views asks $5.35M
On the edge of the Red Rock Canyon Conservation Area, just outside of Las Vegas, an AIA award-winning home has...
Are solar developments hurting desert animals?
As we know by now, every cause has an effect. And even the best of causes — such as ramping up solar power in...
Domed, desert eco-dwellings are built of organic papier-mâché
Illinois-based design studio i/thee has teamed up with Los Angeles firm Roundhouse to create Agg Hab — short...
The Invisible House is a reflective building that mirrors its desert surroundings
The Invisible House is a mirror-clad home designed to look like a New York skyscraper flipped on its side. It is...
Student designs an ecotourism hot-spot for the Iranian desert
A student finalist in this year’s Radical Innovation competition has found a possible solution for conserving...
WOHA unveils a lush, net-zero Singapore Pavilion for the 2020 World Expo
Singapore-based architecture firm WOHA has unveiled plans to create a net-zero energy green oasis for 2020 World...
Modern rammed earth home embraces the desert landscape
Named after the way light bounces off of its angled walls and ceilings, Dancing Light is an award-winning dwelling...
Explore the world’s driest desert at these eco-friendly geodomes
On the coastal edge of northern Chile’s Atacama Desert sits the Piedras Bayas BeachCamp, sustainable lodgings...
Rammed earth walls tie this modern home to the Arizona desert landscape
Architect Brent Kendle of Kendle Design Collaborative married architecture with the desert landscape in Desert...
Unusual Kerplunk House is envisioned as a “miniature forest” in the desert
Design collective I STIFFEN THEE has completed Kerplunk House, a tiny cabin in the desert with an eye-catching...
Escape the everyday in this Geodesic Dome House in Palm Springs
Inspired by 20th-century architect R. Buckminster Fuller, architect Pavlina Williams transformed a decrepit dome...
Incredible glass home stays comfortably snug even in extreme temperatures
OFIS Architects tackles the ultimate indoor-outdoor living experience with Glass Pavilion, a retreat with full-height...
Bill Gates buys a huge chunk of land in Arizona to create a 'smart city'
Bill Gates is purchasing 25,000 acres of land in the West Valley area of Arizona, 45 minutes west of Phoenix,...
This swanky desert guesthouse was fashioned out of a former horse barn
This stunning modernist guest home bears little similarity to its previous form: an old concrete barn for horses....