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Beladon, floating farm, floating dairy farm, dairy farm, farming, cows, food, food source, milk, yogurt, dairy

New floating dairy farms could produce 260 gallons of milk each day

Picture a future where your milk and yogurt come from a farm floating in your local harbor. That's exactly what...

DKO, Melbourne, heritage building, green renovation, 3 Waterloo St, listed building, brick facade, cross ventilation, metal facade, natural light, floating architecture, floating building

A black metal box hovers over a heritage brick building in Melbourne

The new addition contrasts the original house to some extent. It is placed 1.3 meters (4 feet) behind the brick facade...

Nexus Center, Mexico, sanzpont [arquitectura], floating building, green architecture, glass building, office space, office building, natural light, green lighting, LED lights, passive solar design

Floating Nexus Center in Mexico marries corporate office spaces and solar passive design

The floating cube houses management offices, while the ground floor is occupied by the storage area of products...

EASA Links, student work, Malta, floating pavilion, wooden structure, floating building, green architecture, Antiroom II, lightweight structure

AntiRoom II is a circular wooden meditation space floating off the coast of Malta

Antiroom II floats like an island off the coast of Malta. It is unreachable by land and can be accessed only by...

Elise Morin, Florent Albinet, Walden Raft, floating building, wooden cabin, acrylic glass, polyethylene, green envelope, experimental building, movable architecture

108-square-foot floating Walden Raft in France pays homage to Henry David Thoreau

The cabin is fully navigable and can be moved along a cable strung from the shore to an anchor in the lake. Those...

Óbidos Technological Park, Lisbon, Jorge Mealha, Portugal, concrete, courtyard, piazza, multi-use architecture, start-ups, floating building, green architecture, countryside, Portuguese architects

Óbidos Technological Park’s floating architecture frames the Portuguese landscape

The project aims to increase the presence of green surfaces. This attitude informed the overall shape of the buildings,...

Safdie Architects, Artscience Museum Singapore, Singapore, musem, lilypad architecture, arup, singapore architecture, Fiber Reinforced Polymer, floating building, sustainable architecture, rainwater harvesting, rainwater collection

Rainwater-Harvesting Artscience Museum Floats Like a Lilypad on the Singapore Waterfront

The museum, the structure of which was conceived by Arup, is supported by a complex steel lattice and 10 columns...

disaster proof design, remistudio, remi studio, ark building, ark, remistudio ark, green architecture, floating architecture, floating building, eco architecture, green design, eco design, flood proof building

Remistudio’s Massive Floating Ark Battles Rising Tides

The Ark concept, which Remistudio designed in connection with the International Union of Architects’ program...

Bloom Phytoplankton Farm, Sitbon Architectes, phytoplankton, floating building, rising sea levels, global warming, carbon dioxide, fresh water, Architizer A+Awards, carbon footprint, water issues, marine life

Bloom: Floating Phytoplankton Farm Absorbs Carbon Dioxide and Monitors Rising Sea Levels

The floating spherical structure is conceived of as a way to address global warming and rising sea levels. Large...

Ring Celestial Bliss, J.J. Pan & Partners, Taiwan Lantern Festival, Chinese New Year Festivals, bamboo structures, locally sourced materials, recycled steel, recycled materials, bamboo, Taiwan, floating building, LED lights

Steel and Bamboo Ring Celestial Bliss in Taiwan Celebrates Nature’s Endless Circle of Life

The structure is made from reusable steel, which serves as the primary structural system, and bamboo cladding....

green design, eco design, sustainable design, Encore Heureux, repurposed barge, floating building, floating theater, Guinguette Pirate, Paris, Seine, cultural center Paris

Petit-Bain: Green-Roofed Floating Building Sets Sail on the Seine in Paris

Petit-Bain’s steel exterior is clad in vertical larch beams, which make the boat look more like a building while...

Brockholes Nature Reserve, uk, Adam Khan Architects, floating eco village, floating visitor centre, floating building,

Brockholes: UK’s First Floating Nature Reserve Is Now Open For Exploration

The brand new nature reserve was created from the abandoned remains of a quarry near Preston, England. Owned by Lancashire...

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