HOK designs aquaponics facility to alleviate Kansas City’s food desert
Nonprofit Nile Valley Aquaponics is raising fish in a Kansas City food desert—and they’re creating jobs, providing...
These tiny houses help minimum wage workers become homeowners in Detroit
Detroit, Michigan, may have one of the highest rates of poverty in all metro cities in the U.S., but a new initiative...
Obama targets 1 gigawatt of solar for lower income homes by 2020
The Obama Administration wants to make solar energy available to every American regardless of income. In that spirit,...
Heat-related deaths in NYC could increase by 500-percent by 2080 says new study
A new study warns that the growing environmental trend of summer heat waves could lead to a 500-percent increase...
Humanitarian Low-Cost House With Shipping Container Rooms Springs Up in South Korea
The design and construction team examined the conditions of the family’s existing home and found that the physical...
Habitat 67: Montreal's Prefab Pixel City
Canadian architect Moshe Safdie designed and built this extraordinary experimental housing complex made up of modular...
