
Urban beekeeping is safer thanks to Francesco Faccin's sweet Honey Factory
[youtube =http://youtube.com/watch?v=b7ePOaCqfLM&w=537&h-302] In an effort to preserve the ancient art...

The spectacular Palazzo Italia building in Milan is a smog-eating machine
The cladding of the white sinuous building is both highly innovative and sustainable. The 9,000-square-meter façade...

Futuristic Urban Algae Folly grows food, fuel and shade
Visitors to Milan Expo 2015 have an opportunity to interact with the Urban Algae Folly pavilion, which incorporates...

This entire house is built from loaves of bread!
The tiny house, which is just 500 x 400 x 500 cm, is literally cooked out of bread and bread crumbs, and supported...

Forested Austrian Milan Expo Pavilion produces oxygen for 1,800 people an hour
The Austrian forest impressively provides oxygen for 1,800 people per hour—an amount close to 62.5 kg of fresh...

Undulating German pavilion brings a "field of ideas" to Milan Expo 2015
The slogan “Fields of Ideas” is reflected in the structure’s form and spatial effects—stylized plants grow...

Daniel Libeskind's Vanke Pavilion cleans the air with pollution-scrubbing tiles
While we have seen some gnarly facades at Milan to date, Vanke's 12-meter high pavilion is perhaps the most unusual....

Anti-Expo protests in Milan erupt in violence, clashes with riot police
The May 1 opening of the Milan Expo 2015 architectural show has been marred by violent clashes between a group...

Japan's Milan Expo pavilion is an earthquake resistant wooden 'bowl of diversity'
The 3D pavilion is made partly with bamboo, a fast-growing grass that is ubiquitous in Japan, and partly with wood....

Enel's solar-powered Expo pavilion is a virtual forest made of 650 LEDs
The network of LEDs placed on a grid produces a continuous changing of visitors' perception of space. The polycarbonate...

Slovenia's prefab wooden World Expo pavilion evokes the mountainous landscape of its homeland
Slovenia is one of the most densely forested countries in Europe and with that in mind, the architects decided...

X-TU's Architects World Expo pavilion evokes the iconic food markets of France
The interior of the structure is meant to create an inverted vision of the rolling hills of the French countryside...

Belarus’ “Wheel of Life” rolls through grassy hillside at this year's Milan World Expo
Belarus’ display intends to highlight the republic’s engagement in the fight against hunger through environmentally...

Mirrored Rice Cluster immerses visitors in paddy fields at Milan Expo 2015
The Rice Cluster is one of nine Expo Clusters, each of which bring different countries together to design around...

Mexico's sublime Milan Expo 2015 pavilion resembles corn on the cob
The facade of the 1,901 square-meter Mexican pavilion resembles a series of overlapping corn husks that provide...