OMA’s MPavilion 2017 with a floating roof opens today in Melbourne
Melbourne is heating up for the summer with a new OMA-designed amphitheater. OMA founder Rem Koolhaas and colleague...
Washington’s new Tukwila Library is topped with a carbon-negative green roof
Architecture firm Perkins+Will recently announced the completion of King County's Tukwila Library – a 10,000-square-foot...
Mexican winery built from recycled wood and rammed earth blends into the valley landscape
Mexico’s booming wine country of Valle de Guadalupe in Baja California recently welcomed the chic BRUMA winery,...
Kansas University students build net-zero home with LEED Platinum and Passive House certification
Most school projects don’t move past campus grounds, but that’s not the case for the works of Kansas University’s...
Armenia’s first BREEAM-certified building is an earthquake-resistant international school
Deep in the forested mountains of the Armenian town Dilijan—colloquially called “Little Switzerland”—stands...
Old shipping container recycled into solar-powered learning lab in Colombia
Computer Aid International first approached Squire and Partners in 2014 for a more cost-effective and enjoyable...
Clif Bar’s new Idaho bakery is an eco-friendly masterpiece of biophilic design
From an architectural perspective, the building certainly doesn’t look like a typical bakery. Designed by Idaho-based Babcock...
San Francisco man singlehandedly revives a rare butterfly species in his own backyard
The California Pipevine Swallowtail butterflies used to flutter about San Francisco aplenty, but their populations...
Hillside home in Sonora, Mexico features rammed earth walls and native landscaping
Sal Casa was built with the idea of honoring the landscape around it. To that end, the architects utilized rammed-earth...
First urban park on Las Vegas Strip is ‘an oasis in the middle of the desert’
Rather than cutting down trees to put up a parking lot, !melk designed a park to take over a previously paved section...
Sprawling green roof keeps Sag Harbor home cool in summer
The 5,000-square-foot residence includes four bedrooms, TV den, home office and a screened porch. The first floor...
Nation’s largest green wall of native plants breathes life into SFMOMA
The massive living wall stands at nearly 30 feet in height and stretches to a width of 150 feet. David Brenner,...
Green-roofed Canadian Canoe Museum will house the world’s largest collection of canoes and kayaks in Ontario
Located downstream of the historic Peterborough Lift Lock, the 7,500-square-meter Canadian Canoe Museum overlooks...
How a parking lot makeover can reduce flooding, nourish native plants, and keep waterways clean
Would you ever guess that a parking lot could hold the key to reducing floods and keeping waterways clean? That's...
James Corner Field Operations designs an iconic circular park for the Philadelphia Navy Yard
From above, the park looks curiously non-naturalistic with its hard circular shapes that may bring to mind AutoCAD...
8 Water-saving solutions for your home
The drought in California is breaking records, and recent data suggests that the state may have just one year of...
INTERSTICE Architects Unveil Fibonacci-Inspired Green Landscape at the USF Center for Science
INTERSTICE teamed up with the university, an engineering team and the building's architects to conceptualize a...
INTERVIEW: Landscape Architect James Corner On NYC’s High Line Park
NYC’s High Line is a project that exemplifies effective adaptive urban re-use in a city that is littered with...
Breathtaking Macro Portraits of Bees by Sam Droege
Droege has taken hundreds of photographs of insects from around the world. His macro portraits of bees from US...
BVN Donovan Hill’s Passive Solar Australian PlantBank Houses 25,000 Indigenous Seeds
Built to preserve Australia's indigenous botanical heritage, the PlantBank consists of research laboratories and...
The High Line’s Final Section Will Harken Back to a Wonderfully Wild Aesthetic
The High Line at the Rail Yards seeks to preserve the untamed and self-seeded landscape that first inspired the...
High Line Park’s Final Section Will Pay Homage to Its Wild Roots
While we enjoy the manicured look of the High Line's first two sections, we're definitely looking forward to seeing...
Urbanarbolismo’s Magnificent 1500 m2 Vertical Garden Covers the Palacio de Congresos in Spain
The new vertical garden on the exterior of the Palacio de Congresos has a total area of 1,492 m2, with 1,000 m2...
Dominican Sisters House of Formation in San Rafael Becomes the First LEED-Certified Convent in the US
During the planning stage, the Dominican sisters studied the Earth Charter, an international document outlining...
Take a Virtual Tour Through the 2013 HGTV Smart Home + See How You Can Win It!
While the Smart Home is aiming for LEED Gold certification, it is arguably not what one might typically expect...
Facebook Gets Approval for Green-Roofed Frank Gehry-Designed Menlo Park Campus
Facebook's green-roofed, Frank Gehry-designed campus was just given the green light by the city of Menlo Park....
Turenscape Architects Turns a 54-Acre Garbage Dump Into a Luscious Low-Maintenance Park in China
Tianjin Bridged – Qiaoyuan post-industrial park is a 54-acre site built on what was once a heavy polluted, littered...
Santa Monica’s Garden / Garden Project Quantifies the Benefits of Sustainable Building
Here at Inhabitat we've showcased thousands of green building and sustainable landscaping projects that save water,...
Klyde Warren Park Adds Much-Needed Green Space Atop the I-35 Freeway in Downtown Dallas
Photo by Mark Andrew Boyer for Inhabitat At just over 5 acres, Klyde Warren Park isn't a big park -- it spans...
Pier 15 by SHoP Architects and Ken Smith Opens on the East River Waterfront Esplanade
The new pier is snuggled between the elevated FDR Drive, huge ships that are docked at South Street Seaport, and...
