
Design experiment examines safety of food grown in urban vertical gardens
Interior architecture firm Annvil has brought together a team of urban planners, designers, environmentalists and...

Babylon Bridge features hanging gardens over the Seine
Paris-based design studio Rescubika has unveiled a fantastical proposal for the Babylon Bridge, a pedestrian-only...

PICO microgarden lets you grow anywhere from home to car
Indoor gardening offers all the same benefits as a garden in the ground outside. Namely, fresh food and a low...

LEED Platinum Akademeia High School caters to millennials
When Medusa Group Architects was tasked to design a high school in Warsaw, the Polish interdisciplinary...

Automatic, soil-less garden system lets you grow 76 plants in your own home
One of the biggest complaints about urban living is the lack of space to grow your own veggies, but this automatic...

SCAD students fight food insecurity in Georgia with organic farming and beekeeping
For a break from schoolwork, students at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) have been swapping their...

Sunflower-inspired tower design envelopes urban residents in “mini forests”
Concerned by the rampant growth of cities across Latin America and the loss of endemic species, Ecuadorian design...

This apartment building in Staten Island has a 5,000-square-foot urban farm
Along the waterfront on New York’s north shore, Staten Island Urby sits overlooking the Statue of Liberty and...

A rooftop urban oasis springs to life in a polluted NYC neighborhood
Parks and public plazas are typically urban escapes you'd expect to find at street level, but when your neighborhood...

MVRDV transforms an abandoned highway into a "plant village" in the sky
Architectural superstars MVRDV have transformed an abandoned highway in Seoul into a 983-meter-long elevated Skygarden....

London's first floating park slated to open this spring
London is about to get its first floating pocket park as part of a citywide greening initiative. Thanks to recent...

America's first urban 'agrihood' feeds 2,000 households for free
When you think of Detroit, 'sustainable' and 'agriculture' may not be the first two words that you think of. But...

Beautiful Greenhouse from Bangkok is a miniature garden you can bring inside
“Greenhouse is a product of our stay in Sweden,” Worapong Manupipatpong told Design House Stockholm. “When...

This lush, green backyard office is a dream artist's studio hidden in a San Francisco garden
Scott Lewis Landscape Architects were tapped for this Presidio neighborhood townhouse garden renovation after working...

This reverse pyramid is a green urban community in the skies of Paris
The 127 residential units on the top of this bold building may be the world’s first village built out of bio-based...