Maldives Floating City reinvents living in a water world
Maldives Floating City is the first development of a new era for sustainable living. In this waterfront paradise,...
Stantec redesigns NYC's The Battery to protect it from rising tides
Global design firm Stantec has revealed preliminary designs for the Battery Coastal Resilience Project, a $129...
D.C.’s Watermark luxury apartments receive LEED Gold certification
Washington, D.C.’s Buzzard Point, a post-industrial stretch of waterfront at the intersection of the Anacostia...
MVRDV’s Mission Rock tower breaks ground in San Francisco
Construction has broken ground on an MVRDV-designed building at San Francisco’s Mission Rock, a multi-phase masterplan...
Solar-powered Mukilteo Multimodal Terminal celebrates native culture
Late last year, the state of Washington welcomed its first new ferry terminal in 40 years — the Mukilteo Multimodal...
Beautiful Washington bridge with lace-like metal walls shimmers at night
When Seattle-based LMN Architects and KPFF Consulting Engineers were tapped to design the Grand Avenue Park Bridge...
SOM designs a low-carbon waterfront community for China’s “most livable city”
Global design firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has unveiled designs for Jiuzhou Bay, a new 5.6 million-square-foot...
West 8 and Studio 44 win Tuchkov Buyan Park competition in St. Petersburg
Rotterdam-based West 8 and Saint Petersburg-based Studio 44 have won an international competition with their design...
Architects want to turn the Tiber River banks into a thriving piazza
In its ongoing efforts to introduce imaginative public spaces into cities, New York-based Ballman Khapalova has...
Hood River’s mixed-use Outpost achieves industrial chic with mass timber
About an hour west of Portland, Oregon, a stretch of post-industrial waterfront along the Hood River has been revitalized...
New metro stations extend sustainable, site-sensitive transit in Denmark
Copenhagen-based architecture firm Cobe teamed up with Arup on the recently completed Orientkaj and Nordhavn —...
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...
LEED Platinum high-rise in Toronto promotes sustainable living
Aqualina at Bayside, a new multistory residence in Toronto, has just earned LEED Platinum certification — a first...
CRA proposes “reconfigurable” roads and a floating garden to revitalize Lugano’s waterfront
Carlo Ratti Associati (CRA) and Mobility in Chain (MiC) have unveiled a technologically savvy plan to better connect...
Green-roofed sports center adds sculptural appeal to the Augustow riverfront
Polish architecture firms PSBA and INOONI have recently completed a strikingly angular water sports center in the...
