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Could human urine be used on a commercial scale to fertilize the food we eat?

You are not just buying a box but a full service design/build package. Could this take container architecture mainstream?

Good Guy Leo strikes again!

Equipped with two bedrooms and a secondary loft, there's plenty of space to grow in this small home.

Aedas designs a railway station like a hill you can walk on.

It would be a good way to further broaden the appeal of electric vehicles.

This digitally fabricated project revives a traditional material with new building technologies.

A new proposal for Hong Kong tries to fit people into pipes.

Seven architects have created massive and impressive new structures inside a building from the 1700's.

Earlier in the week, the New York Times reported that bees in Brooklyn had started turning red, and their honey was looking like bright red goo. It turned out that

Remember the Yellow Pages Association? They represent the folks who print phone books. They've fought some efforts by cities to ban phone book distribution, and

It tells you when to get up and to sit down, and checks up on you too.

Because shipping containers are designed to move and these ones might have to.

This architect converted a shipping container to accommodate an expanding office.

It's partially built out of Cross Laminated Timber; it "immerses students in this relatively new product."

This portable pavilion has a clever lightweight structure where the bookshelves hold up the roof.

Forget plugging in your phone to charge, soon the battery could stay topped off from swipes and typing.

As reported in the Otago Daily Times, the noticeable impacts of climate change on area coral reefs and a recent starfish outbreak are not as bad as previously thought due to noticeable changes in the Fijian lifestyle. From

Pop-up gardens, urban farms, guerrilla bike lanes, examples of crowdsourced city planning, and other urban interventions will be the focus of the official U.S. Pavilion at the world's most prestigious architecture event.

The U.S. Pavilion is spotlighting grassroots efforts to make cities and neighborhoods greener, safer, and happier places to live.

There is a shipping container building revolution coming, but it won't look like a bunch of silly boxes.

MAKAR is doing the kind of work that puts North American architects and builders to shame.

Honeybees survey vast tracts of land during their communal foraging. They share their best finds in a waggle dance, which new research has turned into a powerful tool for assessing ecosystem health.

Stairs are coming out of the closet and becoming the major architectural element, helping keep people active and healthy.

Mike Eliason, an American architect working in Germany, explains.

Don't Blink or You'll Miss It! Google has created a series of video ads called "Search Stories". They're basically short vignettes showing some cool projects that were made possible by people finding the right information (using Google, of course). The

Where I was preoccupied with everything Herman Miller after a tour of their factories

They do this so well in Montreal.

Green roofs, living walls, vertical farms are all part of a new living architecture.

Strange things happen when roofs touch the ground.

Jean-Philippe Pargade designs a school where the green roof IS the building, defining its whole look and feel

Argentine architect Carlos Levinton, who we've seen help Bolivian communities with PET, was asked by the UN White Helmets Comission to collaborate with ideas for the reconstruction of Haiti after the earthquake.

Kate Stohr, the co-founder of Architecture for Humanity, dropped me a note suggesting that I have a look at their Year in Review of their work in Haiti. I did, and couldn't help but come to the conclusion that it was really boring.. I mean really,

Australian researchers used LIDAR, the aerial laser technology, to rediscover the city of Mahendraparvata in Cambodia.

Architects ignore it. "Heads of sustainability" ignore it. Critics have ignored it, but this may be changing.

Buckminster Fuller 's 1933 Dymaxion car was a marvel. Architect Norman Foster tells Jonathan Glancey of the Guardian: "The Dymaxion had the same engine and transmission as the Ford Sedan of the time," says Foster, who worked

The last of these dog-like animals, also known as Tasmanian tigers, was thought to have died in 1936. But might they still be lurking elusively in the wild?

The availability and quality of fresh water to sustain a radically urbanizing world is unquestionably a core issue of our time and requires holistic environmental thinking at an unprecedented scale

The autonomous robot allows scientists to more safely study polar enviroments and also collects valuable information on ice conditions for climate research.

A posse of paper penguins has spread to major international cities in the past week, as part of a new Greenpeace campaign to protect Antarctica.

The flying robots will start helping officials to locate lost hikers.

The iconic English office pod can be used for all kinds of things.

More proof that some things never change.

Image credit: El País According to El País on sunday, celebraty chef Ferran Adrià is plotting a zero emission premises for his restaurant elBulli on the coast of Catalonia, Spain. The 2010 chef of the decade (nominated by The Restaurant magazine) closed

Nearly a year ago a "Great Green Wall" of trees was proposed to run across the entire southern border of the Sahara desert in an attempt to stop expanding desertification. At the TED Global conference in Oxford, England,

Few other animals are known to be intrinsically motivated to assist others in need.

Architects are often late bloomers. Frank Gehry is in his prime at 79; Ralph Rapson died at his drafting board last year at 93.

The Freedomky is a nicely done modular design

As the Guardian notes in its headline, Wood you believe it?