MAD architects’ new airport designed for China’s forest city
Opening by the end of the year in Lishui, the new airport, designed by Ma Yansong’s studio, is set to harmonize with its surrounding environment.
A mould redesigns Tokyo's subway in just 28 hours
A recent study published in Science shows how a simple single-celled organism called Physarum Polycephalum was able to rethink the entire subway network of the Japanese megacity.
10 most innovative and sustainable projects of 2024
From the regeneration of small villages to ambitious metropolitan projects, we have selected the boldest projects in imagining new ways of living in the challenge against climate change.
Jean Nouvel's garden tower in São Paulo is now complete
The French Pritzker Prize winner and 2022 Domus guest editor completes a 25-story residential building featuring large roof gardens and a second, fully planted wooden facade.
Urban planning with the Space Agency to tackle the heat island effect
Paulinyi & Partners has formalized a collaboration with the European Space Agency on a project on the testing of satellite instruments in architectural settings.
An orange pathway paints the historic center of Quito, Ecuador
The Ecuadorian designer Felice Escudero traces a long path through the city center with orange paint, with the intent of encouraging public interaction and improving the perceived safety of the area.
Where are we with Neom?
Saudi Arabia’s futuristic city has just completed Sindalah, a resort island in the Red Sea, but there's also news about The Line, the whole development's most discussed project.
Paris has finally started limiting car traffic in the city centre
The four inner arrondissements of the French capital will no longer be open to the public.
New York’s Fifth Avenue to become a pedestrian boulevard
In partnership with Future of Fifth, the City of New York recently announced that the number of lanes for vehicular traffic will be reduced to increase the space for pedestrians and vegetation.
Egypt’s new capital is under construction
The new city will rise forty-five kilometres from Cairo. The first phase will see the construction of a 70-storey tower, the tallest on the continent.
New residential complex in Taiwan includes an urban farm
The bio-architecture studio Formosana is designed to create three multi-functional residential buildings based on circular economy principles.
MIT's new recycled glass bricks that work like LEGO
A group of engineers from the American university tested the use of molten glass in the construction of a 3D-printed, vertically stackable brick.
19th century dock reborn as an urban Eden in London
Howells and HTA Design sign off on the design of Eden Dock, an aquatic green space in London’s Canary Wharf business center.
Modular plant tower mitigates effects of climate crisis at Harvard
Madrid-based firm Ecosistema Urbano has installed inside the campus a modular tower as a device capable of instantly generating biodiversity and climate comfort.