Urban Dam
Design approaches that integrate natural systems, ecological resilience, and green infrastructure into urban environments.
Loizou Architects and Associates Replace the Facade with a Living Green Shell in Limassol
A 360-square-meter mixed-use building in a dense Cypriot neighborhood trades its outer wall for a vertical garden of climbing vines and local plants.
Common Practice and Studio AAAN Carve a Hidden Courtyard World into Amsterdam's Narrowest Plot
Sixty-four mid-rent apartments on Oostenburgereiland turn a sliver beside a parking garage into a layered urban interior.
VTN Architects Wraps Their Own Ho Chi Minh City Studio in a Vertical Tropical Forest
A six-story office in Vietnam's Thu Duc district uses modular planters and passive cooling to achieve a 190 percent green ratio.
Atlantis 2023: Vertical Farm Towers That Turn a City's Waste Into Its Own Food Supply
Jakub Sokólski proposes a network of timber farming towers where organic waste, water and energy circulate in a closed loop inside the dense city.
Looped Hybrid: A Cultural Loop Threads Public Life Through Three Miami Riverfront Towers
A climate adaptive superblock on the Miami River Walk lifts galleries, cafes and sky amenities onto a continuous loop that binds three towers together.
Aniene River Blue-Green Infrastructure: Turning Rome's Flood Risk into Public Landscape
A 650-hectare landscape strategy along Rome's Aniene River transforms flood events into ecological corridors, retention basins, and civic space.
Placemaking Along Hubballi's Water Streams: Reclaiming River Corridors as Urban Commons
A strategic planning framework transforms Hubballi's degraded Karkihalla stream corridor into a network of ecological and social public spaces.
Alluvium: Slot Canyon Urbanism That Cools a Desert Community
Rammed earth walls, canyon corridors, and passive systems transform arid hardscape into a living, learning public landscape.
URBANSCAPE: Symbiosis Turns Guwahati's Street Furniture into Flood Infrastructure
Bamboo bus stops, parklets, and modular benches work as ecological micro-systems to absorb monsoon runoff along Rajgarh Road, Guwahati.
Peak Resilient Parking: Rethinking Manhattan's Waterfront as a Living System
A flood-resilient corridor on the East River transforms infrastructure into terraced parks, civic space, and ecological habitat.
RainFlow Tower: A Skyscraper That Harvests Singapore's Rain as Its Lifeblood
A biomimetic tower near Marina Bay channels tropical rainfall through its entire structure, merging water self-sufficiency with vertical urbanism.
Urban Meal Mine: A Tri-Axial Grid for Growing Food in Nine Elms
A modular farming infrastructure in London negotiates the tension between urban order and ecological liberty to feed a neighbourhood.
