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Energy infrastructure of the past, like oil refineries and rigs, aren't typically considered beautiful. But as the world transitions to more renewable sources of power, what if utility-scale energy installations could double...

Calling all future-looking designers and architects! We've got a cool new design competition coming up for you -- for the X-Prize -- with some great cash prizes...

The proposal was created by Daniel Gillen, Colby Suter, Philipp Ohnesorge, and Gustav Fagerstrom using digital design processes. The team analyzed the topography of the Circle Acres Nature Preserve in Austin's Montopolis...

2. Hiriya Park, Tel-Aviv, Isreal Hiriya's horrifying mountain of garbage hit its limit in 1998 after reaching 25 million TONS of waste. After that the facility was finally shut down and an international competition was held...

Mushrooms aren't just for eating anymore. Biotect David Benjamin and his firm, The Living, recently completed their latest project - the world's first tower made of fungus bricks - at MoMA PS1 in Queens, New York. The shroomy,...

Mushrooms aren't just for eating anymore. Biotect David Benjamin and his firm, The Living, recently completed their latest project - the world's first tower made of fungus bricks - at MoMA PS1 in Queens, New York. The shroomy,...

Slated for the Blasieholmsudden peninsula, the building will include a variety of exhibition spaces and meeting rooms, a library and of course an expansive auditorium, where the annual Nobel Prize award ceremony recognises...

Heads up architects, designers, and creatives - Prodigy Design Lab just launched a groundbreaking competition where you can contribute to the design of 17John - New York City's first crowdsourced hotel - and they're giving...

Heads up architects, designers, and creatives - Prodigy Design Lab just launched a historic competition where you can contribute to the design of 17John - the world's first crowdsourced hotel - and they're giving away $50,000...

THE HOLCIM AWARDS IS NOW ACCEPTING ENTRIES! Since accepting its first application back in 2005, the Holcim Awards has recognized more that 150 innovative architecture projects from across the globe that have advanced sustainability...

The toilet, ubiquitous as it is, hasn't changed much in design or function since indoor plumbing became a thing. In honor of World Toilet Day, plumbing and drain specialists Dyno-Rod decided to change that by holding a competition...

Bucharest-based studio Armarada designed Avis Magica as a conceptual vertical tower that boasts a 120 meter-tall aquarium and energy-generating "feathers," among many other zany features...

Canadian startup Aerovelo just won the elusive $250,000 Sikorsky Prize with their incredible human-powered helicopter called Atlas! The Sikorsky rules—which were developed when the competition was launched in 1980—are...

Flip through our gallery and you'll see past Greenpeace survival pods in action. Used to fight drillers, whalers and other environmental "villains" in often extreme conditions, these compact pods keep both the activists and...

The board of Kinderspital Zürich announced that Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron has been selected to design a new children’s hospital in Zurich...