Adding to an already impressive couple of blocks in West Chelsea, Manhattan, is Shigeru Ban's new design for The Metal Shutter Houses. That's the name for a condo with nine duplex apartments with jaw-dropping exterior features. Renderings are unveiled today...

Inhabitat gives us a list of ways design students can live sustainably. What is intriguing is that the tips include not only actions that affect our physical environment, global and local, but tips for personal wellness. Nothing earth-shattering, to those...

Someone thankfully advised Virgin Galactic to come to their senses after releasing their underwhelming concept ideas for a spaceport design: they held a design competition and hired Foster and Partners. The recently announced design, while being far from the Star...

Title: Green Roof—A Case Study: Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates' Design For the Headquarters of the American Society of Landscape Architects Author: Christian Werthmann Publication Date: October 1, 2007 Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press ISBN: 1568986858 Title: Natural Architecture Author: Alessandro...

Forgive us for being so slow on the ball on this; a travelling exhibition of Maya Lin's gorgeous new installations, Systematic Landscapes, opens at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis this week. Pictured from the show is Water Line, as...