Editor’s Note: Design for Impact is a series spotlighting architectural solutions for communities displaced by the climate crisis, natural disasters and other humanitarian emergencies. Many of these ...

Moored to the ocean floor or anchored to docks, the floating living units created by Stephens Waring Design want to reimagine shoreline housing. The concept is called OASys and provides unbridled ...

A rest stop for bicyclists, with café and floating canopies within native woodland—blending architecture, art, and ecology.

Japan's N-Ark has revealed plans for an incredibly ambitious floating city that would host tourism, medical facilities, and even space rockets. Named Dogen City, it would be designed to take any ...

It’s been a productive year for Carlo Ratti Associati, an Italian architectural firm known for blending man-made construction with natural environments. The company recently unveiled a sophisticated ...

UN-Habitat and blue tech firm OCEANIX unveiled the design of the world’s first prototype for a sustainable floating city, to be hosted by Busan. The project is intended to provide a scalable framework ...

The system is based on flat-pack floating foundations, easy to transport and assemble in various configurations. The system takes inspiration from gabion constructions, a technology that utilizes mesh ...

A city is rising from the waters of the Indian Ocean. In a turquoise lagoon, just 10 minutes by boat from Male, the Maldivian capital, a floating city, big enough to house 20,000 people, is being ...

A viral video showing what appear to be “free floating” apartment units in Vienna has prompted experts to break down the real engineering at work behind the eye-catching illusion. The video, posted by ...