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Conceptualized by San Francisco-based designer Joanna Borek-Clement, the Sky-Terra skyscrapers is a neuron-like network of interconnected towers, designed to address the ever growing need for green urban space. This structure floats over the congested city and includes public parks, amphitheaters, fields, and public pools and bathhouses. read more »
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Eco Factor: Sustainable hotel generates electricity for itself from renewable sources. U.S.-based architecture firm Leeser Architecture has designed a new five-star hotel for Abu Dhabi, UAE, which takes hotel designing to its utmost limits. Called the Helix Hotel, for its staggering form, the hotel is designed to partially float in water and partially rest in the bay. read more »
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Eco Factor: Sustainable architecture for Taiwan’s Chinatrust Bank. The Chinatrust Bank has often been referred to as the “Best Bank in Taiwan.” The bank is now looking not only to benefit its customers with its practices, but to benefit the environment on the whole with a newly designed skyscraper that has broken ground in Taiwan. Designed by Los Angeles-based NBBJ Architects read more »
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Eco Factor: Sun and rain harnessing building for Madrid. Mansilla + Tunon Architects have designed a stunning architecture for Madrid, one which will bring Madrid on the Green Map of the world. The completed International Convention Center will be cylindrical and the building’s façade will be lined with solar panels, which will provide electricity for all requirements. read more »
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Eco Factor: 100% self-dependent resort and residential development by BIG Architects. Danish architecture firm BIG Architects along with Ramboll Engineers has developed the master plan for a completely self-sufficient and self-dependent resort and residential complex on Zira Island in the Caspian Sea. The 1,000,000 square-meter master plan will include seven residential developments, read more »
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Eco Factor: Sustainable housing inspired by equatorial rainforests. Population explosion along with rapid industrialization has already affected millions and the views of the future seem even grimmer. The earth is not expanding, and the ever growing population will always have to battle the dearth of residential land. If land is scarce, the answer would definitely be the same – Go fo read more »
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