For over a century, community gardens have been a focal part of life in urban areas across much of the world. Their rise is attributed to food shortages during the wars, but today they are beacons that bring more food diversity to communities and bring like-minded together.
Although vertical gardens and living walls have been in existence for millenniums, today they play a more pivotal role that ever in ensuring humans and nature can live together in harmony. As a movement, they are re-envisioning the role of architecture and how we live in urban spaces.
Submerged underneath a swirling wave just to capture the perfect shot of a surfer riding a wave, these are the moments that define Sarah Lee's photography. A champion of water documentation, writer Lauren L. Hill covers her story for She Surf.
Founded in Berlin in 2013, Infarm’s modular vertical farms—a distributed model that is easily scalable—can be found on the aisles of supermarkets across the world. Writer Mónica R. Goya delves into this pioneering concept for Urban Farmers.
The exemplary career of Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen demonstrates how talent can indeed run in the family. An individual who looked to the future, and often sky, with his bold visionary designs where both loved and loathed. On what would have been his birthday, we remember two iconic designs from this mid-20th-century master.
A Brutalist structural beauty that feels like a time capsule of the Mexican lifestyle and tradition, this home is fitting that sculptor Pedro Reyes and his wife Carla Fernández, a fashion designer. Doubling as a space for their home and their work studios, both are strongly committed to preserving and advancing native cultural traditions, crafts, and arts. Discover this masterpiece in Mexico City.
A pioneering transformation from a Brutalist structure to a romantic marvel—a vision of a civilization that seizes the 1960-70s air of change, come inside one of Ricardo Bofill's most astonishing architectural feats. La Fábrica is both a symbol of pride and a place he calls home.
