Journal

An Aquatic Pilgrimage Through Denisse Ariana Pérez’s Lens

Caribbean-born and Copenhagen-based photographer Denisse Ariana Pérez traveled the world to photograph women, men, and non-binary folks in or around water. Her work documents the freedom and power ...

The Story of Montréal’s Living, Breathing Biodôme

A once symbolic structure of the Montréal 1976 Olympic Games, this brutalist dome that found a second lease of life as a science museum. After recently undergone a vast renovation, we speak to arch...

The Beauty of Now

The face of beauty is always changing, it can't be summed up in a formula. Sometimes change is slow, but the past decade has seen a transformation like never before. Writer Kari Molvar takes a mode...

Planting Seeds, Growing A Community

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 ...

The Boom In Blooming Buildings

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 mov...

Shooting Surfers, The Life of Sarah Lee

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...

A Vertical Farm in Berlin Keeps Raising The Bar of Food Production

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...

Urban Farmers: The New Crop of Growers

In just over a decade, urban farming has evolved from an underground part of society to a mainstream source of food and daily city life. To coincide with the release of Urban Farmers, Valery Rizzo ...

Geometry Informs a Tree-Like Sanctuary in Cape Town

A retreat in the foresty mountains of Cape Town rises to share the space with nature in a seemingly organic fashion. The architectural creation by Malan Vorster is a leading case study that display...

Wang Shu and The Essence of Chinese Architecture Part II

For the second-part of the Wang Shu and Yoko Choi interview, the pair discuss China's position in the global architecture discourse and why Shu doesn't take on projects outside of his homeland.