On a recent Friday afternoon, Youfang Duan and Tim Victorio slowly drizzled a second coat of epoxy onto large slabs of milled and sanded poplar wood, then smoothed it out with small scrapers to make ...

Some architects and home designers are using one particular biophilic element to striking effect: trees. We've already seen public spaces around the globe incorporate trees in remarkable and beautiful ...

AI-generated art has advanced so much recently, it’s winning first prize in fine arts competitions meant for human artists. Programs like DALL-E and Midjourney make it possible to produce surprisingly ...

Influential Italian architect Carlo Scarpa once said "between a tree and a house, choose the tree." With its recent renovation of a beautiful Italian farmhouse, Carlo Ratti Associatti decided to ...

Professor Douglas Noble gave students parameters for their designs based on the park’s rules. Among the challenges were the lack of water or electricity to power the structure. (Photo courtesy of Ivan ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about conscious luxury, focusing on travel, well-being & art. Enzo Enea, one of the world’s leading landscape architects, ...

In a forest along the Hudson River north of New York City, a strange new building is slowly rising. The strangeness of the building is that it’s meant to be occupied by humans, animals, and plants.

A recent University of Chicago alumni magazine highlights a quote by novelist Amitov Ghosh: "There is no forest. They’re all gardens of one kind or another.” During this grim winter season, trees in ...

Some architects and home designers are using one particular biophilic element to striking effect: trees. We’ve already seen public spaces around the globe incorporate trees in remarkable and beautiful ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This rendering created by DN8 and provided by ODA Architecture shows a living tree situated in an infinity pool inside a private ...