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Namba Parks, landscaped architecture in Osaka, Japan. Cities have gone too far with concrete. Now it is time to reverse this trend, unfortunately the hard way… [Source: Freshome]

Vincent Callebaut’s architectural exercise is an impressive floating city for a population of 50,000 inhabitants. The idea is that in a future of rising sea levels and natural catastrophic events provoked by climate change, these islands will be refugees for the few lucky thousands.
Green walls, solar panels, massive landscaped areas and energy saving take center [...]

Imagine a 59-level building that has rotating levels, each one moving independently according to its occupants’ desire. Imagine also this building’s energy production capacity being enough to not only cover all its needs but also feed the electricity network with excess electrical energy and helping with the city’s energy conservation efforts.
Science fiction? Quite the opposite. [...]

Preserving local architectural and material characteristics of buildings is a serious issue in many areas of the world. The Perma Karpo Library on north Himalayan India is constructed with the help of Arup, using local materials, local construction teams that will gain experience for future construction work, and integrating green features that set it [...]

Source: SkyscraperCity
Today Burj Dubai has reached 650m height, officially becoming the highest structure in the world by surpassing the 646m high Warsaw radio mast. Construction started in September 2004 and is expected to finish in September 2009 at a height of 819m.
[SkyscraperCity via Gizmodo]