Building and Construction

What looks at a glance like a hilly section of landscape is actually a new greenery covered natural history museum by BIG. The energy efficient building is being built from wood and will allow visitors to walk all over its raised form.

Despite its length of just 26 ft, the Kookaburra tiny house features a well-designed layout that's suitable for two people. It includes a spacious and light-filled living room, plus a small home office area.

Construction has begun on an eye-catching new skyscraper in Miami. The 70-story tower will be defined by its wavy exterior and feature solar-panel-integrated windows to help reduce its grid-based energy usage.

Backcountry Containers recently transformed a shipping container into a tiny house. Named the Kennedy Model, the compact home includes a well-designed and open interior layout that maximizes the limited space available.

Dragon Tiny Homes recently produced its largest tiny house to date. Featuring a length of 32 ft, the towable home has been carefully designed to allow its owner to age comfortably and safely in place.

While sustainably-grown wood can be an eco-friendly building material, its relatively low tensile strength limits its potential applications. That could soon change, however, thanks to a new self-densifying technique for creating super-strong wood.

Credible rumors are gaining momentum that a ridiculously tall skyscraper planned for Saudi Arabia is going ahead. If constructed, the incredibly ambitious 1.2-mile-high building will dwarf all other man-made structures.

MVRDV has completed work on an unusual new building that takes the form of a stack of boxes. Named Portlantis, the energy positive project hosts exhibition spaces and will be dismantled and recycled when its useful life comes to an end.

Huge tiny houses are all well and good, but for those who want to travel regularly, something smaller is more practical. This compact model combines an open layout with a solar power setup that ensures the lights stay on wherever you park it.

The Vipp Tunnel is a remarkable new building that takes the form of a concrete tunnel. It cantilevers slightly over a hill among the rugged surrounding landscape and also runs off-the-grid with solar panels.

Researchers have found a way to take waste concrete from demolition sites and turn it into fresh new concrete that has a strength not seen before from such a product. The breakthrough could lead to significant emissions reductions in the building sector.

This strange white paste might not look like much, but it could not only solve the sand shortage, but make the cement manufacturing process absorb carbon dioxide instead of emitting it. Scientists grew this stuff out of seawater, electricity and CO2.