Mexico City

By 2050, the UN thinks there will be nearly 10 billion people on planet Earth, with 68 percent living in urban areas. New research explores whether Aztec farming techniques could hold one answer to feeding the cities of the future.

Following an international architecture competition, LBR&A Architectos' Torre Reforma has been declared the winner of the International Highrise Award. Chosen from over 1,000 towers built in the past two years, the office building was hailed for its innovative earthquake-resistant design.

​Treehouses as we know them tend to be made of timber. Mexican architect Gerardo Broissin paid little attention to this building convention with the design of "chantli kuaulakoyokan," a transparent treehouse in Mexico City.

Around 18 months have passed since Zaha Hadid died suddenly, but the company she founded seems as busy as ever. Shortly after completing KAPSARC in Saudi Arabia, construction work has just begun on a new tower in Mexico City called the Bora Residential Tower.

​A self-driving vehicle developed by German researchers has undertaken a monster 2,400 km (1,500 mi) journey across Mexico without any guidance from a human hand.

Plans have been unveiled to reclaim a road in Mexico City from cars. Avenida Chapultepec is one of the city's busy main arteries, but is clogged with cars and splits the city. The historical road will feature an elevated park with green spaces and a layout tailored for those on foot or bike.

Foster + Partners has designed a number of airports. Each has been ambitious and environmentally considered. The firm says its Mexico City airport design, however, will make it one of the biggest and the most sustainable in the world.

Designed to house the personal library of Mexican diplomat Antonion Castro Leal, the Castro Leal Library in Mexico City won first prize in the institutional category in the 2012 Mexican Association of Interior Designers' AMDI Awards.

An internet company in Mexico has placed devices in several parks that accept pet waste and then activate free wifi for a set time in the area.

Mexico City's Earthscraper is the reversal of an Aztec pyramid.

Mexico's Tubohotel, which opened in 2010, is a unique and affordable holiday destination created from recycled concrete tubes.

April 8, 2006 We wrote recently about a new form of motorsport known as drifting , the first four-wheeled motorsport in which speed is not the key factor. Inst