The world’s largest CO2 removal plant
A plant capable of capturing 5 million metric tonnes of CO2 per year is being built in rural areas of Wyoming, in the US.
Ikea’s low-cost photovoltaic kit
There has been much talk about the launch of Ikea’s low-cost, but obviously not do-it-yourself, photovoltaic kit in California: but in Europe, it has been available for a few years already.
Cheap transit plans to address the gas crisis
After the summer proposals to reduce the use of private cars, governments are turning to public transport to alleviate the energy crisis.
The project for a futuristic city on Tokyo Bay
The Japanese metropolis is studying the plan for a new city-within-a-city on a bay previously occupied by the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Public transport in Germany after the nine-euro ticket
During the summer season, the German government financed an initiative to make public transport almost free of charge, from the Berlin Metro to the internal regional train line. But how might this initiative turn out at the end of the season?
World’s largest urban garden project in Rio de Janeiro
The Brazilian metropolis is funding a major urban garden project among local favelas, spreading the consumption of organic produce and providing a source of income for disadvantaged families.
Hexagonal icebergs could counter Arctic warming
With the accelerated disappearance of glaciers, a design team led by Faris Rajak Kotahatuhaha proposes a submarine capable of creating artificial icebergs of almost two thousand cubic metres.
Battery Park City: the project designed to save Lower Manhattan
Occupied by some of the most valuable real estate in NYC, the coastal area is the subject of one of the most ambitious urban resilience projects in the United States. But also among the most expensive.
One of the planet’s largest urban resilience plans is happening in Toronto
The Canadian metropolis is redesigning its shores with more than 20 separate interventions, in one of the most ambitious green infrastructure projects.
The regeneration of Chicago’s Riverwalk achieves a hundred-years dream
From an industrial sewage river to the beating heart of downtown: this is how Chicago's Michigan River regeneration has given back a public place to the city, drawing a new urban landscape between skyscrapers and water.
The utopian 170-kilometre-long skyscraper in Saudi Arabia
Published by the Saudi government, The Line will be an ambitious new mega structure, connecting the inland with the Red Sea coast. According to the plan, it will house 9 million people when completed.
New York City′s new solution for problems caused by pigeons
The Birdmaster company may have found a way to avoid damage to the architectural heritage caused by the heavy presence of birds in the metropolis. The Big Apple is now their testing ground.
How Amsterdam is trying to control tourism
After the proposed relocation of the city’s red-light district, mayor Femke Helsema wants to discourage visitors wishing to take a “holiday from morality”.
An electric Tuk-Tuk powered by Audi
The rickshaw is an experiment to test the use of refurbished e-Tron batteries in less powerful e-mobility vehicles.