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Biophilia
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Profiles
EcoLogicStudio Grows Air-Purifying Architecture with Algae
London-based architects Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto draw on the intrinsic intelligence of natural organisms and artificial intelligence to create structures that turn pollutants into clean air.
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Profiles
Moshe Safdie Is Architecture’s Constant Gardener
At 84, the visionary designer is still evolving architecture's capacity to build habitats for all living things.
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Projects
Dining in a Garden 56 Stories Above Mexico City
Sordo Madaleno’s design for the restaurant Ling Ling combines traditional Mexican architecture with rich biophilic touches.
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Projects
Outside Tulum SFER IK Shakes up the Familiar Museum Model
Deep in the Mayan jungle, the cultural center contains literally no flat floors or ceilings, and is made primarily of local timber, living trees, and vines.
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Viewpoints
A New Book Sheds Light on Russel and Mary Wright’s Unconventional Home
The midcentury design power couple's upstate New York was a laboratory for experimentation with natural materials.
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Projects
In France, a New Neighborhood Is Part of the Adjacent Park—or Is it the Other Way Around?
Édouard François’s latest plant-clad building rises in Nice, France. Called Le Ray, the architect hopes it will point the way toward a greener way of building and living.
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Viewpoints
From Victorian Gardens to Corporate Biophilia, Nature Inside Unearths a History of Interior Plantings
Despite differences in motivation, context, and aims, Penny Sparke shows that bringing flora inside stands as a token of unspoiled nature, a reminder of what’s gone.
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Projects
These Residential Towers in London Are Wrapped in Sky-High Gardens
Designed by Glenn Howells Architects, Wardian London gives high-rise city dwellers a dose of nature in the form of glassed-in gardens that run throughout.
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Projects
KANVA Completes an Airy Redesign of Montreal’s Biodome
Building systems complement ecosystems in an airy, energy-efficient transformation that balances the needs of visitors and animals.
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Products
A Breakthrough in Biophilic Lighting Design
Lightglass offers the first practical solution to bring daylight to spaces with no exterior walls.
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Projects
Mezza House Restaurant Brings the Levantine Landscape Indoors
In a recent renovation project, Pallavi Dean of interior design studio Roar turns Dubai's Mezza House restaurant into a biophilic sanctuary.
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Projects
At this Office Building in Oakland, the Walls Are Alive
In the Bay Area city, local company Habitat Horticulture installed a rich, tapestry-like living wall titled Urban Ecotones.
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Projects
A Pavilion Where Lighting Mimics Branches, Leaves—and Chipmunks
For this structure in a Dutch national park—the next installment in our lighting portfolio—designers used projections that appear to float on the breeze.
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Products
Living Innovation: This Flooring Manufacturer’s Sustainability Initiatives Go Beyond Its Products
Mohawk Group merges biophilic design with green technologies to develop sustainable products and spaces.
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Viewpoints
How Nonprofit and Public-Sector Clients Are Driving Sustainable Design
As these three examples of nonprofit and public-sector clients suggest, those at the top can empower architects to make impactful choices, provided they embrace sustainable goals of substance.
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Projects
The ASID’s New Offices Help Employees Stay Healthy
In its new headquarters, the American Society of Interior Designers tackles the next big challenge for workplace design—helping office-goers stay healthy.
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Programs
Working Smarter and Sleeping Better: Circadian Rhythm in Workplace and Healthcare Design
As part of the Metropolis Think Tank series, Susan S. Szenasy visits the Seattle office of ZGF Architects LLP.
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Viewpoints
Why We Hug the Edge of Open Spaces
The tenth and final installment of the Biophilia and Healing Environments series examines how human biology dictates the design of the physical settings we inhabit.
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Viewpoints
The Importance of Listening to Lessons From Nature
The ninth installment of the ten-part Biophilia and Healing Environments series juxtaposes the focus on innovative form for its own sake with biophilic design.
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Viewpoints
Modernist Minimalism and Our Relationships with Our Buildings
The eighth installment of the ten-part Biophilia and Healing Environments series shows how our evolutionary heritage helps us see buildings viscerally, and not as intellectualized abstractions.