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Biophilia
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This Arkansas Institute Brings a Holistic Vision to Health-Care Design
Designed by Marlon Blackwell Architects, Heartland Whole Health Institute weaves together nature, wellness, and architecture to reimagine how we care for the body and mind.
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Payette’s Ragon Building Redefines Biomedical Research Spaces
A collaboration between MIT, Harvard, and Mass General Hospital, the new institute advances vaccine development—including efforts toward an HIV cure.
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Viewpoints
How Biophilic Design Is Transforming the Airport Experience
Portland International Airport’s newly redesigned terminal brings nature inside using timber, trees, and natural light to create a stress-free journey for travelers.
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Viewpoints
Help! We’re Drowning in Bio-Lingo
Deciphering the labels on natural and nature-inspired materials is not easy. But clarity is coming.
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New Research Expands the Possibilities of Biophilic Design
In the latest episode of Deep Green, Bill Browning and Katie Ryan of Terrapin Bright Green explore the science of biophilic design and its transformative impact on the built environment.
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This Botanical Garden’s New Addition Is as Subtle as Light and Shadow
Whispers of texture and nature pull visitors through the Missouri Botanical Garden’s new visitor center and into the landscape beyond.
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The Denver Art Museum Explores Nature’s Eternal Sway over Architecture and Design
Biophilia: Nature Reimagined brings together 70 works that explore the relationship between nature and creativity.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.