#eco-friendly

Punta Pájaros hotel, Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico,

The Future of the Streets: From Car Culture to Green Transit 🚲🌳

Let’s be real: the "concrete jungle" vibe is getting a little old. 🏙️ It’s time to trade the endless sea of brake lights for something that actually lets the planet breathe. Imagine shifting from the gridlock of 2019 to a 2030 where half the highway is reclaimed for bikes, pedestrians, and lush green canopies. 🌿✨ This isn't just "concept thinking"—it’s a necessary glow-up for our cities. Imagine commuting through a park instead of a parking lot, feeling the breeze, and actually seeing trees on your way to work. We’re manifesting urban spaces that prioritize people and the planet over exhaust pipes. The transport shift is coming, and it looks incredibly refreshing. 🚲🌬️

Aranyani Pavilion: Sacred Nature, New Delhi, India,

The Aranyani Pavilion is conceived as a contemporary interpretation of the sacred grove,  a spatial environment where architecture, landscape, and craft exist in quiet reciprocity. The pavilion’s primary structure is formed from bamboo, establishing a lightweight yet resilient framework that reflects both ecological sensitivity and deep-rooted craft traditions. This structural system is complemented by woven and assembled lantana, bringing together digital design methodologies with traditional handcraft.

The pavilion unfolds as a gradual spatial trajectory that encourages slow movement, reflection, and sensory engagement with texture, shade, and light. By transforming lantana, an invasive species in India that requires ecological removal, into a primary architectural element, the project proposes a narrative of regeneration, where environmental stewardship and cultural craft become inseparable from architectural expression.

Cob House, Almaty, Alatau region, Kazakhstan,

Dilyara Mazhitova & Vladimir Radostovets Design,

Jeremy Frey, “Caesura” (2023),

Jeremy Frey is a seventh-generation basket maker who harvests and prepares all his own materials from Maine's forests.

Caesura represents his recent foray into "non-basket" media, using ancestral techniques to explore formal issues of optics and space.

Ash, birch bark, cedar bark, and dye,

Approximately:

Height: 35 inches (88.9 cm)

Width: 35 inches (88.9 cm)