If Sydney-based architect Tone Wheeler gets his way, the Australian metropolis will soon be sporting brand-new rooftop playgrounds and open space areas as a means to green the city. How? By greening every single roof in Sydney!


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Rem Koolhaas has been quoted saying that skyscrapers create “vertical organization and new territories.” And now, one young Mexican architect, José Muñoz Villers, has designed a building that embodies these sentiments. Muñoz Villers incorporates the latest technologies, materials, engineering, and a holistic view of urban space into his design. The building, named the Euroscraper, is such a forward-thinking design that it has garnered 3rd place in the eVolo Architecture Skyscraper competition.

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It is a fact of life, that for many young architects starting out on their own, paying jobs are quite scarce. In Mexico, the amount paid for those jobs is certainly less than that in other countries. So, when a client gave the option to the group of architects known as T23, of waiting for payment for work completed or a couple of hundred disused fiberglass chairs from the Mexico City Sistema Transporte Eléctrico (STE) bus line, they chose the chairs, got creative and formulated the STElla chair.


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