But I am in the tank for the one that came in second

A design competition that shows that we can have our cake and eat it too.

It's only the second time that the treehugger types get the big prize

It's all a facade, as architects compete to see who can design the ugliest exterior.

As the Guardian notes in its headline, Wood you believe it?

As always, they warm your hearts as well as your toes.

Engineering students come up with a hyperloop pod that floats on air.

The OCADU project won a Wood Works! award and will probably win a lot more to come.

Don't just sit there, do something.

It is a modern plug-in city that is organic in more ways than one.

Dutch designers build a border wall that you can skate through.

A design competition shows ideas that might soon be floating off French Polynesia

There are 17 atriums that need to be filled with creative uses.

Archigram’s Plug-in City meets 3D Printing

We have a look at the eco-sheds

It's urban, Passive House and prefab. What's not to love?

They really do live up to their billing this year.

Not coming soon from a modular company near you.

Lipinski Lasovsky Johansson has designed a beautiful building and, wow, what beautiful drawings.

Moriyama & Teshima Architects + Acton Ostry Architects win design competition.

It always amazes, how much work people do for this.

This being TreeHugger, we look at the eco-sheds first.

Metsä Wood design competition produces very interesting entries, like this one from Sigurd Larsen.

Lots of great ideas for green building in this year's crop.

But the hotel design competition is always interesting, even in an off year.

A competition invites designers to come up with ideas, but really, it's old news. They have been disappearing for years.

This self-sustaining mini-ecosystem is made by a designer who wants to create habitable structures that are also themselves alive.

This modern and comfortable two-bed treehouse in Texas is open to guests.

Created by BIG and WeWork, this open-plan school in NYC offers another model for education.

An old garage shed is transformed into a spacious little home for one grandmother, living near her kids and grandkids.

This modular curtain could help existing buildings photosynthesize oxygen and get rid of pollution in cities.

This shipping container house stacks two to get more living space.

This is what happens when LEDs get cheaper and better: designers use more of them. Someone predicted this once.

Currently moored in London's St. Katharine Docks, this lovely modern houseboat is on the market for £290,000.

This inviting, one-bedroom canal boat is in the 600-square-foot range and has all the comforts of home.

Really, there is a lot to love about his work that applies to green building. Really.

Everyone is talking about "overtourism" these days. I was recently part of the problem.

Architects all over the world should be doing this too.

It's wonderful to see architects take small interventions for housing for the homeless so seriously.

"The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines."

Steve Webb thinks we should tax upfront carbon like cigarettes, and we should build in wood and stone.

A new feature allows users to travel up the amazon, along rainforest trails, and through communities in one of the world's most remote regions.

Love chocolate? Help protect endangered cacao trees and the livelihoods of the Asháninka people.

"How are we going to protect it if we don't understand what's at stake?"

Where the words and appeals of those indigenous tribes destined to be displaced by the dam had failed, nearly two-hundred native Amazonians have now gathered in a last ditch effort to protect their homeland using their bodies.

This project learns from spiders by envisioning a series of interconnected webs that would allow scientists to study the rainforest without harming it.

The continue reduction in Amazon forest clearance is based on preliminary data however. Last year the final tally resulted in significantly higher levels of deforestation.

Yep, people can do pretty amazing things when they set their sights on it. These are some of our favorite (sometimes crazy) human accomplishments and amazing feats of strength.

For one tiny spider recently discovered in the Peruvian Amazon, creating an incredibly convincing decoy of itself seems to come naturally.

Despite a steady decline in deforestation in recent years, the latest figure suggests indicate a change of direction.