Beautiful and daring, Cinder Cone will resonate with those who have graduated from Thrasher to Dwell.

Heatherwick Studio's mighty pretty design for Maggie's Centre Yorkshire resembles a cluster of massive potted plants.

It's a little bit Ewokian, a little bit New Urbanist and a whole lot intriguing.

Despite its petite size, Bi(h)OME carves out ample room for urban wildlife.

Leave it to Shigeru Ban to breathe ingenious new life into the painfully abundant remains of a major catastrophe.

James Furzer's simple design is still situated on the streets — yet lifted slightly above them.

Getaway provides a woodsy, off-grid respite from the concrete jungle.

University of Cincinnati students score big in the 2015 perFORM Building Design Competition.

Don't want to live in it anymore? Just covert it into a drive-through shaved ice stand.

At long last, Brad Pitt's green rebuilding effort thinks smaller (but just as sustainable).

Resilient design is showcased in competing homes hailing from New York, New Jersey and Missouri.

Honestly, it would be a touch difficult to hit the books on a campus this wildly verdant.

UC Davis students conceive a 'deliberate solution' to substandard farm worker housing.

The man-made foothills are most definitely alive in Cupertino.

A solar-powered home that can charge a car is one thing. But what if power flowed the other way, as well?

At 208-square-feet, Kasita smart apartments are roughly the size of 6 garbage receptacles.

Why move to the woods when you can live in a tower that doubles as a coniferous forest?

Developers behind the 104-acre sustainable project in Belize promise to consider all concerns ahead of construction in 2017.

Hydraulics give a British backyard potting shed a lift when needed.

From the man who brought you the giant tetrahedron on 57th Street...

How they can provide some space for the next generation as well.

Despite inherent flaws, House in the Tree is a fanciful fir-based escape.

The treehouse-esque bunkhouses of Whitetail Woods Regional Park score big at the AIA Housing Awards.

It's just like camping ... but with free WiFi and Malin + Goetz shampoo.

Berlin startup Cabin Spacey has a clever idea for the city's unused rooftops.

Tiny houses have become the darlings of budget-minded minimalists, and Ryan Mitchell's book, "Tiny Houses Built with Recycled Materials," explores them.

From Apple's Spaceship HQ to GE's Boston campus, these solar-integrated designs are raising the bar.

New high-rise called Tao Zhu Yin Yuan (“ The Retreat of Tao Zhu”) by Vincent Callebaut provides luxury housing and 'hope for a better tomorrow' in Taiwan.

The Design Museum's recognition of IKEA's Better Shelter for refugees couldn't come at a more appropriate time.

Situated next to the High Line, Solar Carve Tower is specifically designed not to bogart air and natural light from its neighbors.

It's a handsome, pared-down design, but where are the wheels?

Faircompanies gives a tour of an unusual Omaha, Nebraska, dwelling that consists of three concrete domes tucked underground.

M.A.Di., a flat-pack tiny house from Italy, is a new take on a beloved classic.

A cylindrical concrete abode named O-Pod could squeeze into Hong Kong's scarce unclaimed space.

Donut-shaped and parked at the foot of a glacier, the Snøhetta-designed Svart hotel in Norway is the first of its kind.

As its name implies, Scavenger Studio by Eerkes Architects was constructed from materials plucked from soon-to-be-demolished homes.

From the emphasis on nature to the secret location aspect, there's a lot to like about this off-grid lodging concept from Belgium.

Assembled as a local factory, the prefab housing units will house over 200 people at 3 different sites.

This biophilic home owned by Gennaro Brooks-Church, founder of Eco Brooklyn Living Walls, is so green it boasts a turtle sanctuary.

Bosco Verticale, Milan's literal vertical forest, boasts the equivalent of 2.4 acres of richly green land.

Milan, Italy's smoggy second largest city, envisions a future that's cooler, cleaner and swathed in green.

Located in the rural town of Brumunddal in Norway, Mjøsa Tower nabs the title of world's tallest wooden building.

A 'clunker' is a vehicle reaching less than 18 mpg. Check out the top 10 clunkiest clunkers here.

guns and classic car emotion

It was one of President Obama's signature stimulus programs, and it looked like a roaring success — at the time.

Finn the conservation dog was trained to sniff out pesky rabbits, and in the process he protect native plants and threatened Humboldt penguins.

A high-tech collaboration between astrophysicists and ecologists is helping to monitor and protect some of the world's most threatened animals.

The Mary River turtle, recognized for its algae-induced punk rock appearance and ability to breathe through its rear is endangered.

There were once less than 1,000 of them left in Mexico and the U.S.

When people see animals everywhere in pop culture, they assume they're everywhere in real life.