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Designers Rethinking Our Relationship to Water

Across sculpture, planning, and public space, designers are making invisible water systems visible again—challenging us to live differently with them.
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Regenerative Design as a Response to the Water Crisis in Mexico

Guided by ancestral knowledge and shaped through collective design, Reserva Peñitas uses a regenerative development model in Valle de Bravo offering a blueprint for ecological healing, resilience, and community governan
Profiles

Alexandra Croft’s Seapunk Design Rethinks Waste and Water

Blurring the lines between land and sea, the RISD student explores waste systems through a sensorial, nonlinear, & ecologically attuned design practice.
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Zoha Tasneem Centers Empathy and Ecology

The Parsons MFA interior design graduate has created an “amphibian interior” that responds to rising sea levels and their impacts on coastal communities.
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These Architecture Students Explore the Healing Power of Water

Design projects centered on water promote wellness, celebrate infrastructure, and reconnect communities with their environment.
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Seattle’s Vertical Convention Center Breaks the Mold

The LMN Architects–designed Summit Building reinvents the convention hall as a light-filled urban connector—and is one of few worldwide to achieve LEED Platinum certification.
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Envision Resilience Participants Design for Vulnerable Coastlines

The annual studio, now in its fourth year, brings together students from various universities to envision adaptable futures for coastlines in the Northeast United States.
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Study Architects Designs a Water-Saving Desert Retreat in Arizona

The studio’s Tucson home combines Modernist aesthetics with innovative rainwater collection to tackle resource scarcity.
Profiles

Alberto Kritzler is at the Forefront of Regenerative Design in Mexico

The Harvard Loeb Fellow is rethinking water scarcity and abundance through his Reserva el Peñón project in in Valle de Bravo, Mexico.
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How Can Designers Listen to Water?

Funded by architectural nonprofit re:arc institute, Latin and Central American practices are designing with water to create urban spaces for planetary well-being.
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8 Products and Sustainability Takeaways from KBIS 2024

Responsible manufacturing and healthy materials took centerstage at KBIS 2024, with new releases and programming.
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A ‘Ghost River’ Flows Through Baltimore

Learn how this public art installation tells the story of 100 years of urban development—and invites us to imagine what the next century should look like.
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ASU’s Fusion on First Cut Its Energy Needs—and Costs—by Half

Designed by Studio Ma, the facility proves that higher education buildings can deliver on student experience, urban connectivity, and climate action while keeping the bottom line under control.
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These D.C. Art Installations Point to More Than High Water Marks

Depicting a 500-year flood line nine feet in the air, the latest sculpture educates on rising waters in one of the area’s lowest lying spots.
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Public Water Presents New York’s Complex Drinking Water System in Miniature

Located at the northern entrance to Brooklyn's Prospect Park, the newest work by artist Mary Mattingly emulates New York City's watershed.
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Why Landscapes Designed to Flood Are Environmentally Sound

The author of a new book explains why a landscape may be more resilient when it is designed for and defined by its floods.
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Step Inside Water Works, WORKac’s Aqueous Exhibition at Poortersloge

After shuttering in March, the studio’s water-driven retrospective is available virtually.
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Chicago Architecture Biennial Preview: Rights to Resources

At this year's event, exhibitors look critically at the dynamics of resource distribution and ecological stewardship.
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Architecture Firm Ooze Harnesses Natural Systems to Solve Freshwater Crises

"We have moved away from the systems nature has provided to us, it's time we move back," says Ooze cofounder Eva Pfannes.
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Kate Orff on Her New Project in Israel, What’s in Store for the Venice Biennale, and Activism in Landscape Architecture

Orff's New York practice SCAPE develops broad-based coalitions that can advocate for the firm's projects.