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Due to its incredible benefits, both physical and mental, the connection between interior and exterior architecture has increased in popularity. This is especially relevant in neutral climes, where temperatures tend not to be too extreme, especially in terms of the colder months. Here in Australia, the inside/outside design element is often essential, as our mostly warmer climate allows us to embrace the fact that open-air spaces work best. Landscape architecture plays into this reality, and is now really finding its relevance as we move further into outdoor spaces. One design located in Melbourne is showing the power of landscape architecture in creating community spaces without walls.

Urban farming, vertical forests and sky garden design concepts are currently seeing a huge amount of global attention. The reason being is that they offer to answer a huge question for most living in city spaces: How can we live a greener lifestyle in the city? That question is answered through these incredible designs. Urban farming offers to cater to the food needs of cities in a way that is sustainable and doesn't involve high levels of carbon emissions through transport processes, vertical forests add extensive green spaces in areas that are space short and sky gardens add a sense of community and a greener lifestyle to otherwise 'brown', boring living spaces.

Imagine a #creative and #surreal track that was born out of the need to reactivate a sparsely used area in a #shoppingmall. Located in #Shanghai, #China, #100architects have converted a 1,200 sq. m. indoor space into a family-oriented entertaining space. Want to know how? Read on…

One of London's more whimsical architecture competitions has been completed once and for all, and the much speculated 'a room for London' design concept now stands. The competition, run by Living Architecture, boasted a much lusted after brief that offered the winning design team the chance to build a room on top of the Queen Elizabeth Hall, to act as a temporary accommodation space throughout the 2012 Olympic Games. The incredible competition, which ran throughout 2011, picked the finalist collaboration team of architectural firm David Kohn architects and Fiona Banner with their quirky and imaginative design scheme which has seen the completion of a boat-shaped living space overlooking some of the most famous London sights. The design is a reflection of the city's strong literary roots, taking its riverboat form from Joseph Conrad's  'Heart of Darkness'.

Penda brings to India a landscape design that promises to pull residents out of their home into the common amenity space! Read on to know more about this interactive urban space here...

Repurposing traditional Vietnamese roof-tiles into a distinct earthen façade, Ngói Space, a welcoming community hub by @hp_architects is a sustainable triumph. https://bit.ly/HPArchitects-IAnD

Both a sculpture, and an architectural structure, Common Sky by Studio Other Spaces provides a space that is free and open to the public, and that reflects Buffalo's AKG Art Museum's vision of a twenty-first-century art institution of inclusion.

Triple O Studio aspires to catch them young as they craft a welcoming, democratic and an encumbrance-free O.A.T space, in a Tamil Nadu University, under the benign shadow of a sanctum, aspiring to foster a sort of interactive space that promotes self-realisation.

At ArchSpace, where dreams take shape and become reality. Our team of visionary architects, specializing in modern architecture, is dedicated to crafting exceptional spaces that inspire. With our expertise in architecture visualization and interior design, we are excited to embark on this transformative journey of architectural excellence together. Our vision is to craft captivating spaces that inspire and elevate the human experience while positively impacting the world.

Scientific and speculative articles about the future of human evolution regarding to artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, transhumanism, nanotechnology, space colonization, time travel, life extension and human enhancement

China intends to develop a solar power station in space as part of its efforts to cut down greenhouse gases and tackle energy shortage, and E.ON plans to take two of its gas-fired power plants in Germany offline due to unprofitability.

In the battle to reduce energy poverty, the opportunities that satellite imaging data offers could be key to shining a light on wasteful inefficiencies. Andy Tunnicliffe speaks to E.ON to find out more about a project to use space-based technology to improve energy efficiency.

What makes historic architecture awe-inspiring? Read what Ar. Yatin Pandya has to say as he delves into the finer nuances of timelessness as a quality in architecture... and leave us your views.

We look especially at BIM and its role in the development and management of smart cities of the future, being created today. We are keen to see technology enable the creation of highly functional communities and spaces for habitation and working that promote the idea of coexistence, while the structures are themselves responsible citizens, contributing to preserve the environment and the planet.

Shilpa Architects' Global Design Studio's LEED Platinum rating for a multi tenant office space in Chennai is commendable. Find out more here...

China's twelfth 5-Year Plan (released in 2011) addresses the country's rapid urbanisation by including a target to deliver 36 million new social housing units by 2015. Shenzhen in southern China, located in the Pearl River Delta in the Guangdong Province, is one of the fastest growing cities in the world. It has a large stake in this project and is aiming to deliver 240,000 new units which will house approximately 800,000 people. At the vanguard of China's economic reform, Shenzhen has grown 400 times its original size in the last 40 years, following high levels of investment by the government and through mass migration of workers from all over China. The city has a huge transient working population comprising mostly young people, in particular single women. Most residents come to the city from various parts of the country, leaving family, friends and other support networks. Shenzhen is rapidly running out of space, with only limited land available to house future population growth.

Jaisim- Thought n Impact - What really constitutes the timeless habitat of man? Ar. Jaisim shares his thoughts and invites a dialogue...Click on the link to read more>>

Helsinki's Vantaa airport is taking the saying 'making yourself at home' to heart with the interior design for their newest travellers' lounge. No matter how hard airport designers try to make these international, heavy trafficked areas romantic and luxurious, there is no doubting the dread that most of us feel on a 6 hour lay over or extended visit. While there can be no denying the luxuriousness of this interiorly designed space, what the designers have cleverly done is steer away from the clinical coolness of traditional airport lounges and thrown a knowing look back towards creature comforts. The aptly named 'Almost @ home' lounge features interior aspects that have been chosen to most correctly reflect a Finnish, or any, home.