In Praia do Forte, Brazil, Sidney Quintela Architecture and Urban Planning have developed Casa Brise - a house in which the interior lives from its palm-rich surroundings. And vice versa.
The small kingdom has big plans: with the visionary "Mindfulness City", an exemplary sustainable economic centre is to be created that fully complies with the philosophy of "Gross National Happiness". It is being built according to a masterplan by Danish star architect Bjarke Ingels.
The architecture studio Populous has recognised the potential of water and is designing a potential living space around the banks of America's rivers: Riverfront Recreation. Still just a vision - it may soon become reality.
A new campus for climate solutions is being built on Governors Island, a small island off the coast of New York, designed by architecture studio SOM - Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
Wendelstrand near Gothenburg is a new community and housing development with social and ecological sustainability, sited in a disused quarry. The master plan and Lakehouse by the architects at Snøhetta show how urban planning and housing construction can be reimagined.