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  • Living Vehicle launches off-grid mobile home that creates water from humidity

    California company Living Vehicle has unveiled its 2023 Travel Trailer mobile home, which has a roof covered in solar panels and generates its own drinking water from the humidity in the air. More

    Ben Dreith | 29 July 2022 | Leave a comment
  • Shivam Takulia and Anya Ghosh propose giant fog-harvesting buildings to create "a healthier and more nourished world"

    Shivam Takulia and Anya Ghosh's proposal to create "water-positive" buildings that harvest water from the air is the next finalist project in Dezeen's Redesign the World competition powered by Twinmotion. More

    Amina Amber | 12 November 2021
  • V8 Architects' Dutch Biotope pavilion generates water and food at Dubai Expo

    Dutch practice V8 Architects has created a pavilion with its own enclosed water, energy and food system and a leave-no-trace philosophy as the Netherlands' contribution to Expo 2020 Dubai. More

    Rima Sabina Aouf | 6 October 2021 | Leave a comment
  • Watershed Core is a cyclical installation that filters rainwater in New York

    Artist Mary Mattingly has designed a sphere filled with native plants that filter water in a gravity-fed system to mimic New York City's water system. More

    Jane Englefield | 23 June 2021 | Leave a comment
  • Orient Occident Atelier builds community hall in Cambodia that harvests clean drinking water

    Hong Kong architecture studio Orient Occident Atelier has designed a civic centre that harvests water for the small Cambodian village of Sneung. More

    Jennifer Hahn | 26 August 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Rain-harvesting panels would let people in drought-stricken cities catch their own water

    Designer Shaakira Jassat has created a rain-catcher that is slim enough to fit on the outside of buildings in dense urban environments. More

    Rima Sabina Aouf | 2 December 2019 | Leave a comment
  • WEDEW turns air into drinking water by creating artificial clouds in shipping container

    A team led by US architect David Hertz has developed an energy-efficient technology for harvesting fresh drinking water from the air, which is contained within a shipping container for easy transport. More

    Rima Sabina Aouf | 5 November 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Machine that extracts water from air repurposed for humanitarian efforts

    A machine originally designed for the military, which extracts water from the air, is now being used for humanitarian missions to bring safe drinking water to areas struck by natural disaster or poverty.  More

    India Block | 21 December 2017 | Leave a comment
  • Sunglacier harnesses solar power to harvest water in Mali's Sahara Desert

    Dutch company SunGlacier's off-grid Desert Twins harvester can collect water in the hottest and driest of environments. More

    Emma Tucker | 19 June 2017 | 6 comments
  • Concave roofs collect rainwater for arid areas in proposal by BMDesign Studios

    Bowl-shaped vessels would collect rainwater on the roofs of buildings located in hot and dry climates in a proposal by Iranian practice BMDesign Studios. More

    Jessica Mairs | 4 January 2017 | 6 comments
  • Arturo Vittori's Warka Water towers harvest clean drinking water from the air

    Future Makers: in this exclusive movie, Italian architect Arturo Vittori explains how his wooden Warka Water structures can provide clean drinking water for rural communities in the developing world. More

    Benedict Hobson | 10 November 2016 | 1 comment
  • Rio 2016 Olympic Golf Course includes rainwater-collecting canopy by Rua Arquitetos

    Rio 2016: Brazilian studio Rua Arquitetos has completed the golf venue for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, which features a tree-like canopy that collects rainwater to irrigate the course (+ slideshow). More

    Amy Frearson | 16 June 2016 | Leave a comment
  • An Atmosphere Excavated by John Becker

    Architecture graduate John Becker's final project involved creating the future headquarters of a fictional company that sells bottled water harvested from dew. More

    Rose Etherington | 2 August 2010 | 36 comments

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Tom Kundig designs Truckee home with metal "treehouse" for Faulkner Architects founder

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Studio Other Spaces creates colourful conical glass pavilion for Californian winery

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    Prada moving ceiling

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    Prada moving ceiling

  • The Bunker Tower in Eindhoven has a glass and stone facade

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    Brutalist Bunker Tower

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    Brutalist Bunker Tower

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    Year of the Rabbit architecture

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    Year of the Rabbit architecture

  • Tokyo pop-up shop for Louis Vuitton by Yayoi Kusama

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    Key Kusama projects

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    Key Kusama projects

  • Children on a rowing boat in Jongensland, photographed by Ursula Schulz-Dornburg

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