Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Maldives Floating City is slated for completion in 2027, and is projected to house 20,000 people in 5,000 floating, modular ...

Rarely have floating communities seemed quite as achievable, affordable, and beautiful as “Land on Water,” a proposal for a modular building system by Danish architecture studio MAST. Take one look at ...

Longtime readers may remember NLÉ’s floating school, which was completed in 2013. The firm, led by Nigerian architect Kunlé Adeyemi, is now working on another floating architecture project with a very ...

Countries like Kiribati, a nation of low-lying coral atolls in the Pacific, will likely disappear entirely. This is why Kiribati is among the countries to have explored the possibility of artificial ...

The people of Rotterdam know a thing or two about living on the water. About 90% of the second-largest city in the Netherlands lies below sea level, which leaves it vulnerable to rising waters. To ...

As the world’s first floating city draws closer to completion, designers like Pierpaolo Lazzarini have begun drawing up their own utopian sea-based societies as well. The Italian designer recently ...

Is floating architecture just a houseboat? Not always. With sea levels rising on an already stressed planet, and a rapidly growing world population on land, should we be looking to water as our new ...

ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla — In the shadow of Fort Matanzas, just feet from the Matanzas Inlet, there is a floating building. Jeffrey Thomas owns and operates his business called Hurricane Watersports out ...

A Dutch developer is building a sprawling, floating city in the Maldives. The city is slated to house 20,000 people in a web of 5,000 floating buildings. These buildings will include homes, shops, and ...