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 ...

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 ...

Few places in the world are as married to the water as Venice. Not only has the Floating City replaced streets with canals and land with islands, but its buildings also sit on wooden piles, driven ...

Editor’s Note: Design for Impact is a series spotlighting architectural solutions for communities displaced by the climate crisis, natural disasters and other humanitarian emergencies. Many of these ...

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 ...

Located in what was a massive floating hotel in the Kingdom of Wonder, The Boa t could become a thriving center for arts and culture in Cambodia. Floating on the edge of Phnom Penh, where the Mekong ...

In a corner of the Rijksmuseum hangs a seventeenth-century cityscape by the Dutch Golden Age painter Gerrit Berckheyde, “View of the Golden Bend in the Herengracht,” which depicts the construction of ...

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 ...

(CNN) — While we seek to tackle the climate crisis, there are realities of our changing climate that we already need to live with. Sea levels have been rising at an accelerating pace, with US ...