Plants and architecture

Dandelions is the name of the installation by the group of anonymous Art Department artists that was exhibited at Commerce, California.

Many forest canopies maintain mysterious gaps, called crown shyness, that could help trees share resources and stay healthy.

TOWOdesign has created an exhibition hall allowing people to understand the relationship between cave dwellings and passive houses.

Image 22 of 38 from gallery of Thai Binh House / Chu Ngoc Anh Architects. Photograph by Hoang Le

Industrial designer Hermann August Weizenegger has designed a radical new chair for German furniture brand Objekte Unserer Tage (OUT), titled ‘The X-CHAIR’. For the release,...

Charlie Harpur, who spent three years at Kew Gardens studying for his Diploma, offers an insider's guide to the best things to see at Kew in any season

I’d like to bring to wider attention an article series, The Roots of Bioinformatics. The roots of prairie plants (Source: Wikimedia Commons.) Hold up. Before experimental biologists run away, you’re some of the people I’d like this to reach! At a recent bioinformatics meeting I attended, a senior experimental biologist from overseas commented to the effect that it was hard for bioinformatics researchers to build their own careers, to publish their own papers. My take on his comment was that…

in the book, more than 150 photographs by various creators show the juxtaposition of austere concrete structures and lush flora.

Image 9 of 27 from gallery of D House / KIENTRUC O. Photograph by Hiroyuki Oki