This is a great way to get confirmation that, every once in a while, even the most impossible dream has a shot at becoming a reality. Oceanix, the utopian, futuristic and seemingly-impossible floating ...

Danish architect Bjarke Ingels-founder and creative partner of his eponymous firm, BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group)-is well known for projects that defy convention. Perhaps you’ve heard of his ambitious Mars ...

Humanity won’t be moving move to a fictional Waterworld anytime soon, but for 90 percent of the big cities and coastal communities, floating homes might just be that future. For these communities, a ...

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The UN has just unveiled a floating city. Or, at least a framework for how floating cities will be built. Throughout the 2010s, a certain set of statistics found their way into every article about ...

It’s no secret that rising sea levels pose an existential threat to coastal life. Now, an ambitious new project in in South Korea aims to address the climate phenomenon by building a sustainable city ...

As part of UN-Habitat’s New Urban Agenda, BIG and Oceanix recently submitted their vision for the world's first floating community: Oceanix City. Consisting of an artificial ecosystem and maritime ...

Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has experience producing floating architecture but its latest proposal is on a much larger scale than before. In collaboration with non-profit Oceanix and MIT's Center for ...

Busan, South Korea, has agreed to host the "world's first floating city" in a UN-backed project. The city, made up of interconnected platforms, will generate its own power and clean water. On Tuesday ...

“Coastal cities are literally the interface between man and nature. That is where it is happening,” spoke Marc Collins, the former tourism minister of French Polynesia and founder of Oceanix as we sat ...