Cheongna City Tower

 

Flower Street BioReactor by Emergent

Flower Street BioReactor

Los Angeles architects Emergent have designed an installation filled with green algae that produce oil by photosynthesis.

Futuristic cellular structure architecture

Futuristic cellular structure

The fact that architecture is deriving inspiration from the foam-like membrane structures of cells is ironic since the word cell in biology derives from the architecture of monks cells in monasteries. Cell structures have come full circle with innovative structures at all scales, from metalized foam or ceramic foam structural materials to computer derived lattices based on mathematical cell properties.

Emergent Architecture, Stockholm City Library