Using planilum technology, these plates are the world’s first active light-emitting glass. Incorporated into shelves and tables, the technology provides beautiful, understated lighting for homes and offices.

From the inspired Brazilian collective TOUCH, the handcrafted work of Patricio Lix Klett and his La Feliz Collection.

...string of solar powered, wind-lit LED lights. This innovative design for enchanting outdoor lighting from Yoshihiro Shimomura, taps into the sun’s energy to light up summer nights.

Conceived by three Venetian architects for a charity competition, the Grass-On Lamp by ITlab is made entirely of recycled materials, including the synthetic grass, and completely recyclable.

Andre Hodgskin’s newest design, the iPAD™, brings a stylish, versatile option to the prefab world with a bevy of possible configurations, finishes and even a choice in how you’d like it to arrive.

Stephan Siepermann’s Leaft lamps from Milan. Each luminescent leaf is composed of recycled (or ‘upcycled’) plastic casts that wind together into a binding branch.

Celebrated Dutch design collective Droog pushed green design ideas to the forefront this year with their ‘A Touch of Green’ presentation in Milan.

Visually stunning ceramic work of Dutch designer, Anouk Omlo. Her latest ‘Helica Series’ is totally emblematic of current (bio)rhythms in design and the budding forms taking shape in our eco-imaginations.

Designed by Ray Kappe, the Pasadena EcoHouse designed by StudioRMA is cited to become the first concrete LEED Platinum home in the USA.

UK-based designer Julia Lohmann is bringing kelp into a new design realm with Kelp Constructs - a collection of wonderfully tactile lighting designs.

A research project from architect Phu Hoang Office seeks to address site specific issues in the Dead Sea with a series of artificial islands that would provide recreation, tourist attractions, renewable energy, and create fresh water.

This futuristic architectural design is shortlisted in an international contest to create a new observatory in Liverpool, England, reminding us that space-age proposals have a great way of stirring the imagination.

Scrap Lights by Graypants are not only beautiful, they're sustainably made from twice recycled cardboard.

The Lilypad, by Vincent Callebaut, is a concept for a completely self-sufficient floating city intended to provide shelter for future climate change refugees.

The new Miami Art Museum from Herzog & de Meuron can only be described as the modern interpretation of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon - an imaginative structure that bridges urban spaces, climates and cultures.

Optimizing passive solar gain and using untreated local wood are just a few of the ways that this sustainable home on Lake Laka in Poland has earned the moniker CO2 saver.

Designed by Melbourne-based Phooey Architects, Skinners Playground puts four discarded shipping containers to use as the primary spaces for childhood adventures.

In a stunning example of biomimicry, Scottish architecture firm ZM Architecture have come up with a brilliant scheme to provide more solar power to the city of Glasgow - Solar Lily Pads!

A stunning new residential development planned for the Putrajaya waterfront in Malaysia - unique, marine-inspired structures arranged in a permeable, radiating block of bioclimatic architecture.

The Royal College of Art recently revealed a rousing rally of auto designs that match sleek profiles with cutting-edge concepts in sustainability.

It is not often that an architecture master reinvents himself, but that is precisely what Pritzker Prize winning architect Frank Gehry has done. Gehry has revealed the first post post-modern architectural work, the New Gehry Residence.

Prefab is taking center stage this summer at The Museum of Modern Art in NYC with the Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling exhibit opening on July 20th.

David Trubridge's 'Spiral Islands' evoke the natural forms of New Zealand in light fixtures and seating - presented in Milan last week.

TRØKK16 are turning heads left and right at this year’s Milan Furniture Fair with an elegantly engineered line of prototypes including the graceful Frøy Chair - a modern update on the side chair making use of natural materials.

The Plus House prefab embraces its Nordic roots and rural setting as a thoroughly modern take on the Swedish barn house.

The answer to all of our zero-energy prefab dreams - the new ZeroHouse™. Completely self-sustaining, this prefabricated house generates its own power, collects its own water, processes its own waste and is 100% automatic.

Krejci’s ‘Let’s Grow Some Balls!’ chair is both a planter and chair all in one. A garden chair that IS the garden, users are brought closer to nature by being surrounded with it.

Harvard Graduate School of Design students Kiduck Kim and Christian Stayner have conceived of a Floating City for New Orleans that will “rise safely in an Archimedean liquid landscape.”

Loup Charmant’s PURE organic cotton clothing collection - heirloom-inspired and fair-made in Brooklyn, NY - are a sexy take on sustainability.

The cutting-edge green home Orchid House, one of the key homes on a project to turn a disused gravel pit into a beautiful 450-acre nature reserve, has sold for a record-breaking £7.2million.

A new terminal at Shenzen Bao’an International Airport in China positioned as a gateway to China. Designed by architects Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas, the terminal will have an incredible double skin canopy intended to let patterned natural light into the space.

The Bufet Filcowy sideboard has some 4000 holes laid out dot-matrix style. Felt pegs of any hue (not unlike cigarette filters) can be arranged into infinite patterns.

Burp-trapping bovine backpack? The methane collecting tanks were utilized by Argentina’s National Institute for Agricultural Technology as part of a a study to determine the atmospheric impact of methane released by cows.

Absolutely amazing lighting and parchment samples from the Precious Pieces collection.

The Lumeneo Smera is a two seat, four wheel electric vehicle that is narrow enough to maneuver as a motorcycle and taking thin to a new transportation extreme.

The latest future forward design from James Law is the highly intelligent 'Cybertecture Egg' for Mumbai, India.