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If you are one amongst those who really care for the environment, then this is the ideal place on earth for you to live. Paolo Soleri, 90, an Italian architect, has spent the last 40 years of his life building Arcosanti – a compact city about 65 miles north of Phoenix, Arizona, that should make architects all over the world reconsider the way [...]

Living in a desert is definitely a challenge especially if it’s in a country like Syria where winter chills are as competitive as summer swelters or the torrential rains. With a constrained choice of building materials and resources, here’s what the Syrians have come up with- the effortless, innovative and well-designed Beehive homes. Premeditated [...]