Behind the dazzling variety of shapes and forms in trees lies a remarkably similar architecture based on fundamental, shared principles, ecologists have discovered. The findings allow scientists to ...

On a recent Friday afternoon, Youfang Duan and Tim Victorio slowly drizzled a second coat of epoxy onto large slabs of milled and sanded poplar wood, then smoothed it out with small scrapers to make ...

Some architects and home designers are using one particular biophilic element to striking effect: trees. We’ve already seen public spaces around the globe incorporate trees in remarkable and beautiful ...

Professor Douglas Noble gave students parameters for their designs based on the park’s rules. Among the challenges were the lack of water or electricity to power the structure. (Photo courtesy of Ivan ...

AI-generated art has advanced so much recently, it’s winning first prize in fine arts competitions meant for human artists. Programs like DALL-E and Midjourney make it possible to produce surprisingly ...

It's the rendering that launched a thousand blog posts, Stefano Boeri's Vertical Forest, with planters and trees on balconies and the roof, so green that you can barely see the building. Tim De Chant ...

Influential Italian architect Carlo Scarpa once said "between a tree and a house, choose the tree." With its recent renovation of a beautiful Italian farmhouse, Carlo Ratti Associatti decided to ...

New insights into tree architecture: researchers shed light on bushy birch variants Research carried out at the University of Helsinki provides new insights into understanding the genetic structure of ...

Researchers in the University of Arizona's department of ecology and evolutionary biology have found that despite differences in appearance, trees across species share remarkably similar architecture ...