When the Department of Interior Architecture first started Festival of the Trees in 1987, it was a holiday-centered competition to promote and fundraise for interior architecture students. It's now ...

Placing greenery and trees on buildings is not a passing fad, says designer Thomas Heatherwick in this exclusive interview. Speaking to Dezeen at the unveiling of the Tree of Trees sculpture outside ...

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 ...

So many of our iconic moments in travel are shaped by something we often overlook—trees. Whether it’s driving down a winding back road in France with the sun flitting in and out, hiking in the forests ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about conscious luxury, focusing on travel, well-being & art. Enzo Enea, one of the world’s leading landscape architects, ...

Few designers have done as much to popularize the modern trend of covering buildings in greenery as Stefano Boeri. Since his Bosco Verticale met with critical acclaim, the Italian architect's firm has ...

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 ...

According to the Forest Products Laboratory, a whole, unmilled tree can support 50 percent more weight than the largest piece of lumber milled from the same tree. Putting this principle into practice, ...

According to Treepedia, the density of Seattle's forest is second only to Sacramento's in the US. Vancouver BC, which is up in Canada and the second-largest city in the Pacific Northwest, has a denser ...