Water channel architecture

Architect Ate Atema explains Street Creeks, a rainwater filtering system that could improve NYC water quality, to Inhabitat.

Danish maritime architecture studio MAST has developed Land on Water, a system for constructing floating buildings that aims to be more flexible and sustainable than traditional methods.

Image 12 of 35 from gallery of Water Conservancy Center / DnA. Photograph by Ziling Wang

Carlos Bañon Blazquez | /imagine Bend & Blend :: We need more architectural shorelines that bend and blend, meeting the water line in tangency. Let’s enable… | Instagram

Context Isthmus: Located within the ‘engine-room’ of Auckland city, Freyberg Square sits on a north facing slope on the toe of an historic volcano. With fabulous aspect for sun, and shelter from the prevailing south-west wind, it is a popular destination for locals and visitors, adults and children, residents and workers to take quiet refuge […]

Located in a garden of 4.8 hectares, this Foutain design architecture a central water channel, a fog effect and a waterfall. #waterachitecture #designarchitecture

Image 6 of 28 from gallery of Student Residence REGA Exterior Landscape / Ontwerpbureau Pauwels.

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Environmentally innovative, beautiful and sustainable landscapes

Water, whether through storm drainage channels, channelized streams, canals, urbanized waterfronts, etc. can be a potent urban design tool. At different scales, water can provide numerous positive …