The fast pace of urban life is a growing threat to well-being of those who live in big cities. London-based studio Asif Khan created a temporary soothing urban forest in the middle of Milan for those in need a mental break from the everyday urban scramble.

With a growing pressure on urban space, it’s time to seriously explore the next urban frontier — our rooftop landscape. ROEF highlights the boundless potential of the urban roofscape with a unique festival on 20 different rooftops across Amsterdam.

Global actions are required to fight climate change, but how can we integrate sustainable behavior into our daily lives? The International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam 2018 explores small ideas from the creative community that can make a big impact.

Guerrilla Grafters are providing urbanites with a new way to access fruit by grafting branches of fruit trees onto ordinary ornamental city trees.

A city that is no stranger to the industrial manufacturing industry, Rotterdam is developing the next phase of a ten-year plan for innovation along its two port neighbourhoods. At Rotterdam Makers District, forward-thinking creatives are given space to experiment and develop new products to reshape the manufacturing industry as we know it.

The future of space is hybrid. In Amsterdam, cinema Rialto will be transforming a building of the Vrije Universiteit into a movie theater outside lecture hours.

How to prepare our cities for the post-fossil era? The award-winning Belgian-born, Paris-based archibiotect Vincent Callebaut has a vision — and it’s truly inspiring.

Amsterdam startup WASTED is making recycling a community cause by introducing a local currency based on household waste. Sietse Gronheid explains why the project is such a big success.