Tag: Beijing

A traditional dwelling has been preserved by renovating it to include a new office, library, kitchen and guest room.

A traditional alleyway house in Beijing is transformed into an air-tight, energy-efficient home.

"The house of the future should represent the lifestyle of young people."

This small, modern home for a family of six in one of Beijing's traditional neighborhoods uses a lot of intriguing space-saving ideas.

The city already had some ambitious targets. Now it's doubling down.

Forget the SUV, just gimme the board.

This will force millions of cars off the road, close factories, construction sites, and schools, to try to keep smog under control.

Concrete steps in the right direction, but are they doing enough?

A NYC-based artist and programmer makes music out of pollution; listen to it here.

It's an innovative scheme to clean the city's air, and to get people to think differently about how pollution can be transformed into something valuable.

Recycling becomes fun when there are rewards involved. It's just unfortunate that that's what it takes to get people to care.

If you can't breathe, what else matters? China is truly at the crossroads...

In response to Beijing's air pollution crisis, these designers are proposing an enclosed park with filtered air where the city's residents can finally breathe clean air.

After six years of repeated complaints from neighbors, a wealthy businessman has now been told to dismantle a sprawling rooftop garden villa.

The government of Beijing seems to have finally caught up on its economics 101 reading list, because it has decided to create a pollution tax to be applied to gasoline.

Most Beijing residents buy a small surgical mask to thwart choking air pollution. What if you want something that makes a statement? Artist Matt Hope created a bike with a steampunk air filter to do his daily ride.

Take a tour of two pioneering rooftop farms that could be the first signs of a growing and much needed movement in a rapidly urbanizing China.

Combining open-source technology and local traditions of kite-flying, FLOAT Beijing hopes to encourage "citizen science" in the self-monitoring of the city's air quality.