A ghostly floating city, with towering skyscrapers, seen by thousands in the sky over a lake near Yueyang city in China, has sparked claims that a parallel universe could be intruding into ours ...

This is a great way to get confirmation that, every once in a while, even the most impossible dream has a shot at becoming a reality. Oceanix, the utopian, futuristic and seemingly-impossible floating ...

In 2007, entrepreneur Marc Collins Chen became the minister of tourism in his native French Polynesia. One of his first tasks was to assess whether sea level rise was a threat to the group of 118 ...

The UN has just unveiled a floating city. Or, at least a framework for how floating cities will be built. Throughout the 2010s, a certain set of statistics found their way into every article about ...

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“Coastal cities are literally the interface between man and nature. That is where it is happening,” spoke Marc Collins, the former tourism minister of French Polynesia and founder of Oceanix as we sat ...

Humanity won’t be moving move to a fictional Waterworld anytime soon, but for 90 percent of the big cities and coastal communities, floating homes might just be that future. For these communities, a ...

Maldives Floating City is the first development of a new era for sustainable living. In this waterfront paradise, homeowners can live in eco-friendly floating homes. The new city’s roads and water ...

Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has experience producing floating architecture but its latest proposal is on a much larger scale than before. In collaboration with non-profit Oceanix and MIT's Center for ...

Imagine living in a sustainable city that not only produced its own food and energy but also withstood natural disasters — all while resting out on the ocean. Although it sounds like something ...

This town is coming like a ghost town,” The Specials once warned[^1]. Unfortunately for the designers of the sort of floating cities we see increasingly rendered in future-focused marketing materials, ...