The city, made up of interconnected platforms, will generate its own power and clean water. On Tuesday its designer released mockups of how the city may look. Busan is South Korea's second-largest ...

The project's designers envision a floodproof city that produces its own food and water. They expect to fully construct the prototype in Busan, a large port city, in 2025. More than two years ago, a ...

“Floating infrastructure” and “waterborne urbanism” sound like things from a Sci-Fi movie, but they are being brought to life in a truly groundbreaking project. The world’s first floating city that’s ...

It’s no secret that rising sea levels pose an existential threat to coastal life. Now, an ambitious new project in in South Korea aims to address the climate phenomenon by building a sustainable city ...

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2019 conceptual design of OCEANIX’s storm-proof, self-sufficient floating city. (Courtesy OCEANIX/BIG) In its press release announcing the agreement, UN-Habitat didn’t provide a clear construction ...

After getting a green light from UN-Habitat and the Metropolitan City of Busan last December, OCEANIX, Bjarke Ingels Group‘s group ambitious floating city project off the coast of Busan, South Korea ...

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Dongguk Lee] Busan City will hold the "1st Maritime Smart City Forum" on the 14th at 8 a.m. in the Crystal Ballroom on the 3rd floor of Lotte ...

FOR YEARS some libertarians have dreamed of creating floating settlements. Fans of “seasteading” talk of setting up self-governing hamlets in international waters, which would charge little or no tax.

Busan, South Korea, has agreed to host the "world's first floating city" in a UN-backed project. The city, made up of interconnected platforms, will generate its own power and clean water. On Tuesday ...