But the buildings of Masdar City have very literal shadows too — and those could end up becoming a blueprint on how to use city planning and architecture to make urban life bearable in extremely ...

Nestled in the desert landscape of the UAE, Masdar City in Abu Dhabi is redefining what it means to build a city of the future. This pioneering urban development is designed to be one of the world ...

The buildings’ thick walls provide shade to pedestrians and funnel breezes through them. This, along with the thick perimeter wall around the city, is an age-old technique in Arab towns.

It’s not quite a mirage, but it is a work-in-progress: Masdar City, the most ambitious—and expensive—urban planning experiment on the planet today.

Masdar, that "zero carbon, zero waste, car-free city" we first wrote about back in 2007 has been moving forward in Abu Dhabi. 100 sudents and faculty should be living in the early stages of ...

The city may be what has attracted the world's attention to the project, but much of what is most exciting about Masdar is taking place outside of its light-switchless walls: Masdar is slowly ...

Masdar City has established a reputation for setting the standard on sustainable urban development, excelling in master planning and integrating advanced green infrastructure, renewable energy, and ...

The futuristic, walled city in the desert will have a mirrored facade and will use renewable energy. Known as The Line, it will be taller than the Empire State Building and only about 220 yards wide.

Promoters of Masdar, a city being built near Abu Dhabi, say that it will be the first carbon-neutral city.

In the desert outside Abu Dhabi, construction of a new city is underway. Masdar will be a zero-carbon, zero-waste, and car-free ecological model city of 50,000 inhabitants and 1,500 green companies.

Laboratory for Visionary Architecture (LAVA) have won a competition to design the urban centre of Masdar, a zero-carbon, zero-waste city to be built in the desert near Abu Dhabi. The centre will ...