The world’s first sustainable floating city is set to be built in Busan, the United Nations’ human settlement program announced on Tuesday. UN-Habitat unveiled a prototype design for the ambitious ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In April, floating-city development firm Oceanix unveiled plans for a floating city in South Korea. The city is designed to float ...

Architecture firms BIG and Samoo and tech company Oceanix have revealed their design for a first-of-its-kind climate-resilient floating city, destined for the seas off Busan in South Korea. UN-Habitat ...

OCEANIX Busan is the world’s first prototype of a resilient and sustainable floating community. It aims to set the model for future innovations to help coastal cities threatened by rising sea levels.

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 ...

An undated rendering of Oceanix Busan, a floating city in development off the coast of South Korea for which designers envisioned the city as sitting upon enormous concrete platforms floating on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The South Korean city of Busan has green-lit plans for an ambitious new ocean settlement, with work on the first neighborhood set to begin next year. Comprising a series of interconnected platforms, ...

Busan is South Korea's second-largest city with a population of around 3.4 million. Source: Busan Metropolitan City Busan is a major maritime hub and its port ranks among the ten busiest in the world.