Future buildings: mushroom art, floating oasis, forest church

The Shanghai Grand Opera House in China, designed by Snohetta, features a stepped façade that serves as a free, 24-hour public park.

Architects like Nils Fischer of Zaha Hadid Architects emphasize that future buildings must address climate crisis by controlling sprawl, lowering energy footprint, and increasing surface permeability.

Neil Gillespie of RIBA states that the core conversation in architecture today is the climate crisis, and the future will likely be evolutionary rather than revolutionary.