Sink or Swim - designing for a sea change
An exhibition of photographs at the Annenberg Space in Los Angeles examines how climate change is affecting densely populated coastal regions and how designers and architects are responding it.
Main picture: Jersey Shore's Jet Star rollercoaster, from the Seaside Heights boardwalk, sits partially submerged in the ocean after Hurricane Sandy. Photograph: Stephen Wilkes
Rising sea levels and a greater frequency of extreme weather events are an inconvenient truth that it's becoming harder to ignore. Now, an exhibition of photographs at the Annenberg Space in Los Angeles examines how climate change is affecting densely populated coastal regions and how designers and architects are responding it.
The exhibition features work by architectural, fine art and news photographers and is curated by architecture writer and radio presented Frances Anderton and is on until May.
A stilt house in Ganvie, Benin. Photograph: Iwan Baan.
Designed by +31 Architects, the Watervilla de Omval is a streamlined houseboat that floats on the Amstel River in Amsterdam. Photograph Iwan Baan
After the 2011 tsunami the Japanese government spent billions of Yen building this 31.8km sea wall along the Sendai coastline. Photograph: Paula Bronstein
The Holy Cross Project, a community development in hurricane Katrina-ravaged New Orleans includes buildings that use 75 per cent less energy than typical structures. The project also uses rain harvesting, solar and geothermal power, and home-monitoring systems that show a resident's real-time energy consumption. Photograph: Stephen Wilkes
