Architectural Works
Architect: WRNS Studio Location: San Francisco, California, USA Project Team: Brian Milman, Geoff Brown, Rus Sherman, Li Kuo, Jenny Huang Landscape architect: TPL Client: The Trust for Public [...] Read »
A cross-shaped window in the sliding door of this Belgian pharmacy transforms into a green sign during opening hours. (more&) Read »
White Rock, a small surburb outside of Vancouver, Canada can now boast to having the largest green wall in North America thanks to Green Over Grey , Vancouver, Canada-based company that design [...] Read »
The desire to help underprivileged populations along with the concern of how we should manage the planets resources brought two young architecture offices blaanc borderless architecture and [...] Read »
Architect: Dick van Gameren architecten Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands Project Team: Dick van Gameren; Jarno van Essen; Mark Sloof; Sebastiaan Kaal; Maarten Peters Contractor: Heijmans Woningbouw, [...] Read »
A group of disused grain silos near Christchurch in New Zealand are being fitted out as motel rooms. (more&) Read »
Architect: Studio Ma, Inc. Design Team: Christina Moss, Dan Hoffman, Christopher Alt, Tim Keil, Robert Des Rosiers, Brad Pfahler, Malene Valberg, Stinne Storm Location: Yuma, Arizona Project [...] Read »
Yizhuang is a new city in the south-east of Beijing. At the moment, the area is only fields on which the infrastructures’ works have already started. There is a main street that will go throughout [...] Read »
Architects: TVA Architects Location: Sisters, Oregon, USA Lead Design: Bob Thompson – Roderick Ashley Project Team: Allan Norris, Nick Williams Project Year: 2006 Project Area: 3200 sqf Photographs: [...] Read »
Bifurcating Ecologies, designed by Kenneth To , is a developmental master planning proposal which traces through humanizing the accessibility of the Hong Kong Wanchai District Waterfront through [...] Read »
Foster + Partners at its Battersea studio location will open their doors to the public tomorrow, Saturday the 17th of September as part of the annual Open House London celebration of the capital’s [...] Read »
Diagonal 00 Telefonica Tower in Barcelona, designed by the architect Enric Massip-Bosch_EMBA and developed by Consorci de la Zona Franca de Barcelona, has been awarded the LEAF PRIZE 2011 for [...] Read »
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Technology
Read the rest of Park(ing) Day 2011: Pop-Up Parks Spring Up Around the World Exclusive Photos! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: green design, green events, green initiatives, [...] Read »
Read the rest of Pylon of the Future: 6 Designs for an Advanced Electrical Grid Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", Design Competition, eco design, Electricity, [...] Read »
Read the rest of LichtAktiv Haus is the Energy Efficient Home of the Future Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "energy efficiency", 537 x 430 or 700 x 560 green design, eco design, [...] Read »
Read the rest of JAILmake Studios Awesome Plantable Table Invites Nature to Dinner Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "green furniture", eco design, Gardening, green design, green [...] Read »
Team Purdue’s entry in the 2011 Solar decathlon is decidedly Midwestern in its approach its a traditional-looking home that wont necessarily stick out in a crowd however its efficient [...] Read »
Read the rest of University of Tennessees Living Light Solar Decathlon Home is Inspired By Appalachian Cantilevered Barns Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", [...] Read »
Read the rest of Tiny kitHAUS Prefab Moves Beyond Housing to Serve as a Sales Office in San Diego Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", eco desgin, green [...] Read »
News
When the U.S. Green Building Council chose Toronto as the location of the first Greenbuild convention beyond U.S. borders, it talked up Ontario’s capital city as a hotbed of sustainable planning [...] Read »
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Miscellaneous
Italy should be the best country in the world, it really should. It has abundant riches in terms of culture, history, food, weather, urbanism, architecture, industry, craft, design, literature, [...] Read »
Despite the huge workload, and the high profile of the buildings, I find him in a restrained mood. The overall situation, he shakes his head, is such a mess, its frightening. Im going to [...] Read »
Committed to making theater productions as green as possible, Simple 8 is the group behind London’s first ecologically sustainable theater piece. The London based companys production of The [...] Read »
File under: Say What? Retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has joined the jury for the Pritzker Prize. Prize organizers say the Justice has a long and demonstrable interest in architecture. [...] Read »
This week DuChateau Floors announced that the company is bringing European-style floors to the U.S. market with an eco-friendly hard wax oil and FSC-certified woods. DuChateau has eight distinct [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
Every early September a day comes that is just beautiful – particularly sunny, bright, and gently warm. On such days, I’m sure many feel it again as clearly as if it was yesterday. That Tuesday [...] Read »
Students at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University recently demonstrated an aviation first by cruising the sky in a hybrid propulsion aircraft. A team of nearly 200 students spent the last year [...] Read »
This Saturday marks the start of the AIA San Franciscos 9th annual Living Homes Tour. The first and only of its kind being hosted in the Bay Area, the The AIA SF Home Tours Series is a first-hand [...] Read »
Photo via Inhabitat Naomi Campbell's soft and subtle nature definitely echoes in her taste in real estate. Just last year, the supermodeliest of the supermodels (and her longtime bazillionaire [...] Read »
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Diagram by the Passivhaus Institut via Wikipedia The next educational event hosted by the Eugene Branch of the Cascadia Green Building Council is a presentation by Peter Reppe of SOLARC Architecture [...] Read »
Architect Zaha Hadid has been chosen by the City of Miami Beach to design its newest parking garage at Collins Park, a neighborhood thats home to the Miami City Ballet, the Bass Museum, the [...] Read »
A tour of 930 Poydras, a progressive new apartment building in downtown New Orleans, LA, winner of the 2011 RADA award. 930 Poydras from Alternative Cut Productions on Vimeo . Read »
The season got off to wet and windy start with the launch of Urban Design Week. We started in Brooklyn and while the opening of Brooklyn Bridge Parks Janes Carousel wasnt on the official [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
Start by thinking small. The beginning of the end of suburbia. Is it possible to build a home for $1000? How do you actually build a Passive House? Ithaca grows a cohousing EcoVillage. How to [...] Read »
Airstream Living from WEREHAUS on Vimeo .This is a stationary Airstream located in a suburban backyard in Berkeley, California featuring an efficient use of space whilst still recalling the adventure [...] Read »
Park(ing) Day is an international celebration of alternative street design, which started in 2005 when Rebar, a San Francisco art and design studio, converted a single metered parking space into [...] Read »
I used to seriously entertain the idea of moving. This was back when I was less encumbered and traveled quite a bit. Every trip wound up as an audition for my New Hometown. Within a few days, [...] Read »
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