Designing for Disaster: Which ...

May 22, 2013 by

Designing for Disaster: Which is better, modular or shipping container?

What kind of construction system is best for disaster relief housing?

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Hairy skyscraper to collect en...

May 22, 2013 by

Hairy skyscraper to collect energy through piezo-electric straws

Stockholm-based architecture firm Belatchew is proposing to retrofit a tower

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Fisherman’s home turned ...

May 18, 2013 by

Fisherman’s home turned into ultra-modern 753 sq. ft. transformer apartment (Video)

With smaller spaces becoming increasingly necessary in dense urban areas,..

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World’s tallest prefab, ...

May 18, 2013 by

World’s tallest prefab, Sky City, is breaking ground in June

Broad Sustainable Construction informs us that a long and arduous approval process has been completed,..

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Energy Efficient Buildings in ...

May 16, 2013 by

Energy Efficient Buildings in New York and Hong Kong

The Skyscraper Museum got it right.

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This house is designed to be e...

May 16, 2013 by

This house is designed to be eaten by plants

Italian architecture firm Act Romegialli designed this building to start as a little garden house..

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If Bilbo Baggins built a zero-...

May 9, 2013 by

If Bilbo Baggins built a zero-energy hobbit home

This is what it would look like.

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Watch: Ghosts of the Asylums

May 2, 2013 by

“Schizophrenic. Killer. My Cousin.”, features a collection of eerie, yet beautiful photographs of abandoned mental hospitals

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Five of the Ten greenest build...

Apr 25, 2013 by

Five of the Ten greenest buildings of 2013

Chosen by the American Institute of Architects

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Green Idea House

Apr 22, 2013 by

Green Idea House

The Green Idea House is one family’s project to affordably retrofit their house into a net zero energy..

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Forget the green gizmos and ba...

Apr 20, 2013 by

Forget the green gizmos and bamboo floors; Green building is all about moderation

Green building is so complicated sometimes,..

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12 year old Manhattan Museum t...

Apr 12, 2013 by

In the UK there is the Rubble Club, “an organisation to remember buildings demolished…

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Passivhaus Precedents: Zero En...

Apr 11, 2013 by

Passivhaus Precedents: Zero Energy House from 1970s recognized with award

Isaac Newton wrote about his work, acknowledging those before him:..

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RIP Paolo Soleri, architect of...

Apr 9, 2013 by

RIP Paolo Soleri, architect of Arcosanti, 1919- 2013

Paolo Soleri didn’t just build buildings,..

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Knowosphere at Work: Farmer-to...

Apr 5, 2013 by

Knowosphere at Work: Farmer-to-Farmer Video Advice Boosting Yields

David Bornstein, the author of “How to Change the World” ..

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The House on Limekiln Line

Apr 4, 2013 by

The House on Limekiln Line

In the years following the American Revolution, thousands of Loyalists moved north into Ontario, Canada.

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Living With Less, Frank Lloyd ...

Mar 25, 2013 by

Living With Less, Frank Lloyd Wright style in the Haynes House

After the New York Times published Graham Hill’s ode to a LifeEdited

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Whither Minimalism?

Mar 25, 2013 by

Whither Minimalism?

Will Wiles writes in the New York Times about minimalism and modernism..

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Skinny makeover lights up 7-fo...

Mar 25, 2013 by

Skinny makeover lights up 7-foot wide house

We’ve covered more than a few skinny houses before..

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Stunning prefab houses by Clae...

Mar 17, 2013 by

Stunning prefab houses by Claesson Koivisto Rune launched in Sweden

Designboom shows a new line of prefabricated houses designed by Claesson Koivisto Rune..

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Are architects going overboard...

Mar 17, 2013 by

Are architects going overboard with the trees on buildings?

It’s the rendering that launched a thousand blog posts,..

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“People still don’...

Mar 17, 2013 by

“People still don’t appreciate how important buildings are”

Speaking at a sustainability and design conference in Atlanta, LEED pioneer Rob Watson explains..

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Washington, D.C., wants to be ...

Mar 10, 2013 by

Washington, D.C., wants to be the greenest city in the U.S.

Last month, standing at the Old Capitol Pump House,..

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Historic modern house renovate...

Mar 4, 2013 by

Historic modern house renovated to Passivhaus standard

A mantra here is that “the greenest building is the one already standing.”

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Instead of getting demolished,...

Mar 4, 2013 by

Instead of getting demolished, this Japanese building is slowly shrinking away

If you want to get rid of a building, you’re pretty much stuck blowing it up.

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Our buildings, ourselves:

Mar 2, 2013 by

Our buildings, ourselves:

Editor in Chief Meg O’Neill used to say that one shouldn’t try to put too many concepts into one post..

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Does Shipping Container Archit...

Feb 25, 2013 by

Does Shipping Container Architecture Make Sense?

I grew up around shipping containers; my dad made them.

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Lake|Flato Architects turn gho...

Feb 22, 2013 by

Lake|Flato Architects turn ghost buildings to gorgeous in urban revitalization

1221 Broadway in San Antonio, Texas was a failed real estate project..

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Architectural Valentines:

Feb 14, 2013 by

Architectural Valentines:

Here is a great meme running through the architectural websites today;

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The Keys to Environmental Salv...

Feb 7, 2013 by

The Keys to Environmental Salvation

A new e-book by futurist Alex Steffen argues that cities are the key to environmental salvation.

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