It’s Time to Step Up and...

May 21, 2013 by

It’s Time to Step Up and Help the Workers of Bangladesh

A planned demonstration at Gap Inc’s shareholder meeting in San Francisco aims to get Gap..

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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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This (theoretical) house is en...

May 14, 2013 by

This (theoretical) house is entirely powered by exercise

How would you like it if every single room in your house was an exercise station?

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Arkansas’ Thorncrown Cha...

May 9, 2013 by

Arkansas’ Thorncrown Chapel under threat from energy company

David Koon at The Arkansas Times writes that Thorncrown Chapel, an iconic piece of organic architecture is under threat..

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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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NVIDIA joins the crazy Silicon...

May 8, 2013 by

NVIDIA joins the crazy Silicon Valley headquarters wars

Apple has its circular spaceships, Google its squiggles, Facebook its Gehry boxes on stilts..

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100% Renewable Energy Initiati...

May 3, 2013 by

A newly established global alliance of civil society organizations..

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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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Building From Scrap

Apr 25, 2013 by

Building From Scrap

Ryerson School of Interior Design year end show is built almost entirely from RAW recycled scrap.

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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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10 ways 3D printers are advanc...

Apr 20, 2013 by

10 ways 3D printers are advancing science

3D printers, the rapid building machines that create objects from plastic filament..

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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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Nice Shades: BIQ Building is p...

Apr 18, 2013 by

Nice Shades: BIQ Building is powered by algae

Green eyeshades work the same way for buildings as they do for accountants,…

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This apartment building comes ...

Apr 16, 2013 by

This apartment building comes with its own algae-fueled power supply

When it comes to powering a home with energy from the sun,

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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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Flower Power: The Phipps Conse...

Apr 11, 2013 by

Flower Power: The Phipps Conservatory’s New Center for Sustainable Landscapes

Heralded as one of the Earth’s greenest buildings, ..

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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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We really want to live in this...

Apr 7, 2013 by

We really want to live in this floating Finnish village — and thanks to climate change, we’ll eventually have to

Finland’s first floating village is under construction in Pori, a small city on the country’s west coast.

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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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Los Angeles Includes Cool Roof...

Apr 3, 2013 by

Los Angeles Includes Cool Roofs in Building Code

Los Angeles could be a lot “whiter” in coming years ..

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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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