One Building, One City: World's tallest prefab, Sky City, is breaking ground in June
Sky City will be 2750 feet tall, 220 stories, housing 30,000 people in 4450 apartments. That's sustainable design.
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The 10 most popular design stories in April
From tiny houses to spectacular stairs, from Passive Houses to to toilets.
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2013 Mies van der Rohe European Architecture Prize goes to Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik
It is a wonder that the green glass gem by Hennig Larson Architects and Olafur Eliasson ever got finished.
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Goedzak ("good bag") designs a new approach to reuse
Dutch design firm Waarmakers proposes a new take on an old trick, and gets us pondering the best options for stuff we no longer use.
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Michael Green is building North America's tallest wood building in Prince George, BC
The 90 foot tall building is just the start of something big, as wood mid-rise construction gets a foothold.
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Best explanation of the Passive House ever. (Mildly NSFW)
The Belgian Passive House Platform tells all, in French with subtitles.
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More detail and refinement of Apple's new headquarters
It looks less like a spaceship and more like a bicycle tire.
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Sometimes, historic preservationists really are NIMBYs
This is the poorest excuse yet for trying to keep out Citibikes
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Brazil's Inhotim is a sustainable art park
Inhotim is a Brazilian sustainable architecture and art project set amidst a palm forest and it's fabulous.
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Brettstapel: another way of building with wood
This method of building solid wood panels of wood may be the greenest yet.
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Ryerson School of Interior Design year end show is built almost entirely from RAW recycled scrap
They have turned the Designboom booth from the Interior Design Show into a display system and a demonstration of reuse and repurposing.
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Five of the Ten greenest buildings of 2013 chosen by the American Institute of Architects
They still care about green building at the AIA, really they do. Here's proof.
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George W. Bush Presidential Library gets LEED Platinum
The style is a bit derivative, but the green features certainly aren't.
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It's curtains for the Soft House
Sheila Kennedy and KVA design multifamily houses with a solid wood core and a flexible interior.
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Zero-waste recyclable "Terra" furniture is made from compost
In asking "How can products, like people, come from dust, and to dust return?," this "designer-gatherer" is creating simple but elegant furniture using compost.
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Can Brutalism make you brutal? Architecture critic James Russell thinks it might
The Bloomberg critic looks at the work of Paul Rudolph and wonders if it made Dzhokar Tsarnaev do it.
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How did we end up with drywall?
Perhaps it is time to reconsider the ubiquitous interior finish; It is not the greenest way to go.
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Nature reserves in UK may be fair game for developers, if they "offset" the damage on less valuable real estate
There's lots of less valuable land farther away from cities. Why protect it when you can offset it?
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Forget the green gizmos and bamboo floors; Green building is all about moderation
Martin Holladay gets down to the essentials: Size, siting, sun and sealing
