Latest Stories in Green Architecture - Page 11
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Sun-Collecting, Parametric "Skin" Surrounds Student-Designed House
Balancing eastern and western philosophies of balance and autonomy, students from Tongji University use parametric design to create an efficient house of the future.
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Glass Towers May Be Sexy, But They Need To Put A Coat On
We keep building towers out of glass, and it makes no sense.
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A Picture Is Worth: The City of Tomorrow, 1934
For once, the architect envisioning the future got it right: A City of glass towers and cars
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The Week in Design: Farming in Singapore, a Chair That Knits While You Sit, Resilience, and More
We featured some inspiring, wacky, fun, and goofy things this week. Check out all that was happening in sustainable design this week!
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Ottawa Condo Is A Model For Green Intensification
We don't all have to live in forty storey buildings downtown
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The Crystal is a Super Sustainable Building and a Museum Too
The Crystal is a super green building and a museum about sustainable living.
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The Box: Ralph Erskine's Precursory Tiny House in the Swedish Woods
Even with the growing number of tiny apartments and multi-functional homes coming up in the media these days this project shows the English architect had it right in the 1940s.
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Rotating Home is a Transcontinental Tri-National Mashup
Australia's Everingham House meets North Carolina's Deltec Homes- In Prince Edward Island, Canada
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Autark Home: A Self-Sufficient, Floating Passivhaus Houseboat
An ultra energy-efficient, solar-powered Passivhaus home for the water.
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Warming Hut By Lateral Office Pays Homage To The Humble Snow Fence
Temporary shelter Is a fence with a twist.
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Tiny 325 Sq. Ft. "Cave" Apartment Sleeps Four
A small subterranean living space becomes a surprisingly luxurious urban dwelling.
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Cold Snap Adds To Misery for Superstorm Sandy Survivors, and It Doesn't Have To Be That Way.
Most furnaces don't run without electricity, and it's freezing.
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Sixteen Percent of Lung Cancers Caused By Radon
The deadly gas comes in through basements, cracks and even pipes.
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Richard Heinberg's Tiny Fibonacci Studio
Author, activist and post-carbon rabble rouser Richard Heinberg is also a dabbler in green building. Take a tour of his tiny hand-built backyard studio.
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Thermal Mass, Careful Siting and Shading And Natural Ventilation Keep This Building Busy
" I’m more interested in what architecture does than just what it is."
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The Top Ten Stories In Design For October
A Lot of Stories About A Lot of Storeys
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CREE Brings Wood and Concrete Hybrid Construction To North America
The Austrian system can build at 30 storey high-rise in thirty days
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Nice Shades: SERA Architects And Cutler Anderson Update An Old Office Building In Portland
A shading system keeps it cool, helped by a giant solar powered hat
