Latest Stories in Green Architecture - Page 13
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Can You Build an All-American Home? It's Hard and Expensive, and It's All About the Details
Houston architect Karen Lantz tries and almost gets there.
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Suburbia Is Back: Meet the New Housing Market, Same as the Old Housing Market
Welcome back to the greatest misallocation of resources in history
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Starchitects Don't Win In Stirling Prize Shocker
A more modest green building from an architect few have heard of takes the big British prize
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Steel Box of A Tiny House is Only 320 Square Feet
Candid Rogers Studio designs "retreat for thoughtful repose."
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Brooklyn Timber Tower Student Competition Announced
Students and recent grads get to play with what is probably the greenest building material.
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Holedeck Waffle Slab Construction System Saves 20" Per Floor
More efficient building system reduces building heights and looks good too.
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SoHo Architektur Demonstrate How The KISS Principle makes for Less Costly Houses
But I bet this still costs a lot more than houses in North America
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Modern House in Montreal is Built With Healthy and Local Materials
It's also designed according to "Biogeometric Principles" with nothing but good vibrations
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Formaldehyde Should Not Be In Our Houses, No Matter How "Natural" Big Chem Says It Is
The industry rallies around an attack on Nick Kristof of the New York Times, but he's right.
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Coop Du Jour: Chicken Coop Ledoux by Planda Architects
Perhaps the most elegant and reverential chicken coop design we have seen yet
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Mid-Century Modern Flying Saucer Saved in St. Louis
The greenest building is the one already standing, and it doesn't have to be a century old to be worth saving.
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Mountain of Books Built In Glassy and Classy Library
Dutch architects MVRDV build "a glittering advertisement for reading."
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Wretched Excess Dept: British Hedgie Builds Fowl Extravagance, Cluckingham Palace, Coop de Grace
It's a classical stone chicken coop costing $250,000 and that is both Ionic and ironic.
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The War on Curves: From Phoenix to Chicago to London, Curvy Buildings are Under Attack
Frank Gehry better watch out, Bilbao might be next.
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The Week In Design: Retro Architecture From Albania and South America, Touring Philadelphia and More
Lots more, from Rwanda, London, Fort McMurray and Denver.
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Fort McMurray Airport Is The Largest Cross Laminated Timber Building In North America
The European technology makes bits of wood into structural elements big enough for an airport
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Recycled Concrete Bunkers in Albania Get New Uses
They built 750,000 bunkers in Albania and now they are being recycled for everything from nightclubs to shops.
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Touring The Gutsy and Green PostGreen Homes In Philadelphia
Another model for the development industry: Smart young people using their own money
