Latest Stories in Green Architecture - Page 2
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Forget the Passive House, the JF Kit House keeps you active and fit.
Get a workout while you work and live, in a house that would exhaust Jane Fonda herself.
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More of the greenest buildings of 2013 chosen by the American Institute of Architects
Here are the rest of the choices by the AIA Committee on the Environment.
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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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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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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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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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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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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
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Nice Shades: BIQ Building is powered by algae
This truly is a green building, although I don't think an accountant would love these green eyeshades.
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Charming microhomes built with salvaged heritage lumber
As a built expression of deliberate simplicity and local building traditions, these picturesque tiny homes are built by Charles Finn using recycled materials.
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12 year old Manhattan Museum to be demolished, it's "too opaque."
Tod Williams and Billie Tsien join the Rubble Club, as The Museum of Modern Art tears down their nice bit of modern art.
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Affordable bamboo housing floats when it floods
Severe flooding is a major concern in many parts of the world, but this low-cost bamboo house may literally help its inhabitants keep afloat during a disaster.
