Tag: Apartments - Page 3
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'Green Roof' Idea Tilts Skyward in Istanbul
In dense urban areas, there's often nowhere to build but up, an approach that the clever team at Istanbul-based architectural firm Superpool is applying not only to its new
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Vilela Building by Joselevich Rascovski Adds Vertical Gardens to Buenos Aires
You probably know how much we love buildings with green walls: they cool interiors in the summer, help keep cities cooler by preventing the 'heat island' effect, capture carbon dioxide, and even absorb noise, and invite natural life.
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Transformer Furniture: 7 Objects That Aren't What They Seem
You might not guess just by looking, but, in the image above, there are two apartments, two sets of dining room furniture, six stools and a bed. Through a variety of gyrations, these objects unfold, change, and otherwise transform, creating functional
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5 Great Portable Electric Space Heaters
Photo used courtesy of Vagawi The U.S. Department of Energy has established that in many cases using an electric space heater in one room is much more efficient that heating an entire home efficiently with a gas furnace (especially an older unit). With
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Less is the New More: Making the Most of Small Spaces
Good Design For Living in Small Apartments As people migrate to smaller spaces, good design helps a lot. This is something they figured out in Europe long ago, that if you don't have a lot of horizontal room you can go vertical. Tumidei in Italy makes
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3 Green Apartment Tips, Soy-Based Ink Toner and Pretty #6 Plastic
:: Are you a renter? Live green legally with these landlord-friendly renovation tips.
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Save Energy the Shagadelic Way: How to Insulate Your Refrigerator
How often do you get to start a serious post with a quote like that? Thanks to our friends over at Chelsea Green, for sharing their favorite project from Stephen and
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Good Design Goes Viral, Dyson Disclaimer
Dyson is currently clarifying that a wind and solar clothing rack concept stems from a Dyson-branded design competition and is not a Dyson product protoype. Darn. But given how quickly the internet community embraced this design, that may just change.
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Greenbelt Condos in Brooklyn Propel Green Living and the Arts
Derek Denckla, a musician, attorney, and environmentalist with a background in community organizing, is not your everyday condominium developer. His new 8-unit building in Williamsburg, is the
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Creative Recyling: Gasometer City
Image Credit Maz Hewitt Gasometers are giant storage tanks that were used to store and balance pressure for town gas (gasified coal) or natural gas. Some were simple and industrial looking; others were elaborate structures. In Vienna they were
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Verdant Vocations: A Real Estate Agent?
Here’s the fourth in our series of posts about that third of our day spent beavering away at our chosen craft.
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Everything In Its Place with the Interlocking Puzzle Loft
How's this for a great use of space? Faced with a ceiling of undulating height -- 11'-10" at the low point and 12'-3" at its high point -- Kyu Sung Woo Architects dreamed up the Interlocking Puzzle Loft to make the
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First Wind-Powered Building Inaugurated in Mar del Plata, Argentina
Buenos Aires' most famous summer destination recently got its first wind-powered building. Its name is Cefira (in reference to Cefiro, god of the wind), and has a generator called IV 4500 which can produce 4,5 kilowatts: more than enough for the
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Urbines at Elephant & Castle
Urbines. That's what World Architecture News labels urban wind turbines; neat neologism.
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3rd Annual Coolest Smallest Apartment Contest
We always say that the key to sustainability is living with less, and that good design is the key to doing it happily and comfortably. As proof, we turn to Apartment Therapy, which runs a competition with prizes from Design within Reach, for the
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Greening Toronto's Concrete Slabs
Over a thousand of them were built in the sixties and seventies: monstrous twenty-five storey slab apartment buildings. And where TreeHugger usually says that high-density living is the most energy efficient, (and on a per-capita basis it probably is)
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US Navy Commissions Green Housing for Sailors
If you've ever spent any time in housing compounds on a US military base, you know that the homes occupied by soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines are... well, let's say "functional." The Navy, however, is breaking that mold with the release of its
