Tag: Architects - Page 8
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Andrew Maynard Designs A Parliament Building For The People
Most of the time our politicians hide behind stone walls. Architect Andrew Maynard puts the people in control with his new design for Parliament.
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The Week in Pictures: Cloud Travel, a Vertical Forest in Milan, and More (Slideshow)
We talk a lot about low-impact transportation on TreeHugger, from bikes to electric cars to high speed rail. But this is definitely the first time we've talked about traveling on a floating cloud.
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Vintage Trailer Renovated Into Beautiful Live + Work Space By Downsizing Architect
Photos: Matthew HofmannTiny homes, retrofitting old trailers into eco-friendly mobile homes are becoming more widespread as people are questioning the need for "stuff" and a mortgage. In the midst of simplifying his life, Californian architect Matthew
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Define "Home" Anywhere: Mobile Crate Furniture, Kitchen, Bedroom Etc. By Naihan Li
Photos: Naihan Li What's in the box? As we move from static, consumption-driven lifestyles to living with portability, flexibility and "less is more," it's fascinating to see how thoughtful design can bring this vital ethic to bear. We've seen
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Forget Airplanes, Travel Via Cloud: Floating Zeppelin Network by Tiago Barros
In a world where everything seems to operate at hyper-speeds (often at the expense of the environment), we're well aware of the apparent benefits behind such movements as "slow food" "slow cities" and "slow design." But what about
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Michael Jantzen's Amazing 1981 Modular Steel Dome House
The designer worked with off-the-shelf farm silo parts to build it.
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Whole Trees -- Pruned For Stunning Architecture & Better Forest Management (Photos)
Building with whole timber -- as opposed to milling it down into 'products' -- has lots of advantages, ranging from increased fire resistance (seems paradoxical but true), low embodied energy and carbon sequestration.
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Velodrome Misses the Gold in Architecture Olympics
The Velodrome, the jewel of London's 2012 Olympic buildings, did not win the gold in the architecture Olympics. Aka the RIBA Stirling Prize, it's the big architecture prize in the UK.
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A Marathon of Talks About Gardens at Serpentine Gallery
It's an orgy, of sorts. Two days straight of talk about gardens from all kinds of architects, landscapers, gardeners,scientists, and philosophers.
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2011 Curry Stone Design Prize Winners Announced
The Curry Stone Design Prize was created to champion designers as a force for social change. Founded by architect Clifford Curry and Archaeologist/acitivist Delight Stone, it " recognizes innovators who address critical issues
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Canada's Most Cherished Maple Tree Grows in Toronto
Canada's unofficial national anthem is The Maple Leaf Forever. It was written in 1867, the year of Confederation, by Alexander Muir.
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Creatherm: Finally, A Rational System For Installing Radiant Floors
Radiant heating is lovely and comfortable, but the best installations are in concrete, and that gets time consuming and expensive as installers put down insulation, then wire mesh, then tie the tubing to the mesh and hope that
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Buildup To Greenbuild: The Architourist and 5 Views of a Green Toronto
Dave LeBlanc, the Architourist in the Globe and Mail, interviews four talented green architects and me in his buildup
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Solar Decathlon 2011: Team California
Spending time in this home as a juror for the Solar
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Solar Decathlon 2011: Ohio State
Spending time in this home as a juror for the Solar
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Zem Joaquin, Founder of Ecofabulous.com (Podcast)
Even if the label of "maven" is painfully over-applied, there are people who still deserve it. Zem Joaquin, the stylish polymath behind Ecofabulous.com, is one of those few. Zem has been on the editorial side of mags like House and Garden, Domino, and
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Buildup To Greenbuild: A Conversation with superkül Meg Graham
30,000 green building professionals are coming to Toronto for Greenbuild in October; this series will try to explain Toronto to them. Today: another conversation with an interesting Toronto architect.
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Solar Decathlon 2011: Canada
Michelle Kaufmann judged this year's Solar Decathlon and here are some of the photos she took at the event which took place at the National Mall's West Potomac Park. TRTL, Canada's entry for the U.S. Department of Energy
