Tag: Buildings
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New Organic Solar Technology Gets Us Closer to Electricity Generating Buildings
A German company has designed a more efficient thin-film solar cell that can be used to make electricity-generating tinted windows and concrete structures.
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Five Things you Should Know Before you Start your Next LEED Project
The LEED rating system has dominated green building over the last decade. With LEED 2009 as the only option you can use now, and LEED 2012 around the corner, here are 5 things you should know before you decide to go green with the USGBC.
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Tall Wood: Architect Gives Away Technology To Build Wood Buildings Thirty Storeys High
Wood is the greenest building material, but its use has been limited to buildings a couple of floors high. Not any more.
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Golden Tree of Life to Adorn London Art Gallery
It's a gold leaf tree of life, set to adorn the front entrance to Whitechapel Art Gallery in London.
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Most Popular Articles of January: Astounding 3D Sculptures from Books, Indigenous Amazonian Child Burned to Death, and More
The best of January includes amazing landscape sculptures carved from old books, a logging horror in the Amazon, a cycling superhighway, and more.
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Are Skyscrapers Torpedoing the World's Economies?
A new report by Barclays Capital suggests a dark side to the building boom in places like China, India, and Turkey.
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The Week in Pictures: Underground Park for New York, Green Concept Cars, and More
Could the underground "Low Line" be NYC's next great park? We also have new green concept cars, the Eiffel Tower's makeover, and more.
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Autonomous Flying Robotic Bees Build Tower in France
The robotic bricklayer takes to the air. Could this be the future of building?
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Green Building Is The Key To Rebooting The Economy
It's a no-brainer: Construction is the job creation engine in America
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Tetrashed Tiny Backyard Office: The Shape Of Things To Come?
It raises some very interesting questions.
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Prefab Gateway Building By MAKE Built from Strawbale and Cross-Laminated Timber
What treehugger button does it miss? Wait, it's local, too!
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A New LEED Credit for Bird-Friendly Buildings
More green buildings can be bird-safe under a new LEED program in the U.S.
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Tower of Nests Designed to House Displaced Urban Wildlife
Thanks to a revolutionary new building called Tower of Nests proposed for construction in Shanghai, city squirrels, birds, and insects that might otherwise be displaced will have a high-rise to call their very own, living in peace with human residents.
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Perkins + Will Architects Introduces Transparency Site
Now anyone can see what common and legal materials and chemicals are capable of making people sick.
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Devastating Earthquake in Eastern Turkey Fails to Shake Ankara's Nuclear Plans
Reports that Turkey would reconsider its nuclear plans following a deadly earthquake in the eastern part of the country sounded too good to be true. They were.
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Another Reason To Move To Buffalo: The Architecture Is Amazing
What a collection of buildings from some of the best architects in America, as it undergoes a rebirth and revitalization
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Rockaway Beach Rocks Locavore Eats in Thrifty Spaces
On this rainy start to the weekend -- and Fall -- I needed a little pick-me-up, some sunniness in the face of gray. I pulled out my iPhoto album and found the fix: sweet, summer
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The Week in Pictures: A House without Walls, Gorgeous Rail Car Garden, and More (Slideshow)
On the Caribbean Sea, Colombian firm Plan B Architects has produced a new kind of Passivhaus -- a bioclimatic building with a roof, but no walls.
