Tag: Buildings - Page 2
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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.
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A Travelling Hotel Suite Shows Guests and Hoteliers How to be Green (Photos)
After visiting a hotel in Guadalajara, the centre of Spain, at the beginning of the year, the Travelling Eco Suite is currently spending time in Portugal. The Spanish boutique hotel chain Rusticae got together with the architects from Modulab, Egoin
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Ask Pablo: Do Solar Panels Contribute To The Heat Island Effect?
Image credit: Bernd Sieker, used under Creative Commons license. Dear Pablo: Does installing commercial rooftop solar PV (with the dark-colored PV cells) negate the effect of painting that same roof white to alleviate the "heat island" effect in
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Vehicle Maintenance Workshop Recycled Into Stunning Cultural Center In Brazil
An old shed that used to serve as a vehicle maintenance workshop and a warehouse for the Federal University of Goias in the city of Goiania, Brazil, was recycled into a stunning cultural center for the institution.
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Allison Arieff on Prefab, Going Local, and Why the Suburbs Aren't So Bad (Podcast)
One can't spend years as the editor in chief of Dwell magazine and not be something of a sage on sustainable design. What's more, Allison Arieff literally wrote the book on prefab architecture and now shares her explorations in the pages of the New York
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A Wood and Plexiglas Cloud Makes a Surprising Peri-Urban Retreat
As awesome as cities are, getting away from time to time is a good idea. But as refreshing and necessary as a vacation in the countryside can be, it comes with its own headaches, especially in terms of increased
