Tag: Buildings - Page 5
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Lance Hosey on the Shape of Green Architecture (Podcast)
To assemble its A-List of the world's best buildings, Vanity Fair magazine called on the elites of the architecture world to pick their favorite structures. Shocked at the distinct absence of green buildings, architect Lance Hosey immediately set out to
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The G-List: Choosing the Best Green Buildings Of The Last 30 Years
When covering Vanity Fair's World Architecture Survey I asked "Where's The Green?" and wrote that there was a "profound disconnect between the architecture shown
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Healthier Office Spaces Benefit Everyone
Research has shown that a healthy office space with plants and open windows is more conducive to productivity. Somehow we didn't need scientists to tell us that there is a link between flowers, plants, a
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Just What We Needed Dept.: A Drive-Thru Car Museum
Sigh. While we write about a world after cars, where people live in walkable cities, Francesco Gatti is building a drive-thru museum in Nanjing, China. The whole thing is a cross between some complicated origami and a parking garage; one drives through
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London's Embassies Show Sustainable Projects
As part of the London Festival of Architecture, twenty eight embassies are celebrating the best of their country's architecture. Strange creations like Italy's photo-reactive skin on its front door and Helsinki in a
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"Emerging Ghana" Wins Open Source House Competition for Local, Modular, and Efficient Design
Last year, Enviu, known for the sustainable dance floor and club, launched the Open Source House project, a platform to share much needed sustainable and affordable housing solutions. The goal of their first competition, in which 3100 architects
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Architects Building Small Refuges in Small Spaces
Architects love models and floor plans and drawings of their buildings, but most members of the public do not. They are too hard for the average person to visualize. In a
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There's No Recession in the New York Times Homes Section
The rich are different from you and me; they read the New York Times Home and Garden section on Thursdays, and don't seem to know that there is a recession. But they are beginning to deal with the concept of living with less,
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Preservation is Staying Green: Stephanie Meeks Replaces Richard Moe
I was saddened when Richard Moe announced his retirement as president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation; he was a huge influence, a strong and early voice delivering a message that the greenest building is the one already standing, that
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Bercy Chen Buries a High-Tech Update of a Traditional Pit-House
The Red Bluff house is a little
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A Cyclist and Architect Designs His Own House
Before and after the Becel Ride For the Heart, I was invited to the new home of an avid cyclist/architect and a baker in what might be called a transitional part of Toronto. From the outside one sees little more than a brick box inside a high fence;
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Living Map of Europe Grows on Copenhagen Wall
A display of vertical greenery in the shape of the European continent has been added to the outside wall of the European Environment Agency's centrally located
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How the World Might Look if Our Tech Writer Jaymi was an Architect
Photographer Joseph Ford and 3D Artist Antoine Mairot turn tech into buildings, dropping a PS3 into Berlin, a classic NES and our favourite: a solar powered, glass roofed Nintendo DS.
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Blu Homes' New Prefab Release is a Blast from the Past
Blu Homes' innovative folding technology has the promise of changing the way prefabricated homes are designed, as they break the width limitation set by road transport requirements. (see our earlier post here) But no matter how you slice it,
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Super Sleek, Green Surrounded New Museum for Monterrey, Mexico
The Papalote Kids Museum in Monterrey, Mexico, is getting a new extension for green education, and the building that will hold it is, of course, environmentally conscious (and beautiful!).
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Clunker Buses Transformed into Hip Bed and Breakfast Hotels in Israel
We may send old clunkers to the junk yard here in North America, but one family in Israel
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Rocket Condo Built From Surplus Subway Cars
Over the next couple of years the Toronto Transit Commission is replacing a lot of its subway cars. Ryerson School of Interior Design student Heather Borozny notes that people are converting shipping containers into housing, so why not subway cars?
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Your Dream Beach House: Clean Powered, Water Saving Condos in Brazil
Photos: Next Project. Conceito Next, a project for a new condominium in Brazilian beach destination Florianopolis is announced as the first to incorporate wind power for residential use. The project is located in the Novo Campeche region, and will have
