Tag: Green Building
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The Week in Design: I <3 New York, but readers love those tiny homes
Much of the design coverage this week came from New York Design Week, although the two top stories are about tiny houses.
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According to Allison Arieff, Prefab Lives!
A decade ago she saw it coming and now it might actually finally be arriving.
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Composting toilets are coming home
It's about time that we stopped wasting drinking water to flush away our waste; Allison Bailes did it and isn't complaining.
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Alex Wilson calls Bullitt Center "one of the most important commercial buildings of the past 50 years"
The BuildingGreen founder says it is " almost certainly the greenest office building in America if not the world."
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The Grow Home is back with these flatpack houses for Dutch first-time homebuyers
It's an old idea that keeps coming back, and just gets better with time: A house that adapts as your family changes
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One Building, One City: World's tallest prefab, Sky City, is breaking ground in June
Sky City will be 2750 feet tall, 220 stories, housing 30,000 people in 4450 apartments. That's sustainable design.
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The Upcycle House goes beyond recycling
The architects claim it's " the first house build only from upcycled and environmentally sustainable materials". Is it?
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Quotes of the Day: Joe Lstiburek on the good, the bad and the ugly side of buildings
Andrew Michler does a great interview of the building science consultant in Inhabitat
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2013 Mies van der Rohe European Architecture Prize goes to Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik
It is a wonder that the green glass gem by Hennig Larson Architects and Olafur Eliasson ever got finished.
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Michael Green is building North America's tallest wood building in Prince George, BC
The 90 foot tall building is just the start of something big, as wood mid-rise construction gets a foothold.
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The top ten posts of the week on TreeHugger
It's all about tech this week, from solar collectors to lithium
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More detail and refinement of Apple's new headquarters
It looks less like a spaceship and more like a bicycle tire.
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Brettstapel: another way of building with wood
This method of building solid wood panels of wood may be the greenest yet.
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Five of the Ten greenest buildings of 2013 chosen by the American Institute of Architects
They still care about green building at the AIA, really they do. Here's proof.
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George W. Bush Presidential Library gets LEED Platinum
The style is a bit derivative, but the green features certainly aren't.
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Can Brutalism make you brutal? Architecture critic James Russell thinks it might
The Bloomberg critic looks at the work of Paul Rudolph and wonders if it made Dzhokar Tsarnaev do it.
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How did we end up with drywall?
Perhaps it is time to reconsider the ubiquitous interior finish; It is not the greenest way to go.
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Forget the green gizmos and bamboo floors; Green building is all about moderation
Martin Holladay gets down to the essentials: Size, siting, sun and sealing
