Tag: Green Building
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Green Globes building certification system releases Anti-LEED Screed
Instead of concentrating on becoming a reputable certification system, it trash-talks the competition.
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Tall wood: 34 storey skyscraper proposed for Stockholm
C.F. Møller Architects' proposal in design competition is light and airy.
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Architects propose adaptive reuse of Manhattan towers as popup hotels
A very clever palletized solution, for what is unfortunately a nonexistent problem.
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The McMansion is back, and happy days are here again
Money is cheap. Natural gas is cheap. The trades are cheap. What could possibly go wrong?
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A great graphic explanation of the Living Building Challenge
The Living Building Challenge is tough to do, and tough to understand. This helps a lot.
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Is this Canada's Greenest Home?
They make a strong case for it. They've made just about all the right choices.
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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.
