Tag: Green Building - Page 10
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Jerry Brown Fast-tracks Apple Headquarters Approvals; Apple Submits More Drawings and Detail
A closer look at the Foster + Partners proposal to build what is absolutely the world's most beautiful prison.
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Passive Solar Design Is Changing In the Face of New Technology and a Changing Climate
Essentially, we have too much solar and not enough design. It is time for a rethink, says Alex Wilson
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Update On Sky City One: Interview With Architect Xian Min Zhang
We Interview Architect with Broad Sustainable Construction In Rio
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Shipping Container Housing Comes To The Beach, Jumps Shark
Sometimes shipping containers make wonderful, innovative projects; sometimes, you have to wonder what they were thinking.
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Firefighters Change Tactics In Face Of Faster Fires From Burning Plastics
Plastics and foams burn more quickly, and traditional fire fighting techniques may make them worse.
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Clip-on Apartment Purifies Waste Water, Generates Its Own Energy
I don't think it would actually work, but it is an innovative way of reskinning buildings
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How Does a "Generation of Renters" Save Energy?
As more and more people give up on the idea of home ownership, what does that mean for energy efficiency in buildings?
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Biosecurity Facility In New Zealand Is Not What One Expects; Instead of a Bunker, It's Beautiful
Usually these kinds of buildings are built like bomb shelters. This one is a lovely shade of green.
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What Were They Thinking? USGBC in Connecticut Gives Award to Nestle Waters' Headquarters
The bottled water company responsible for profound and pointless waste of water and fossil fuels is praised for low flush toilets and white roofs.
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Top 10 Design Stories This Week: Recycled Tree Forts in Canada, Green Ski Chalets in Italy, Living Walls in Viet Nam, Pallets in Rio
Everything old is new again as we round up the most popular stories of the week. Low tech passive solutions seem to be all the rage.
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Your Air Conditioner Makes You Fat
It's not just that everyone hides inside and doesn't move; Air conditioning might actually increase obesity.
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Update On Sky City One: Tower in China Is Taller, Greener, Faster, Cheaper
Broad Sustainable Buildings sends us the latest news
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Lynn Knowlton's House In The Trees Is Built From A Recycled Barn
Just about everything in this gem of a tree house is recycled from somewhere
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Simple Sliding Doors Create a Transformer Apartment
Inspired by Japanese homes, this apartment uses very basic sliding doors to create multiple configurations.
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Details On Sky City, Worlds Tallest Building To Be Built In Two Months
Learn more about this amazing feat of engineering, a prefab 200 storey tower for 100,000 people
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New Green Vertical Wall Pops Up in London's King's Cross
There's yet another new green wall in London and TreeHugger was there to see it first.
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Wall of Planters Shades And Ventilates House; A New Kind of Living Wall
Here is a great way to keep out the sun and plant a vertical garden
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Buy Your Own (Official) Hobbit Hole
A small family business is selling replicas/interpretations of the homes made famous by J.R.R. Tolkien.
