Tag: Green Building - Page 6
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The Crystal is a Super Sustainable Building and a Museum Too
The Crystal is a super green building and a museum about sustainable living.
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Rotating Home is a Transcontinental Tri-National Mashup
Australia's Everingham House meets North Carolina's Deltec Homes- In Prince Edward Island, Canada
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Tiny 325 Sq. Ft. "Cave" Apartment Sleeps Four
A small subterranean living space becomes a surprisingly luxurious urban dwelling.
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Cold Snap Adds To Misery for Superstorm Sandy Survivors, and It Doesn't Have To Be That Way.
Most furnaces don't run without electricity, and it's freezing.
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Sixteen Percent of Lung Cancers Caused By Radon
The deadly gas comes in through basements, cracks and even pipes.
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Richard Heinberg's Tiny Fibonacci Studio
Author, activist and post-carbon rabble rouser Richard Heinberg is also a dabbler in green building. Take a tour of his tiny hand-built backyard studio.
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Tiny Earth Shed & Art Gallery Built from Hyper-Local Ingredients
This earthen structure in downtown San Francisco reminds us that precious resources are everywhere. And many are going to waste.
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Thermal Mass, Careful Siting and Shading And Natural Ventilation Keep This Building Busy
" I’m more interested in what architecture does than just what it is."
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The Top Ten Stories In Design For October
A Lot of Stories About A Lot of Storeys
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Living Homes Introduces New LEED Platinum Prefabs at Affordable Prices
As modern green prefab builders move up the learning curve, they move down the price point.
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CREE Brings Wood and Concrete Hybrid Construction To North America
The Austrian system can build at 30 storey high-rise in thirty days
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The Weather Reminds Us That It's Time To Get Serious About Resilient Design
Where would you rather be, in a 2nd floor walkup or a 60 storey glass tower in the face of a storm?
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Nice Shades: SERA Architects And Cutler Anderson Update An Old Office Building In Portland
A shading system keeps it cool, helped by a giant solar powered hat
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Help Finish Greensburg's Meadowlark Eco-Home
The winner of a design competition runs out of money before it's complet
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What Ever Happened To Roof Overhangs?
They are traditional features that have evolved over centuries and serve a useful purpose. Yet they seem to be disappearing, particularly on modern architecture.
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LEED-Bashing: USA Today Series Says It's Too Easy To Be Green (and a Whole Lot More)
The rating system is attacked in 2012 for its 2002 standard and the timing couldn't be worse.
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Can We Build Cities Out Of Apartments the Size of Parking Spaces?
It is an ongoing debate in America and a foregone conclusion everywhere else. Allison Arieff discusses it in the New York Times
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It's a Mud Mud Mud Mud World
Rammed earth design goes mainstream in the Financial Times
