Tag: Green Building - Page 7
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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
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Shark-Jumping New York Condo is Back, and is as Wrong As It Was Five Years Ago
Yes, it's beautiful. but we shouldn't be building this way anymore.
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Modern Modular Makes Sense in the Far North
It goes together quickly in a very short Yellowknife construction season
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Teen Finishes 130 Sq. Ft. Mortgage-Free Home
The story of Austin Hay's plan to build himself a home before he went to college has already gone viral. Now we get to see the finished product.
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BuildingGreen Tells You Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Concrete
Concrete is controversial as a green building material; This guide cuts through the greenwashing
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Can You Build an All-American Home? It's Hard and Expensive, and It's All About the Details
Houston architect Karen Lantz tries and almost gets there.
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Suburbia Is Back: Meet the New Housing Market, Same as the Old Housing Market
Welcome back to the greatest misallocation of resources in history
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Blu Homes To Build Small Affordable Houses for the Poor of Marin County
This project is a model of how one can get increased density and tiny houses in an urban environment
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Brooklyn Timber Tower Student Competition Announced
Students and recent grads get to play with what is probably the greenest building material.
