Tag: Green Building - Page 9
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Not Just For Farms: Corrugated Steel Is the Standard in Iceland For New And Old Buildings
Most of Iceland's buildings appear to be clad in this basic industrial material, and it is amazing what they have done with it.
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Architecture Students Strut Their Stuff in Habitat For Humanity Competition to Design a Sustainable Home
If you ignore the fundamental problem with this competition's sponsorship by the Vinyl industry, there is some interesting stuff going on.
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Beautiful Cable-Suspended Treehouses Use No Floor Support
A resort in the Spanish Pyrenees offers one-of-a-kind treehouses with stunning views and deliberately few amenities.
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Fascinating Ramshackle Earth House is Built By Hand
An experiment in "intuitive architecture", this home reminds us that green living doesn't have to be high tech.
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Berlin Superhome Generates More Energy Than It Consumes
Robert Llewellyn visits a massively high-tech experimental home in Berlin. He is duly impressed.
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Bay Area Leads New Ranking of US Eco-Friendly Cities
That's perhaps to be expected, but would you have guessed that Las Vegas has more green architects than any other city?
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Beat The Heat: Toronto's YWCA Elm Centre Keeps Cool With Careful Design
Ground source heat pumps help keep it comfortable without conventional air conditioning
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Beat The Heat: Original Green Architect Steve Mouzon Says, "Condition People First"
Before you condition the air, how about conditioning the people to the climate? Architect Steve Mouzon shows us how.
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Beat The Heat: If You Want A Cool House, Celebrate Thermal Mass
Your walls can act like rechargeable thermal batteries.
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What Are The Plastic People So Afraid Of That They Want To Kill LEED?
BuildingGreen's new guide to toxic chemicals couldn't have been released at a better time; We cross-reference it against the members of the AHPBC.
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Beat The Heat: If You Want A Cool House, Get A Shotgun
In much of the southern United States, people used to build what's called Shotgun Houses. They were cheap and cool.
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Update on The American High-Performance Buildings Coalition: Their Website is Live, and Here Are Their Members
A shocking list of every plastics and chemical company in North America.
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Plastic People Set Up "American High-Performance Buildings Coalition" To Fight Restrictions on Plastics in Green Building
They claim that their poison plastics are "are essential for energy-efficient building."
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Tiny Apartment Hides Bathtub in a Drawer
This architect's 258 square foot home uses some clever tricks, and a careful understanding of the owner's needs, to enable living large in a small space.
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Smart Windows Fix Dumb Problem of Too Much Noise, Too Much Light: Sage Electrochromic Glass Changes With Flick Of Switch
Open terrace in Kimmel Center was too hot or too noisy; now it's fixed.
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Stunning Storage Stair In Paris Loft Is Hung From Cables
Smoothcore Architects combine stair with bookshelf that just floats in air
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Tiny Off-Grid Float Cabin Becomes Dream Retirement Home
For one couple, retirement means living way off-the-grid in a water-access-only floating cabin in the wilds of British Columbia.
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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.
