Tag: Green Roofs - Page 8
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IDS09: CISTA Green Rainwater Harvesting
Carolyn Moss is known to TreeHuggers as a harsh taskmaster when it comes to installing green roofs. At the Interior Design Show her firm, Moss Sund, collaborates with Fig Forty to produce a rainwater harvesting storage
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Arquitectonica Greenwraps a Parking Garage
The standard of design in Miami and Miami Beach condos isn't very high, and most sit on chunky, ugly bases of up to ten floors of parking. Really, how many cars do these people have? At the prices people are were paying, why couldn't they sink the
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Roofs Are For People: Tent Cities on Hotel Roofs
They might have tried this in Washington last night, if it weren't so cold.An unusual method of coining dollars from the waste space on the roof of a building is shown in this view of the U. S. Grant Hotel in San Diego, where about twenty tents have
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Green Roofs Meet the Ground in New Heden
Roofs are for people, and should be green and accessible. That is what is so exciting about New Heden in Gothenberg, Daniel Andersson's final thesis at Jönköping University, with Fredrik Kjellgren and Joakim Kaminsky of Kjellgren Kaminsky Architects.
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Roofs are for People
Bernard Rudofsky is well known for his book Architecture without Architects, but he also wrote that Streets are for People. Perhaps the same thing can be said about roofs.
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Green Façade Covers Chilean Building by Enrique Browne
Enrique Browne has designed an interesting green façade for an office building on an important site in Concepción, Chile. A free plant "volume" that looks to the East, North and West, protected from the sun by laminated wood sections that support
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Trade In 250 iPods, Get Yourself a 1,000 Square ft i-House?
Okay, so no such deal exists, explicitly. Do not contact Apple regarding said offer. However, the prospect is very real: Clayton homes is reportedly about to start marketing its manufactured home the i-House (named because of
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How Green was my Balcony
It seems to be all the rage these days: Every building proposal has lush green balconies. It is hard to tell how it is done; when you look closely at the renderings of this proposal for Milano Santa Monica, via homedesignfind, one really cannot tell
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Green Temporary Showroom by Vector Architects
It is a sort of showroom for a residential project, the likes of which are often built and then thrown away. This one is designed for easy demolition and recovery after use.
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Starwood to Build "Luxe-Eco" Hotel in Washington, DC
Washington, DC, which consistently scores high in sustainability rankings for its excellent public transportation, walkability, and green space, has few accolades in the area of green building. While the majority of the nation's biggest environmental
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From the Forums: Solar Roof or Green Roof?
Image Credit: thingermejig greenteadrinker: On Renovation Nation they often speak to the roof's that people are installing. It got me to thinking, which is more beneficial? Solar panels-free electricity (once the initial investment is paid off) Green
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GreenBuild: Green Wall Techology from Tournesal
We have shown a lot of green wall systems that require some pretty complicated plumbing and controls, with the plants barely hanging on to a layer of felt or mesh. Christopher Lyon of Tournesol Site Works has an interesting alternative, a prefabricated
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The Living Walls on San Francisco's Embarcadero
In a blog post on design applications of water resource management, New York Times design blogger Allison Arrieff included a photograph of a glass office building currently under construction in San Francisco with veritable
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Gastronomic Garden by Taebeom Kim
We have been showing some of the work of students at London's Architectural Association School of Architecture, where they were looking at models for integrating food production into the fabric of the city.
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Vauxhall Sky Garden by Amin Taha Architects
Amin Taha Architects are building gardens in the sky in their new Vauxhall tower, with 25,000 square feet of communal gardens, each three stories in height.
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Schwimmhausboot: A Green Modern Floating Home
Flo Florian and Sascha Akkermann of design firm Confused Direction have designed a lovely floating home. it is ecofriendly, too, with zero-emissions, a green roof, and materials such as 250 year old larch wood salvaged from an old farmer's shed.
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Solar Two Wins Holcim Gold Award
TreeHugger has discussed Solar One before, and George had posted a video of Solar Two
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Apple Day at Roots and Shoots
It's Apple Day at Roots and Shoots--a double celebration. Firstly, Apple Days--every autumn there are a string of Apple Days held all over Britain which focus on the heritage of English apples. There are over 2,000 kinds of apples growing in small
