Tag: Housing Industry - Page 4
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The Week in Pictures: Cherry Tree Sculptures, Catapulting LED Stars, and More (Slideshow)
We've featured a lot of treehouses on TreeHugger, but the plans for this one are a little different: Ten cherry trees will be planted in a circle, and pruned and bent over time to form a unique, two story sculpture.
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The Week in Pictures: Cherry Tree Sculptures, Catapulting LED Stars, and More
This week's photo roundup includes a sculpture made from living cherry trees, an artist catapulting LEDs into the sky to make stars, and more.
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Allison Arieff on Shifting the Suburban Paradigm
Allison Arieff just kills with her latest article in the New York Times on suburban housing. This is a different world than the modern prefabs she used to write about, or the solar decathlon houses that every blog is talking about; this is where most
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KB Homes Rolling Out Zerohome 2.0 Across The Country
Whenever KB Home or another subdivision builder introduces a new "green" model I do my usual rant about how it is just lipstick on a pig or polishing a turd. But in fact, perhaps it is time that I acknowledge that perhaps the
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Zero Net Energy zHome is "A Model For Mainstream Housing In The Future"
On September 29, 2008, the Down Jones Industrial Average fell 777 points, the economic crisis and Great Recession started, and they broke ground on the zHome project in Issaquah, Washington. Now, three years later, the project is
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Green Lessons From Mid-Century Modern Houses
I do go on about the green lessons we can learn from old buildings, but usually talk about those designed before the thermostat age. Greg Lavardera tweets about a post listing 10 Forgotten
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Elemental Monterey Social Housing Wins World's Largest Design Prize
The INDEX Design prize splits $ 800,000 among five categories: Body, Home, Work, Play and Community. The Home category has been given to the ELEMENTAL Monterrey, a clever social housing project in Mexico. The units are what Avi
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Does Shipping Container Architecture Make Sense?
I grew up around shipping containers; my dad made them. I played with them in architecture school, designing a summer camp out of them, fascinated by the handling technology that made them cheap and easy to
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Architecture Students, Don't Miss This! Dow Design To Zero Competition Has Inspired Program
Every time the Solar Decathlon rolls around I admire the ingenuity and all the green gizmos, but wonder about the applicability to real life situations. Particularly as we learn how important location and density are to energy conservation and real
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Quote of the Day: Lisa Rochon on Architect Barbie's Dream House
My favourite entry in the Architect Barbie Dream House competition didn't win, but hey, it is a people's choice award, so it is hard to criticize the jurors. That didn't stop Globe and Mail architectural critic Lisa Rochon, who asks "Oh, Barbie. You
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Allison Arieff on Prefab, Going Local, and Why the Suburbs Aren't So Bad (Podcast)
One can't spend years as the editor in chief of Dwell magazine and not be something of a sage on sustainable design. What's more, Allison Arieff literally wrote the book on prefab architecture and now shares her explorations in the pages of the New York
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Nice Shades: Tips From The Pros On How To Keep The Heat Out
It is one of the lunacies of housing in America that builders pay no attention to orientation or window placement, then have to oversize the air conditioning unit to compensate, forcing the homeowner to pay more up
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Arguments Against White Roofs in Northern Cities are Specious, Revisited
After posting about the benefits of white roofs, (as Mike did here on TreeHugger), Andrew Sullivan published a couple of letters from readers questioning their benefits. I had a look at this issue two years ago, and
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Survey: Americans Want Denser, Smaller, Closer Housing
Nothwithstanding Brian's post New Population Maps Show Americans are Still Moving to the 'Burbs, which covered the movements of a full decade, more recent surveys tell a different story. Richard Florida writes about a new survey conducted for the
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AIA/COTE Green Architecture Awards Go To TreeHugger Favorites and Fails
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and its Committee on the Environment (COTE) have released their top ten examples of sustainable architecture and green design for 2011, many of
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Tour of the Second PassivHaus in UK
This lovely looking Victorian house in west London seems deceptively straightforward except for a tiny plaque on the front door. It notes that this is the second house in the UK to reach PassivHaus standards. And that is no mean
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Lipstick On A Pig Dept: KB Homes Slapping Solar on California Subdivision
How could a TreeHugger not click onto a post title like KB Home proves that solar power isn't just for treehuggers. The monster builder is putting 1.4 kilowatt solar panels as a standard feature on every house in a California
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Proto Home's Flexible Spaces and Efficient Core
In the "sleepy neighborhood" of Baldwin Hills in Los Angeles, a modern Proto Home sits among a mix of single-family dwellings from over the last few
