Tag: Philadelphia
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Philadelphia's solar-powered trash cans: Great green idea or flawed design?
Are solar-powered trash cans a fuel-saving, money-saving way to keep the streets clean? Or are they worse than regular trash cans?
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Should private charging stations be installed in public space? (Survey)
If you own an electric car but don't own a garage, what do you do?
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Touring The Gutsy and Green PostGreen Homes In Philadelphia
Another model for the development industry: Smart young people using their own money
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Postgreen Homes Builds Gutsy Modern Townhouses in Philadelphia
Going for LEED Platinum in an affordable townhouse with clean modern design
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The Porch: Philadelphia Creates a New Public Space
A new public space in Philadelphia helps make the city more human-scale and increase quality of life for people who work or pass through the area.
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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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Pop-Up Gardens, Other 'Urban Interventions' to be Showcased at Venice Architecture Biennale
Pop-up gardens, urban farms, guerrilla bike lanes, examples of crowdsourced city planning, and other urban interventions will be the focus of the official U.S. Pavilion at the world's most prestigious architecture event.
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NFL’s Eagles Score With Stadium Solar, Wind
A new football stadium in Philadelphia is in the running for the unofficial title of "Greenest Stadium in America."
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Gray Area: Provocations on the Future of Preservation
The mixing of old and new is one of the toughest things to deal with in architecture. Do you try to blend in, doing faux old, or stand out in contrast? Does everything get perserved in amber or can
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Biking Through Amish Country for Climate Ride
There is a certain irony in the fact that some of the best biking in the U.S. is in an area where people have rejected the modern world -- including bikes (for those of the Old Order).
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Expanding and Redefining The Idea Of Home
Nic Darling is part of Postgreen Homes, builder of the 100K house and others that I have raved about; Postgreen is a different kind of developer, working in gritty urban parts of Philadelphia, doing smaller, more affordable
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Philadelphia Wants to Join New York & Paris in the Park in The Sky Club
Paris has the Promenade plantée and New York has The High Line, parks created on top of once-abandoned railway tracks. Now plans are afoot in Philadelphia to transform the Reading Viaduct into what its designers are
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100K House From Postgreen Wins LEED Project of the Year
I thought we were being edgy when we gave Interface Studio Architects the Best Residential Architect Award as part of Best of Green this year, but I could not help but love the 100K house. Evidently neither could the US Green
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Philadelphia Eagles - The Green Team - Scores Touchdown for Energy Independence
Quoting directly from the Philadelphia Eagles presser: "The Eagles have contracted with Orlando FL-based SolarBlue, a
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Interface Studio Builds Modular Student Residence
Philadelphia architects Interface Studio are known to TreeHugger for their work with PostGreen and on the 100K house. They have also just completed a modular student residence at Temple University that really does demonstrate
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Young Swedish Firm Designs Bike Palace for Philadelphia
The hot young Swedish firm We Are You came third in a competition to design a new bicycling center in Philadelphia. (They must be really young- entry criteria include only those who graduated later than 2007). Its mission: "to promote bicycling in all
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Brompton Folding Bike Championships Come to the USA
If this video of the 3rd annual Brompton World Championships got US folding bike enthusiasts excited, then they'll be delighted that for the first time ever, a national US Brompton championship is to be held in March
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Good Green Design Doesn't Have To Be Expensive: The M&M; House
I have not paid nearly enough attention to the work of Postgreen, the Philadelphia developers of economical and very interesting houses. Preston at Jetson Green nailed their 100K House as "the perfect trifecta of elements
