Tag: Seattle
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How does Vienna build such terrific housing?
Seattle architect Mike Eliason describes what he learned about their housing policies.
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Artist's captivating kinetic sculptures take inspiration from nature
These delicately formed hand-crank and motor-activated art installations blossom and grow perpetually.
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Seattle Bike Share system is being shut down
Bike share programs are public transit, and that requires public support.
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'Big Bertha' is modern school bus conversion that's home to family of 5 (Video)
Find out why one family found living on a renovated bus to be an appealing tiny-house-on-wheels alternative.
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Perkins + Will's Seattle office is designed to be toxin-free
Which really, is how every building and office should be designed.
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Susan Jones' Seattle CLT house is a wooden wonder
It really could be the future of sustainable, green and healthy housing.
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Another one bites the dust: Seattle's Edith Macefield House might have just 90 days
I could write this post in my sleep, it is such a tired playbook that happens so often in real estate development.
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Students aim to build village of tiny homes for Seattle's homeless (Video)
A Seattle educational non-profit hopes to crowd-fund a series of portable, off-grid shelters for some of the city's homeless, which local high school students will design and build with the help of professional architects and builders.
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Montainer makes shipping container architecture easy
You are not just buying a box but a full service design/build package. Could this take container architecture mainstream?
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CLT House by Susan Jones shows the future of sustainable, green and healthy housing
And it is beautiful too.
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Materials Monday looks at Shou Sugi Ban
This traditional Japanese method of finishing wood is having a dramatic resurgence.
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TreeHugger is off to the Passive House Northwest Conference in Seattle
These are interesting times for the Passive House movement in America, and this should be a very interesting conference.
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Artist and hundreds of volunteers recreate huge old-growth tree in sculpture (Video)
A large section of a 140-year-old Western hemlock tree is faithfully reconstructed by hand from cast molds, using tiny pieces of reclaimed cedar that have been carefully glued together.
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What will happen to the Edith Macefield house?
She wouldn't sell to the developer around her, and now it is a prime example of "demolition by neglect."
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Seattle to fine residents who don't compost
In a bid to meet the city's goal of recycling 60% of its waste by 2015, Seattle is turning its sights on food scraps that end up in the trash.
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The rise of biking and protected bike lanes in the United States (video)
Another phase of the wonderful Green Lane Project has just been announced, and PeopleForBikes has taken the opportunity to highlight biking and protected bike lane growth in the US through a new video.
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Garage by Graypants is gorgeous and green
Known to TreeHugger for their trademark lamps, the Seattle practice does a bigger building
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"Passivhaus is a team sport"- the idea is simple, the execution is a bit tougher
It's one thing to design to the Passivhaus standard; it is another thing altogether to prove it.
