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    Beautiful contemporary farmhouse harnesses all of its water supply onsite

    Australian design firm Glow recently completed a stunning farmhouse that embodies both the traditional rural aesthetic and contemporary, energy-efficient trends in home design. Constructed from a prefab timber frame with reclaimed materials, the 700 haus is a 253-square-foot home that ...
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    Heatherwick Studio wants to build a tree-covered mountain in the middle of Shanghai

    Heatherwick Studio just unveiled plans to build a 15-acre tree-covered mountain in the middle of Shanghai. The studio was commissioned to design a complex of housing units, offices, shops, a hotel and a school for the plot located next to Shanghai‘s ...
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    OMA completes the Netherlands’ most sustainable mixed-use building in Rotterdam

    A glass-and-steel pixelated mountain has risen in the heart of Rotterdam. OMA just completed Timmerhuis, a modular mixed-use building that will house municipal office spaces, residential, retail, parking, and a museum. Designed to be the most sustainable building in the ...
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    Casa Nirau in Mexico City produces almost all its own water and energy

    Paul Cremoux Studio brings a classic elegance to modern design in a small, eco-friendly home in Mexico. This cozy and cool residence called Casa Nirau has a smaller footprint than the previous home, collects and recycles rainwater, and was designed ...
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    52 firms sign agreement to tackle climate change

    On Oct. 22, 52 architecture and planning firms signed the China Accord, a collaborative effort to design buildings, neighborhoods, and cities in that country to low-carbon or carbon-neutral standards. These firms, based in China and other countries worldwide, gathered last week in ...
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    Everything I ever knew or said about green sustainable design was probably wrong

    The drawing above, or some version of it, has been part of every sustainable design class since about 1970: have lots of south facing windows carefully shaded by properly designed overhangs, with the winter sun heating up that thermal mass ...
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    Hemp-based insulation makes a comeback in Belgium

    Hemp is finally making its comeback. Belgium’s Martens Van Caimere Architecten has renovated a local home with a sustainable hemp-based insulation, known as hempcrete. The hemp-based render, made out of a mixture of hemp, lime and water, provides a more ...
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    Vaulted retreat hall uses two different types of bamboo

    Known for his visionary work of building soaring structures with bamboo andgreenery-covered homes, Vietnamese architect Vo Trong Nghia is at again, this time completing a conference hall with two types of locally sourced bamboo. Located near the central port city ...
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    Modern wood clad cabin in Spain harvests water & sun

    © DOM Arquitectura Proper solar orientation of a building on a site has been one of the core practices of passive solar design for decades. But as a number of green building observers have noted before, times have changed, techniques ...