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    World’s tallest timber tower to be built in British Columbia

    Fifty years ago, Many apartment buildings were built in the International Style, tall flat slabs of buildings with efficient layouts. Now Acton Ostry Architects are using this iconic 20th century style to build the world’s tallest timber tower using a ...
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    A House Hidden In A Cliff With Incredible Views Of The Aegean Ocean

    In essential simplicity, Casa Brutale is defined by three thick concrete slabs with all the installations preformed. The crystaline pool, made by reinforced glass, is set between the walls to smoothen the hard materials and let the abundant natural light ...
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    CABIN DROP XL

    DROP XL is a large version of the organically-shaped removable hotel suit DROP eco-hotel. The DROP modules are part of the large emerging trend in the field of modular microarchitecture, suitable for being placed wherever the heart desires and the ...
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    Water Building Resort-Transforming air into water

    The Water Building Resort not only addresses issues of sustainability through futuristic technological experiments, but also explores financial profitability of those concepts. Its associative form (inspired by the shape of a water drop) suggests its programmatic purpose. The design of ...
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    Healthy Materials for Building

    Within the last decade, environmental health has become an increasingly important decision making factor for practitioners within the green building community. The USGBC with its LEED Green Building Rating System brought issues surrounding indoor environmental quality and material health to ...
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    Duckweed Survival House is the future of emergency shelters

    The Duckweed Survival House is a new design concept created by Zhou Ying and Niu Yuntao. This design was aimed at aiding survival and assistance during natural disasters involving a large body of water such as floods and tsunamis. During such ...
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    Pop-Up Offices

    This Outdoor Pop-Up Office Brings People and Nature Together This beautiful outdoor pop-up office is essentially a pod that surrounds the trunk of one large tree. The space is called ‘TREExOFFICE’ and is designed to bring people together in a ...
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    EWICON bladeless wind turbine generates electricity using charged water droplets

    Where most wind turbines generate electricity through mechanical energy, the EWICON (short for Electrostatic WInd energy CONvertor) creates potential energy with charged particles – in this case, water droplets. The current design consists of a steel frame holding a series ...
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    Solar-Powered Micro Homes

    The New ‘Ecocapsule’ Homes Make It Easy to Live Off the Grid. The new ‘Ecocapsule’ micro homes are the latest innovation in contemporary off-the-grid living. Designed by the Slovakian team ‘Nice Architects,’ the Ecocapsule offers a portable housing solution that ...