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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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This slanted house designed by Budi Pradono Architects is the antithesis of the typical mock-European houses which dominate a gated community south of Jakarta, Indonesia. Called Rumah Miring, the 320-meter building is meant to be a “symbol of anti-establishment” and, ...
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all want our cities to be greener, but it is often quite hard to grow trees in a concrete environment. So, why not turn to waterfronts or lakes to place trees? Rotterdam will get its first ‘bobbing forest’ in 2016: ...
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A new innovative brick is paving the way towards more comfortable, affordable, and sustainable architectural solutions in hot climates. Colombian architects Miguel Niño and Johanna Navarro of Sumart Diseño y Arquitectura SAS designed BT – Bloque Termodisipador (HB – Heatsink Brick), ...
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Hanging between buildings like a parasite, ZA Architects’ Heart of the District is a unique architectural interruption that engages the city streets. The pod structure would serve as a hub for an adjacent hotel, drawing passersby in with its ventricle-like ...
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The Harvard Innovation Lab startup Getaway recently completed their latest rental micro-home: the Clara. Like their previous two buildings, their newest home is set in a beautiful wooded landscape and can be rented by anyone interested in test-driving tiny house ...
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What will 2016 hold for green design and the environment? It’s a brand new year filled with boundless potential – and we’ve called upon some of the world’s most prominent designers, makers, movers, and shakers to help separate the signal ...
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We should be focusing on people, not buildings; that the real role of a building is to keep us healthy, happy, safe and comfortable. Energy is just an input, a variable; the fact that a comfortable building will use a ...
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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 ...