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The Winter Olympics are over and amongst the medals and trouncing the US at hockey, Vancouver was praised for hosting the “greenest Olympics ever” with LEED certified buildings, the use of recaptured gas and the...

Designed by Hufft Projects, the “Bent and Sliced House” puts an innovative idea – bending a home to accommodate the curving slope of the site – into action...

The US Geological Survey has said that California has a 99.7% chance of having a magnitude 6.7 earthquake — or bigger — in the next three decades. University of California, Berkeley Professor and former Architecture...

Read the rest of Crazy Pixel Building to Be Australia’s First Carbon Neutral OfficePermalink | Add to del.icio.us | diggPost tags: "wind turbine", carbon neutral office building, carbon-neutral, eco design,...

There are a lot of things wrong with the way we build our cities, and in these hard times, there is a lot wrong in the way we are rebuilding them, or unbuilding them as the case may be...

Read the rest of 10 MW Dubai Skyscraper Makes 10X More Renewable Energy Than It NeedsPermalink | Add to del.icio.us | diggPost tags: "wind power", 10 MW tower, dubai, eco design, eco skyscraper, green design, renewable...

Read the rest of BREEAM Awards Showcase the Most Outstanding Green Buildings in EuropePermalink | Add to del.icio.us | diggPost tags: "sustainable architecture", breeam awards, BREEAM excellent, Green Building,...

Tower City, another concept from the 2010 eVolo Skyscraper Competition, re-envisions the city of Marseilles as a stacked skyscraper that sits on stilts above the water...

Tower City, another concept from the 2010 eVolo Skyscraper Competition, re-envisions the city of Marseilles as a stacked skyscraper that sits on stilts above the water...

The International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, will soon have a permanent new home close to the North Sea. Danish firm Schmidt Hammer and Lassen won the rights to design the new building, which will be built...

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Design Crew for Architecture have created an incredible water purifying skyscraper that looks like dozens of soapy bubbles stacked one on top of another...

Read the rest of Water Purifying Skyscraper Cleans up Jakarta’s RiversPermalink | Add to del.icio.us | diggPost tags: "eVolo", 2010 evolo skyscraper competition, affordable housing, ciliwung recovery project,...

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