Sustainable Design

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• Gazprom Tower Tallest Sustainable Building in Europe

  
  Future Architecture — Authority: 103
  The Gazprom Tower, or the Okhta Tower has been given a green light for construction, upon completion of which it will be the tallest building in Europe. To be built in St. Petersburg, Russia, the 77-storey tower isn’t just about height, the modern building will also be full of environmentally friendly ...
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• Masdar to use more PV’s to power city

  
  World Landscape Architect — Authority: 139
  Image via Wikipedia With the recent drop in costs for photovoltaics (PV) and the effect of dust and haze on solar-thermal technology(the technology originally planned) has caused a rethink in supplying energy to Masdar . The utilities management company has decided to use 50% photovoltaics and 50% solar ...
  21 hours ago

• Live From Greenbuild: Bill Valentine

  
  Life at HOK — Authority: 131
  HOK’s chairman and most vocal sustainable design advocate is blogging Greenbuild 2009 for Contract magazine. In his first post for Contract , Bill reflects on his journey to Phoenix, writes about seeing the automated people mover designed by HOK being constructed at the Phoenix airport and describes ...
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• More Than Skin Deep

  
  Green by Design — Authority: 413
  One of the great things about being a green fashion blogger is how I get to explore the endless and increasingly brilliant quota of eco fashion lines that are just exploding onto the scene. ecoSkin is a line that I happened upon pretty randomly while hopping from blog to blog in search of inspiration. I was struck ...
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• PHAROS ONLINE: Beacon of Transparency for the Green Building Movement

  
  bldgsim — Authority: 121
  The Pharos Project connects you to a network of building professionals and manufacturers committed to transparency as a core value on the path to sustainability. Pharos is not a certification or label, it is information; the critical health and environmental data about the manufacture, use, and end of life of building ...
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• TreeHugger’s Slow Gift Guide

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 745
  I know, it isn’t even Thanksgiving yet, but this year Treehugger is starting early and are taking it slow. Let’s face it: with all that rushing, consuming, and bargain-hunting, the holidays can be darn stressful. So this year, following the best of the methodology pioneered by the revolutionary Slow Food Movement ...
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• Zero-Power Digital Cloud Shows Images and Data in the London Skyline

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 745
  It sounds like something out of a science fiction novel, but architects at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have a plan to build a massive digital cloud above the London skyline. The Cloud , which has been shortlisted in a competition to build a tourist attraction in the Olympic Park with a lasting legacy, ...
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• Interior Architecture Olivarius Aparthotels by Cyrille Olivier Architect

  
  Architectures Design - Residential Architecture, Modern Architecture, Building Architecture — Authority: 134
  Olivarius aparthotelsProgram: Residence of 130 homes servicedOwner: PrivateH.O.N Surface: 8920 m²Amount Price: € 14.2 millionAmount per m² SHON HT: 1300 € HTBE: BET Environment & Building physics: RTS elements pctech, Ayda. Residence 130 housing servicesPROGRAM:- 130 apartments: studios, T2, T3, T4and T5 ...
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• INCREDIBLE SUN VALLEYS TO LIGHT UP THE NIGHT AND DAY AT 2010 WORLD EXPO

  
  Super Luxury Blog — Authority: 148
  This dumbfounding Sun Valley is digit of a sextet colossus funnel-shaped canopies that are currently springing up in Shanghai in activity for the 2010 World Expo . When they are every complete they won’t meet be a pretty range – the towering LED-studded structures module also amass fall liquid and behave as large ...
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• Turenscape win World Architecture Festival Award

  
  World Landscape Architect — Authority: 139
  Turenscape ( Beijing Turen Design Institute) has been awarded the Landscape Category award at the 2009 World Architecture Festival for a 22-hectare park in Tianjin, China – The Adaptation Palettes: Regenerative Landscape Design Through Regenerative Design and by allotting landforms, the natural process of ...
  2 days ago

• Squids on the Ceiling

  
  Ponoko - Blog — Authority: 423
  laser-cut structures from Wil Natzel Lasercut cardboard squids were the result of an architecture thesis project from recent Cranbrook Academy graduate Wil Natzel . The aim of these structures is to create a “Spatial Graffiti,” a purely decorative and non-permanent enhancement to the built environment. ...
  2 days ago

• Opportunity Green Proves That Green Design is Good Business

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 745
  This year’s Opportunity Green conference proved that good design means good business, and it started from the moment we walked in the door. We were bestowed with a Kor water bottle (to be refilled at water stations placed throughout the conference groups) and full set of To-Go Ware complete with canvas case ...
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• Tenth Annual Sustainable Desgin Awards At Chelsesa Piers

  
  Guest of a Guest - NYC People, Places, Parties & Nightlife — Authority: 689
  [ All photos by BEN GABBE for PMc ]. Global Green USA , an organization working to create green buildings and cities to combat climate change, honored various corporations and executives for their contributions to protect New York from global warming at Chelsea Piers last night. - Designer Nicole Miller , ...
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• BEAUTIFUL BUILDINGS MADE FROM WHOLE TREES

  
  Super Luxury Blog — Authority: 148
  According to the Forest Products Laboratory , a whole, unmilled tree crapper hold 50 proportionality more coefficient than the maximal example of drop processed from the aforementioned tree. Putting this generalisation into practice, Whole histrion Architecture is sacred to antiquity with materials that drop companies ...
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• Wireless Road Trains Keep Highway Vehicles Linked Together

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 745
  What if you could drive onto the highway, take your hands off the wheel, and sit back and read a book? That might not be as far-fetched as you might think if an EU-financed research project is successful. The project, dubbed SARTRE (Safe Road Trains for the Environment) wants to link vehicles together in eight-car ...
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• Sustainable design - ‘more than insulation and energy saving gadgets’

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 144
  In the first of a series of articles by guest writers on aspects of sustainability, Mike Mackenize argues that sustainability extends into supporting holistic lifestyles, designing functional and enjoyable communities and building for the long term.These articles - which will be interspersed with features on and by ...
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• White vs Green roofs at McGill

  
  World Landscape Architect — Authority: 139
  Henry Gass of McGill Daily reports The fight for Montreal’s environmental future has recently reached new heights, as various environmental groups in the city promote the installation of energy-efficient green and white roofs. Green rooftops, or rooftop gardens, are becoming more and more popular in Montreal, ...
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• Solar Space Satellite Will be Fueled Solely by the Sun’s Rays!

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 745
  For centuries sailors have used stars to navigate around the world. Now space-sailors might be able to use the stars to move through the universe — literally! Instead of cruising to Mars on a giant tank of oil, we could soon sail through space using just the energy from sunlight. The Planetary Society — a ...
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• 275 MPG eVARO Electric Vehicle Goes From 0 to 60 in 5 Seconds

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 745
  The Progressive Automotive X-Prize is heating up as the May 2010 start date approaches, and one of our favorite entrants is the eVARO, a three-wheeled plug-in hybrid from Future Vehicles Technology . The sleek electric vehicle can go from 0 to 60 MPH in 5 seconds and purportedly reaches 275 mpg under certain ...
  3 days ago

• Aqua Jar Transforms Any Water Bottle Into an Easy-Pour Pitcher

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 745
  Industrial design lab GR recently launched a clever new product called the ‘Aqua Jar’ that transforms any plastic bottle into an easy-pour pitcher. Formed from biodegradable and recyclable plastic, the attachment perfectly fits the universal coil of any plastic bottle, creating an attractive and sturdy mount ...
  3 days ago

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