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• Triangular Tech Center Incorporates Solar Panels and a Green Roof

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 746
  Imagine a building designed with the latest green technologies that also showcases innovative technologies of the future. Kind of blows your mind, right? Well that’s exactly what Spain’s green roofed and solar powered BTEK Technology Interpretation Center accomplishes. Designed by architecture firm ACXT, the ...
  3 days ago

• My home, winning prizes and making the news

  
  eaves.ca — Authority: 488
  As long time readers of my blog already know I live on a green a roof (which is so amazing I wrote about it twice ). I also live above a couple of box stores including a Winners and Home Depot and not to mention a sushi restaurant, a cellphone shop, and a Starbucks as well as a Save-on-Foods. As I tell my friends, ...
  3 days ago

• White vs Green roofs at McGill

  
  World Landscape Architect — Authority: 138
  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, ...
  4 days ago

• Düsseldorf’s Kö-Bogen Green Roofs

  
  Clean Air through Green Roofs — Authority: 103
  Germany continues its green roof leadership with the Kö-Bogen development in Düsseldorf. According to Inhabitat.com , the structure, Designed for multi-use the structure is: "... adjacent to the Hofgarten , Düsseldorf’s central park, the Kö-Bogen will help create a larger and more continuous open green ...
  5 days ago

• Grow a green roof (and eat it too)

  
  OurWorld 2.0 — Authority: 412
  Cities are called concrete jungles for obvious reasons: cluttered skyscrapers overlook congested streets and highways amidst a constant bombardment of neon lights and billboards. Tokyo, where the United Nations University is headquartered, is certainly no exception and perhaps, in many people’s minds, one of the ...
  5 days ago

• The Daily Five: Thursday, 05 November, 2009

  
  EcoTech Daily — Authority: 127
  World’s Tallest Green Roof; Solar Powered Monorail; Waiting Lists For Think City and Aptera; Solar Power When the Sun Goes Down; Honda designers talk about EV concepts Sears Tower May Sport World’s Tallest Green Roof The Willis Tower, formerly known as the Sears Tower, is spending about $200 million to $300 ...
  1 week ago

• Garden Sheds Are an Explosion of Architectural Experimentation

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 746
  Mark Twain had a garden shed; he called it “the loveliest study you ever saw…octagonal with a peaked roof, each face filled with a spacious window…perched in complete isolation on the top of an elevation that commands leagues of valley and city and retreating ranges of distant blue hills. It is a cozy nest and ...
  1 week ago

• Daniel Libeskind designs a green-roofed complex for Dusseldorf

  
  Green Diary — Authority: 442
  Design for the Ko-Bogen, a dynamic new office and retail complex for downtown Dusseldorf was unveiled recently. Daniel Libeskind has designed it beautifully to fit in with the surrounding historic architecture of Köenigsallee Boulevard. This amazing urban space joins two city blocks with one continuous roofline, ...
  1 week ago

• Watch the Premiere of Sky Gardens ~ Greenroofs of the World!

  
  Sky Gardens — Authority: 109
  After a long 16 months, the first episode of our WebTV series Sky Gardens ~ Greenroofs of the World will be up and ready to see on Sunday, November 8, 2009.  You can watch Episode 1: Rock Mill Park on the Greenroofs.TV Channel on Greenroofs.com and YouTube.   Download our Press Release here . The Sky ...
  1 week ago

• Kö-Bogen: Düsseldorf’s Green Roofed Crystal Complex

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 746
  Daniel Libeskind recently unveiled his remarkable design for the Kö-Bogen, a new mixed-use development in Germany. Set in downtown Düsseldorf, the retail and office complex is crowned with a grassy green roof and is designed to fit in with the surrounding historic architecture of Köenigsallee Boulevard. This ...
  1 week ago

• CitiesAlive! ‘09 Day Tour & Evening Fiesta

  
  Sky Gardens — Authority: 109
  Thursday, October 21 dawned grey and overcast for the various Sustainable Toronto Green Roof Tours offered by the CitiesAlive! World Green Roof Infrastructure Congress, with a promise of sprinkles in the air.  Aramis and I headed over to the Tremco  Luxury Bus Tour line and since it was the most popular, there ...
  1 week ago

• BTEK – Technology Interpretation Center / ACXT

  
  ArchDaily — Authority: 661
  © Aitor Ortiz Architects: ACXT Location: Derio, Bizkaia, Spain Project Architects: Gonzalo Carro & Javier Pérez Uribarri Collaborator: Carlos Miguel Guimaraes Project Development: Gonzalo Carro & ATHOS (Pedro Berroya, Aitziber Goikoetxea) Structure: Javier Eskubi, Amaia Oyón, Ángel Gómez ...
  1 week ago

• The Inaugural CitiesAlive! - Seeds of Success

  
  Sky Gardens — Authority: 109
  Aramis and I had a great time in Toronto last week for the inaugural 2009 CitiesAlive! World Green Roof Infrastructure Congress   ~ what a wonderful city!  It’s clean, green, and at the moment has the most progressive greenroof policy in North America.  From the airport we rode along the waterfront and were ...
  2 weeks ago

• Green Roof? How About Roof Tiles That Change Color Depending on the Temperature?

  
  GreenPacks.org — Authority: 503
  We’ve all heard of green rooftop gardens. But, did you know that a team of recent MIT graduates has developed what could prove to be an even better way to make a roof eco-friendly? These innovators are working to produce roof tiles that change color, depending on the temperature. The tiles become white when it’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• Grin When Green

  
  Solraya's Sunshine Chicken — Authority: 127
  Today must be the day that answers my question about doing green architecture. I grew up with moss covered fences, lagoons, well landscaped gardens, a lot full of orchids, dayonets, backyards that had been transformed into a huge green house...all these when green houses were not yet heard of...in the 60s :) Making ...
  2 weeks ago

• The First Carbon-Neutral Net-Zero Energy Building in NYC

  
  Idealist in NYC — Authority: 415
  Solar One, the little environmental awareness center on the edge of the East River, is about to begin construction on a much bigger facility called Solar 2 . The new building will be ten times larger than the current facility, and will let them expand their public programs around energy efficiency, renewable energy, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Another Green Roof for London

  
  Clean Air through Green Roofs — Authority: 103
  London is getting another green roof on top of a sustainable building! The 21,370 square meter new office building was designed by UK-based Fletcher Priest for Monteverde Group . The building is designed to use a staggered step design, creating two separate green roofs on the structure. Additionally, the upper ...
  3 weeks ago

• RATHAUS TERRACES: MIXED-USE DEVELOPMENT FOR MEDIEVAL GERMAN CITY

  
  Super Luxury Blog — Authority: 148
  Weilburg, a nonmodern municipality not likewise farther from Frankfurt, has declared plans to destruct a parking scheme on the bounds of its dumb set and change it with a mixed-use utilization with retail, residential and tract space. Via Inhabitat
  3 weeks ago

• Rathaus Terraces: Mixed-Use Development for Medieval German City

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 746
  Weilburg, a medieval city not too far from Frankfurt, has announced plans to demolish a parking structure on the edge of its dense core and replace it with a mixed-use development with retail, residential and park space. Recently they revealed this beautiful proposal from ACME , which won the all-important public ...
  3 weeks ago

• Rooftops - Green or Plain?

  
  The Lay Scientist — Authority: 504
  Theres the most odd-shaped water spot on the roof of the building next door, right over the helipad circle. The rainwater just sits there, relishing its rare visit to Los Angeles, or maybe eagerly anticipating its evaporation back up into the clouds--who knows? (Did you know that evaporation account for like 30% of ...
  4 weeks ago

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