Nest We Grow / College of Environmental Design UC Berkeley + Kengo Kuma & Associates From the architect. In response to an international design-build competition, our team proposed a quintessentially Californian […]
“The new person-to-person electricity trend, which began in the Netherlands in 2013 and spread to the UK, is bringing the innovative concept to life. The Amsterdam based Vandebron, which translates to “from the source,” provides […]
“Yasmeen Lari is Pakistan’s first female architect. She has built her wide and stellar career in Pakistan, “an industrially less-developed country, [with] high levels of illiteracy and poverty, booming urban […]
“The official launch of the final prototype (of the wind tree) will take place at Place de la Concorde in March 2015 when the Tree will be ‘planted’ and remain […]
Ghent University’s E-Cube is an affordable, do-it-yourself building kit for a solar-powered house that is pre-engineered, factory-built, and easily assembled without special skills. The house begins with a starter unit, […]
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled his long-awaited solution to the affordable housing crisis in America’s biggest city. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-city-housing-bill-de-blasio-plan-2014-5#ixzz3RWhIWM2Z http://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-city-housing-bill-de-blasio-plan-2014-5?IR=T
Urbz suggests, in a way, leaving well enough alone. Rather than beginning with the false notion that Dharavi offers a tabula rasa, their team starts with what they call a tabula […]
More than 30 percent of the global population uses earth for building construction. Herzog & de Meuron has completed its seventh project for Swiss herbal sweet manufacturer Ricola – […]
The challenge is to design a single-family unit of about 30 x 40 feet on a plot of 60 x 60 feet to be built by maximum use of earth […]
from the architect :: El sistema constructivo de la vivienda emergente BAMBOX 02 es a base de paneles de madera y bambú. Se propone una estructura principal hecha con vigas y […]
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