Start the UK’s largest straw bale construction molds
Exciting news! Construction began this month on what will be the largest shoe straw construction in the UK, which uses prefabricated construction and local straw from a nearby farm. Sutton Bonington Biosciences Building at the University of Nottingham campus Agriculture will provide high-tech facilities to rural areas, combining School of Biological Sciences and School of [...]
A detailed report of Money Deposited in NYC for Green Retrofits
Deutsche Bank Foundation – philanthropic arm of German bank – finance database of hundreds of buildings that have been permanently restored in New York. Information database for boiler repair, upgrade insulation, replacement windows and other major repairs and green cash savings for building owners. Deutsche Bank Foundation hopes that this database will become a useful [...]
Home Crazy Car-Shaped Function “3 liter” energy efficiency
Looking at this picture, “Green Home” is not exactly the first thing that comes to mind. But there’s this car is surprisingly odd-shaped house green. Called Auto Residence designed by architect Mark Voglreiter, the house was built using high heating energy efficiency liter three-systems and building insulation, which significantly reduces energy consumption. front, under research [...]
Enoki Crazy mushrooms Inspired Eco City
Looked toward designboom, OFL Enoki Architecture Eco City is a fantasy, a sustainable model for Rome. Perhaps inspired by a fungus that grows in soil, the town is a series of cross round lead with pods lying on the surface of the shiny metal to reflect the surrounding scenery. Envisioned as a fully autonomous city [...]
Casita zero energy in Texas is open to the public today
Green buildings make a major step in Texas as evidenced by a funny little house in Fort Worth zero energy, which was opened for public tours today. Zero Energy Casita, built by award-winning green builder Don Ferrier, a two-bedroom, 1051 square foot home is packed with sustainable development. A wind turbine housing provision for energy [...]
Old Bank Gets NY “Greenovated” in the Cultural Hub
What you get when you take a former bank in the State of New York, two highly excited interest both in the arts and their community and to add $ 50,000 Grant Update Pepsi? Well that’s what happened in the foundry, in Cohoes, New York, began with Lynne Allard and Jesse Matula ‘greenovated “this former [...]
Inspire FAREstudios Green Hope Women’s Clinic in West Africa
Some of the biggest challenges of social and environment centered around the question of human reproduction. FAREstudios based in Italy has created a brilliant architectural solutions to overcome this problem by developing protection and a health clinic for women in poor suburbs in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso in West Africa. This complex provides aa new type [...]
Futuristic city is Ecotopia Floating at Sea
Futuristic floating cities seeking solutions to our environmental problems, as rising sea levels, rising temperatures and declining resources. Recently, the Japanese construction firm Shimizu Corporation has announced plans to float completely independent ecotopia covered with vegetation, produce their own energy, grow food, waste management, and provision of clean water.
Crossbox: Beautiful Home in France, modular containers
CGARCHITECTES designed and built this “beautiful Crossbox” house consisting of four prefabricated containers, in Brittany, France. Modern residence wearing a material with low maintenance for smooth finish, while only equipped and bright interior. The top of the box has a green roof at each end, which provides extra area for home planting. Meanwhile, the surplus [...]
Armadillo Solar prefab box preparing for the Solar decathlon
Madrid is booming as university teams from around the world the spirit of their struggle against the sun to build a net zero, sustainable homes in Europe this year Solar decathlon. One of our favorite models to date is the Armadillo box by students from Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Architecture de Grenoble (ENSAG). Inspired by armored [...]
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