Italian Highway Reuse for Parasitic City
Located between Sicily and Bagnara, the Salerno Reggio Calabria highway will be renovated or reuse for sustainable ideas with a focus on implementing a renewable energy into the infrastructure. The old highway will be decommissioned and a new highway is set to be built nearby. Currently the jury is still in deliberation and a winner [...]
House of the Future at Sydney Opera House Exhibition
The House of the Future is a conceptual project designed by the Australian Architects Innovarchi for an exhibition on the grounds of the Sydney Opera House. The prefab home blends the outdoors with the indoors, concept with practicality, and materials with expression in order to explore what shelter can do. The home’s concept is planted [...]
Life Cube as Practically Inflatable Emergency Shelter
Life Cube, an inflatable tent that can set up in just five minutes is an example of a smart shelter design that has actually been built. Packed neatly into a recycled plastic container, it contains all the basic necessities needed post-disaster, including food, water, a battery, lights, radio, solar trickle charger and of course, a [...]
Lake Tahoe House Build with Special Care
The architects at Turnbull Griffin Haesloop left the land virtually untouched by building new atop the footprint of an old 1950’s house and garage. The resulting home blends in beautifully with it’s surroundings while offering residents incredible views of the adjacent meadow and lake beyond. It sure needs special care when it comes to preserving [...]
Stairs House Design for Japanese Eco House
The incredible Stairs House in the Shimane Prefecture, Japan, offers an intimate interior while providing a welcoming exterior environment. The passive solar house is built not just for a couple and their twin children, but for all the children of the neighborhood to enjoy. The exterior takes the form of a huge staircase that rises [...]
Heritage Solar Slate for More Solar Power
Heritage Solar Slate aims to tackle the latter problem with their innovative solar tiles, which are designed to look just like roofing slates. The photovoltaic slates provide a stylish alternative to standard panels, are fully weatherproof, and are perfect for use on historic buildings in preservation areas. It is hoped that the slate panels will [...]
New UNStudio Office Tower In Amsterdam
The Netherlands based UNStudio recently completed their UNStudio Office Tower. It’s located on the South Axis in Amsterdam. It was 21 floor tower that was designed to bring amble daylight into the center of the building using various techniques, and relies on an energy efficient design as well as a flexible layout to ensure that [...]
San Francisco’s Presidio National Park Get LEED Certified
The first LEED Certified neighborhood in San Francisco will open in the Presidio National Park. The project’s crowning piece is a former public hospital that has been transformed into a 154-apartment building, and the neighborhood also includes townhomes and duplexes that maintain a cozy relationship with some neighboring trees. The Presidio is a kind of [...]
KOZ’s Green and Yellow Stacked Apartments for France
Koz Architecture’s newest project build with 28 colorful and airy social housing units for Courbevoie, France. The multihued complex was designed as a denser alternative to the widely spaced-out private homes of suburbia that would still allow occupants to feel a sense of ownership, individuality and escape from the hectic city. Aside from being bright [...]
Green Frame House for Sustainable Container Housing in Italy
Green Frame House designed by Studio Astori De Ponti Associati was led by architects Antonia Astori, Nicola De Ponti and Ester Pirotta, who worked in collaboration with Art Container. The two story home is composed of six standard containers configured in a staggered stack to add variation to the design. Holes for the floor to [...]
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