Fascinating Yellow Beer Crates Pavilion in Brussels
Architects SHSH assembled 33,000 yellow beer crates into intoxicating pavilion to pay homage to the fiftieth anniversary of the 1958 Universal World Exhibition. The unusual structure is located in Brussels right next to the iconic ‘Atomium’ building which was built for the original exhibition. The reason why they use beer crates to build the pavilion [...]
Grass Coated Parking Garage Called Shinjuku Gardens
The new concept for the urban parking garage that looks to transform the typical parking lot into a multi-functional development, complete with an inhabitable rooftop garden has been built at Shinjuku. Its called Shinjuku garden with public parks are even harder to come by, green spaces require creativity if they are to make their way [...]
Fascinating Energy Neutral House in Amsterdam
The Energy Neutral House 2.0 by Netherlands-based FARO Architecten is a single-family residence in Ijburg, near Amsterdam, that comes complete with its own tree inside. Uses combination of passivhaus design with super-tight insulation, triple paned windows, and heat exchangers, the house uses very little energy, which is supplied via a roof mounted small-scale wind turbine [...]
World’s Tallest Shipping Container at Zurich
The Switzerland based company Freitag has well known for their innovative and stylish messenger bags made from old truck tarps. For now, they made their radical shipping container store in Zurich boasts the title of being the tallest in the world. It’s about 26 meter (85 foot) high structure consists of 17 white, yellow, orange, [...]
EcoPark as Malibu’s Eco Education Center
Busch and a slew of other green minded professionals started ecoTech Design Studio, a green product and architectural design/building firm, in order to start their dream project. ecoPark will consist of an eco-education discussion center and activity room, a solar heated pool, an energy generating gym, sustainable landscaping and trails, and demonstration eco homes. The [...]
Green Roof City for Chicago New Architecture School
Designed by Yi Huang, Tian Tan & Xu Zhang, Green Roof City is a ramped structure that links together two of the windy city’s existing buildings. The building very appropriately would house an architecture school, but the roof is an exciting park that would be accessible to everyone in the city. It’s already expanding on [...]
Modern Dwell Homes Collection From Turkel & Lindal Cedar Homes
The Dwell Homes Collection is a partnership between Turkel Design, who designs the homes and Lindal Cedar Homes, who assembles the materials and delivers them to the site of the home. Like all Lindal Cedar homes, the houses are designed with energy efficiency in mind, all the of parts and pieces for the home are [...]
Gen7 Modular Classrooms as Prefab Eco at California
Gen7 Modular Classrooms by American Modular Systems has eco classrooms that with their energy-efficient, affordable, and environmentally friendly classrooms that provide healthy and productive learning environments. Over the summer, Gen7 installed a set of six modular classrooms at the Bolsa Knolls Middle School in Salinas, California. Construction started on the modular classrooms on June 1st [...]
Enota’s Lotus Towers as New Sustainable Housing Project
Located in Ljubljana, Slovenia, The Lotus Towers is a proposal that placed second in an invited competition calling for designs for a new sustainable housing project. It’s designed by Enota, this new mixed-used development is highlighted with apartments featuring two sides for natural ventilation and daylighting, and beautiful views of the adjacent urban park. The [...]
Design for Reuse Primer for Reclaimed Materials Uses
Public Architecture’s new e-publication ‘Design for Reuse Primer‘ provides excellent inspiration as well as plenty of eye candy for those looking to give a second life to materials destined for the local landfill. 15 projects are featured throughout the publication, showcasing the trials and success of using reclaimed materials in their construction – including a [...]
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