Posted on 08 September 2011 by Sustainability Digest
After visiting a hotel in Guadalajara, the centre of Spain, at the beginning of the year, the Travelling Eco Suite is currently spending time in Portugal. The Spanish boutique hotel chain Rusticae got together with the architects from Modulab, Egoin eco-energy engineers and the designer Tomás Alía to create the Travelling Suite. They call it ‘ecosustainable’ but since that word doesn’t really exist (neither in English nor in Spanish) I’d…Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Posted on 16 August 2011 by Sustainability Digest
Photos: Helio Sperandio.
An old shed that used to serve as a vehicle maintenance workshop and a warehouse for the Federal University of Goias in the city of Goiania, Brazil, was recycled into a stunning cultural center for the institution.
Following the rule that the greenest building is the one already standing, architect Fernando Simon adapted the construction…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 11 March 2011 by Sustainability Digest
Photo: geograph.co.uk: Great Ormond Street Hospital Roof Garden
The new research showing that good hospital design can affect a patient’s recovery seems like common sense, really.
The impact of having windows that open, courtyards and open space to sit in and a cheerful ambiance should be obvious design features of any new building. Lloyd has written about the wonders of new prison design, surely the sick deserve the benefits as well.
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Posted on 29 July 2010 by Sustainability Digest
Adam Joseph Lewis Center, William McDonough + Partners Voted Greenest Building since 1980
When covering Vanity Fair’s World Architecture Survey I asked “Where’s The Green?” and wrote that there was a “profound disconnect between the architecture shown and the problems that architects have to solve today.”
Lance Hosey, formerly a partner at William McDonough+ Partners and now a writer at Architect magazine, thought the same but didn’t just whine, he organized his own survey, the G-list. …Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 22 June 2010 by Sustainability Digest
Images by B. Alter: Studio Mumbai Architects, In-Between Architecture
Architects love models and floor plans and drawings of their buildings, but most members of the public do not. They are too hard for the average person to visualize. In a delightful switch, the Victoria & Albert Museum invited seven architects to construct small buildings amidst the displays in the museum.
The V&A is a wonderful old Victorian museum with treasures in every nook and cranny. Called 1:1 Architects Build Small Spaces, the architects have squeezed their little buildings in amon…Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Posted on 17 June 2010 by Sustainability Digest
Image credit: Joe Fletcher
The rich are different from you and me; they read the New York Times Home and Garden section on Thursdays, and don’t seem to know that there is a recession. But they are beginning to deal with the concept of living with less, and show a couple squeezing into a modest 1100 square foot house in Mill Valley, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright disciple Daniel J. Liebermann- that cost $1,125,000 to purchase and over $ 400 a foot to renovate. But it is a gem of a thing. More at New York Times…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 23 May 2010 by Sustainability Digest
The outside of the European Environment Agency office in Copenhagen. Photo via EEA.
A display of vertical greenery in the shape of the European continent has been added to the outside wall of the European Environment Agency‘s centrally located headquarters in Copenhagen to provide an example of the ways in which cities can be redesigned to enhance green spaces and Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 21 May 2010 by Sustainability Digest
Joseph Ford and Antoine Mairot
Photographer Joseph Ford and 3D Artist Antoine Mairot turn tech into buildings, dropping a PS3 into Berlin, a classic NES and our favourite: a solar powered, glass roofed Nintendo DS.
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Posted on 21 May 2010 by Sustainability Digest
Blu Homes
Blu Homes’ innovative folding technology has the promise of changing the way prefabricated homes are designed, as they break the width limitation set by road transport requirements. (see our earlier post here) But no matter how you slice it, every building technology generates a form that is the most efficient and effective. In the regular prefab biz, designers do everything they can to make the house look conventional, often at the cost of efficiency and cost-effectiveness. In modern prefab, there is less concern about this, so the forms can be optimized.
That’s why I smiled when I saw Blu Homes Balance design, their latest. It loo…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 18 May 2010 by Sustainability Digest
The Papalote Kids Museum in Monterrey, Mexico, is getting a new extension for green education, and the building that will hold it is, of course, environmentally conscious (and beautiful!). …Read the full story on TreeHugger
