Posted on 01 August 2011 by Sustainability Digest
Photos: Groves-Raines Architects
Who said composting bins have to be unimaginative, boring boxes? Taking composting to fancier heights is Scottish architecture firm Groves-Raines Architects (GRA), which designed this free-flowing composting and storage shed in Edinburgh. Made out of re-bar that’s woven into an undulating form, the structure is open on one end to allow access, and is topped with a green roof. It may be just a shed, but its innovative design has earned it some surprising accolades and awards, internationally a…Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Posted on 28 June 2010 by Sustainability Digest
Image via Recycled Island
Ever dreamed of living on a giant island of plastic? Well, with all the plastic that floats around in the ocean as a toxic soup threatening all manner of marine life, one architecture firm has a bold vision to create an eco-paradise called “Recycled Island” in the Pacific Ocean with sustainability at its core. It’s a bold plan, but not only would the project help clean the oceans, the firm claims, it might just be a perfect home for <a href="http://pl…Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Posted on 23 December 2009 by Sustainability Digest
Images via designboom from H3AR architecture and design
Hugon Kowalski of Polish architecture firm H3AR does well in competitions; we loved his firm’s third place proposal for the New London Bridge. Now he has created an “instant house” for a student competition in Milan. Designboom writes that it is made from lightweight styrofoam concrete tubes coated in Titanium Dioxide to reduce air pollution, and that in five yea…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 17 December 2009 by Sustainability Digest
Posted on 14 December 2009 by Sustainability Digest
All images by Tara Wujcik via Designboom
Pugh + Scarpa Architects won the AIA Architecture Firm award this year, based on “35 years of consistent excellent work, including its seamless blending of architecture, art, and craft; community involvement; attention to sustainable design; and nurturing of in-house talent.”
One recent project that might have contributed to …Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 27 November 2009 by Sustainability Digest
Dutch architecture firm MVRDV presents an interesting concept for a high density self-sufficient city of the future in China, at the Beijing Centre for the Arts and shown in Designboom. The architects call it “a scale model of a future Chinese city which offers alternatives to the current urbanization in China. The plan offers space to accommodate up to 100,000 inhabitants and a well balanced mix of urban program and nature, agriculture and…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 11 September 2009 by Sustainability Digest
(Images: Dezeen)
Warehouses, schoolhouses, and factory buildings repurpose well into lofts and art studios, but draftiness and patchy temperatures often come with the terrain. Berlin architecture firm Davidson Refaildis devised this concept, Selective Insulation, to help with this problem. The result: a thermally cloistered space for desk work, built around a window. Installed in the Old School House in Hexham, UK-an 1849 structure where it is “difficult to mai…Read the full story on TreeHugger
