Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center Inspired by Native Architecture
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Peter Rose & Partners Open Award Winning Kripalu Annex
How do you blend the meditative and rejuvenating aspects of yoga with modern sustainable architecture? Peter Rose + Partners offers up an inspired solution with the newly opened Kripalu Annex, an award-winning housing tower at the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts.
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Green Rollercoaster High-Rise Takes Off in Vietnam
June 18, 2010 by
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No, this is not the latest roller coaster — it’s actually a self-sustaining community designed by DWP Architects in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Noticed at Designboom , ‘Everrich 2 Apartments’ is a massive mixed-use community that broke ground earlier this year. A combination of retail, public and private spaces, Everrich 2 also boasts a number of notable green features inside and out
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Lace Hill: A Living Green Mountain Building for Armenia
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Build It Green Certified Residence in Los Angeles
The Jacobson Residence is a brand new construction in Los Angeles with a high eco factor – enough so that it is Build It Green and ENERGY STAR certified! If you’re not familiar with Build It Green, it’s another green building certification, not quite as popular or well-known as USGBC’s LEED program, but still an effective tool to help build more sustainable homes. LA-based Wick Architecture was responsible for the design of this home, which includes rainwater collection, eco-materials , and energy and water efficient design (and we have to say it’s easy on the eyes too!). Read the rest of Build It Green Certified Residence in Los Angeles http://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: “energy star” , build it green , Daylighting , eco design , eco residence , green design , green home , green residence , Los Angeles , natural ventilation , rainwater collection , solar passive design , Sustainable Building , wick architecture , xeriscaping
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Ellis Park House Set the Sustainable Standard for Altius Architecture Inc.
April 23, 2010 by
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Ellis Park House is a 4,300 square foot family home located in the Bloor West Village neighborhood of Toronto in Ontario, Canada. The single family home , completed in 2006, presents a great example of a holistic and integrated approach to sustainable design. Altius Architecture Inc . overcame construction challenges to successfully build this “bold modern house” on an overgrown infill site, and the Ellis Park House sets a standard for sustainability that the firm continues to practice today.
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Living Exoskeleton Proposed for Province of Parma Headquarters
StudioDosi has proposed a double-skinned, vegetation-covered headquarters for the Province of Parma in Italy. Designed by a talented group of young Italian architects and engineers, the proposal features a wide array of green building strategies, extensive gardens and most notably, a living exoskeleton meant to provide shade and natural ventilation for the real building underneath
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Element Prefab Housing by MOS Utilizes Fibonacci Growth Patterns
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Michael Jantzen Unveils a Wind Powered Eco-Wine Pavilion
Renowned eco-architect Michael Jantzen has come up with yet another fascinating building, this time inspired by the symbolic image of grape vines growing over a trellis. The Eco-Wine Pavilion is designed for temperate climates and functions as a wine tasting and special events center while also doubling as a renewable energy generator and storage facility . Jantzen continues to intrigue us with his original approach to sustainable design, and now that he has incorporated alcohol, we could not be more pleased
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Turn Off Your Lights for Earth Hour This Weekend!
March 25, 2010 by
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Attention all Inhabitants! This is your friendly reminder that Earth Hour 2010 takes place this weekend on March 27th at 8:30pm , so we hope you’ll join us in flipping the switch and turning off your lights for a full 60 minutes! The now massively global , incredibly popular , and extremely fun event is aiming to once again show that the planet is united in one common cause: stopping climate change.
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Turn Off Your Lights for Earth Hour This Weekend!