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Diane Pham

 

As Inhabitat's Architecture and Design Editor, Diane is also a freelance writer based in Brooklyn, NY. After graduating from the University of Southern California, she enjoyed a brief stint at SCI-Arc, then working for the A+D Museum in Los Angeles, Perkins Eastman Architects and Resoultion4: Architecture handling their marketing, PR and graphic work.

A native Angeleno, she’s also lived in Milan and Paris, and still has her sights set beyond the borders of the US. In her spare time she enjoys traveling, being outdoors, learning languages, playing drums, taking photographs and doing as many new things as she can, every moment she can.

Diane Pham
Christopher Simmonds’ Beautiful Sustainable Boathouse Sits Peacefully on the Waters of Muskoka Lake

Christopher Simmonds’ Beautiful Sustainable Boathouse Sits Peacefully on the Waters of Muskoka Lake

Christopher Simmonds has given an already gorgeous boathouse in Canada a sustainable upgrade that we can’t help but envy. The original boathouse located on Muskoka Lake north of Toronto was feeling

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Paul Coudamy’s ‘F-Light’ Ceiling Lamps Are Made from Recycled Airplane Panels

Paul Coudamy’s ‘F-Light’ Ceiling Lamps Are Made from Recycled Airplane Panels

If you can’t help but dream about jetting off to a tropical paradise when you’re in an office board meeting, then don’t look up at these overhanging F-Light Lamps by Paul Coudamy. Made

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Montreal Artists Transform Post-Consumer Trash Into Beautiful Fashion

Montreal Artists Transform Post-Consumer Trash Into Beautiful Fashion

The Great White North may be steeped in nature that residents fight to preserve, but Canadians still generate a whopping 35 million tons of garbage every year. To draw attention to the excess waste

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New Generation of Radioactive Waste-Consuming Nuclear Reactors Could Power UK for 500 Years

New Generation of Radioactive Waste-Consuming Nuclear Reactors Could Power UK for 500 Years

Nations around the world are abandoning nuclear energy in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear crisis, however the UK is considering plans to launch a new generation of reactors by GE Hitachi that recycle

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Scotland Building the World’s First Sea-Going Hybrid Ferries

Scotland Building the World’s First Sea-Going Hybrid Ferries

Scotland just began construction has just commenced on the world’s first roll-on roll-off diesel-electric hybrid ferries at the Ferguson shipyard in Port Glasgow. The new

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‘Years’ Tree Turntable Plays Wood Rings Like a Record

‘Years’ Tree Turntable Plays Wood Rings Like a Record

If you’re curious to know what a tree would sound like if it could play music, Bartholomäus Traubeck‘s incredible Years tree ring record player is one way to find out! An incredible makeshift

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World’s Largest Garment Made From Golden Spider Silk Now on Display

World’s Largest Garment Made From Golden Spider Silk Now on Display

We couldn’t believe our eyes when we saw this glistening yellow cape made from spider silk. The un-dyed, untreated garment is the world’s largest piece of clothing made entirely from the durable

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Amazing Map Shows Every Tree in the United States

Amazing Map Shows Every Tree in the United States

Have you ever wondered what the tree population and density of the United States looks like? This amazing map shows just that. Created by Josef Kellndorfer and Wayne Walker of Woods Hole Research Center

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EcoATM Pays Out Cash In Exchange for Your Unwanted Gadgets

EcoATM Pays Out Cash In Exchange for Your Unwanted Gadgets

The EcoATM made its debut last week at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show, but unlike all the other products that manufacturers hoped you’d throw your hard earned dollars at, this innovative piece

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Michael Neff Hangs Discarded Christmas Trees Beneath NY’s BQE to Create a Pine-Scented Installation

Michael Neff Hangs Discarded Christmas Trees Beneath NY’s BQE to Create a Pine-Scented Installation

December 26th was not the end for these lucky pines in NYC. Artist Michael Neff rescued more than a handful of Christmas trees from a sad, dried out, sidewalk fate by installing them as a pine-scented

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HOK Teams Up With USGBC to Unveil Sustainable Orphanage and Children’s Center for Haiti

HOK Teams Up With USGBC to Unveil Sustainable Orphanage and Children’s Center for Haiti

The U.S. Green Building Council recently announced that it has selected HOK as an official design partner for Project Haiti – a building designed to LEED Platinum principles that will replace a

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Volkswagen’s Brand New Chattanooga Plant Awarded LEED Platinum

Volkswagen’s Brand New Chattanooga Plant Awarded LEED Platinum

Early last year Volkswagen (VW) opened its first US-based production facility in Chattanooga, TN. Now fully operational, the building was recently awarded LEED Platinum, making it the first and only

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INTERVIEW: HOK’s Bill Odell on the Design of Saudi Arabia’s KAUST University, the World’s Largest LEED Platinum Project

INTERVIEW: HOK’s Bill Odell on the Design of Saudi Arabia’s KAUST University, the World’s Largest LEED Platinum Project

Opened late 2009, the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, has come to be Saudi Arabia’s first LEED certified project and the world’s largest

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Announcing the Winners of Inhabitat’s 2011 Readers’ Choice Awards!

Announcing the Winners of Inhabitat’s 2011 Readers’ Choice Awards!

AND THE READERS HAVE SPOKEN! For the last two weeks, Inhabitat readers have been weighing in and voting on their favorite green stories of 2011. From a high tech beehive designed for city dwellers to a

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LEGO Rolls Out a Line Targeted at Girls – Progressive or Regressive?

LEGO Rolls Out a Line Targeted at Girls – Progressive or Regressive?

Over the holidays, Lego released their Lego Friends series – a selection of colorful new building sets geared towards young girls. While some may consider Lego to be gender neutral, the

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INTERVIEW: Gensler’s Chris Chan on the Sustainable Shanghai Tower, Asia’s Tallest Skyscraper

INTERVIEW: Gensler’s Chris Chan on the Sustainable Shanghai Tower, Asia’s Tallest Skyscraper

In 2008 Gensler broke ground on the sustainable Shanghai Tower in the Pudong district of Shanghai, China. The tower is currently in construction and it’s one of three supertall buildings in Pudong,

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Geo-physicist Tries to Recreate an Ice Age Ecosystem in Siberia to Prevent the Release of 500 Billion Tons of CO2

Geo-physicist Tries to Recreate an Ice Age Ecosystem in Siberia to Prevent the Release of 500 Billion Tons of CO2

Located south of Chersky in the Sakha Republic in northeastern Siberia is an expansive pocket of more than 500 billion tons of methane – more greenhouse gas than man has made since the Industrial

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Top 6 Green Architecture Stories of 2011 – Vote for Your Favorite!

Top 6 Green Architecture Stories of 2011 – Vote for Your Favorite!

2011 saw more exciting, innovative and record-breaking green buildings than ever before, and judging from the popularity of our eco architecture stories, many of you agree! From the world’s

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Top 6 Green Parenting News Stories – Vote for Your Favorite!

Top 6 Green Parenting News Stories – Vote for Your Favorite!

2011 saw a plethora of controversial stories and shocking discoveries on the parenting front. From a genderless baby named Storm to reports of arsenic found in apple juice and an alarming new

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