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Students design beautiful homes for mass-production at just $20,000 each

  • Lucy Wang
  • 03/07/2017

High-quality design and affordability don’t have to be mutually exclusive—just ask the architecture students at Auburn University’s Rural Studio, a “social justice architecture” program that has been designing sustainable and low-cost homes for the rural poor in an initiative called the 20K Project....

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Seascape cottage is a self-sustaining getaway made from locally-sourced materials

  • Lidija Grozdanic
  • 03/06/2017

New Zealand-based architecture firm Pattersons created the Annandale Seascape Cottage - a gorgeous retreat set into the rock in a tiny boulder-strewn cove in the South Pacific. The home is made from locally sourced materials (including stone carved from a nearby quarry), and it boasts fantastic views of the ocean...

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Architecture

Zero-carbon home generates income by making more energy than it needs

  • Lucy Wang
  • 03/06/2017

The home of the future could slash your utility bills and generate enough money to help pay the mortgage. UK firm Koru Architects designed and built one such house, named the Lloyd House, that’s effectively zero-carbon and runs entirely on renewable energy. Tucked away on a quiet street in England’s East Sussex,...

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Indonesia pledges $1 billion annually to tackle ocean pollution problem

  • Lacy Cooke
  • 03/06/2017

Indonesia unloads more plastic into the oceans than any other country, except China. But now the country plans to invest $1 billion every year to reduce ocean pollution 70 percent by 2025. Indonesia will spend the entire sum on tackling plastic pollution and other waste dumped in the ocean. According...

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Architecture

Renovated Australian cottage generates a surplus of energy with solar

  • Lucy Wang
  • 03/06/2017

Tziallas Omeara Architecture Studio recently transformed a heritage-listed Bowral cottage, called the Bundaroo House, into an airtight and solar-powered dwelling. The renovation in Australia preserved the existing cottage’s street-side appearance, but added a contemporary new extension and greatly improved the...

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Architecture

Architects convert 150-year-old Lisbon building into an artisanal green studio

  • Lidija Grozdanic
  • 03/06/2017

Portuguese architects Alina Jerónimo and Paulo Carneiro transformed a 150-year-old building in Lisbon into an artisanal open-plan architecture studio with a gentle environmental footprint. The duo trained two local workers how to incorporate green renovation techniques into their restoration efforts, resulting...

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  • 03/06/2017

Whatever you do, don't call abcV a "vegetarian" restaurant. The third in a trifecta of Jean-Georges Vongerichten-helmed eateries in the ABC Carpet & Home store in Manhattan's Flatiron district, abcV prefers alternative language to describe its meatless cuisine. “For me, [the term 'vegetarian'] sounds like a...

Whatever you do, don't call abcV a "vegetarian" restaurant. The third in a trifecta of Jean-Georges Vongerichten-helmed eateries in the ABC Carpet...

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Swiss resident peddles jars of Alps mountain air

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  • 03/06/2017

Got an extra $97 lying around? With that money you can now purchase a jar of fresh mountain air from Switzerland. Resident John Green has started collecting air from the Alps and peddling it online, saying "the air in the mountains is like champagne [so] I decided I had better start selling it." Born...

Got an extra $97 lying around? With that money you can now purchase a jar of fresh mountain air from Switzerland. Resident John Green has started...

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Alaska gas leak endangering beluga whales won't be fixed until the ice melts

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A leaking natural gas pipeline in Cook Inlet, Alaska won’t be fixed until the ice melts – continuing to flow unchecked into a habitat for endangered beluga whales. Inside Climate News reports that Hilcorp Alaska, the company responsible for the leak, says it won’t be able repair the damage until later this...

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Over 700 North American bee species are heading towards extinction

  • Marni Fogelson
  • 03/06/2017

Life without honeybees would be less than sweet - it'd mean a lot fewer fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds. But honeybees aren't the only bees we need to worry about. The future of many Native North American and Hawaiian bee species is also in peril: a new study found that more than half of the region's native...

Life without honeybees would be less than sweet - it'd mean a lot fewer fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds. But honeybees aren't the only bees...

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Elon Musk wants to build an electric roller coaster at Tesla's campus

  • Lacy Cooke
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Architect turns old cement factory into incredible fairytale home - and the interior will blow you away

  • Lucy Wang
  • 03/05/2017

When Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill stumbled upon an abandoned cement factory in 1973, he saw opportunity in the ruins. Bofill bought the early twentieth-century compound and, together with local Catalan craftsmen, transformed the sprawling structure of silos and compounds into an incredible fairytale home that...

When Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill stumbled upon an abandoned cement factory in 1973, he saw opportunity in the ruins. Bofill bought the early...

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