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Origami-Shaped “Beached House” Saves Energy Amid Australia’s Idyllic Landscape

Origami-Shaped “Beached House” Saves Energy Amid Australia’s Idyllic Landscape

The vertical ash panels and diagonal zinc slats on the exterior emphasize the home's exciting origami shape, while the interior floors made of recycled timber gives it a warm and natural finish. All of

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Andrew Maynard’s Ilma Grove Is a Gorgeous Solar Passive Family Home

Andrew Maynard’s Ilma Grove Is a Gorgeous Solar Passive Family Home

The ultimate goal for the owners was to improve the home for their family and reduce their environmental footprint while still maintaining a small home. Originally the home had a brick lean-to at the rear

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Extraordinary Banana Art Etchings are Inspiring and Edible

Extraordinary Banana Art Etchings are Inspiring and Edible

Melbourne-based artist, Jun Gil Park is the creative genius behind this bunch of banana etchings.  His biodegradable masterpieces are inspired by Jazz icons like Dizzie Gillespie and the Cuban acoustic

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Sydney Church Renovated Into A Chic Home Complete With Indoor Pool

Sydney Church Renovated Into A Chic Home Complete With Indoor Pool

The larger residence, featured here, is a three bedroom, three bath home situated on three levels, with an extra room that can serve as an office. Charms from the original church like the soaring

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Shipping Container Learning Center Lands In Australian Aboriginal Community

Shipping Container Learning Center Lands In Australian Aboriginal Community

The student project was completed through a design/build course at the university as part of the Bower Studio, a program that works with indigenous communities to build the infrastructure. Over their

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Low-Impact Bryden House is a Sustainable Haven for Contemplation

Low-Impact Bryden House is a Sustainable Haven for Contemplation

The home is clad in lightweight metal to minimize maintenance, and is oriented towards the north to make the most of a solar passive design. Excavation was kept to a minimum to reduce site disturbances,

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World’s Largest Floating Object Would Be Cool If It Weren’t Shell’s Natural Gas Refinery

World’s Largest Floating Object Would Be Cool If It Weren’t Shell’s Natural Gas Refinery

We were excited when we heard that Shell is building the world's largest floating object - until we realized that it is going to be a natural gas refinery. Albeit an engineering feat that is supposed to

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Cylindrical Henley House is a Light-Drenched Planetarium Style Abode

Cylindrical Henley House is a Light-Drenched Planetarium Style Abode

The cedar skin not only creates a certain fluidity that connects the home with the surrounding landscape, but it also allows the building to breathe without allowing in too much heat. And a circular

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Crystal Gardens Tower: A Vertical Street Featuring Community Gardens On Every Sixth Floor

Crystal Gardens Tower: A Vertical Street Featuring Community Gardens On Every Sixth Floor

The 35 story tower is located on a small (360 sq meter) corner lot in downtown Melbourne and will include ground floor retail, three floors of offices and 154 apartments. Density is balanced in this

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Swirling Australian Earth House Looks Like a Green Crop Circle from Above

Swirling Australian Earth House Looks Like a Green Crop Circle from Above

The Earth House is a 4 bedroom, 465 sq m (5,000 sq ft) house composed of separate living modules including a lounge, a dining area, bedrooms, bathrooms, a study and a kitchen. The modules are connected by

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Greenhouse: Joost’s Garden-Wrapped Waste Free Shipping Container Restaurant Comes to Sydney

Greenhouse: Joost’s Garden-Wrapped Waste Free Shipping Container Restaurant Comes to Sydney

The eco restaurant was designed specifically to be a traveling show that could be packed up into shipping containers and includes the building structure, stairs for the rooftop access, kitchen, bathroom,

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Spider-Legged Templestowe Sporting Pavilion Built With Recycled Brick From Old Stadium

Spider-Legged Templestowe Sporting Pavilion Built With Recycled Brick From Old Stadium

Located outside of Melbourne, Templestowe's football and cricket club's new home is made from brick and represented by different jumpers & crests in the form and facade of the building. Built from the

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Hilltop House Sits High on Stilts in Australian Spotted Gum Forest

Hilltop House Sits High on Stilts in Australian Spotted Gum Forest

Located on an incline in the Pittwater area, the Hilltop House responds to the slope by terracing down the hillside without cutting into the ground and damaging root systems. The relatively compact, steel

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ARKit Prefab Eco-Homes Sit Light on the Earth

ARKit Prefab Eco-Homes Sit Light on the Earth

ARKit designs and manufactures factory-built buildings using a wall panel system they designed themselves that incorporates sustainable materials and achieves a high degree of thermal performance. The

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Copper Dome House is a “Puzzling” Garden Home

Copper Dome House is a “Puzzling” Garden Home

The design concept of Dome House was to take a copper sphere, bury it in the ground and divvy it up into many varied slices. Then some fragments were removed while others remained so that the house could

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Shipping Container Rainforest Home Survives Category 5 Cyclone

Shipping Container Rainforest Home Survives Category 5 Cyclone

Earth Science Australia's team built the rainforest research center using two 6m (20') containers placed 3m (10') apart. Leaving a space between the containers allows for a semi-enclosed area for storage,

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Striking Australian Home is Shaped by the Sun’s Path

Striking Australian Home is Shaped by the Sun’s Path

While the design for the home may strike some as odd due to its complex angles, Harrison & White designed it that way on purpose. The architects found that one of the key issues in Australian housing

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Amazing Natural Packaging: The Wombat’s Super Butt!

Amazing Natural Packaging: The Wombat’s Super Butt!

If you're into marsupials (and who isn't?), my favorite, hands-down, is the wombat. Not just because they are vegan and terribly, terribly cute, or because they're a bit lazy and are known Down Under for

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Embassy of Drowned Nations: Floating City for Rising Tide Victims

Embassy of Drowned Nations: Floating City for Rising Tide Victims

One of the winners of the Sea Change 2030+ competition, the Embassy will serve as both temporary housing and to spread awareness about rising sea levels. The innovative inverted design of the island will

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Recycled Circuit Board Installation Maps Out Melbourne

Recycled Circuit Board Installation Maps Out Melbourne

Designer Mark McQuilten, of Architectus, has created this amazing installation made of discarded circuit boards for the State of Design festival in Melbourne, Australia. Far from a haphazard arrangement,

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Light-Filled Gateway Unveiled for Sydney University of Technology

Light-Filled Gateway Unveiled for Sydney University of Technology

Located in the heart of Sydney, UTS is an urban university that is designed to fit within its urban context while creating its own separate and unique identity as a space for students to learn. The Podium

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Australia’s First Zero-Energy Teaching and Research Building Unveiled

Australia’s First Zero-Energy Teaching and Research Building Unveiled

Griffith University in Australia recently secured funding for a $21 million dollar research facility that will be the country’s first zero-emission and self-powered building driven by solar-hydrogen

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Electrolux’s Outdoor Kitchen Integrates with Your Garden

Electrolux’s Outdoor Kitchen Integrates with Your Garden

If you enjoy inviting company over for outdoor entertaining but are on the fence about dedicating your precious garden space to an outdoor kitchen -- why not just do both and integrate the kitchen with

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Australians Get a Bike Path Made From Recycled Printer Cartridges!

Australians Get a Bike Path Made From Recycled Printer Cartridges!

(photo credit: Justin Brierty) Australia's National Park Service recently unveiled a new bike path in the West MacDonnell National Park that includes a bridge made out of recycled printer cartridges.

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Self-Sufficient Eco House Reuses 95% of Existing Building Materials

Self-Sufficient Eco House Reuses 95% of Existing Building Materials

Let's say that you found yourself in a possession of a lovely site with an old and dilapidated house. What is the green thing to do? Well, the Riddel Architecture team of David Gole and Emma Scragg

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Stunning Renovation Showcases Reclaimed Materials, Flexible Spaces

Stunning Renovation Showcases Reclaimed Materials, Flexible Spaces

Sometimes it takes looking to the past and pulling cues from previous design theories to break new ground and push modern green design forward. Dezeen shows us Edwards Moore’s stunning renovation of an

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Macquarie Bank’s Green Office is Part Space Station, Part Cathedral

Macquarie Bank’s Green Office is Part Space Station, Part Cathedral

Construction on One Shelley Street first began in 2006 and finished in 2009. California-based Clive Wilkinson Architects teamed up with local architects Woods Bagot to design the 330,000 square foot

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Cobra Energy Plans Massive $1 Billion Solar Thermal Plant for Australia

Cobra Energy Plans Massive $1 Billion Solar Thermal Plant for Australia

We've seen our fair share of giant renewable energy projects, but we're particularly intrigued by Cobra Energy's plan to construct a $1 billion, 250 MW solar plant in Australia. The power plant won't be

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NewActon Apartments Aim to Be the Greenest in Australia

NewActon Apartments Aim to Be the Greenest in Australia

NewActon Nishi is a new apartment complex in the middle of Canberra that is aiming to be Australia's greenest residential development. But don't go thinking that this will be a boring 'green building'.

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