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Mattel Designer Builds Gorgeous Turquoise Dream Home from Shipping Containers

Mattel Designer Builds Gorgeous Turquoise Dream Home from Shipping Containers

In the world of sustainable architecture and affordable living, shipping container homes are a great solution for the budget-minded seeking a low-maintenance and eco-friendly living situation -- and

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Beautiful Green Roof Garden Tops the Gary Comer Youth Center in Chicago

Beautiful Green Roof Garden Tops the Gary Comer Youth Center in Chicago

This 8,160 square foot roof garden in Chicago, designed by Hoerr Schaudt Landscape Architects, is an after-school learning space. Under the guidance of a garden manager, kids use this urban agriculture

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Sloping Roofs Planted with Succulents Top Each Bancroft Green Townhome in Philly

Sloping Roofs Planted with Succulents Top Each Bancroft Green Townhome in Philly

Bancroft Green was developed by the multi-talented Seibert brothers, G.C. and Scott, who are well-known on the Philly green home building scene. The sustainable-minded siblings scouted a series of vacant

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Japan’s Namba Parks Has an 8 Level Roof Garden with Waterfalls

Japan’s Namba Parks Has an 8 Level Roof Garden with Waterfalls

Namba Parks was conceived when Osaka Stadium closed down, presenting a great redevelopment opportunity for a new commercial district right next to the Namba Train Station, which is just one stop away from

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Foster + Partners’ Aldar Central Market Adds a Vibrant Green Roof to Abu Dhabi

Foster + Partners’ Aldar Central Market Adds a Vibrant Green Roof to Abu Dhabi

The Central Market is one of the oldest areas in Abu Dhabi. Foster and Partners wanted to respect that, by making a shopping complex that does not evoke the commercial banality of the shopping mall.

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It’s Always Play Time at Henning Larsen’s Beautiful Green-Roofed Day Care Center in Denmark

It’s Always Play Time at Henning Larsen’s Beautiful Green-Roofed Day Care Center in Denmark

Decidedly minimalist, Henning Larsen chose glass and wood for the Bernts Have day care center commissioned by the municipality of Holbæk. The tall glass windows invite light deep into the building and

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House Ocho Is a Green Roof Mountain Retreat Tucked Away in Carmel, California

House Ocho Is a Green Roof Mountain Retreat Tucked Away in Carmel, California

Built into the side of a hill, the House Ocho in Carmel, California is a sustainable house offering breathtaking views. Designed by Feldman Architecture, a lush green roof was built on the top with the

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Stylish H2hotel Features An Undulating Green Roof and a Bevy of Eco Amenities

Stylish H2hotel Features An Undulating Green Roof and a Bevy of Eco Amenities

The hotel's site, which was formerly a defunct gas station, is now a vibrant space in the downtown area with an engaging ground floor that draws in more than just hotel guests. Accordian-style glass doors

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Cascadia Center For Sustainable Design Aims To Be Most Efficient Commercial Building In The World

Cascadia Center For Sustainable Design Aims To Be Most Efficient Commercial Building In The World

The Cascadia Center will be a mixed-use commercial and office building and will eventually serve as the future headquarters of the Bullitt Foundation. Located at the crossroads between Seattle's Central

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Gorgeous Green House Wrapped in a Vertical Garden

Gorgeous Green House Wrapped in a Vertical Garden

Dubbed Milly Film, the mixed-use building is designed to serve as a cinematographer’s residence, production studio, and workspace. The design began with the decision to maintain the existing structure

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Japan’s Green-Roofed Villa Ronde is a Self-Cooling Seaside Oasis

Japan’s Green-Roofed Villa Ronde is a Self-Cooling Seaside Oasis

The circular shape of the Villa helps protect it by deflect the strong typhoon winds that are common in the area. These same winds help ventilate and cool the interior of the Villa, thanks to the

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NL Architects Unveil Knokke-Heist School Blanketed With a Green Roof

NL Architects Unveil Knokke-Heist School Blanketed With a Green Roof

The center of the school is a multifunctional hall, which can operate as a gymnasium, a meeting place, a theatre, and a public place for ceremonies and festivals. An internal corridor wraps around the

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Affordable Accommodation for the Eco-Conscious Traveller in Buenos Aires

Affordable Accommodation for the Eco-Conscious Traveller in Buenos Aires

If you're an eco-conscious traveller planning to visit Buenos Aires on a tight budget, don't worry, you don't have to leave your green lifestyle behind. The Eco-Pampa Hostel located in the

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The Greenest House in Chicago is a Self-Sufficient Clean Tech Showcase

The Greenest House in Chicago is a Self-Sufficient Clean Tech Showcase

This house is so green, it would take four pages to list all of its features, but we'll give you a few of the best. Designed for a family of three, the modular eco-home features energy-efficient heated

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LEED Platinum Vancouver Convention Centre Takes Home Top Ten AIA COTE Award

LEED Platinum Vancouver Convention Centre Takes Home Top Ten AIA COTE Award

Building Vancouver Convention Centre West (LCCW) involved integrating a 22-acre site to create a fluid transition between the urban fabric, pedestrian paths and the harbor. The main feature of the project

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Spanish Train Station Renovated Into A Green-Roofed Youth & Public Art Center

Spanish Train Station Renovated Into A Green-Roofed Youth & Public Art Center

The site of the train station was owned and operated by the Ferrocarriles de Vía Estrecha (FEVE light rail line), but the station had fallen into disuse. Since it's located in a very busy part of the

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Parque Centro: KMD Designs Beautiful Park-Covered Underground Mall for Mexico

Parque Centro: KMD Designs Beautiful Park-Covered Underground Mall for Mexico

The sprawling underground mall features a bevy of shops and entertainment areas, as well as enough parking to tuck away 1600 cars. Aboveground revelers will be oblivious to all this as they enjoy Santa

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Syracuse’s Green-Roofed “Kinky” Lab Cuts Energy Use in Half

Syracuse’s Green-Roofed “Kinky” Lab Cuts Energy Use in Half

Most buildings use energy-sucking, complex climate control systems to keep things cool or warm, but in the Kinky building heating and cooling is controlled with hanging panels that use water to regulate

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Elegant LOTT Clean Water Alliance Building Shows the Sexier Side Of Water Treatment

Elegant LOTT Clean Water Alliance Building Shows the Sexier Side Of Water Treatment

Located on the site of its existing Budd Inlet Treatment Plant, the new facility provides space for a new water treatment laboratory, office space for all the district's employees and the “WET

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Henning Larsen Designs Lush Green Heart For Herlev Hospital Expansion

Henning Larsen Designs Lush Green Heart For Herlev Hospital Expansion

Situated next to the existing 26-story tower, the expansion will offer a variety of spaces and facilities needed in the hospital of the future, plus a number of outdoor environments, inner gardens and

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Adrian Smith & Gordon Gill’s New Vantone Center Will Be Tianjin’s Most Sustainable LEED Tower

Adrian Smith & Gordon Gill’s New Vantone Center Will Be Tianjin’s Most Sustainable LEED Tower

At a whopping 607 feet, the Vantone Center designed by Adrian Smith & Gordon Gill will be among Tianjin's tallest new towers. But it will also be the most sustainable as the architects aim for a

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London’s Mint Hotel Unveils Europe’s Largest Living Green Wall

London’s Mint Hotel Unveils Europe’s Largest Living Green Wall

The Mint's lush living wall is viewable – as is the surrounding historic architecture - from the building's floor-to-ceiling windows in the lobby and throughout the hotel. Forty species of plants make

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Former Renault Factory In France Becomes An Undulating Green-Roofed School

Former Renault Factory In France Becomes An Undulating Green-Roofed School

One of the most beautiful urban redevelopment projects we've seen in a long time, the building has a green roof that is allowed to slope down such that it extends to the school's every level. Indigenous

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Waitakere Civic Centre Serves as a Green Community and Transportation Hub

Waitakere Civic Centre Serves as a Green Community and Transportation Hub

The Civic Centre is composed of three main sections - the civic wing, the administration wing and the link element. The civic wing contains the Council Chamber, Councillor's facilities and the

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Crazy Green-Roofed Habitable Bridge Proposed to Span Acapulco Bay

Crazy Green-Roofed Habitable Bridge Proposed to Span Acapulco Bay

The municipal government does not nor ever will have the funds to build a 3 km bridge across the bay, even though the region is sorely in need of it. Private investment is needed in order to make the

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Green-Roofed Charleston House Has A River Of Green Features

Green-Roofed Charleston House Has A River Of Green Features

Probably the most distinctive feature of this home is the ubiquitous use of wood paneling. While this may seem wasteful, most of it is either highly recycled or reclaimed wood. The board paneling was

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Colossal Green Volcano Building Rises in Italy

Colossal Green Volcano Building Rises in Italy

Inspired by the surrounding landscape, Vulcano Buono has a gently sloping profile that rises from the earth as a grassy green knoll. The structure's roof is carpeted with a vegetative layer of over 2,500

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Dazzling New Ryerson University Center Facade Looks Like It’s Covered with Snowflakes

Dazzling New Ryerson University Center Facade Looks Like It’s Covered with Snowflakes

Ryerson University recently unveiled the glittering new learning center design envisioned by the dynamic architectural team of Zeidler Partnership Architects and Snøhetta. As part of the university's

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La Maison Ecocitizen Boasts a Dramatic Sloping Green Roof in Bordeaux, France

La Maison Ecocitizen Boasts a Dramatic Sloping Green Roof in Bordeaux, France

Sitting on the edge of the Garonne riverbank on a UNESCO World heritage site, the arched exhibition and meeting center makes it its mission to inform the public about sustainable architecture,

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Foster & Partners Breaks Ground on Ten Acre CityCenter in Washington DC

Foster & Partners Breaks Ground on Ten Acre CityCenter in Washington DC

Construction began this week on Foster & Partner's CityCenter DC - one of the United States' largest and most important urban redevelopment projects. The ten acre convention center will be transformed

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