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BOOK REVIEW: The Vertical Farm by Dick Despommier

BOOK REVIEW: The Vertical Farm by Dick Despommier

The Vertical Farm is an expanded edition of Despommier's earlier essay on vertical farming, which explains the many advantages of vertical farming. As Despommier rallies, vertical farms could enable every

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Elevated Prefab Home On Cusabo Island is Perched To Withstand Fire and Hurricane

Elevated Prefab Home On Cusabo Island is Perched To Withstand Fire and Hurricane

Designed by Seattle-based Woollen Studio and built by Park City, UT-based EcoSteel, the Cusabo Island home is a prefab wonder. Engineered to exceed FEMA flood zone code requirements, with helical

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Vote Now for Barbie’s New Sustainably Designed Dream House!

Vote Now for Barbie’s New Sustainably Designed Dream House!

Now that Barbie has taken on the profession of architecture, it’s about time for her dream house to receive a sustainable makeover. Thankfully, four out of the five finalists in AIA’s Architect

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Steven Holl Completes Green-Roofed Nanjing Museum of Art & Architecture

Steven Holl Completes Green-Roofed Nanjing Museum of Art & Architecture

Image © Shu He As Western painters developed vanishing points from a fixed perspective after the 13th Century, Chinese painters rejected the single-point vanishing method. Instead of focusing on

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Studio Dror Shows Off Versatility of QuaDror Structural Element In Relief Housing

Studio Dror Shows Off Versatility of QuaDror Structural Element In Relief Housing

QuaDror relief housing is based on the geometric form of the QuaDror, a square-like, trapezoidal, 3D element. Structural beams are held together in the correct QuaDror shape by specially designed joints

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Beautiful Green Village of Balinese Bamboo Homes Crafted by Ibuku

Beautiful Green Village of Balinese Bamboo Homes Crafted by Ibuku

Ibuku (formerly called PTBambu), a design-build firm located outside of Bali’s cultural center of Ubud, is the visionary behind both the Green School and the Green Village. So far one home in the

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LAVA’s Home Of The Future Is A Neon, Geodesic Plant-Filled Bubble

LAVA’s Home Of The Future Is A Neon, Geodesic Plant-Filled Bubble

The home is set inside a geodesic skydome made out of ETFE bubbles and will create a year-round microclimate for the gardens contained inside. A series of living zones are spread throughout the enclosure

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Massive Living Mountain Skyscraper Transforms the Desert Into a Habitable Environment

Massive Living Mountain Skyscraper Transforms the Desert Into a Habitable Environment

The high rise conglomerate is built from local materials and stands on a reinforced concrete pier foundation to be able to withstand the shifting sands. Steel and reinforced concrete will be used to

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Diamond Patterned Green Biomass Plant Designed To Blend In With Surrounding Woodland

Diamond Patterned Green Biomass Plant Designed To Blend In With Surrounding Woodland

The structure for the building is a latticework of exposed timber beams expressly intended to reflect the trees of the woods surrounding the plant. Various sized volumes and the exterior help break up the

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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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Award Winning Tasmanian Addition Harvests Rainwater and Sunlight

Award Winning Tasmanian Addition Harvests Rainwater and Sunlight

The project involved a complete reorganization of an existing dwelling and the addition of a new living room, veranda, courtyard and garage. The beautiful home is located on Trial Bay and the most

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Houston Architecture Office Doubles as Beautiful Eco Home

Houston Architecture Office Doubles as Beautiful Eco Home

The architects snatched up an abandoned lot, which for some time had served as a garbage dump. Then they began work to transform the lot into their home and office space with a heavy focus on simple, cost

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Acqua Viva: Sculptural Hanging Rainwater Collection System

Acqua Viva: Sculptural Hanging Rainwater Collection System

The Acqua Viva rainwater collection system is made up of a series of spiraling Flowforms that collect rainwater and send it into storage vessels. The terracotta flowforms and vessels are designed to be

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Modern Music Studio Built With Recycled Plastic Planks

Modern Music Studio Built With Recycled Plastic Planks

The site for the music studio is located near a water purification plant that was considered far too noisy for residential housing to be constructed around. However the site was also part of a large urban

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Lookotels Seeks to Roll Out Prefabricated Capsule Hotels in Spain

Lookotels Seeks to Roll Out Prefabricated Capsule Hotels in Spain

Capsule hotels are all the rage in Japan, and now Lookotels is aiming to bring the prefabricated modular building trend to Spain. The company has envisioned a 100-room hotel composed of factory-built

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Gargantuan Living Wall with 10,000 Plants Completed in Canada

Gargantuan Living Wall with 10,000 Plants Completed in Canada

While it's not the largest living wall in North America, this vertical garden is certainly one of the most beautiful and diverse vertical gardens out there. With 10,000 individual plants representing more

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Gorgeous Eco-Lodge Built on Flathead Lake in Montana

Gorgeous Eco-Lodge Built on Flathead Lake in Montana

Image ©Stone Creek Camp Stone Creek Camp occupies 15 acres of land on the eastern shore of Flathead Lake in Bigfork, Montana and is currently on sale for $19 million! The camp consists of a master

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Winner of the St. Louis Arch Renovation Competition Unveiled

Winner of the St. Louis Arch Renovation Competition Unveiled

MVVA, who was also responsible for the redesign of Pennsylvania Avenue at the White House, and the design of Brooklyn Bridge Park, has considerable experience in designing urban landscapes. Their plan

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Steven Holl Unveils Light-Filled Glasgow School of Art

Steven Holl Unveils Light-Filled Glasgow School of Art

The Glasgow School of Art just announced that New York-based architect Steven Holl won the competition to design an elegant new studio, teaching and research building. The project focuses on reducing

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The Frontier Project Showcases Sustainable Technologies

The Frontier Project Showcases Sustainable Technologies

The Cucamonga Valley Water District (CVWD) spearheads the Frontier Project as a community service initiative that educates customers on green technology and resource conservation awareness. Located to the

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Woods Bagot Unveils Towering Shijiazhuang Convention Center

Woods Bagot Unveils Towering Shijiazhuang Convention Center

The design for the new convention center seeks to find a harmonious balance between the busy venue and the surrounding landscape. Additionally, Woods Bagot sought to bring together the best of the worlds

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One Cool Habitat Offers a Customizable Prefab ‘Your Way’

One Cool Habitat Offers a Customizable Prefab ‘Your Way’

One Cool Habitat is built out of a 20' shipping container, using the chasis of the container as a basis for the space. They cut out space for windows and doors, efficiently reusing the cut parts or

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