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  • Perry Miller
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There is a war brewing over the development of a new underwater pipeline in New York City. The proposed project would send fracked gas to the city, a move environmentalists claim would greatly contribute to global warming. An Oklahoma company called Williams has proposed an ambitious plan to construct a...

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This gorgeous LEED Platinum winery is made of reclaimed wood

  • Nicole Jewell
  • 03/20/2019

San Francisco-based firm Piechota Architecture has designed what is being called the most sustainable winery in Sonoma Valley. Tucked into the rolling hills of Alexander Valley, the solar-powered Silver Oak winery design, which was made with repurposed materials, has already earned a LEED-Platinum certification and...

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Amid growing concerns about the negative effects of climate change, Following historic levels of rainfall and flooding, the governor of Nebraska, Pete Ricketts, has officially declared certain counties disaster areas as officials deal with the situation. “This really is the most devastating flooding we’ve...

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Site-sensitive Woodhouse Hotel promotes agricultural tourism in Guizhou

  • Lucy Wang
  • 03/20/2019

In China’s southwest province of Guizhou, Shanghai-based architectural practice ZJJZ has completed the Woodhouse Hotel, a government-backed agricultural tourism project that consists of 10 single-story timber cabins embedded into the hillside in the remote village of Tuanjie. As one of the first projects carried...

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Architecture

A solar-powered home in Maine rises above the sand dunes on wooden stilts

  • Nicole Jewell
  • 03/20/2019

Portland-based firm Caleb Johnson Studio has unveiled a beautiful cedar-clad home elevated off the ground on stilts so that the natural "landscape is allowed to flow under the house." The solar-powered home, named "In the Dunes," was designed to not only protect the natural dune terrain, but the resilient design...

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