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A 1940s home gets an energy-efficient renovation for $250K

When the homeowners of a small, Cape Cod-style home in Arlington Heights, Illinois wanted extra room for their...

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Copenhagen’s Hanging Gardens will allow residents to grow and sell their own vegetables on-site

Designed with sustainability in mind, the Hanging Gardens Tower is envisioned with locally sourced construction...

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Repurposed shipping containers inject funky and unexpected color to a historic home renovation

Artist Markus Linnenbrink and his wife, gallerist Cindy Rucker, commissioned LOT-EK to renovate the existing two-level...

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Brilliant “More Sky” window transforms into a cozy, sun-soaked balcony

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BsDKGCOB7g Garcia developed “More Sky” as part of her master’s thesis...

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Gorgeous Passive House renovation in New York wins the ‘Oscars of existing buildings’

The architects deconstructed the existing roof and recycled all the asphalt shingles, added a second floor and...

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Subterranean Conservation Hall is a glass-walled atrium under the Governor’s lawn in Tennessee

Placed 25 feet below the front lawn, the oval-shaped courtyard is fully glazed. This allows natural light to penetrate...

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8 Water-saving solutions for your home

The drought in California is breaking records, and recent data suggests that the state may have just one year of...

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Philips to install LED streetlights in Poland for a 70 percent energy savings

Philips Lighting just announced that they were selected to conduct a massive overhaul of over 5,000 streetlights...

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Can You Believe This Gorgeous Puerto Rican School Building Was Abandoned for More Than 20 Years?

Before Puerto Rican architecture firm Díaz Paunetto Arquitectos were commissioned to refit this annex building...

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Simbcity Zero-Energy Additions Revive Decaying Housing Estates in Spain

Taking inspiration from the natural phenomenon of symbiosis, Plateau Team proposes "the colonization of the roofs...

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Adventurous Couple Meanders Down the Pan-American Highway in a Solar-Powered 1967 VW Van

Little known fact: in 2010 my partner and I got rid of almost everything we owned, loaded the rest up into a 26'...

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Schools Institute ‘Heat Days’ to Protect Kids from Soaring Classroom Temperatures

Image via Shutterstock. Snow days force school closures due to heaps of snow and ice - and now rising temperatures...

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SHINE’s Tec de Monterrey Retrofit Maximizes Natural Light and Ventilation With Parametric Modeling

SHINE has created this new design studio as a study in bioclimatic architecture, which is ideal for the students...

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BIG’s Blåvand Bunker Museum Preserves Denmark’s WWII History

BIG's design sheds new light on Denmark's war history, and it does so by balancing practical and playful forms....

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Eco Modern Flats Renovation is the First Multifamily LEED Platinum Project in Arkansas

The four existing apartment buildings were originally constructed between 1968 and 1972 and still had good bones...

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New Jersey Ranch Home Marketed As “Tear-Down” is Eco-Renovated Instead

Rather than tear down the home, the owners wanted to renovate it and avoid sending the materials to the landfill....

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BMW Launches Program to Transform Landfill Gases Into Hydrogen Fuel

BMW's Spartansburg, South Carolina plant is launching a program to convert methane gas into hydrogen. If successful,...

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Architects Build Pop Up Sauna on Abandoned City Dam

Czech architectural office Mjölk Architekti made a remarkable contribution to public space in Liberec, their city...

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Stunning Zinc-Skinned Office Wins 2010 ZeroFootprint Award

ZeroFootprint holds an annual competition for renovated buildings that showcase the most successful, holistic retrofitting...

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Architects Tell Californians to Brace for the Next Big Earthquake

The US Geological Survey has said that California has a 99.7% chance of having a magnitude 6.7 earthquake -- or...

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Top 5 Incredible Retrofitted Eco Rides

We love seeing eco-upgrades that increase the efficiency of existing vehicles, but a select few are taking their...

CAN CERAMIC TUBES STOP GLOBAL WARMING?

One of the biggest global problems in trying to reduce carbon emissions is the extremely large existing infrastructure...

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