
These wooden skyscraper designs are more sustainable, less expensive, and consume less fossil fuel to build and maintain.
Read moreThese wooden skyscraper designs are more sustainable, less expensive, and consume less fossil fuel to build and maintain.
Read more(Source: trueactivist.com; January 31, 2017;Grafic Credit: BMDesign Studios http://tinyurl.com/h7x8cvc) This intriguing concept collects rainwater and cools homes in desertic climates.Water scarcity is a conundrum that affects every continent. Approximately...
Read more(Source: collective-evolution.com; February 8, 2017; http://tinyurl.com/z7pgcy8) Every year, more and more people move out of the country and into cities, causing megacity air pollution to rapidly become hazardous to both the environment and public health....
Read moreJohanna Treblin copyright Deutsche Welle Global Ideas (Photos by Maja Mueller + Hans-Peter Kraus) Summers on the eastern Indian coast are hot and dusty with temperatures often shooting up to 40 degrees Celsius. The red sand in this eastern part of the...
Read moreWe had the opportunity to meet Trupti in Pududcherry and have her over some years ago in Germany and Switzerland. Basel USB, Freiburg office Architect Technau , Berlin SACB Berlin. It is a must for all who are interested in Smart Cities and their development....
Read moreVia treehuger by Kimberley Mok source inhabitat Picture Source Naturhuset The Arctic Circle has some of the harshest climate you can imagine: long, cold, dark winters and short summers. Yet this is the very place that the Hjertefølgers, a family of six,...
Read morevia nexusnewsfeed source conscious life Video Source: Tiny House Listings David Latimer of New Frontier Tiny Homes Has gone all out to design the tiny house that anybody could love. He calls it the Alpha Tiny House. Watch the video in source link below...
Read moreby our new author Klaus Hoppe Consultant Energy Solutions for Cities How Modern Football [1] Helps Develop New Forms of Cooperation in Cities and Municipalities Challenges ahead The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation. Bertrand Russel Cities...
Read morevia inhabitat source Arch Daily by Ana Lisa Brahma-Architects turned trash into treasure with their striking LAHO House. Located in a communal settlement in Israel called Hofit, the family home combines minimal lines with found materials. A colorful reclaimed...
Read morevia inhabitat by Katie Medlock Could a fleet of floating jellyfish purify our polluted rivers and streams? That's the idea behind Janine Hung's Jellyfish Lodge, which protects the land, air, and water while growing healthy food. A combination of trash-collecting...
Read morevia inhabitat by Lucy Wang about Kodasema Movable home options have expanded far beyond RVs and renovated buses. For those with a penchant for modern minimalism and endless travel, Estonian design collective Kodasema created KODA, a tiny prefabricated...
Read morevia POPTECH Blog by Leetha Filderman This post was co-authored by Leetha Filderman and Beth Cohen Two years ago PopTech and the Microsoft Office Envisioning team partnered to create a documentary short that captured the forces influencing how we work...
Read morevia TreeHugger by Lloyd Alter What is a a Passive House? One critic of Passive House design called it “a single metric ego driven enterprise that satisfies the architect's need for checking boxes, and the energy nerd's obsession with BTUs.” But over at...
Read morevia New Story Hub Findhorn Findhorn’s sister community of Auroville is an experiment in peaceful co-existence through humanity unity. People in this town live without politics, religion and money at Auroville close to pondicherry ,chennai.
Read moreFrom Thursday, October 6 at 2pm to 6pm on Sunday, October 9 Four days of workshops and conferences to foster positive dialogue and engaged discussion around urban mobility issues, including two free days for the general public. Renowned speakers from...
Read morevia CITYLAB by Tanvi Misra In the medieval period, empires battled and colluded with each other in the quest for land. The resulting system, in which nations became the main actors on the global stage, is perhaps the one most of us know best. But it’s...
Read morevia Effekt Hans-Peter´s comment: It is the second post about that project see the First . The project is called RegenVillage is a Tech-Integrated and Regenerative Residential Real Estate Developmentnon profit. It also runs the ReGen Labs - a non-profit...
Read morevia TED "Architecture is not about math or zoning — it's about visceral emotions," says Marc Kushner. In a sweeping — often funny — talk, he zooms through the past thirty years of architecture to show how the public, once disconnected, have become an...
Read moreVia inhabitat by Lacy Cook and via Dezeen Hans-Peter´s comment: A vision I had some years ago is about coming real. I just love it and I am eager to see it build. Danish architectural firm EFFEKT envisioned a future where self-sustaining communities could...
Read morevia inhabitat by Lidija Grozdani A single family house and two semi-detached houses in Berlin generate more energy than they consume - enough to power the car in the garage. Designed by German design studio GRAFT in collaboration with engineering firm...
Read morevia websiteFUTURE MY LOVE Hans-Peters comment: If you a Futurist or interested in our Future The Venus Project you need to be aware of. The Venus Project proposes an alternative vision of what the future can be if we apply what we already know in order...
Read morevia inhabitat by Lidija Grozdanic Source ANA architects Dutch design studio ANA architects connected four plots in Amsterdam to create a series of lofts built entirely of wood. Houtlofts use solar energy, heat recovery systems and other sustainable features...
Read morevia Mythical India by Bhargavee Das Ever heard of the phrase – ‘a global village’? Nah! Don’t let your mind’s eye visualize a symbolic 21st century globe at the helm of which sits a tiny, fat policeman proudly bearing the US flag. Think again. Think a...
Read morevia inhabitat by Lidja Grozdanic The Noah Oasis project transforms offshore oil rigs into vertical bio-habitats that help clean up oil spills and restore damaged marine eco-systems. These floating structures are meant to populate global waters, absorbing...
Read morevia The Guardian Masdar City was supposed to represent the future of sustainable energy and, for a while, it did that. More than a decade in development, the planned community on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi is falling well short of its original goals....
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