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Design Competition for Pedestrian Bridge in Providence, Rhode Island
The City of Providence is staging a limited design competition to select the designer for the Providence River Pedestrian Bridge that will replace the old Interstate 195 Bridge that spans the...
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Bird-Friendly Glass Among BuildingGreen's Top 10 of the Year
The folks at Arnold Glas are chirping about an award for Ornilux from BuildingGreen, as a Top 10 green building product of 2010. The Ornilux bird-friendly, spider-inspired glass was spotlighted...
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What Can This 300 Year Old French Fortress Tell Us About Green Architecture?
These days it seems that every new building is being billed as green: LEED certifications and new technologies that limit the environmental impact of lighting, water use, heating and air conditioning
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Yurts Cause Controversy in France
The nomads in Outer Mongolia created yurts out of necessity, now many people in France are living in them as part of an alternate lifestyle decision.
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Sneaking 'round Passivhaus in Brooklyn
Last Tuesday (Jan 18, 2011), I trekked out to Brooklyn's famously hip neighborhood Williamsburg for an open house of Loadingdock5 Architecture's new PassivHaus project. When I got there, I found out...
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Dubious Dubai May Have To Demolish See-Through Office Buildings
"See-Through" is a real estate development term that originated in Houston in the 80s, when they overbuilt glass skyscrapers that were empty and you could see right through them. Eventually the new...
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Let's Spend the Night Together--On a "Boat" on Top of a Roof in London
It's nautical, since it overlooks the Thames River, it's architectural, and it's a winner.
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In New York, New LEED-Certified Hotel Opens with Free Bike Sharing and EV...
While the greenest vacation is often a staycation, it's nice to know that when you do travel, whether it be for business or pleasure, a hotel can meet you half way.
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Wildlife Bridge Being Built Over Ontario Highway
Last year the ARC wildlife crossing competition got a lot of pixels; it was won by Michael Van Valkenburgh & Associates and there is talk of building it, although it was more of an ideas...
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Gorgeous Brittany House Built By Hand of Straw, Wood and Earth
In 2009, architects Franck Deboute and Karine Montagnon decided to build their dream home and office. The site: the Pointe du Raz, hanging out over the Atlantic Ocean, in Brittany, France. The
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Traditional Landscapes With a Twist: Photographer Yao Lu Makes Mountains out...
In photographer Yao Lu's "View of Waterfall with Rocks and Pines," two men stand underneath the spreading branches of a gnarled pine tree, aiming their cameras off in the distance, where
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Roots Architecture at WOMAD 2011 - A Game of Structural Consequences (Video)
What can you do at a music festival in four days with 75 volunteers and lots of salvaged materials? Build some amazing performance stages, that's what. Last year we reported on the Roots Architecture...
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Ask Pablo: Do Solar Panels Contribute To The Heat Island Effect?
Image credit: Bernd Sieker, used under Creative Commons license. Dear Pablo: Does installing commercial rooftop solar PV (with the dark-colored PV cells) negate the effect of painting that same roof...
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Gorgeous Tree House Built Without Cutting a Single Branch (Photos)
When the team at nature-minded Spanish architecture firm Urbanarbolismo decided to build a tree house, they set some high standards. Working with a centuries old oak tree, they wanted to create a...
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Devastating Earthquake in Eastern Turkey Fails to Shake Ankara's Nuclear Plans
Reports that Turkey would reconsider its nuclear plans following a deadly earthquake in the eastern part of the country sounded too good to be true. They were.
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Recycled Plastic Bottle House Built in Nigeria
Take nearly 8,000 old plastic bottles, add some construction waste and mud, and voila: a sturdy and sustainable home.
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Parking Lots Kill Birds? Thousands Die in Utah Crash Landing
In Utah, birds plunge to their death after storms make parking lots look like ponds. Thwack. Another reason for less pavement?
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"There Goes the Neighborhood." Two Ways to Deal with Foreclosed Homes
While some cities are tearing down thousands of vacant homes, Occupy Our Homes movement offers a compassionate alternative.
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Tiny Folding Winter Hut Is Made with Walls of Ice
A super minimalist mobile ice fishing hut consists of a wooden frame, some chicken wire and walls of ice, made on the spot.
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Best of Green Readers' Choice: Design
What's the cutest tiny shed or building, best single family house, or best new furniture design? Vote on these and more.
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Hobbit Houses, Geothermal Heating, and More at Økosamfundet Dyssekilde, One...
TreeHugger visits one of Denmark's oldest Eco villages, which includes 74 sustainably-designed highly unique houses and apartment buildings that range from hobbit-style straw to high design.
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Paper Waste Could be Made into Eco-Friendly Bricks
Waste material from paper mills can be used to make a more environmentally-friendly brick.
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Shop class deserves a more prominent role in schools
Girls and boys have a lot to gain from learning to work with their hands
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Learn to build a tiny house from salvaged building materials
Building and living in a tiny house can be a big step toward living more sustainably, but using repurposed salvaged building materials to build one might be the Holy Grail of green living.
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From Designboom: Update on Holedeck's tasty waffle slabs
Here is a way to squeeze six stories of building in the space of five.
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Staten Island residents fight to save green space from becoming condos
Mount Manresa was a community space owned by Jesuits, but has now been sold to developers.
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Old toilets, other ceramic waste can be made into "greener" cement
An international team of researchers has created a new type of cement that uses these discarded items that is just as strong, but produces far less emissions.
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How to build an earthbag home for $11.50 per square foot
Are you looking for a DIY construction technique for building an affordable earthquake-, flood-, and bullet-resistant home? Look no further.
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Cigarette butts make for better, cleaner bricks
A process that recycles cigarette butts into bricks for construction could kick a nasty littering habit.
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Not sure? Here's a tutorial for building your own tiny house
Want to build your own tiny house? Clueless about where to start? Check out this Instructables tutorial.
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