10:42 am in architects, Design & Architecture, james howard kunstler, prefabricated housing, shipping container architecture by TreeHugger
Image Credit Andrew Maynard
@andrewmaynard tweets about a slideshow of
Homes of the Future on CNBC that features his Airdrop House,
featured on TreeHugger here. Author Daniel Bukszpan writes:
A quick look outside shows that the home of the future as depicted in films never quite caught on. Contenders are still being built, however. It's just that society's priorities have changed--homes are being designed with an eye toward sus...Read the full story on TreeHugger
9:46 am in architects, modular homes, norway, prefab, prefabricated housing by TreeHugger
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70°N arkitektur Bent Raanes
One of the wonderful things about
Architizer, the " open community created by architects for architects", is that so many projects turn up that one may have missed the first time around. A good example is the
XBO Mobile Unit, submitted by Norwegian firm
70 N arkitektur as.. It's a two part 10'-6" modular design that was built in 2004.
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11:29 am in architects, kitchens, lifeedited, materials, materials monday by TreeHugger
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Neolith
Granite counters have been all the rage for a decade, but now
it has come to this, an entire kitchen made of granite. I think it is incredibly ugly and probably ridiculously expensive, But seeing this image, and a recent discussion about counter choices for Graham Hill's
LifeEdited project, reminded me of some research I had done into countertops a while back.
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8:47 am in architects, building materials, Design & Architecture, toronto by TreeHugger
Murano Condo, Toronto, Where the Glass is Falling off Balconies. Image credit Allan Windows
Glass balcony panels are raining down on the streets of Toronto from the shiny new condominiums, building envelope expert
John Straube was interviewed on
Ontario Morning to discuss the problem. He didn't say a whole lot about why the panels are falling, but did a great explanation of the pro...
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5:03 am in architects, botanical, Design & Architecture, designers, gardens, Travel & Nature by TreeHugger
Photo: P. Klimt
Each summer for the past eleven years, the
Serpentine Gallery has commissioned a different architect to design a pavilion on the adjacent park lands. It serves as an inspirational place to hang out, hear lectures and have a drink.
This year's is designed by
Swiss architect Peter Zumthor and its focal point is a specially created garden by the Dutch landscape designer
Piet Oudolf (of New York's
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11:22 am in architects, design competitions, recycled, recycled building material by TreeHugger
Images credit HplusF
After World War II,
Bucky Fuller's Dymaxion House was seen as an alternative product for the factories and workers who were no longer building airplanes; it used much of the same materials and technologies.
Perhaps architects Craig Hodgetts and HsinMing Fung of
HplusF were thinking of Bucky when they developed this design for turning Hummers into housing. The architects are quoted in
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Photo: B. Alter
Who could resist this delightful little architectural folly. Spotted on the grounds of the 
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Image credit Strassburger Windows
It is one of the lunacies of housing in America that builders pay no attention to orientation or window placement, then have to oversize the air conditioning unit to compensate, forcing the homeowner to pay more up front and higher operating costs through the life of the house. So what do you do if you are stuck in one of these dinosaurs? Tristan Roberts of 
