Janis R.
A lot of lessons have been learned over the last decade as architects and manufacturers try to make modern green prefab affordable and accessible to a wider audience. A new entry into the market is Challenger, a modern architect-designed line of houses...
Image: Kevin Redding, Arizona State University It is one of the mysteries that makes life on earth possible: plants can grab energy out of sunlight and convert it into chemical energy. This energy works its way up the food chain . Without it, we could...
Lying on his back, watching the passing clouds, he worried over the Nathaniel Hawthorne lookalike’s role in this grim threesome. (Dwell magazine, November 2009) We are big fans of Dwell Magazine and show a lot of great green design from their pages,...
Photos: Emilio Ambasz (architect). This is what the Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art could look like in one year and a half time, when the restoration and extension works that are taking place in the building finish. Green walls and balconies will give...
Gothamist It is a long slow ride to get to the top of a 1776 foot high tower, and construction workers do not get long lunches. So at the Freedom Tower in the World Trade Center they are hauling a Subway franchise up with them as they go. A spokesperson...
Thomas Jefferson said “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” But in the modern age, it is the flow of money, rather than blood, which mainly determines the outcome of questions of...
Thomas Jefferson said “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” But in the modern age, it is the flow of money, rather than blood, which mainly determines the outcome of questions of...
via No Tech Magazine In 1910, Edgar Chambless released Roadtown, outlining his idea for a linear city built on top of a railway line. “The idea occurred to me to lay the modern skyscraper on its side and run the elevators and the pipes and wires...
Credit: Geordie Wood New York-based Susan Woo , who launched her line in fall of this year, creates classic pieces for the modern woman. Her spring/summer 2010 collection draws inspiration from Faye Dunaway’s performance and style in the iconic...
