Green Building

Enjoyed some 10 days in Auroville in 2006. Almost gave my appendix, but made a life-long friend too. Fantastic green and delightful architecture. - Nichole L. Reber

http://www.itu.edu.tr/duyuru... - Ecehan Esra

impossible cherrydude! :( iş güç, bi de bu kadar çene =) zor ;) - Halidun Senkal

""We knew we didn't want air conditioning but we wanted a house that was cool," said Chris Conger, a 37-year-old coastal geologist with the University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program. "It wasn't that hard. I guess it depends on how you approach it." Even so, it was an ambitious job expanding the 970-square-foot house into a 2,300-square-foot house. At roughly half a million dollars, it was also expensive — but the Congers view it as an investment in a home they will use for decades. Their home went from three bedrooms and one bathroom to four bedrooms and two bathrooms. The couple added a sun room, opened up the kitchen, reorganized the interior and built a garage. They also moved the entire house to another spot on their flag lot." - Bill Sodeman from Bookmarklet

"The mayor announced yesterday that the city awarded the first major contract to design and build 6.5 miles of raised guideways between Kapolei and Pearl Highlands near Leeward Community College. Hannemann said the $483 million contract with low-bidder Kiewit Pacific Co. will create jobs and stimulate the sagging economy. He also noted that by awarding the contract in a down economy, the bid came in $90 million under the original estimate." - Bill Sodeman from Bookmarklet

GRT! example of the direction we should all be moving towards. - Rickbischoff from Bookmarklet

"Continuing an occasional series on our formative design influences, this is Elevated Wetlands, a public art project in Toronto, Canada, by landLAB's principal landscape architect Neil Hadley and artist Noel Harding. Long time readers no doubt have noticed our obsession with constructed wetlands." - joneilortiz from Bookmarklet

“ECO CITY represents a synergistic approach to urban development,” explains tec Principal Sebastian Knorr. “By working in close cooperation with all the stakeholders and taking into consideration the immediate environmental context of the project, we’ve created a different type of sustainable, creative-industrial complex. We hope that iconic ECO CITY project becomes a model for sustainable urban development.” - design(dot)fr from Bookmarklet

"The amazing spectacle is one of the largest in a growing number of "plant walls" or "vertical gardens" that are taking root across the world, as architects search for environmentally friendly ways to create beautiful buildings. Some visionaries even believe that soon we could be harvesting our food from the places where we live and work. Architect Ken Yeang is the world's leading green skyscraper architect and a passionate advocate of what is already being called "vegitecture"." - Bill Sodeman from Bookmarklet

I built a hanging garden in my backyard, it is mostly Concord Grapes. the problem with much of this is not it's beauty and green-ness, but rather this looks like Ivy in the pic. Ivy eats bricks. - NoahDavidSimon