March 13th, 2013 
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After Sandy devastated the structures on New York’s beaches, architect Jim Garrison of Garrison Architects has been given the task to develop about 50 lifeguard stations and other beach structures to replace the damaged ones. However, the architect was given the task to complete all work within five months, so that the new structures could be opened to the public on Memorial Day weekend.
March 11th, 2013 admin 
After winning an international competition to design an environmentally friendly and luxurious apartment complex for residents of Taipei, Vincent Callebaut Architectures has announced that it has begun construction on its highly anticipated Agora Garden project, which is designed to become an inhabited and cultivated vertical garden in the Xinyin District of Taipei.
February 25th, 2013 admin 
Architects around the world are busy thinking about the possibilities of next-gen skyscrapers, which they think should be able to produce a considerable, if not all, amount of energy they require and handle waste in a way that is least harmful for the planet. Outthinking all possibilities, engineering giant Arup believes that the added burst of population will require need skyscrapers that are no longer just passive shells, but will be more reactive to the occupants and the environment.
February 22nd, 2013 admin 
The Solar Winds Gathering place by eco-conscious architect and designer Michael Jantzen, is a design proposal for a large, prefabricated, modular, public art project. In this specific formation, the entire gathering place consists of a cluster of 15 specially designed steel wind turbines. Each of the turbines has a large solar cell array mounted on the top. All of the turbines are about 24 feet in diameter, and range from 16 to 36 feet in height. Seven of the fifteen structures are fitted at their bases with 8-foot diameter circular benches, which can seat approximately 60 people.
February 7th, 2013 admin 
We have always encouraged our readers to ditch bottled water in favor of filtered tap water that you can carry around in reusable water bottles. However, still nearly 48 million plastic bottles are throw away every day in the United States and about 53,780 water bottles are discarded every hour in New York City alone. To give an idea as to how much of waste residents of NYC produce in the form of plastic bottled water in just one hour, designers and architects at Studio KCA plan to build “Head in the Clouds” – a pavilion at the Governor’s Island.
February 7th, 2013 admin 
In order to better their eco friendly credentials, while most automakers have shifted their focus towards fuel-efficient and low-emission hybrid and electric vehicles, Kia Motors South Africa is betting on the use of solar power to power its dealerships. The company has announced that it will be opening its first environmentally friendly dealership in Weltevereden Park later this month. The dealership, which the first-of-its-kind in the local automotive industry, will be powered entirely by solar energy.
February 5th, 2013 admin 
With urban centers rapidly transforming into metropolitan cities, architects and designers are working hard to develop affordable, and above all environmentally friendly, solutions to house the ever increasing number of dwellers. We’ve seen designers come up with portable homes as an answer to the crisis and today we have LAGOON, which too is perfect as a temporary housing solution. Designed by Apiqa Design as an alternative to tents, the housing module provides much greater level of comfort and privacy to the occupants.
January 30th, 2013 admin 
There is still a lot of time left for this year’s Solar Decathlon competition to begin, but news from university groups all over the world has already started pouring in. The most recent news regarding the next-gen solar powered home for the competition came from Stanford University, where a team has already prepared their design for a solar-powered home, they call the Start.Home. To be created by a team of Stanford’s engineering students, the Start.Home solar-powered modular dwelling is based on a revolutionary design that integrated most of the infrastructure required for a home in a centralized utility unit.
January 29th, 2013 admin 
The rise in the cost of energy along with the need to reduce the carbon footprint of buildings, architects around the world have started to come up with buildings that either generate energy, save energy or try to conserve freshwater by harvesting rain. With such designs, the future of architecture definitely seems green, but buildings that have already been built not often see this change due to the high cost of installing such systems in built structures. As a solution to this problem, architect and eco conscious designer Wooho Park has come up with the Energy Roof – a multi-purpose structure that can be installed on upcoming and already built structures.
January 29th, 2013 admin 
With flash drives becoming an affordable way to store and share music, videos and software, CDs and DVDs have lost their charm and are quickly being turned into trash that nobody wants to use. While you might still be having hundreds of old CDs and DVDs lying around in your house waiting for an imminent journey to the landfill, China’s Miniwiz Sustainable Energy Development is saving thousands of discs from the same fate by turning them into the world’s biggest spherical 5D movie theater.
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