Category Archives: Architecture
Art collectors in U.S. can add a dash of greenness to their creativity by showcasing their stuff at eco-friendly Sapphire Gallery. Designed by a team of XTEN Architecture, this structure camouflages green features with utmost elegance. Located at Los Angeles, it is an addition to an existing 1960′s modern house. Designed to be erected in a day’s time, the structure is shaped out of lightweight, factory built trusses. Perforated aluminum will help to protect the artwork from direct sun and at the same time reveal the greenery alfresco.
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For $46 million, Eastern Connecticut State University (ECSU) flaunts a modified colossal green Science Building that spreads over 174,000 square feet. This is part of a national trend to go green in campus architecture. Designed to have more healthful interiors, take advantage of natural light, use recycled materials and conserve energy and water, this educational structure follows the adage, “Practice before you preach” with a green flair. The offices and classrooms ring the building’s outer rim to take advantage of natural light while the furniture inside is locally made from recycled materials. Water is conserved as pipes carry recycled water and water-free urinals are eco-friendly.
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And its not only Pope and nuns who are thinking green. By 2010, the new All Nations Church will also boast of being the most eco-friendly energy efficient church in Canada. This green church will not only be a place to worship God, but also show love and respect for our environment. Located off of St. Raphael Street in Minnow Lake, it will rise up for a cost of $5 million. Sporting a monolithic dome connected by a foyer and baptistery, the auditorium can hold 800 seats. it is the monolithic dome that will help to energy consumption as such a dome is the most energy efficient structure known. The building will use than half the energy normally required to heat the space. Also the solar paneled wall on the south side will generate most of the electricity and heat needed. Even the parking lot is intended to light up via solar power lights. Water will also be conserved by harvesting it off the roof.
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China’s blue (though hazy) skyline will soon boast of a green tower rising high to cut through all the non-eco-friendly attention that the country has garnered over a period. Spiraling through the air, it looks like it is being drilled out of the earth to make a benchmark as a dominating green summit. Christened as the Shanghai Tower, the force behind this 632 meters tall skyscraper is Gensler. Located at Luijiazui Finance and Trade Zone, it is stands out with a set of nine cylindrical buildings stacked on top of each other. A triangular outer façade encloses the entire structure, giving rise to nine sky gardens, which serve as public spaces. The mixed-use structure will house businesses, restaurants, cafés, coffee shops and convenience stores.
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Time and again we come across news about the dramatic change in Dubai’s skyline. However, now Dubai’s skyline is going to go to places with an eco-friendly colossal billboard. In an attempt to daze the world with its grandeur and impressive skyline, Adrac, a global advertising and marketing agency, has come up with this majestic proposal. Finding its way in to the Guinness Book of World Records, this world’s longest billboard is exceptionally designed to capture a piece of Dubai and take it to as many people as possible in a year’s time. Intended to tour 40 countries withing that period, this record-breaking project is set to launch alongside the opening of Adrac’s new Dubai office in the Burj Business District. Brushing aside its mammothic size as well as opulent role, allow me to update you that such an outstanding project promises to leave zilch carbon footprint behind.
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Talk about being versatile in a green style and it’s the Greentainer Project that takes a bow. Based in Gandino, Italy, this green architectural project stands out for its form as well as function. To address the eco-sensitive issues, a 40-foot container was transformed it into a structure that’s mobile, flexible, and self-sufficient. Akin to the other cases where containers have been reused by transforming them into temporary residences or construction site offices or permanent structures, Greentainer’s USP lies in the fact that it is 100% transportable. Ideal for multiple uses and destinations, from a small company canteen to a trade show lounge bar, and even as a mobile exhibition center or a meeting room; it can be positioned in any alfresco location. Fitted with a solar roof adds on to its green persona. A photovoltaic system supplies all the energy necessary to run the heating-cooling system, the lights and other devices.
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Hollywood is synonymous to glamour, movies and celebrities. But henceforth, it will also be associated with Los Angeles’s first solar-powered, green urban community. Located in Southern California, this uber green Gatsby Hollywood is planned and developed by MasterCraft Homes. Though still under construction, this eco-friendly community comprises of 34 homes that are already flaunting a Certified California Green Builder stamp of approval. This solar-powered urban enclave is designed with 100% eco-friendly features like solar roof panels that generate clean energy from the sun, dual-pane windows with Low-E coating, low-emitting building materials, energy-efficient interior and exterior lighting, Energy Star appliances that reduce green house emissions and Bosch Tankless Electric Water Heaters.
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Intending to bring all the green features under one roof, folks from Sander Architecture have giving shape to Residence for a Briard. Spread over a 3,800sf, it is the first example of Hybrid House by the firm. Making extensive use of ecological and sustainable materials, systems and strategies, this abode is also honored as the greenest residences built in California to date. Determined to create an eco-friendly Case Study House for the 21st Century, the firm also focused on the prime aspect that is reducing the construction costs for custom homes. Making such eco dens affordable for eco-dwellers is much needed as it’s not only the green thumb but the size of the wallet that primarily decides the kind of house a person can reside in. Recycled blue jean insulation tops the list of the eco-friendly features of this structure. The rest green features include greywater systems, passive heating and cooling strategies, cistern to capture rainwater for watering landscaping, sunflower seed wall board, bamboo flooring, marmoleum, eco-resin panels, low-flush toilets, on-demand water heater and more.
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The concrete jungle is packed with buildings and towers that barely leave any space for your green dream abode. This necessitates the need to move out of the terrestrial boundaries on to the blue waters in the well-designed eco-friendly houseboats. Designed by confused-direction and christened as Schwimmhaus, these eco-friendly house boats are intending to float on the German waters in the coming spring. Comfortably spacious to house a bachelor or a couple, this house on water consists of one bedroom, a living room, a kitchen and a bathroom. Spreading out to14m in length and 3m in breadth, Schwimmhaus rises to 4m above the water level. Still in conceptual stages, this house boat boasts of a green roof and other zero emission features. Another green feather on its hat is that the boat is crafted out of recycled wood from an old farm barn.
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Dubai the city of extremes, after building a ski resort in the desert which could be the worst contributor of green house gases, Dubai is all set to build a new shopping mall. Shopping malls in the city spring up everyday, but what’s unique in this one is that it will be built keeping LEED certification criteria as its guideline. Thereby making it the most Eco-friendly mall in the region, specifications suggest that the roof will be made of reflective materials to reduce the energy required to keep the building cool, and landscaping will include plants that need less water, along with on-site recycling for glass, paper, metal and plastic. The new Eco friendly mall will hopefully start a new green conservative trend in new shopping mall construction and maintenance.
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