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Lightwave / AnL Studio
The Parklands, South Bank, Brisbane, Australia, has played host to Lightwave, a sensory light installation at the Unlimited festival. At 10m x 16m x 5.5m, Lightwave is not just a sculpture or an art piece, but an object that can … Continue reading
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Tagged ahnkee, AnL studio, Australia, Brisbane, Lightwave, South Bank
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Volcano, by Piano
Like a chameleon, architecture can mimic any natural landscape it sits on. From a Swiss alp, to the British cliffs, to a nearby glacier, to Mexican basalt rock, to a volcano – such as the Renzo Piano Building Workshop has … Continue reading
Ranking Cities on Building Efficiency
Los Angeles and Washington took the top spots in the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s ranking of cities with the most energy efficient buildings. Los Angeles was the star of the Energy Star rankings, with 293 buildings achieving the E.P.A. … Continue reading
CityGrid: Large Cities | Smarter Cities
Seatle, WA San Francisco, CA Portland, OR Oakland, CA San Jose, CA Austin, TX Scaramento, CA Boston, MA Denver, CO Chicago, IL San Diego, CA New York, NY Los Angeles, CA Dallas, TX Columbus, OH via CityGrid: Large Cities | Smarter … Continue reading
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Tagged city, CityGrid, Columbus Ohio, Los Angeles, New York City, rank, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose California, Sustainability, sustainable, United States
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SustainLane’s 2008 US City Sustainability Rankings
2008 US City Sustainability Rankings Cities are listed by their 2008 Rankings order. Numbers in parentheses ( ) denote 2006 Rankings. Portland, OR (1) San Francisco, CA (2) Seattle, WA (3) Chicago, IL (4) New York, NY (6) Boston, MA … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, California, Los Angeles, Oklahoma City, San Francisco, Sustainability, SustainLane, United States
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BC Hyrdo Energy Experiment
To promote their Power Smart month of October, BC Hydro has launched an interesting public campaign for energy efficiency by converting two shipping containers into live experimental spaces in Vancouver. For fours day, actors will live in the 3×6 meter … Continue reading
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Tagged Actor, BC Hydro, Canada, Demonstration, Efficient energy use, Energy, Energy conservation, green, installation, Power Smart, Shipping container, Vancouver
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8H – The 8-House
8-House is located in Ørestad on the edge of Copenhagen. 8-House offers homes for people in all of life’s stages: the young and the old, singles, families that grow and families that become smaller. Instead of dividing the different functions … Continue reading
Masterplan Korça City Centre / Bolles + Wilson
German architects Bolles + Wilson shared with us their winning proposal for the Masterplan Korça City Centre Competition in Albania. Surrounded by dramatic mountains and a wide arcadian valley Korça focuses a region of 360,000 inhabitants. Its urbane morphology reflects … Continue reading
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Tagged Albania, Art Nouveau, Bolles + Wilson, Cathedral, competition, history, Korça, urban design
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David Chipperfield restyles the ‘Neues Museum’, Berlin | Suzy Hoodless – Design Consultancy
In 1997, David Chipperfield Architects – with Julian Harrap – won the international competition for the rebuilding of the ‘Neues Museum’. Their ambitious £49 million remodelling marries old and new seamlessly, breathing new life into this amazing building. After more … Continue reading
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Tagged Berlin, David Chipperfield, David Chipperfield Architects, Neues Museum, renovation
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486 – “A Really Greater New York”
America wasn’t immune to the fad. In 1911, Dr T. Kennard Thomson proposed to expand New York into its adjacent waters for a grand total of 50 square miles. Thomson was neither a lightweight nor a crackpot. As a consulting … Continue reading
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Tagged Caisson (engineering), Engineer, Metro Areas, New York, New York City, Popular Science, United States
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The Map Room: U.S. College Degrees by County
“Americans are better educated now than ever, but the distribution of people with college degrees is growing increasingly unequal,” write Roberto Gallardo and Bill Bishop in the Daily Yonder. “And the clustering of people with higher education is creating greater … Continue reading