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Archetype Sustainable House: Celebrating Five Years of Demonstration and Research

By Tracy Hanes and Tim Van Seters When it was constructed at the Kortright Conservation Centre in 2009, the Archetype Sustainable House (ASH) was intended to be a state-of-the-art "green" abode....

Vincent Callebaut Architectures: THE FLAVOURS ORCHARD

CONSTRUCTION OF 45 PLUS-ENERGY (BEPOS) VILLAS IN A SMART GRID KUNMING 2014, YUNNAN PROVINCE, SOUTHWEST CHINA 1. CHINA’S ECO-HIGH-TECH CITIES : TOWARDS AN ENERGY EFFICIENT COMMUNITY IN KUNMING Stepping out of your....

A ‘Garden Bridge’ across the Thames

Garden Bridge is a planned stunning new public garden and pedestrian crossing over the River Thames in London, England. Designed by London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic cauldron designer, Thomas Heatherwick....

LEED VS. GREEN GLOBES

LEED and  Green Globes - a Comparison By Jiri Skopek  AA DIP.,OAA, MCIP, RIBA With the sudden re-emergence of Green Globes as a recognized green building rating system, practitioners may be wondering....

EPA – POSSIBLE SHILL GROUP VS. LEED CERTIFICATION?

This time around, below, we are reprinting an article courtesy of China-based Bisagni Environmental Enterprise (BEE), dealing with the subject of whether LEED leads to better energy performance. We....

Tower of Power

Dutch architects hold out hope that skyscraper project utilizing wind power will come to fruition With an eye trained directly on a sustainable future, Amsterdam-based NL Architects has come up with....

WORLD GREEN CENTER

Sustainable shakeup The World Green Center in Chile improves quality of life for workers and provides business district makeover By GREG McMILLAN Decisions, decisions, decisions – cCe Architects of Santiago, Chile, had one....

superkul

CANADA'S FIRST ACTIVE HOUSE Toronto based architects superkül designed Canada’s first Active House in Ontario’s Niagara region. Great Gulf, one of Canada’s largest home builders, selected superkül, a firm with a....

AMPHIBIOUS HABITAT

Back to nature Thai project Amphibious Habitat borrows from existing ecological systems to tackle delta flooding problems Right now, it’s in the experimental design stage, but an ambitious concept put forth by....

TORONTO 2030 DISTRICT

Is Toronto Ready for a 2030 District? Jeff Ranson – Executive Director, Toronto 2030 District Continent-wide, an ambitious urban building conservation initiative is seeks to address the environmental impacts of buildings. “2030....

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