Sustainable Architecture

BY Lluís Torrent i Bescós - 10/27/2010

Sustainability and sophistication are the perfect couple for a home to be charmingly green

In Eastside Costa Mesa, California, there is charming “green” home which combines perfectly luxury and sustainability. And the result pays off. The home was recently remodeled from the ground up with the primary goal of conservation, and adheres to the [...]

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BY Lluís Torrent i Bescós - 08/23/2010

A full self-sufficient institute in Costa Rica

This house is located on the Peninsula de Osa (Costa Rica), a place where the 5% of the world biodiversity is embodied. Probably is the best location for the new ISEAMI Institute headquarters, a center devoted to the investigation of [...]

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BY Clara Von Buch - 08/18/2010

Edible Walls

A technology that has been around for many years already is only starting to flourish nowadays. Lush plant-covered walls are being grown with more frequency each day. These vertical gardens started off as a resource for people without gardens to [...]

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BY Lluís Torrent i Bescós - 08/11/2010

Pumped Hydro: a new way for an island to be green

Among the different ways to store energy, pumped hydro probably it is not the most known, but it is real and in use around the world. Basically pumped hydro works as a good complement of wind and solar energy, allowing [...]

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BY Lluís Torrent i Bescós - 06/28/2010

Toronto: food tastes better in a green marketplace

Last 7th of June, the city of Toronto unveiled the winning design for the new St. Lawrence Market North Building. The new design, proposed by Adamson Associates Architects and Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, was unanimously chosen by judges as [...]

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BY Lluís Torrent i Bescós - 06/11/2010

Building an ecofriendly Wonderland in Azerbaijan

What can you expect from an island where there is no nature, no fresh water, no energy infrastructure, no roads and no sewers? The answer is ambitious: one man made ecosystem that will transform the island into a self-sustaining city [...]

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BY Amalia Holub - 05/14/2010

Beautifully Green Structures

With the world population steadily becoming more concentrated in urban areas, environmental sustainability depends largely on how we plan and construct cities. Green architecture is one important facet of this process. In the U.S., buildings account for about half of [...]

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