All Entries Tagged With: "sustainable"
Eco-friendly Fake Hills in Beihai, China: MAD Architects
This Chinese firm, with its “MAD”-ly distinct sustainable building designs has managed to carve a niche for itself for sure. MAD Architects’ under-construction Fake Hills project in the Chinese coastal town of Beihai beats the current global trend of stand-alone monuments becoming sustainability symbols. This iconic 492,369sqm residential project combines high-density, economically viable housing with [...]
Noah’s Ark Re-jigged
This giant floating steel-and-glass-vertical-doughnut hotel, claiming to offer a self-sustained environment, its lower half immersed in water and its upper half afloat, is nothing if not intriguing. Designed to withstand floods caused by rising sea levels, The Ark Hotel has been envisioned as a safe, self-contained ‘biosphere’ – a haven in the case of disaster. [...]
Terreform and MIT collaborate to create the Fab Tree Hab
Ever fantasized about a treehouse hideout as a kid? Surely. Well, seems like this group of architects from Terreform and MIT believe that treehouses are not just for kids. Mitchell Joachim, Lara Greden and Javier Arbona, three MIT designers have taken this “every child’s fantasy” and created a living treehouse. What’s more, this dwelling not [...]
No Genetically Modified alfalfa please!
The organic community worldwide must be rejoicing with organic food brand Nutiva® pledging $25,000 in support of the Center for Food Safety’s effort to halt Monsanto’s spring planting of GMO alfalfa crops. Last month the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the deregulation of Monsanto’s genetically engineered, Roundup-Ready alfalfa. According to the New York [...]
Homes in the U.K go the Zero Carbon Way
While efforts are in full-swing to identify the most feasible way of addressing the housing shortage in the U.K, housing alternatives are being explored further in Britain…..
Housing Crisis? Prefabricated, Recycled Plastic could be the answer.
To alleviate the 80,000 units per annum estimated housing shortage in the U.K, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has identified the return of prefab as the most suitable solution! Team that with making these new prefab homes out of recycled plastic, and pricing them at as little as £20,000, and bingo! How many birds [...]
