With a GreenCore 10200 solar-powered air conditioner, you can make use of the sun that is baking your home to - cool your home. Equipped with a single 170-watt panel that can keep a 600 square foot room cool, the units are available in fixed or portable configurations. The GreenCore 10200 is also a hybrid [...]
When homeowners in Rancho San Augustine were ready to renovate, they wisely chose Jessica Helgerson Interior Design. Their green Hill House studio, one of three buildings on the property, provides a private retreat for the couple when entertaining large numbers of guests in the main house. By combining clean lines with rustic charm, Helgerson achieved [...]
Pitched as having over 800 uses, the Palmyra Palm (or Borassus) is recognized as one of the most important trees in Cambodia and India. Earlier this year, Indian born architect Bijoy Jain of Studio Mumbai illustrated the ecological potential of the palm when he designed and built the beautiful Palmyra House. Constructed entirely from locally [...]
Architects: Atelier Bow-Wow / Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, Momoyo kaijima, Shun Takagi
Location: Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan
Client: Showa Kinen Park Office
Commission year: 2002
Construction year: 2005
Function: Museum
Site Area: 6031 sqm
Constructed area: 5480 sqm
This is a facility that intensively combines various functions of information dissemination and exchange associated with the Green Culture Zone, newly opened within the Showa Memorial Park.
The basic [...]
Next Generation House created by Sou Fujimoto Architects is a small housing module for weekend use, located on the edge of a forest overlooking the River Kuma at Kumakura, opposite the temple of Shibatatehime.
The oblique glass windowpanes are held in place with plastic plugs. The mobile sheets are in transparent acrylic. The small pavilion, a [...]
You don’t have to be a skater to appreciate these clever decks! Based on their passion for mid-century design, skateboard culture, and the SoCal lifestyle, designers Pierre Andre Senizergues and Gil Le Bon de LaPointe have launched a new company that makes sleek, gorgeous post modern furnishings and accessories out of recycled second hand skate [...]
Nine years ago on March 20th 1999, Bob Schumacher set the wind powered land-speed record in a boat called the Iron Duck, “sailing” at blistering pace of 116.7 mph. This August / September, Dale Vince (Ecotricity Founder & MD) and engineer Richard Jenkins (founder/designer/engineer of the Windjet Project), hope to catch the right breeze and [...]