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The American Institute of Architects releases its 2007 Home Design Trends Study results.
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On a sweltering May day in New Orleans' Holy Cross neighborhood, Global Green USA celebrated the symbolic groundbreaking of its sustainable affordable housing community.
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Technology and Commonsense Design Are Your Dest Defenses Against Moisture
Vantage of Palo Alto, Calif., is the largest solar-powered residential project ever built in the city. The 76-unit development was designed by Irvine, Calif.-based KTGY Group in the spirit of Joseph Eichler's forward-thinking and forward-looking homes of the 1950s and '60s. “Many developments leave...
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The temperature atop Chicago's City Hall building on an average summer day is usually 14 degrees to 44 degrees cooler than the county office building across the street. The reason: the county building has a typical black-tar roof, while City Hall has a green roof planted with grass, plants, and...
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What defines a “green” home? There are certain adjectives we associate with green building: high-performance, energy-efficient, durable, sustainable, healthy, environmentally benign, and so on.
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Traci Rose Rider, LEED AP, was working as an intern at HOK in Houston in 2002 when she decided to drive over to Austin, Texas, for the afternoon to attend the U.S. Green Building Council-sponsored Greenbuild conference. Energized by the overwhelming turnout of students and young professionals—and...
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My study break snack in college was a Snickers bar and a can of TaB from the vending machine in my dorm. I figured if I were going to indulge in the candy, I should at least mitigate the damage with a diet soda. Well, this is pretty much the same approach architects who design large houses are...