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Would solar panels mar Istanbul’s historic skyline? Photo byJennifer Hattam.Can you imagine the Eiffel Tower with wind turbines? The Taj Mahal with rooftop solar panels? No matter how much you supportrenewable energy, it’s jarring to think about retrofitting such famous and historic structures, but one Turkish architect suggests it can — and should — be done….Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Yet another lovely design fromAnrina Komarova and Yanko, just like every other rain shower in every jazzy bathroom, never responding to the question that anyone who ever read Alexander Kira’s bathroom book would ask, which is “why do showers point down?”

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Working from home is green; time and carbon is saved by the commute, it utilizes space better, and saves companies and workers a lot of money. But It is hard being a homeworker sometimes; I miss the camaraderie of the gang at the office. The transition from home to work that is served by the commute. The closet of office supplies and most of all, the lunches with friends. But there is help on the way;Shedworkingtells us about howGordon Wu City Localworked with…Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Everyone is having great sport with UK footballer Gary Neville for proposing an underground “ecobunker” designed by the talentedMAKE architects, comparing it to the home of Laa-Laa, Tinky-Winky, Dipsy, and Po. But the joke is stale, having been told with every curvy green roof built, including theCalifornia Academy of Sciences.The real question is, what makes this thing an “ecobunker”? Is it a good thing?…Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Guest blogger Cara Smusiak is a journalist and regular contributor toNaturallySavvy.com’s Naturally Green section.Having trouble gettingpregnant? If you’ve gotten the caffeine habit under control and are managing your stress, the culprit might just be yourma…Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image by LeopoldoFor many years now (readour first article about Leopoldo in 2005), this Catalan design is appearing in more and more homes, restaurants, galleries and other spaces in need of green and locally grown food.It changed in size and colour, and another interesting aspect of theLeopoldo Urban Vegetable Gardenis its use in hospitals. The flat-pack recyclable steel structure with its black recycled planters…Read the full story on TreeHugger
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One team’s vision of a “New Aqueous City.” Image credit:nArchitectsThe New York art institutionsMoMAandP.S.1 Contemporary Art Centerare looking on the bright side of the down economy: “As in past economic recessions, construction has slowed dramatically in New York, and much of the city’s remarkable pool of architectural talent is available to focus on innovation.” So …Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The ubiquitous paint chip; every architect and designer has thousands, the manufacturers keep bringing out sets and changing the colours, so what do you do with the old ones?Emocja Studiofrom Poland joins them together with plastic rivets so that you can make them almost any shape.

I wonder if there could be a version that didn’t require cutting up every rectangular chip into a more complex trapeziod; there is still a lot of waste. See a lot more pictures atDesignboom.…Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Lying on his back, watching the passing clouds, he worried over the Nathaniel Hawthorne lookalike’s role in this grim threesome. (Dwell magazine, November 2009)We are big fans ofDwell Magazineand show a lot of great green design from their pages, and we are big promoters of minimalist design, the idea that less is more. Commenters often disagree, suggesting that such houses don’t look comfortable and inviting.UnhappyHipstershas documented the phenomenon, taking pictures from Dwell and writing appropriate captions. No doubt they love Dwell as much as we do, and it…Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Yet another proposal for putting students in boxes, this time in Le Havre byolgga Architects, “a multidisciplinary agency federated around 3 different personalities with different yet complimentary backgrounds and studies.” …Read the full story on TreeHugger
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