Importing garbage for energy is good business for Sweden

Everyone produces waste, and the Swedes are no different. It’s what they do with it that is unusual. Sweden recycles and sorts its waste so efficiently that less than 1 percent ends up in landfills. But perhaps even more interesting, and somewhat controversial, is that Sweden burns about as much household waste as it recycles, […]

Australia’s Unique System for Grading Office Buildings

Few countries in the world have as rigorous and innovative a system of office classification as Australia. Where property markets in many countries grade offices solely on their size, servicing and tenant mix, in Australia the classification is more stringent, with high levels of environmental performance, management and building automation expected of all premium buildings. […]

Building with the Orang Asli

Building a communal toilet and shower with a Orang Asli community in a Jahut village, Pahang, Malaysia. The project is a hybrid of exchange of knowledge and skill between traditional and modern. The idea is to provide a simple modern support to become the backbone for the indigenous crafts. Scaffolding is used as structure and […]

Tour A Spectacular Oceanfront Home Without Walls

Architect West Chin takes us on a private tour of a unique contemporary oceanfront home in Long Beach, New York, that he designed with retractable glass windows to be completely open to the property’s spectacular beach vista by plumtv WCA is a full-service architecture, interior design and decorating firm based in New York City. West Chin, […]

Toyo Ito: A Conversation on Japanese Architecture

A lecture and conversation on Japanese architecture with world-renowned architect, Toyo Ito. This event was a part of the UC Berkeley Center for Japanese Studies’ 50th Anniversary program of events  Co-sponsored by: Center for Japanese Studies, Department of Architecture, and the Berkeley Art Museum.   post by UCBerkeleyEvents

Diy designer

Building a diy designer greenhouse in 5 minutes by garryentropy

Wood Frame Hay Walls

Forest home constructed with local materials and hay bale walls. by yootubealator

An eco building named Speckled Wood

Speckled Wood is a roundwood timber-frame eco building. It was built in 2012, at Swan Barn Farm in Haslemere, on the borders of West Sussex and Surrey, by the National Trust’s Black Down countryside team and volunteers, led by Head Ranger David Elliott. The building was designed and put up in association with Ben Law, […]

Building with wood seminar (01)

Dr. Wolfgang Winter speech in Athens. (After the introductory, main speech will be in English – After 10.45 min) by GreekArchitects.gr

Pedestrian bridge over Ribeira da Carpinteira

João Luís Carrilho da Graça (born 1952, in Portalegre, Portugal) graduated from the Lisbon School of Fine Arts (Portuguese: Escola Superior de Belas Artes de Lisboa) in 1977 and lectured at the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Lisbon between 1977 and 1992. Since 2001, he has been a guest lecturer at the […]

Olson Kundig’s Project Los Altos

For 242 State Street, Kundig conceived a 16-by-10-foot guillotine window that can open the 2,500-square-foot interior entirely to the outdoors. video by ArchDaily   Text by archrecord. In 2009, a progressive local business called Passerelle Investment Company was founded to turn the tide in Los Altos’ favor. Among its activities, the group acquires downtown retail properties […]

Washington’s New Room

Learn more about the architecture and design of Washington’s New Room. Tom Reinhart, Deputy Director for Architecture, discusses many of the new findings that originated from the recently completed restoration of this magnificent space at Mount Vernon. by Mount Vernon The new window treatments follow a description included in Martha Washington’s will. Curtains for the […]